Friday, December 18, 2009

Naming God, Black Holes, Wisdom and Quantum Thought

Out in the cosmos, there is a black hole. We cannot see it, but we know it is there. We know, because we see what is happening around it. It sucks up galaxies and alters the properties of light, itself. That's incredibly huge. And there are countless billions of them, unseen, unknown. But they are there.

I am one of billions of persons on a tiny planet. I don't have the ego, especially in relation to what else is going on in the universe, to speak on God's behalf. Why should anyone else? Trying to name this concept- principle-process is futile. Placing infinite points on the heads of infinite pins would make more sense than identifying this God/Not God.

So, why do people try? You need not answer, for there is no point. I will give something of my own here, however. Humans have a need to make tangible what is not, to make simple what is complex, to give pointed pertinence to something or someone that embraces so much that is impersonal -- the movement of the planets, the placement of the atoms.

Islam gives this concept 99 Beautiful Names. Christians have theirs. Jews identify, but will not utter. Add your own. Make your list. If it affirms, it connects and it gives purpose. That's all right. All I know is that, if others have consciousness enough to ponder and to seek the same Truth, then it implies a consciousness that we are a part of. And if we are a part, we are empowered by that consciousness. If we are part of a process of transmutation -- energy changing from one form to the other (remember the black holes) -- then we are empowered by that, as well.

The universe demonstrates and delivers a limitless energy. Where abundance is shown, there should be no bounds. What you think is what you see, what you know, what you do.

Solomon said that Wisdom is in the joy of what you are doing, while you are doing it. Are you doing what you think?

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