T35 - Does God Exist? - C 10
Is there a God? You tell me. Get hot.
posted by Russ | 4:46 AM
Portrait Of A Seeker Of Essence
Blog for the novel, "Portrait Of A Seeker Of Essence," which is about a few years in the life of a musician and his personal and spiritual changes. The novel can be read at www.portraitofaseekerofessence.name. Please feel free to post comments on a chapter by chapter basis, before you've finished reading the entire novel. Please use reasonable language. Thanks - Russell Kolish, Author - Click on the lowest thread title on the left and ten additional titles will come up.
- T36 - Unconscious, Soul and Unknowability - C 10
- T37 - Belief and Identity - C 10
- T38 - Delusions - C 10
- T39 - Paradox - C 10
- T40 - Compassion - no particular chapter
3 Comments:
Russ
Location of Heaven
I was reading about holograms, multi-dimensional space and the possibility of using theories valid for X dimensional space to describe events in X + 1 or X - 1 dimensions and curved spaces, de Sitter and anti-deSitter (after the Dutch Physicist of the same name) space, the simplest spacetimes with positive or negative curvatures, when I realized that Heaven is at the boundary of anti-de Sitter space, a place that is neither expanding nor contracting, is out at infinity, has always existed and will exist forever and is four dimensional spacetime, a place in which, if shadows were to be thrown, those shadows would be us, three dimensional beings, in a place in which we would find our truest and most total expression.
So the events in Heaven are exactly like events in our world except they occur in four dimensions, the shadows of which are us. So, we can’t escape. When we die we go to a place, Heaven, where everything is essentially the same only with more dimensionality. “As above, so below,” - a medieval spirituo-philosophical concept or description of the Cosmos and also a description of multi-dimensional spacetime.
Of course one also imagines that when in Heaven, one would also be considering an escape from the ills of the environment by ‘dying’ and entering X + 2 dimensional space, ad infinitum...
So how many dimensions are there? The current String Theories say ten or eleven (M Theory) but who’s to say that Physicists of the future won’t pose a theory of Infinite Dimensions (I Theory) as an answer to the problem of integrating all theories into one grand theory. I said it first! I Theory! This Theory of course would also integrate the Psychological theory of ego into the Cosmic picture. After all isn’t that what God is, metaphorically speaking, Cosmic ego? The Word? Logos?
Jennifer
I think you're right about heaven. For about ten years I was on a spree of reading books about hyperspace and quantum physics and all that and it dawned on me that the belief in a spirit world can be supported by science, ie. the fourth dimension. Any
being that lived in the fourth dimension would be able to pass through walls and appear and disappear in front of us.
Literally speaking, Yeshua was an extraterrestrial visitor, as are angels and demons. I think a lot of the negative experiences people have with extraterrestrials are real and are encounters with what the Bible calls demons.
I believe that there is life going on at a higher dimension and that it's all around us, we just can't see it with our three-dimensional eyes. The universe is so mind-bogglingly huge and seemingly so empty of life. I mean, to me, the obvious question is, why make it so big? But I think it's full of activity and that any one who has eternal life (and the promise of a spirit body that goes along with it) will be able to see it all after death.
When the Israelites were in the wilderness, they were given the specifications for a tabernacle which would contain God's presence. The specifications were critical and they weren't allowed to deviate from them. Later the same thing happened with the temple built in Jerusalem. The explanation was that it was a replica of a heavenly temple. Then in the New Covenant, the church is told that they had come to the heavenly Jerusalem and that the earthly Jerusalem was no longer of any importance to them. In fact, the whole Bible ends with a description of the New Jerusalem coming down to earth. So it's pretty obvious that the heavenly is the real thing and that the earthly is just a shadow of it.
That theme of "a shadow of things to come" runs through the Bible. Most of the rituals of Judaism were said by the writers of the New Testament to be a shadow of Yeshua. The examples would fill a book. One of them was the Feast of Tabernacles that the Jews kept (and still keep) every year where they live in a temporary dwelling for eight days in the place where Yahweh puts his name (Jerusalem, for most of Israel's history). Later it's recorded by John that "the Word [Yeshua] tabernacled among us..." So basically, the Word of God put on a temporary physical body and lived temporarily with mankind. The analogy seems obvious in retrospect.
So, without being the least bit qualified to comment on it, your I-Theory sounds plausible, maybe even reasonable.
Benedict from Rome
We encourage everyone to remain ignorant in order to strengthen their faith.
- The Catholic Church -
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