Friday, May 26, 2006

Observations

We observe our material world with each of our senses: sight... light, dark, gray, colors; hearing... high, low, loud, soft; touch... smooth, rough, hot, cold; smell... sweet, acrid, taste... salty, sweet, bitter. What we call our sixth sense logs on to give us more information... intuition, deja vu, premonitions. But that sense also tells us there is even more... much more. Theories abound: string theory, chaos theory. Mystery is everywhere.

And somewhere, in between all the matter is the mysterious void. Science has determined that the empty space between subatomic particles is much larger than the particles themselves. That's reflected when we look out toward other galaxies: more space than planets, suns, twinkling stars.

What does God do with all that space? Maybe if it's movement that holds the material world together, then the space is the stillpoint of God. The ability to go inside out would get us there. We could have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge to Go Inside Out in the garden. But no... we had to pick the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

3 comments:

kpjara said...

How sobering is that.

HeyJules said...

I'm not sure what is going on here but you are on some kind of roll! Man, CJ, your writing has been gettin' me all stirred up lately!

Darius said...

Mmmm... This frankly sounds to me like just another "God of the gaps..." I.e., when we don't have a naturalistic explanation, we say: there's God.

To my mind, this puts "God" in retreat...