During the twentieth century, science and spirituality began
moving toward each other in perspective, sharing many of the same
ideas. The battle between evolutionists and creationists was leading
to the dawning of a new spirituality utilizing scientific fact.
The mystic and the scientist were philosophically merging into
one being. Could this be the long awaited dawn of the Age
of Aquarius? an age where thought and emotion are married in a
supreme act of symphony, a new awakening, a modern day renaissance.
Ancient forms of wisdom have been describing cosmological processes
in a way that modern physics is now confirming. They both agree
on the origin of our universe and its infantile form. In
the sacred Kabbalah, it states that reality sprang forth from a
singularity, Kether; modern physicists also concur about the origin
of our universe from a singularity, the big bang. One of our
sacred wisdom schools had the blueprint for creation all along.
Furthermore, many superstring theorists describe our reality as
comprising 11 dimensions, just like the eleven “sephira” or
dimensions of the “Tree of Life” in the Kabbalah. The
sync between ancient wisdom teachings and modern science is now
becoming very pervasive. Dancing with the Wu Ling Masters
by Gary Zukav, The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, and The Mind
of God by Paul Davies are excellent sources of information.
Two discoveries that occurred within the last 120 years became
the death knell for optimism about spirituality within the scientific
standpoint. The first was Charles Darwin’s Theory of
Natural Selection, and the other was Albert Einstein’s Second
Law of Thermodynamics. Natural Selection stipulated that we
came from lower species and evolved over long periods of time to
get to our present state. This seemingly ended all questions
about any possibility of a creation by God, since it appeared that
we were just the result of random mutations. Most scientists
concluded that there could never have been a divine intelligence
or creation, and we are just the product of random happenstance. On
top of that, the Second Law of Thermodynamics made matters seem
even darker. It basically stipulated, as the universe ages,
it gains disorder and will eventually implode in the “Big-Crunch.” This
basically said mankind was headed for doom. These two early
discoveries consequently, pronounced God dead.
Despite this development, two scientists came forth to forecast
the eventual enlightenment of humanity in an Omega Point. In the
early twentieth century, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist
by profession and also a Jesuit Priest (an intriguing marriage
of the intuitive and logical side of man) surmised that our current
evolutionary tract will terminate in an Omega Point. In his
belief we will achieve complete immortality and |
unity with God in this singularity. Teilhard believed the earth’s
layer of life, the biosphere, is extruding a layer of networked
global thought, the noosphere. (This is manifesting at the present
time through our global computer networks.) This noosphere
is what will evolve towards the ever- converging Omega Point.
The modern physicist and cosmologist, Dr. Frank Tipler, believes that life will
eventually be replicated in an Omega Point of transcendence, that we will eventually
construct a quantum computer that will control the final collapse of space-time,
nullifying the doom-ridden “Big Crunch.” He equates this Omega
Point/Computer with God, and he says that everyone who has ever lived will be
resurrected in it to live a life of eternal bliss. It must be noted; however,
Tipler arrived at his notions through a completely scientific method. He never
forced the evidence to fit the
theory. In the ultimate irony, Dr. Tipler lived a large portion of his life
as an avowed atheist; it is only through his scientific discoveries that he now
claims a theological perspective.
To make a case for an intelligent design of our universe, the chance of conditions
being right for
life by randomness alone is very improbable.
The probability of it happening by chance is 1 in
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000!
Chaos theorists have speculated for years that our apparent random universe is
actuality a form of higher order which manifests through apparent randomness. Furthermore,
the occurrence of the number “phi,” 1.618, and its’ ratio
throughout our universe is a manifestation of the intelligent design of our cosmos. “The
Golden Ratio”, manifests in everything from bumble bee colonies, and shells
to our concepts of beauty, the formation of our body, and the composition of
our galaxies. This intricate order woven throughout our known universe is
incontrovertible evidence of a higher mind behind our creation.
So the opposing viewpoints of science and spirituality have begun to find harmony
in existence with one another. No longer is it impossible to back up the
idea of heaven with hard logical data or to imbue your scientific perspective
with spiritual insight. The disparate perspectives of science and spirituality
have managed to fuse themselves together and generate a paradigm shift to a whole
new level of understanding.
Johnathan Bethel is a paranormal researcher and life-long student of metaphysics.
He makes his home in Atlanta, Georgia. |
