Anyone remember these childhood prayers?

"Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take."

"Angel of God, my guardian Dear, through whom God's love permits thee here. Ever this day, be at my side... to light, to guard, to rule, and guide."

A prayer for sleep, at the end of day, and a prayer for morning, upon awakening.

Now, at age Sixty-Seven, my prayer is a tad simpler: "Thank You, God, for another day!"

Are Science and Spirituality really at ODDS?

Is GOD DEAD? Was there ever really a GOD? Does He still EXIST?

Is the concept, or IDEA, what is really important?

As children, the belief in Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas, or Chris Cringle, was certainly a POWERFUL influence, was it not? Alas, then we get older, and supposedly WISER... and find out that it was a BIG LIE!

If that is the case, then why do we carry on the TRADITION as parents, as we raise our own children? Could it be that the CONCEPT, or idea, is a really GOOD ONE?

Love, and Brotherhood, and Peace and Goodwill, being celebrated, and WISHED for ALL humanity, and expressed by the symbol of giving GIFTS...

IS NOT YULETIDE: THE LONGEST, BUSIEST, HAPPIEST, MOST JOYFUL SEASON OF THE YEAR?

Is it not STILL called CHRISTMAS - CHRIST'S MASS - both here in America, as well as many other parts of the world? As such, is it not a CHRISTIAN celebration?

Granted, it is highly COMMERCIALIZED, and the biggest heyday for Retail establishments, but a HELLUVA boost in the arm for the Economy, is it not?

IS IT STILL... NOT A BAD IDEA... TO BELIEVE IN GOD? Even if only "just in case" ... to be on the SAFE SIDE?

Is it possible that NINE IDIOTS on the SUPREME COURT were WRONG? Did the TAIL wag the DOG? What if... THE LORD'S PRAYER was LEGALLY PERMITTED AGAIN IN SCHOOLS? Would a mere HANDFUL suffer, and MILLIONS OF BELIEVERS BE ETERNALLY APPRECIATIVE AND GRATEFUL? AND HAPPY? AND PROUD?

WHAT IF...


OOPS! Forgot - the picture is my Daughter, ANN, a YOGA instructor... Mind - Body - Spirit ...

NAMASTE!

WHAT IF…

Copyright: September 11, 2007 - Tom Hyland


What if there is NO GOD?

What if the entire belief in a superior, supernatural being is all just a HOAX?

What if the scientists and their BIG BANG theory are correct?

What if there was nothing, just a big BLACK HOLE, and then, somehow, totally beyond reasoning and human understanding… BING! BANG! THANK YOU, MA’AM! … Almost MIRACULOUSLY, out of sheer CHAOS, came PERFECT ORDER?

Sounds even more preposterous, doesn’t it? Physics told us that Matter can neither be Created, nor Destroyed! It also told us that there are three FORMS of matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gasses.
Did you notice the use of the PAST TENSE - TOLD?

But, now, a few thousand years later, with the huge advances in technology and science, biophysics and bioengineering, we are being told by Quantum Physicists that there is NO SUCH THING AS SOLID MATTER! Should all of our books now be changed to indicate a different terminology… perhaps COMPRESSED MATTER?

The improvement of the once highly functional MICRO-scope, into the further advanced, super-duper, high-falluting, ELECTRON MICROSCOPE has gone beyond the boundaries of the human eye… beyond ATOMS, beyond atomic particles, beyond MICROBES, or microscopic particles. Nuclei, protons, neutrons, electrons, ions… are composed of even SMALLER pieces, which are orbiting around them at such high SPEEDS that before were indiscernible. AND, in between all these teensy-weensy little ‘pieces’ there exists a much larger volume of SPACE!

Yes, Pilgrims, space… NOT OUTER SPACE… rather, INNER SPACE! WOW! Do you remember the movie by the same title, where a team of scientists entered a mini-sub and all were SHRUNK and INJECTED into a man, in order to SAVE his life? WOW! What a plot! What terrific Special Effects! Maybe SCI-FI isn’t as CRAZY as we originally THUNK?

So, that which we see with the naked eye, and have called SOLID MATTER for so many years, is not really solid at all! Granted that it is very, very, very COMPACT, or COMPRESSED; but the EMPTY SPACE which surrounds each particle is almost as vast of that which supports the millions upon millions of STARS in the HEAVENS!

Heavens… COSMOS… Milky Way… UNIVERSE… The MACRO-COSM… can one even comprehend the scope and magnificence of the FACT that the same POWERS, albeit: Force, Energy, Electricity, Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, whatever - also HOLDS TOGETHER THE MICRO-COSM? H’MMMMMMMMMMM?

