"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 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 conditions 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

So I have come to, what I think is, the last blog on resonance.  

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, to me, 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.

OWD -- Original Wireless Design

We live in a world that has invented the amazing technology called “wireless” transmission.

No more messy cords,

No more telephone poles lining our highways,

Now we count on this thing called “bluetooth.”   A magical little device that move the sound from our wireless smart phones, tablets and computers with sounds that fill our car, and homes and ears with music, news, sports and anything we want to listen to.

Well guess what, God has the copywriter on wireless communication.

It is true!

And yes you know where I am going don’t you?

It is the transmission, energy, vibrations, electrical currents,  entrainment (the rhythms of our bodies’ environment), synchronization, magnetic fields-- resonance of the Holy Spirit.

I am thinking that God uses all of those avenues to communicate with us every minute of our lives.

This I believe with my entire being.

Now let me tell you what I learned this last month and half, about the word resonance, that sent me on this extraordinary journey. 

First a caution, what I am about to write is totally left brain stuff.  But I understood enough to get me pretty excited.

Resonance occurs when the amplitude of an object’s oscillations are increases by the matching vibrations of another object.

Resonance is a condition that exists when the inductive reactance and the capacitive reactance are of equal magnitude causing electrical energy to oscillate between the magnetic field of the indicator and the electrical field of the capacitor.

Resonance is used for tuning and filtering, because resonance occurs at a particular frequency for given values for inductance  and capacitance.

The Holy Spirit is the conduit,  channel of transmission — a currant that flows from God to us.

More tomorrow