first Biblical evidence of this phenomenon in Hebrews 11:3 "By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen."
It is understood that quantum physics defines that everything is made up of little bits, but what is the force holding the quanta particles, atoms and molecules together? The answer is LIGHT. Light keeps electrons tied to the nuclei of atoms, and atoms tied together to make molecules and objects. All forms of matter are actually made up of solidified light. Here we find our second Biblical evidence of God’s perfect design in the creation of this world, "Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw the light was good."
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For thousands of years, through deep inner inquiry, philosophers and sages have come to the realization that there is only one substance and we are therefore all part of it. This substance can be called Awareness, Consciousness, Spirit, Advaita, Brahman, Tao, Nirvana or even God. It is constant, ever present, unchangeable and is the essence of all existence.
In the last century Western scientists are arriving at the same conclusion: The universe does indeed comprise of a single substance, presumably created during the Big Bang, and all sense of being – consciousness – subsequently arises from it. This realization has ontological implications for humanity: fundamentally we are individual expressions of a single entity, inextricably connected to one another, we are all drops of the same ocean.
Science and Non-duality is a journey, an exploration of the nature of awareness, the essence of life from which all arises and subsides.
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The word science comes from the Latin scientia, which means knowledge. The beauty and usefulness of science is that it seeks to measure and describe reality without personal, religious, or cultural bias. For something to be considered scientifically proven, it has to pass exhaustive scrutiny, and even then is always subject to future revision. Inevitably human biases creep in, but the pursuit of science itself is intrinsically an evolving quest for truth. But then quantum mechanics turned much of this lauded objectivity on its head, as the role of the observer became inseparable from the observed quantum effect. It is as if consciousness itself plays a role in creating reality. Indeed, the two may be the same thing. As quantum pioneer, Niels Bohr once put it: “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at
1. In the beginning, when Jesus created the heaven and the earth, 2. The earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters (Genesis 1: 1-2). Then God said “Let there be light, and the light was there, and God called light “day” and darkness “night”.
Francis Schaeffer and James W. Sire present a views of the universe that reflects judeo-scripture in their works. They describe the ideas that God created the universe to be good, and that God continues to oversee and Shepard all that lies within it. God did not simply form the earth with aimless intentions. He had an eternal detailed plan for all He created and would create, and all that He made had a good and holy purpose. In Genesis in Space and Time, Schaeffer conveys it as, “A doxology of all creation-everything glorifying God on its own level” (56).
Much like the story of the Theogony it was in need of divine purpose to fill it. (Guenther 1977) Both are claiming that creation came from disarray. In
Karen Armstrong and Robert Thurman wrote their essays, “Homo religiosus” and “Wisdom”, respectively, describing two words, “being” and “void”. These words, although have opposite meanings, describe the same spiritual experience that come about through different means. By definition, “being” is a kind of fullness or completeness of existence and “void” is emptiness or a negation of existence. Armstrong believes that “being” is the equivalent of the Buddhist’s “Nirvana” while Thurman believes that “void” is the equivalent of the Buddhist’s “Nirvana”. Although these terms seem to be opposite in the literal sense of defining them, they lead to the same outcome: not being at the center of one’s own universe.
“Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.” ( Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting
Conclusion: The mind is substantively different from the body and indeed matter in general. Because in this conception the mind is substantively distinct from the body it becomes plausible for us to doubt the intuitive connection between mind and body. Indeed there are many aspects of the external world that do not appear to have minds and yet appear none the less real in spite of this for example mountains, sticks or lamps, given this we can begin to rationalize that perhaps minds can exist without bodies, and we only lack the capacity to perceive them.
Being that the mind is physical, there must be some aspects of consciousness that can be reduced. The reducible qualities of consciousness include the functional aspects of the brain—behavior, information processing, reaction to stimuli, etc. On the other hand, there is the subjective experience that arises from these physical processes. Can the subjective part of consciousness be explained by physical processes? I do not think that is possible.
; He created light and darkness first. Did anyone noticecatch how God made light and darkness? Right again!That ’s right; God spoke themit into existence. God created things by just telling themit to be created.
God’s historical record contradicts this theory (Genesis 1:1) reads “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Isaiah 45:12) “I have made the earth, and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and their host I have
When God created the earth he began with the separation of light and darkness;
Discussing the existence of a soul and an afterlife can be a controversial subject, because frankly, as humans we do not know what lies beyond the body’s material form. Materialists argue that once the body is dead, it is the end. Everything we know is material and we are material beings, therefore there is nothing to move on to an afterlife. Dualists, however, take on a different perspective. Although our bodies are material, there is something else that lies within us.
These questions and experiments led to many ideas that are now considered to be the standards by which we measure our knowledge of reality. Each reading has similarities with one another. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”, Descartes “Meditation I of the things of which we may doubt” and in the movie “The Matrix” the authors are asking the question, “Is this
These two entities are the physical and mental world. My belief is an example of dualist thinking because I believe that the soul is separated from the body when a person dies. A dualist
God also coordinates all the experiences of the finite minds and makes sure that there is regularity and dependability in experiences so that we can think in “laws of nature”. So, the ultimate and true reality would is actually 6. Spiritual (God). And so the continued existence of things even when we don’t perceive them is made sure by the constant perception of them by
What is the science? What are differences between science and pseudoscience? The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge. Science attained through study or practice and can be rationally explained and reliably applied.