What if, as in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, there exists a spiritual parallel? What if God reveals whatever we seek to find when we look for the divine? If we seek God as spirit, we find spirit. If we seek God in nature, we find that animating force.
The thought occurred to me that if small groups left Africa and began to populate Europe, the culture that would arise in Europe would result from the culture of those small groups. And if those small groups had particular traits, both biological and social, then those would get passed along.
The pattern is consistent: those in power create theological or moral frameworks that position themselves as favored by God or history, then use these frameworks to justify horrific treatment of others.
If God is variable, rewarding some while rejecting others for no valid reason other than His own will and pleasure, then you can never have confidence that God will accept you.
If God is energy, then God is the source of the energy for the Big Bang. That energy has always existed. . . .It’s from that infusion of energy and the organizing of it—the constraint of it, the limitations on movement of the particles that come into existence in the quantum fields—that we get creation. . . .To me, this is seamless. Quantum physics and theological explanations of creation are one and the same.
As I look backwards through the eons, infinitely backwards, and realize that whatever I am now, whatever evolutions I've gone through—from intelligence to spirit being to physical form—I've realized that the best way of thinking about what I used to be, what I originated from, is energy. . . .With a proper understanding of Einstein's equation and the nature of physical reality—that the building blocks of physical reality are energy—we are co-eternal with God. We are energy. God is energy. Everything is energy. Energy is existence.
I was born in the last year of the Baby Boom into an essentially all-white, all-Mormon community in Southern Utah. Six decades later, I am no longer Mormon, no longer white, and finally ready to share my story. The map is not yet complete, and new pathways beckon. Shall we see where they lead?
If these words resonate in your own journey, I'd love to know which passages lingered with you. Let's continue the dialogue.