QUANTUM MYSTICS

      
         "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
        

           Just as we have had to set aside the laws of Newtonian physics when we focus on sub-atomic
particles and enter in to a much more unpredictable, even weird world, so does our whole
approach to sacred reality have to change.
            In centuries past, priests were speaking to an uneducated public. In fact, the public was not allowed to educate itself. Education was illegal and besides all the books were written in Latin
not the spoken language of the public. So the priests were allowed to get away with teaching
fairy tales, and for quite a long time no one could prove them wrong.


            Well, times have changed!
             I see no division between science and religion!
              There is no need for such a split.  If your local mystic (shaman) does not apprehend
reality completely, it's time to get another mystic!
                The first law of the new universe is that subject and object no longer exist. So also,
all the old dualistic notions have to be thrown away. But have we really thought out or
discovered the implications of non duality?
                  How about the division between man and God? That no longer exists either.
So maybe when people say, "I am God" after a long night, maybe we should takes them
more seriously.
                    How about the division between flesh and spirit?  This division must be thrown out also! This will screw up the old church's moralistic methods.


                 In the quantum world of endless possibilities and the sea of "empty" space, which is actually seething with unimaginable massive energy, what happens is not determined by anything that is part of the physical universe.
                 What's really mysterious is sub-atomic processes change when observed. In fact 
the process changes according to how it is observed! This suggests something like intelligence
in the formative space of emptiness.


                  O.K. Anyone who has studied the mystics of the various religions will know that
intelligence in the midst of emptiness is an ancient notion of holy men everywhere.
                   What's happened is that science has caught up to the mystics.


                    People who go into deep meditation often use the phrase that:"It's like a mirror."
The one meditating seems to be in the midst of intelligence, even an intelligence that reflects back
to the mind of the meditator.
                     What's happening is you are in the midst of the Mind of the universe.
                      Bringing it back to the Christian world (which is more stunted than most religions),
this happens: the one lost in deep concentration facing a saying such as "In the beginning is the Word" has an earth-shattering experience. At least, it is earth-shaking to him.
                        If you   focus on an expression which cannot be grasped or understood with the rational mind, say "Before Abraham was, I am", and if your concentration is absolute you
may undergo an implosion. The implosion is like an eggshell collapsing inwards revealing the life within. Or a T.V. set tossed off a hotel balcony, it also implodes. When this happens to you inwardly, you might hear a loud noise. Then the whole world changes for you, even your identity.
                          
                            Intellectual problems will no longer exist for you. Paradoxes will make you laugh!