Our universe, all matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, is complex. In the dimension we live involvedness is in everything that is existential as well as transcendent. Fundamental reality, its essence, is unknowable.
Life’s sophistication is more than what is material, or what is existential. We have an interconnected and interwoven kinship with all life, with all matter and energy, with all the stuff not knowable outside of our sentient capabilities, outside of our knowledge or our capabilities to perceive. There is a connection, a threading, of which humans do not have an adequate vocabulary to explain, between us and everything else.
We have knowledge of some of that microscopic phenomenon and quanta I call stuff, such as it contains certain identifiable particles, and some we are striving to know such as the Higgs boson particle, colloquially referred to as the “God particle,” of which scientist are in hot pursuit. Better knowledge of that stuff will happen when we find the link that will bring together a confluent understanding between macro and micro worlds with a possible theory of everything. I have labeled it’s qualification as possible because I don’t believe we will ever achieve all knowledge necessary to achieve it. The analogy I favor using: it’s analogous to one taking a step toward a wall with each consecutive step being half of the last; we will always get closer and closer, but we will never fully reach the wall. It cannot be achieved because then there would be an end to our evolution, and our purpose in life would end. Similar to, in relativity theory, if one were to reach the speed of light, time and therefore life, comes to a stop.
We exist in one dimension without understanding all dimensions. Some of these dimensions are knowable and some are not. To bounce off of physicist Dr. Michio Kaku’s analogy of a family of gold fish and his analogy of a carp, one day his analogies became more comprehensible to me as I observed a crayfish lying at the bottom of a water inlet. Here is a freshwater crustacean existing at the bottom of a stream, breathing through feather-like gills, knowing only two-dimensional space. From where it lay it was completely oblivious to my presence, yet it could be seen clearly by me; this little creature clearly exists in another dimension. Figuratively, it was Dr. Kaku’s carp. There are numerous other examples of living things clearly living in other dimensions, but not observable by them of us. Could there be other dimensions outside of ours by which others could observe us, but we in turn would not have the capability to observe them?
All things come together for humans because of the dimension in which we live, and for all other organisms because of the dimensions in which they live, which is only possible within our particular laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. In other dimensions, beyond the universe’s living organisms and other existential things, there may be other dimensions, strange worlds if you will, with entirely different laws in play. Within all dimensions there is nothing that is not possible. The stuff, of which I have previously referred, the stuff of vibrating strings, is the essence of everything, the source of everything we will ever experience. Unconsciously, we pick and choose from that stuff that which can be utilized in our dimension.
To use a Peter Russell analogy, Mysterious Light: A Scientist's Odyssey, that stuff I speak of is similar to light. Just as we need light for vision, we need that omnipotent and omnipresent stuff for life as we know it. It simply is there all of the time and under all conditions. Just like light, that stuff has zero mass and charge, it is immaterial. From this stuff we construct what is existential. There is not one thing that has not been created by us, right down to 2 +2 = 4. We create the objects and the symbolic words to describe them: “We see the ground beneath our feet; we can pick up a rock, and throw it through the air; we feel the heat from a fire, and smell its burning wood. It feels as if we are in direct contact with the world ‘out there.’ But this is not so. The colors, textures, smells, and sounds we experience are not really ‘out there’; they are all images of reality constructed in the mind.” Peter Russell, “From Science to God.” Our world reality may even be based on a holographic universe in which “there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.” The Holographic Universe.
So, spirituality means to me the pursuit of subjectivity. It means acknowledging consciousness, and my inner world. It means striving to always look beneath the surface of all things for factual perspectives. It means looking at a flower and striving to go beyond its objective beauty and acknowledging all that is knowable about that flower, but in essence understanding that that flower comes from the very same place I was created, from all that stuff. It means, when someone says to you, “don’t ever forget where you came from,” it will have a different and more significant meaning. It means to strive to understand what is unknowable in all things with the knowledge that we will never completely understand. It means we are naturally free and unconditioned, that we are intrinsically enlightened, and that we lack nothing – all possibilities are within our grasp. It means always walking in another’s shoes. It means understanding that every other “here and now” is different than my own, and that every “here and now” contributes to another’s. It means that faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evidence of which has not been seen. It means, in order for us to move on, God has to take on a different meaning. It means that “Both science and spirituality are the search for truth. One is the search for the truths of the physical world; the other the search for the truth of the nature of consciousness. As such there is no conflict between them.” http://www.peterrussell.com/Weaver/WeaverScience.php
Living in spirituality also means striving to achieve the right balance between objectivity and subjectivity. Understanding both is important to our evolution.
In our world of reality, within our laws of physics, biology, and chemistry, within our lexicon of words we use in our attempt to understand our world of reality, the symbolic word “love,” in its deepest, most profound meaning, is the essence of spirituality and with authentic love a balance will be achieved.
