Blessed Are The Peacemakers

 A reader responds

“After reading your blogs on resonance: I was thinking there could be resonant evil as well a good.  Resonance  works in all ways some positive and come negative.”

You are absolutely correct.

“Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?” ²⁸He answered, “An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?” ²⁹But he replied, “No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. ³⁰Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Mt. 13)

In the very first blog, on this amazing subject, I mentioned that in her book, Jesus Wisdom, Cynthia Bourgeault introduced me to a quantum physic concept called “Planck’s Constant.”  

“Planck’s Constant” is: “of constriction and density that comes as part and parcel of this human realm and is the necessary precondition for the full revelation of divine love.” (p.107) 

She continues this discussion on page 120.  “Only  at this particular density, within these sharp edges and term limits (the ultimate one, of course, being death) do the conditions  become perfect for the expression of the most tender and vulnerable aspects of divine love. Built right into the deep structure of this realm, then, is a “Planck’s Constant” of darkness and density.  It belongs to the warp and weft of creations itself, and to dissolve it is to cancel the very conditions through which this realm makes its uniquely important contribution to the divine fullness.” (p.120 

  

In this world there is good and bad, ugly and beautiful, light and darkness.  That is just the truth.  

Why? 

I do not know.

However, think about this:  God came, in Jesus' skin, purposely into this condition of darkness, to shine his light upon the need to change what was a most disturbing ingredient of the human being.

Read Isaiah chapter 9.

² The people who walked in darkness

   have seen a great light;  (I invite you to keep reading)

This dark side of life is, Carl Jung describes as, “the excluded shadowland of the fourth.”(152 Second Simplicity)

As we read throughout scripture we are constantly faced with the “darkness” — the sharp craggy edges of human nature. 

We experience this tendency, of good and not-so-good, in nature, weather, wind, volcanos, hurricanes, floods and fire.  

And in all of those kinds of terribly destructive occurrences there is divine possibilities of new life, new growth, comes into being within humans, animals and nature.

We experience this sharp edged way in:

                                                                 Musical arrangements.

                                                                      Poetry,

                                                                          The Psalms,

                                                                                Jeremiah,

                                                                                    Isaiah,

                                                                                       The story of Job, 

                                                                                            Jesus’ parables

                                                                                                and everyday life still today.     

  

“Like any good Zen master, he (Jesus) is out to completely short-circuit our mental wiring so that we are catapulted into a whole new way of seeing and being.” (p. 39 Jesus Wisdom)

Jesus bring it all together:   

                                       “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

The Most Amazing Gift

God’s wireless communication that has for centuries been perceived as something we just don’t get — don’t comprehend.  And actually doesn’t make too much sense to human logic and reason.

It is interesting that our modern world of wireless-bluetooth, which has endlessly confused my mind, yet has actually helped me to finally see more clearly God’s most precious gift.  

The gift that He came in Jesus’ skin to give us — show us.  The blest power to have a two way conversation with the Almighty God Creator of all that is.  

A communication that is possible through the Advocate, The Holy Spirit.

When I read Cynthia Bourgeault’s assessment of the heart my entire body became tenderly moved.

She is discussing the difference between our intellectual minds and our preceptive heart. 

“The egoic operating system is particularly related to the mind, to the ‘binary operator’ built right into the human brain. The heart has a different way of perceiving.  Rather than dividing and conquering, it connects with a seamless and indivisible reality through a whole different way of organizing the informational field….In wisdom, the heart is primarily an organ of spiritual perception, a highly sensitive instrument for keeping us aligned, as we journey along the horizontal axis of our life in time, with the vertical axis of timeless reality; the realm of meaning, value, and conscience.  The heart picks up reality in a much deeper, more integral way than our poor Cartesian minds even begin to imagine…..The heart picks up from the emotions, from our sense of proportion, from  intuition, from images and archetypes;..…and keeps us aliened with our innermost, with what we truly know. (p. 35-36

And my mind went WOW.

⁹ With you is wisdom, she who knows your works

and was present when you made the world;

she understands what is pleasing in your sight

and what is right according to your commandments. 

¹⁰ Send her forth from the holy heavens,

and from the throne of your glory send her,

that she may labour at my side,

and that I may learn what is pleasing to you. 

¹¹ For she knows and understands all things,

and she will guide me wisely in my actions

and guard me with her glory. 

¹² Then my works will be acceptable,

and I shall judge your people justly,

and shall be worthy of the throne of my father. 

¹³ For who can learn the counsel of God?

Or who can discern what the Lord wills? 

¹⁴ For the reasoning of mortals is worthless,

and our designs are likely to fail; 

¹⁵ for a perishable body weighs down the soul,

and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind. 

¹⁶ We can hardly guess at what is on earth,

and what is at hand we find with labour;

but who has traced out what is in the heavens? 

¹⁷ Who has learned your counsel,

unless you have given wisdom

and sent your holy spirit from on high? 

¹⁸ And thus the paths of those on earth were set right,

and people were taught what pleases you,

and were saved by wisdom.’ (Wisdom of Solomon 9)

Thanks be to God

I would be remiss if I didn’t end this incredible gift, I have been so recently been given, in the works, God enabled Cynthia Bourgeault and Bruno Barnhart to express in their writings.  

I am most grateful to God for the way He works in all of us.

More On God's Flowing Engery

 

This new excitement in me all began when I was given a book, titled Jesus Wisdom written by, Cynthia Bourgeault.  Her book talks about the part of Jesus that has never been tapped — not really — in the Western World.  She parallels Jesus true character to the Old Testament wisdom Sophia.

In her book, Bourgeault introduced me to the relationship between faith, quantum physic’s and God.  The theory is called  “Planck’s Constant.” (p.107)    If you are interested in what “Planck’s Constant” is you are free to research it for yourself. 

Then I bought a book she referenced, by Bruno Barnhart, who put into my brain something that I have known for a long time; but had not fully formulated or named: the “fourth.” The fourth that belongs to the Trinity of God. The human part of the circle in relationship to the three.

The fourth completes the circle to make a whole relationship.

Barnhart writes:  “The trinitarian image opens to gather into itself the Fourth, which we are.  In Jesus we are invited to enter into the communion of the Three.  As we do so, we compete the quaternary. The New Testament speaks of our divination, and its revelation is both unitive and quaternary.  These two aspects are inseparable; wholeness is one and four.” (p.149 Second Simplicity)

'Inseparable."

Then Barnhart used a term  — in relation to the Fourth —that went bing-bong, ding-dong, knock-knock in my mind.  

The term was “resonance”

“Resonance itself, imagined is participation in a field of energy…”(p.149)

Reading that little line sent my mind into a million directions.  

Of course first I looked up the word resonance; which gave me all kinds of terms to look up and think about.  

I’ll give you the second beginning to my thinking:  A resonance — vibration — is seemingly silent communication going on in the air, in space.

Resonance, going on between our body workings.

     Going on in nature. 

   Going on in electricity,     

               Going on in the sounds we hear,

                     Going on in the play of lights we see.

I called it the invisible miracle.  

Truly a God given miracle for all who believe — or even who want to believe.

We have all been given a precious gift -- The Holy Spirit.   

We know, about this gift, but somehow we can’t comprehend how it all works for us in this very physical and logically intellectual world.

However, now that I have been given a name for something I have had faith in for so long.  The name is resonance, energy, a flow of silence waves that move about, and within us; that unless we stop and listen evades our cognitive mind.

More to come.