God conformed to form is deformed...God defined is confined...
Ram Dass
I thought of those words today as I was writing in my devotional. Actually, the words just popped up on the screen in a different font and everything. Yep! They did. I mean there could be some technical glitch as the physical world explanation for this. I did type those exact words in a blog entry yesterday....and maybe they were trapped in the cut and paste function that I somehow accidently hit while I was typing. Regardless, I don't care...at all. I looked up from my ramble...there the words were...set a part from all others...meant to be seen....at least by these eyes on this human's face. There was no reactivity from me when they popped up...just an "Okay, that's interesting....now, what am I supposed to do with this?" I finished my entry and here I am...telling you what happened.
God, of course, is a word and what that word points to is so much grander than the word itself...but too many of us conform and confine that Divine Essence into a word, into an idea, a small human image, into a dogma or belief system...diminishing the reality of what God is. I think of God as the Source of Everything. God, therefore, is the Source of consciousness...that awareness that is breathed through everything. That "everything" is the foundation for much thought, contemplation, and research.
I am so convinced that consciousness is not confined to a physical brain...that who we truly are is not body, not personality, not the dramas we are going through but so much more. I am so convinced and I keep looking for a complete and absolute knowing of that truth. I am looking to the "science of it" and at the same time I am exploring it through things termed the "metaphysical". All the word metaphysical means, btw, is..."after" physics...or going beyond the physical.
Huh?
Metaphysics is about going beyond physical science, beyond the explanation of matter in physics. It does not mean going outside the realms of science or scientific investigation.
Ervin Laszlo in his ground breaking book, "Science and the Akashic field" explores this idea that consciousness is not entrapped, conformed or confined to physicality. Using both groundbreaking scientific 'Theories of Everything', as well as what was discovered by ancient rishis, he tries to connect the findings of science with ancient wisdom; the physical with the metaphysical in our understanding of "everything".
In Chapter Three, he quotes Einstein (who he referrs to a lot in his book) :
A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feelings as something seperate from teh rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is a sort of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. page 1
So, that above quote is timely and I, as consciousness in this human form, received it from some place where all 'in-formation' comes from for a reason that benefits all...even if I do not understand any of it. I like to think that anyway.
All is well
Ervin Laszlo (2007) Science and the Akashic Field. Inner Traditions: Rochester Vermont.
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