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Wanderings
Many years ago, I sat in a comparative religion class and soon came
to see that the Roman Catholic priest who was the professor for this
class had really lost his spark and did not seem to have his Faith
anymore.  Somewhere along the way he had “studied” his way out
of it.  In looking so deeply into all religions, he lost his.  Although I
now know that religion and spirituality are not the same thing, this
priest/professor still had his religion; it was his spirituality that he lost.
But I was gaining a lot in this class.  I was seeing so many
commonalities in all these religions and what was it that united
them???  It was the spiritual side of it all!!!!  And being a nursing
student, I was learning a lot of science.  I had access to a college
library and an open campus where you could sit in on about any
lecture!  I was heading off to campus for a lot of classes I got no
credit for (but I didn’t have to pay for them either).
In the waning months of the 70’s and the beginning of the 80’s, there
was a scientific revolution going on.  We were learning so much
about so many things we didn’t understand before.  Scientists were
FINALLY and truly understanding and proving what Einstein had
theorized.  And they were beginning to theorize
beyond Einstein’s expectations.  All that was a
downer for us “spiritual” types - the scientists
were trying to find a way to scientifically explain
God – or may I say, explain God AWAY!
I was young and was still trying to “find myself” as our parent’s
generation had put it.  But really, I knew who I was, but no one
believed me.  No one believed me when I said there was so much
proof that God really is the moving force of the Universe; that God
lives in EVERYTHING!  And EVERYTHING exits because of God!
We had just come through a time when they said God was dead!  
Most people were indifferent about it.  After all, it was the time of
the “ME” generation and God didn’t fit into the lives of many.  
Church rolls started to dwindle and Sunday became “THE DAY” for
the “ME” generation.  TV evangelism was coming into vogue and
that made it all the easier to leave church and to stay home.
Star Wars had come out and
everyone loved it!  But hardly
anyone really “got it” at all!  I
walked out of the theatre talking
about the symbolism and The
Force being a symbol for an
aspect of God.  That God gave
us the gift of Free Will and that
the Dark Side is only dark
because WE TURN IT THAT
WAY!!!!!!  My friends told me
that I was a total nut case
and to get a grip - it was just a movie!  I said then, as my family can
attest, “It’s all about the SAME THING!”  I still say that and I still
believe religion, spirituality, and science are all different expressions
of the SAME THING!!!!!
Now, at the turning of the Millennium, folks are finally “getting it” and
science is hotly pursuing the idea of The Force and the fact that it
lives in EVERYTHING!  Some scientists call it The Field – the thing
that holds the Universe together and others call it The Source – the
thing that creates it all and all the other dimensions and possibilities,
and where geniuses get their information.
I have read a great deal over the last few years about String Theory.  
Now I don’t understand much of it, but the parts I do sound very
familiar to me!  They are things I have heard in my religious schooling
and spiritual path - things I read in the Bible, things Jesus said!
String Theory postulates there are other dimensions, possibly eleven,
that we could detect from the dimension we are currently in.  It
postulates that there is another dimension where J.F.K. wasn’t
assassinated, where Hitler was never the Furor of Germany and
where the Holocaust never happened.  That there are as many
dimensions, or potential dimensions, as there are possibilities in
every situation in every life!  Can you even begin to absorb how
immense all that would be?  How much power and organization
that requires???  That’s why some physicists say there are potential
dimensions, waiting to exist!
We now know that everything in our material world is spinning.  The
rate of the spin determines how solid the object appears – the faster
the spin the more solid the object feels to it’s observer.  We know
that everything is made up of just about the same thing, just in
different measures.  
Science is now looking for The God Particle – the beginning sub-
sub-subatomic particle that starts the cycle of “being” for everything
– seen and unseen, visible and invisible.  The thing that animates the
living!  You’ve heard that “visible and invisible” phrase in the Nicene
Creed:  
“We believe in one God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things
visible and invisible…”
Do you know that there are several particle physicists involved in
string theory who believe rocks and stones are really alive!!!!  That
time moves so slowly for them and their rate of particle spin is so
fast that we think they are inanimate – and they may not be!  They
may be as alive as the dog or cat or goldfish you have!  Maybe we
need to dig up our pet rocks from the early 70’s and apologize to
them for throwing them out in the driveway or creek and give them
that place of honor on our desks and countertops they once held!
Remember when the Pharisees told Jesus to quiet his followers and
He told them if the people were silent the stones would begin to
shout?  (Luke 19:40)  Seems like Jesus may have understood
particle physics!  But that wouldn’t surprise me!  
The Book of John begins this way:
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God.

