Mar 18, 2012 4:34 PM GMT
This is a collection of ideas and thoughts I've been turning over - so bear with me if it gets a little jumbled.
Most human religious traditions contain a "creation myth" where a creative actor or a group of actors (most commonly, a triad of actors) collaborate in the cosmogeny -
Norse pagan mythology had Oðinn and his brothers Vili and Ve; Greek mythology had Gæa, Ouranos, and Pontus; and Christianity has its triad in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Or the Hindu triad of Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva.
Common elements include a period/place of chaos - a state of ultimate disorder - preceding the "instantiation" of the universe, an undefined/undefinable condition where all matter, energy, and spirit are compressed into a singularity.
The creative agent(s) or processes - the "gods", for a lack of a better descriptive term to describe that unified force that "unbound" the primordial singularity seem to roughly correspond to aspects of gods early humans used to categorize the (now split and somewhat more discernible natural forces)...
...The Creator (Yah'Shua/Jesus, who in his human incarnation is identified with Adam, of the "earth", along with Gæa or Brahma)
...The Judge/Father (Yahweh El Shaddai, who is identified with the sky, along with Ouranos or Shiva)
...The (Holy) Spirit (Ruach Ha Kodesh, who can be identified with water and fire, along with Pontus or Vishnu)
Now in science - particularly in physics, there is much discussion concerning the unification of the fundamental forces - gravity, electromagnetism, and strong and weak nuclear force (and possibly quintessence)...
These forces, while not "gods", were bound as a unified force at that one instant of singularity - and broken out into their current forms, which as TimeSpace decompressed (observable to us over billions of years, but possibly "unravelling" in the apparent space of a few nanoseconds spreading out over several billion light-years.
This could be accounted for the description of God in the Hebrew Bible as "stretching out the sky as a scroll".
These three components are necessary for life to exist.
As with the analogues to the "gods", there is a rough correlation - matter being very tangible as "earth", air (or more particularly the heavens and especially the sun) as Energy, and water (or fire) as being symbolic of the spirit.
None of these things can be truly "destroyed"; they can be combined and transformed into different shapes and forms.
And all are necessary for life: a living organism must have matter, energy, and a portion of spirit (conceivably down to microbial and viral levels, where the portion of spirit and energy and matter is microscopic, yet in large numbers can have devastating effects on their host/environment).
Consider how out of sorts you might "feel" spiritually when you are afflicted by a severe cold or flu that goes beyond just being tired or feverish; but rather that oppressed, "sick to your bones" feeling - that may well be the spiritual mass of the virus/microbes feeding upon or displacing your spirit's connection to your body. In some cases, such an infection could proceed to the point of severing the host's spirit's connection to the body ("crushing the golden bowl and cutting the silver cord" as referenced in Ecclesiastes), eventually resulting in the death of the host, as the microbes consume the last of the host organism's available energy, or matter (in terms of breaking down key life-sustaining functions.
At this point, life is ended; the body decays, energy depletes into the surrounding environment as the corpse grows colder to match the surrounding "room" temperature, and the spirits of the dying microbes and the dead host are returned to the "void" to be drawn into new life that is formed.
That's pretty much it for now.
Creation
Most human religious traditions contain a "creation myth" where a creative actor or a group of actors (most commonly, a triad of actors) collaborate in the cosmogeny -
Norse pagan mythology had Oðinn and his brothers Vili and Ve; Greek mythology had Gæa, Ouranos, and Pontus; and Christianity has its triad in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Or the Hindu triad of Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva.
Common elements include a period/place of chaos - a state of ultimate disorder - preceding the "instantiation" of the universe, an undefined/undefinable condition where all matter, energy, and spirit are compressed into a singularity.
The creative agent(s) or processes - the "gods", for a lack of a better descriptive term to describe that unified force that "unbound" the primordial singularity seem to roughly correspond to aspects of gods early humans used to categorize the (now split and somewhat more discernible natural forces)...
...The Creator (Yah'Shua/Jesus, who in his human incarnation is identified with Adam, of the "earth", along with Gæa or Brahma)
...The Judge/Father (Yahweh El Shaddai, who is identified with the sky, along with Ouranos or Shiva)
...The (Holy) Spirit (Ruach Ha Kodesh, who can be identified with water and fire, along with Pontus or Vishnu)
Now in science - particularly in physics, there is much discussion concerning the unification of the fundamental forces - gravity, electromagnetism, and strong and weak nuclear force (and possibly quintessence)...
These forces, while not "gods", were bound as a unified force at that one instant of singularity - and broken out into their current forms, which as TimeSpace decompressed (observable to us over billions of years, but possibly "unravelling" in the apparent space of a few nanoseconds spreading out over several billion light-years.
This could be accounted for the description of God in the Hebrew Bible as "stretching out the sky as a scroll".
Conservation of Matter, Energy, and Spirit
These three components are necessary for life to exist.
As with the analogues to the "gods", there is a rough correlation - matter being very tangible as "earth", air (or more particularly the heavens and especially the sun) as Energy, and water (or fire) as being symbolic of the spirit.
None of these things can be truly "destroyed"; they can be combined and transformed into different shapes and forms.
And all are necessary for life: a living organism must have matter, energy, and a portion of spirit (conceivably down to microbial and viral levels, where the portion of spirit and energy and matter is microscopic, yet in large numbers can have devastating effects on their host/environment).
Consider how out of sorts you might "feel" spiritually when you are afflicted by a severe cold or flu that goes beyond just being tired or feverish; but rather that oppressed, "sick to your bones" feeling - that may well be the spiritual mass of the virus/microbes feeding upon or displacing your spirit's connection to your body. In some cases, such an infection could proceed to the point of severing the host's spirit's connection to the body ("crushing the golden bowl and cutting the silver cord" as referenced in Ecclesiastes), eventually resulting in the death of the host, as the microbes consume the last of the host organism's available energy, or matter (in terms of breaking down key life-sustaining functions.
At this point, life is ended; the body decays, energy depletes into the surrounding environment as the corpse grows colder to match the surrounding "room" temperature, and the spirits of the dying microbes and the dead host are returned to the "void" to be drawn into new life that is formed.
That's pretty much it for now.
