A Think

I woke up thinking was about god.

And advanced physics.

Throughout history, our notions of god have been almost locked to our popular notions of physics.

In the Newtonian Era, we believed that we would suffer great and unending consequences for any transgression--much like the cause and effect determinism that our scientists were working on.

In the Quantum Era, things got a little more relaxed and a little more probabilistic. (If that's a word).

If you were generally good, you'd probably go to heaven.

But even more than notions of god and heaven, what we thought of the universe seemed tied directly to our popular physics.

In the old days, the universe was hard and limited but predictable. If we could just figure out all the causes, then the effects would surely follow.

God was just and things seemed to make sense, even if life was brutal.

In the quantum days, all hell broke loose. Literally.

Everything became relative and that just dumped us into a morass of post-modernism and wishy-washyness. Where everything (content included) seemed to be just as important as everything else.

Meaning went away with certainty.

What's interesting is that what we think of god as being seems so directly tied to the growth of the universe.

A just but strict god presided over the relatively simple expansion of the universe during the Newtonian Age.

There was expansion, but it was hard--very dependent upon meeting strict criteria and working one's ass off.

And this could be said for any type of expansion--physical, economic, personal or social.

And these conditions were the exact same as those required for salvation--narrow as the razor's edge.

During the Quantum Age, we thought the universe was shrinking.

And similarly--most of the things that we valued most--that is family time, love, meaning, community, a sense of self and place, a stable identity, happiness..

Most of these things shrank.

Right along with what we thought the size of the universe was doing.

Our wallets grew, as did our houses, our education, the number of people we were feeding, etc., etc...

Everything we could see grew--from our cars to our wardrobes..

But we felt great shrinking feelings.

None of our incredible expansions did anything to allay the growing fears that we were screwed--both personally and immediately and generally and long-term.

As the universe shrank and god went away.

Even as we were becoming more powerful, more loving, including more people in decisions, etc., etc..

What we believe in is global warming, strife and horror movies--failure.

And we believe that greater alarm and worry is the solution to these situations.

Yikes.
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The most fascinating part of this is that since the 1920s, scientists have known that the universe is expanding.

And since the 1990s, they have known that it's ONLY expanding and accelerating.

This fact hasn't sunk into the popular consciousness yet, but it's as solid as any we've got.

Right up there with 2+2=4.

So, what must this new paradigm mean to our conception of god?

--To what we think of the universe and how we experience what's going on around and inside of us?

It must mean that it's about to lovingly explode and accelerate.

That god, meaning, true value--whatever you call "good" by your own measure of things--is turned around and ready to roll.

Or--more likely--that it's been rolling for all eternity and we're finally catching up in understanding.

But global warming, you say..

War, the deficit, rising oceans, growing economic divides, civic unrest, school shootings, rates of depression in developed countries..

All a product of late Quantum Era confusions.

And all symptoms of things sorting themselves out like a scab that itches.

Pick it or leave it--it's still going to heal.

What if all our problems are symptoms of believing that we are faced with an either-or world (either particles or waves, either momentum or position, either money or love, either family or community, either self or other) and that we must choose?

And of the belief that every choice has negative repercussions--that each choice necessitates limitations and the loss of something that we felt we wanted?

(By the way--the dire predictions of the Quantum Age have become so dark that most no longer believe that either choice will lead to salvation--that is enjoyment--just a slightly more survivable future.)

And what if the reality is that we really can have it all?

What if the reality is that we do already have it all?

And the only thing preventing that from existing in our lives..

No--not even that..

What if there is nothing preventing that in existing in our lives?

What if it does exist in our lives and is only becoming more present?

What if it only exists in our lives and is this truth is manifesting more and more every single moment?

The universe doesn't grow because it's been through hard times, it just grows.

It doens't grow because it studies, works hard, and puts its mind to it.

It just grows.

If the true nature of the universe is growth, then god is literally coming for us.

The world is coming to us.

And we don't need to meet a single requirement to enjoy it.

Not a single one.

I know you likely think that this type of thinking is the devil itself.

But it's a historical fact.

What if it was our unhappiness itself that was messing with our happiness?

What if it was our belief in shrinkage itself that was preventing our growth.

As far as I can see, it's all shrinkage and growth.

Bad and good, poor and rich, unhappy and happy, loss and love, fear and bliss--

Shrinkage and growth all.

Only that shrinkage doesn't really exist.

At all.

And that we are only accelerating.

Only growing.

The universe is only expanding--and it's accelerating constantly--only growing more every moment.

Meaning that our own little universes are likely only doing the same thing.

We may not be able to remain aware of that certainty as constantly as it is occurring, but that doesn't mean we ever stop.

The universe doesn't stop accelerating just because scientists aren't measuring it.

Or just because they undertake to test a conflicting theory.

So who's to say that the same isn't true with us?

That as above isn't as below?

That as we feel loss, separation, pain--shrinkage--we're not still in reality accelerating?

Seems pretty accurate to me.

And it appears that the dawn of the Warm Age--or the Dark Age if you want to name it after the scientific discovery that spurred it (dark energy)--will prove this once and for all.

We've endured the teenage years of doubt, separation, frustration and rage (and the naivite of childhood).

And now we get to be adults for the duration.