2He was in the beginning with God.

3All things came into being through Him, and apart
from Him nothing came into being that has come into
being.

4In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

5The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
did not comprehend it.
How can a Word be Light?  Science has taught us that everything
has a frequency – even light has a frequency!  Therefore,
everything is in vibration, everything is in a spin, everything has a
sound – whether we mortal humans can hear it or detect it –
everything, I mean EVERYTHING, has a sound or frequency!  
And when John talks about The Word, he is referring to Jesus!  I
think he means that Jesus was The Word Incarnate or made
Flesh!  It means The Word was living with us!  We’ve been
taught that from the Cradle Roll!  Now to realize it as that
HUGE frequency that created all things – The Word that was God
- had it’s volume turned down to the point that it could dwell within
a human body!  How AWESOME!  God loves us so much to want
to dwell with us!  Stop for a moment and really absorb that!
The 14th Chapter of John explains so much after you know a little
about String Theory:
1"Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God,
believe also in Me.

2"In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it
were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare
a place for you.

3"If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again and receive you to Myself, that where I am,
there you may be also.

4"And you know the way where I am going."

5Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where
You are going, how do we know the way?"

6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and
the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

7"If you had known Me, you would have known My
Father also; from now on you know Him, and have
seen Him."

8Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it
is enough for us."

9Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and
yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who
has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say,
'Show us the Father'?

10"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the
Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not
speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in
Me does His works.

11"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father
is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works
themselves.

12"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the
works that I do, he will do also; and greater works
than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
The many mansions or dwelling places – are they dimensions?  
Did Jesus go to prepare a new dimension for us?  We come to
The Father by The Son – or The Word, The Vibration, The Light!
And we know the way to get there!  I often wonder if that tunnel
of light that people describe in a Near Death Experience is the
way to the place Jesus has prepared.  So many people describe
the same thing and when they tell their story, you just have to
believe them and their sincerity – but that’s a different article
altogether!
There is a great race to find The God Particle!  An
enormous particle collider has been created by the
European Organization for Nuclear Research or
commonly called CERN.  This Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) fits its name as it is the largest ever built.  It
is deep, 100 metres underground, within the Jura Mountains of
the French/Swiss border.  In August of last year, they fired the
LHC up for the first time, and on September 10th, the first
particles were thrown in hoping to spin those particles so fast that
a tiny black hole would be created for just a millisecond and give
mass (life) to a massless (lifeless) particle.  But there were
technical problems and LCH was shut down a week later due to
the failure of a superconducting magnet. CERN waits for another
day to try to find the illusive, supersymetrical God Particle!
All this is to detect the basis of String Theory and to glimpse into
other dimensions!  Those other dimensions are where scientists,
although they won’t admit this part, believe God resides!
The scientists are like Philip who asked Jesus to “show us the
Father” and Jesus just couldn’t believe that Philip still didn’t get it!
I hate to break it to the scientists and physicists, but I really do
not think they will find God in those other eleven dimensions or in
any of those potential dimensions!!!!  They have failed to find
Him in the very dimension where the scientists themselves
reside!  How can they find God over there?  
Jesus told us that the Kingdom of God is within us!  (Luke 17:21)  
Where would be the best place to hide the most precious
thing???  Right in our very own hearts!  The scientists are just like
the rest of us!  We look all over the place for the perfect answer,
the perfect source of information, the place where we will FIND
GOD!!!!
And all along, the entire time, The Force, The Source, The Field
that holds the Universe together, it’s right within us!!!!!
Remember the 5th verse of John, Chapter 1:
5The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
did not comprehend it.
And “THEY” don’t think God exists!  The Darkness did not
comprehend it!  When will they come into the Light?
May The Force be with you!

          Julie