Friday, December 18, 2009

The Big Bang or just a ripple on an ocean of energy

Remember you are the result of 14 billion years of an unfathomable complex ever improving and adapting mysterious force, whatever you call it God, Allah Creator, Higher Power or evolution.
David Bohm the late Nobel Prize winner in physics called it the generative holomovement, comparing it to the action of a hologram, wherein every part of the hologram-- in his analogy a photograph of the hologram -- contains an image of the whole photograph on on any part of it's surface. And like the quantum particles that appear in the universe and quickly enfold back into the void, he compares the universe to a vortex that suddenly appears in a river,
meanders in the flow and eventually disappears back into the whole.

However you see this primal originating force, - God Allah,Creator etc. - makes no real difference, the conflict and violence results when you insist your conception is the only true conception. It  cares for us, having created the conditions for our being, making sure-- for the most part--that we are equipped for survival. But psychologically survival is wrapped up with our particular (conditioning) software of the mind, which we will violently defend if need be. The point being, "every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but the Lord pondereth the hearts", Proverbs 21; 2.
          We should maintain our particular cultural circles and religious beliefs, but recognize that to scapegoat and degrade another's belief, leads eventually to conflict and violence.

Although we can't live without the word, and it's untold benefits, it does put a veil so to speak over the described. The description is not the described, the word neutralizes, while the reality itself resonates. 
So part of the legacy of the printed word, is to classify and label, and create your own particular view of things which you then will hold as precious and defend come hell or high water. Not to say it doesn't have positive effects, but it does change how we perceive reality.See Marshall McLuhan.

All these ideas, whom ever they come from, belong to all of humanity. So we must decide what makes sense and what doesn't, not whether we,re left or right, or no matter what religion or way of life we adhere to.


Second Draft:Fri/July/30/2010

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