Belief

You shouldn’t need to look externally to find out how to get in touch with your spirituality. You should simply look inward.

Anything that becomes institutionalized tends to become bastardized over time. I think that it’s just the nature of overly scaled systems. Things are better when they are natural, organic, pure — simple.

So rather than prescribe to someone else’s definitions of things, I’ve simply decided to live by a few basic assumptions:

• People are inherently good.
• Balance is essential.
• Love is the only truth.
• We should find ways to maximize the love in our lives.
• To be able to love unconditionally is the pure form to which we all should strive.

Everything else is too much information for me. If I can simplify my life enough to use these basic assumptions as a guiding force in my thoughts and actions, then all of that other stuff will take care of itself. And you don’t need to follow anyone else’s prescription for happiness. It comes from within each of us. Not from books. Or things. Or other people.

Embrace that which makes you who you are. And embrace that in others. Period.

Originally published August 18, 2003

Trust me. I don’t completely understand theoretical physics. In fact, I barely understand theoretical physics. But then again, I barely understand all of the stuff that the nuns and priests fed me for the first 18 years of my life too.

That being said…I am completely intrigued by theoretical physics. It pushes toward the metaphysical in ways that other scientific disciplines simply cannot or at least will not. Theoretical physics allows us me (the ex-scientist) to understand the universe…or at least to give me a vocabulary of the universe that I can sort of understand. Take the article that I reference above for instance.

Again, I don’t completely understand every word of it…but then again, I didn’t understand every single concept in biological chemisty but I was a year from a Ph.D. in it at one time in my life. I digress.

What strikes me as fascinating about this holographic concept isn’t the 3D to 2D paradigm shift. It’s the idea of infinite parallel universes. Infinite parallel universes says to me that there is such a thing as immortality. Not in the “if you give your $20.00 to the church every week, you’ll go to heaven” kind of immortality. I’m talking about the kind of immortality that is possible when you abandon the fact that what we are experiencing right now is the only reality…or reality at all.

If you can do that, then you can imagine that “death” is simply a shift in perspective. A new reality of sorts…which, according to theoretical physicists (or at least my read of them), are happening infinitely.

My brain is starting to hurt…and I’ve probably confused anyone and everyone who may read this. But it brings me to a fantastic quote that I read today.

“Religion and science are opposed, but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything” - Sir William Bragg.