ORDER FROM CHAOS? DUH! I DON’T THINK SO!

Some PERSON, some THING, some HOW, some WHERE, some TIME, that possessed some really, really, really GREAT measure of INTELLIGENCE… just HAD to BE! To EXIST! To CREATE! To possess POWER… ENERGY!

We all know that all growth of all things: Plants, Animals, even PEOPLE… begins with GERMINATION of a SEED, right?

So… What if… IT was a SUPERIOR GERM?

Now, now, now… hold onto your hosses, pardner… don’t go off half-cocked, and decry me as being SACRILIGIOUS! I MEAN NO HARM HERE!

We are just BRAINSTORMING, aren’t we? -- Merely speculating on spectacular specifics, with high-powered spectacles, perhaps?

As the Ole Bard, WILLIE S. onct proclaimed: “What’s in a name?” GERMS are everywhere! They’re in the AIR we breathe. They’re in the water we DRINK, as well as that which we bathe in, as well as on the food we EAT, aren’t they? Only, they are so small that we have given them a more precise, more ‘politically correct’ name now… MICROORGANISMS.

WHAT IF GOD WAS THE VERY FIRST MICROORGANISM, WHICH JUST HAPPENED TO EXPLODE? Further, what if each particle then simply grew with duplicative ENERGY, thus causing a CHAIN-REACTION… not unlike a typical FIREWORKS DISPLAY?

AHA! Would that not coincide with said BIG BANG THEORY?

Could we then not reason that ENERGY, in any form, kinetic or otherwise, may be either active, or passive? That perhaps it may change form, but not be totally exhausted?

For instance, consider a simple treat for most of us, a lowly piece of CHOCOLATE. Someone had to expel energy in the process of mixing various ingredients, and preparing this lovely little morsel. Then, the lucky person who gets to actually EAT it must employ a bit of energy of motion, by chewing and swallowing it, right? Next, the smaller particles travel down the esophagus to the stomach, where a chemical energy process takes over, further breaking down those scrumptious gastronomic delights into useable, smaller particles. These then, are reduced to microscopic size, in order to be utilized by the body. Maybe the original ingredients would not have tasted so wonderful, in their original separate forms? But now, after the DIGESTION process, perhaps the distinct chemical components revert back to that which will later provide sustenance and ENERGY to the host body. Maybe we get an instant RUSH that uses only part of the energy, and STORE some of that energy, for future bodily functions, like kinesthesia?

Or, how about a simple BATTERY? Energy is stored within, just waiting for you to press the button to supply a beam of light for your flashlight, or torch.
Or, maybe a smaller one powers the wristwatch you are wearing?

A larger version, usually twelve volts, is sitting patiently in your car, or AUTOMOBILE, available like a faithful puppy-dog… just waiting for you to expel a small act of energy by inserting and turning the key into the IGNITION, and VA-ROOM! Almost instant POWER or ENERGY bursts forth, to propel your trusty steed wherever you may choose.

And guess what, Pilgrim, once that ENGINE starts, amazing other processes begin. Pistons move up and down. Valves, both intake and exhaust, open and close. The fuel pump pumps gasoline from the storage tank into the carburetor. Cams move up and down on the camshaft. Pulleys, driven by belts, spin… turning the fan blade to blow air past the radiator, keeping the engine cool… and providing power for the air conditioner compressor, and to supply power to the alternator, so that ELECTRICITY will go back into the battery, thereby keeping it fully re-charged. Once you move your shifter lever into DRIVE, then GEARS take over in the transmission, which supply torque to your axles, and VOILA! YOU ARE IN MOTION!

Okay, okay, okay - what has chocolate and batteries have to do with GOD?

Maybe NUTTIN’ HONEY!

BUT WHAT IF GOD IS ENERGY?

The Source of all POWER… the Source of all CREATION… the Germination of all IDEAS… the Reason for LIFE… in short, the ONE SOLITARY, EVER-PRESENT, BUT INVISIBLE FORCE THAT POWERS THE ENTIRE KNOWN UNIVERSE… BOTH MACRO AND MICRO!

If by any stretch of the imagination, ANYONE can grasp this treatise, or premise, or hypothecation… how could ANYONE, even a “SHOW ME, I’M FROM MISSIOURI” agnostic, or atheistic THINKING SCIENTIST, then even question the EXISTENCE OF GOD?

After all is said and done, did HE not tell us: “I AM THE ALPHA AND OMEGA”…

THE BEGINNING… AND THE… END!


How apropos! THE END!



J-PAL… Joy - Peace - Abundance - Love… Tom.