Picturing Spiritual & Scientific Reality: Healing the Rift by
Bridging the Gap
By Leo Kim
Picturing Virtual Reality
Tommie, playing with his computer, asked me: “how does all that
stuff get on the screen?"
"The stuff is due to individual dots called pixels. Together,
they create the image."
"What are pixels?"
I explained that pixels are created by bits of energy. This
energy creates the individual pixels.
"So the stuff I see is just energy."
"Not quite,” I told him. “The stuff you see is created by
energy."
"Cool! So if I have energy, I can create the stuff on the
screen?"
"Well, you need one other critical item. You need information
to instruct the energy how to create the images. So, yes, with
energy and the right information, all that stuff can be
created."
"Then what's that box for?"
"That box is the computer that transforms the energy coming
from the wall through the cord. It uses information and energy
to create all that stuff."
"Awesome!"
I find it awesome that all the “stuff” of our world is believed
by scientists to come about through energy transformed by
information! But the explanation is far more complex than the
one I provided Tommie.
Picturing Scientific Reality
The pixels on computer screens change (or “refresh”) about 80
times/second. The pixels which make up us and our world change a
billion, trillion, trillion, trillion times/second. I call
these upixels (universal pixels). Scientists don’t know their
make up other than it is a form of energy—they can’t even agree
on its name. What is the size of the upixels? If the size of a
proton were enlarged to the size of the Milky Way these upixels
would be the size of a dust particle!
In the case of a computer, as the colored pixels disappear and
reappear, we perceive movement which creates the virtual
reality. The upixels making up our world are controlled by
information. Upixels disappear and before reappearing might move
to other universes and dimensions before creating our reality.
Does all this seem bizarre? It gets worse, in the last decade
scientists realize that 96% of the upixels are missing! Imagine
your computer screen with 96% of the pixels missing. Needless to
say scientists’ picture of reality is an inscrutable image.
Picturing Spiritual Reality
Spiritual and religious teachings generally agree that we
humans cannot picture reality, which usually includes God. In
general, religions teach that God and mystical reality are
different from what we experience in ordinary consciousness.
Jesus, according to the Gnostic script Gospel of Thomas 113,
said, “The kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the Earth,
and men do not see it.” Buddhists believe that it is impossible
to understand the world through our senses, philosophies, or
science. Judaism agrees that we cannot comprehend God. The Sufis
of Islam teach that metaphors and symbols cannot reveal the
divine. According to Hinduism, maya is the illusion of reality
in which we live. Taoism and Confucianism, although in many ways
different, both hold that reality is beyond human comprehension.
How do we resolve these seemingly different pictures of science
and spirituality?
Merging the Pictures and Healing the Rift
Let’s combine the two pictures. Let’s accept upixels as the
fundamental stuff of our world and fill an ocean with them.
Instead of water this ocean is filled with upixels. It is a
bottomless ocean extending infinitely in all directions. We and
our world are but one wave on the surface. We are lost in the
multitude of all the other waves and wonder: What was the origin
of our wave? What is our wave? What happens when our wave ceases
to exist?
Our wave began with the creation of the upixels. However, no
one knows when, how, or why the upixels were created. The
upixels are energy, so all the waves are an illusion. They are
immaterial energy. The ocean is an illusion for it also is
merely upixels, energy. There is so much we do not know about
this world. We don't know where the upixels go when they
disappear. We don't know where the new upixels come from when
they zip into our world for an instant.
We can neither fathom an infinitely deep and extensive ocean,
nor comprehend the meaning of other dimensions or worlds. We
perceive only a trillionth of what our world is, so we focus on
our wave that is within our perceptive capacity. We have
splintered into factions, each faction believing that they
understand our wave, know what caused the formation of our wave,
and comprehend what happens when our wave ceases to exist.
But the ancient sages and spiritual leaders teach us that all
of this is truly beyond our comprehension. They speak of the
essence of our wave surviving forever, long after it disappears.
They agree that, somehow, energy creates our reality. They agree
that we are one with nature and everything in the universe. They
agree that our immaterial essence survives death.
I find it essential to keep both pictures in mind.
About the Author: Leo Kim, Ph.D. was a research associate at
MIT, scientist, and executive in the biotechnology industry. He
studied with healers such as Barbara Brennan, Bernie Siegel, and
Deepak Chopra, and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist. To
learn about his new book, Healing the Rift, visit:
http://www.healingtheriftbook.com.
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