More on God's Flowing Energy

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 and quantum physic’s and God.  The theory is called  “Planck’s Constant.” (pl.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 s 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.

God's Energy Still Flows

I have spent the last two days blogging about the amazing spiderweb. Today I want to move from those small delicate threads of the web to a much larger — gigantic — hypothesis.

This is not my own original idea.  It is a common theology of mystics and spiritual master through time. It is a theology of interconnectedness of all that exists.  

This is what Edward Hays writes about this common idea:  

“Contrary to 'common sense’ or surface observation, the the scientific conclusions of quantum physics tell us that our earth is not composed of blocks  of matter.  Essentially, all the physical universe is made up of energy.  If we are to understand who we are, and something about the world we live in, we need to take a closer look at energy.

Energy vibrates at different frequencies, from very slow to extremely rapid……

Your thoughts, which you may regard as without physical effect because they do not have mass or weight, are forms of energy that have a great deal of effect!” (p. 24  In Pursuit of The Great White Rabbit)

Now allow me to confess.  This person trying to make sense of all of this energy stuff; is a person who is extremely right brained.  One who has avoided any thought of science, physic, or chemistry my whole life long.  

So, for me to write about a theory, like quantum physics -- or any physic --  gets me totally excited, about what I am reading, on this foreign subject.

It is extraordinarily astounding to me.

So the warning is this:  I may take days to get it all figured out in this blog (;

You can decide not to read these blogs.  Or, you can join me in my fascination.

The fascination surround the third person of the Trinity — The Holy Spirit. The wisdom of God moving into, and informing, our ordinary brains.

To end today's thoughts I will just say that my faith could not have grown to what it is today without God’s energy -- The Holy Spirit — flowing through my being all these many years.

More tomorrow

More On The Spiderweb

Comments to the spiderweb analogy:

Reader #1:  “What a lovely metaphor - I like it!  I don't know if this fits, but from a different perspective: the web gives life (to the spider), and also represents the interconnected of all things - the cycle of life and death (the spider needs the web to survive - and the flies and other things that get caught in it are part of that.”

Reader #2:  “Wow,  This is really awesome!  It is such a good comparison.  I believe that many of us have been connected and unconnected from God's web at times in our lives.”

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8)

Our family entomologist, reader #1, gives the perfect biblical metaphor for the truth that Paul writes about in Roman 8: ....nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God. 

Yesterday God was the spider -- the master builder of the journey call life.  The one who connects all of his creation together with him.  God was also the web that draws people into his way of living.

It is a picture, of the interconnectedness, of the original design for God’s plan, on how we were created to exist in the world.  It is a perfect image of the path of life.  All moving out from the center.  Like the spider, we all need the web to survive.   And God needs us for the truth of his love to survive in this crazy world.

What I particularly like about Claudio’s -- the family entomologist -- description is that the flies, and other creatures, get “caught” in the web of life and “are part of it.”  

That is how it happened centuries ago when Jesus came to correct the Israelites exclusive attitudes about outsiders -- the so called “unclean” of the world.  He came to bring them all together in God’s web.  

To build on that,  people -- creatures of all kinds -- get caught by the attraction to God’s love expressed and lived out in the world by all his children. 

The unfortunate thing is that often what others see — observe — in God’s people is not always love.  Rather,  they see and hear a lot of judgment, and rules, and fingers pointing.  Finger pointing at “sinners.”  That is, those who don’t ‘believe the way they “should,”  according to the finger pointers way of thinking.  

Those creatures hide the wonderful web of life,  They throw a shadow of over it.   A dark shadow that clouds the delicate formation designed by the master builder. 

When that happens it is more important than ever, for those caught in the web, to live more connected to the precious truth of God’s gracious love and forgiveness.   By living that truth out-loud, in gracious and loving ways, everyday through their actions and ways of speaking.

  

To be clear, it is a tough position to be caught in at times..  But the master builder shows us how to live with his ever persistent manner of building .  Ever so slowly and surely binding all things together, patiently waiting at the center for the cycles of life to unfold.  Holding tight to all those who get caught in the fold of his gracious web.