[John 3:1-21; 7:45-51; and 19:39-42]
If we believe what the Scriptures testify – that God reveals His plans and works through His people to accomplish His purposes – then it stands to reason that, wherever Scripture meets Shroud might contain clues about the image.
We know that Joseph of Arimethea provided the linen cloth. But Nicodemus is also mentioned as being involved in the burial. Why him?
Nicodemus first came to Jesus in the dark, likely to avoid being seen with Him. He affirms to Jesus that he believes:
“...thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.”
The mention of miracles.
Jesus responds:
“...Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus asks how a man can be born again and Jesus explains:
“Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God... that which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit...”
Born of water... as in an image born from some dehydration process? Is the clear, watery substance on the Shroud that flowed from the spear wound symbolic evidence of this water? Are the water stains more than just a result of extinguishing fire?
Nicodemus, still marveling, requests further explanation – as to how being born again is possible. Jesus uses an analogy:
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
Wind...air...as in the result of some oxidation process?
Born of the spirit... as in an incorporeal consciousness that communicates to us through an image, the origin of which no one can define?
Explanation of the invisible miracle.
But Nicodemus still has trouble understanding the “how” of it.
Jesus defers to Scripture to give him the clarification he seeks:
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Moses' bronze serpent, lifted on a pole, becomes the foreshadowing of the cross as the remedy for the curse of human sin. All that any Israelite who had been bitten by the serpent of death had to do was look up at the bronze serpent of life on the pole in order to be saved. We have only to look to the cross for our salvation.
It all comes down to believing...in the rising of Christ...and in His image on the Shroud.
What Jesus said next – to Nicodemus of all people – is the essence of Christianity:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believith in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
God, working through Jesus, accomplishes His purpose – our salvation.
Jesus then warns Nicodemus of the consequences for those who do not believe that the world can be saved through the son of God.
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”
Light...as in a short, intense burst of VUV radiation? As in an image that cannot be seen in transmitted light because the transmission of the light waves does not occur (is not absorbed) because the frequencies of the light waves match the natural frequencies of vibration of the image? Light that, like the wind, cannot be tied to any particular plane rotation or source of direction?
Living by truth brings us into the light. Living by truth is what enables the light of God to be seen through us.
Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, out of human darkness, believing somewhat in, yet also questioning Jesus. Nicodemus is gradually and methodically drawn to the light of Christ and undergoes a transformation. But that transformation happens incrementally, not all at once (just as it tends to happen to us).
Nicodemus is only mentioned two other times (again by John). Once, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when he comes to Jesus' defense by stating the law concerning Jesus' arrest:
“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him
to find out what he has been doing?”
Nicodemus, the Pharisee, ruler of the Jews, member of the Sanhedrin bends his authority to defer to Jesus' truth.
Nicodemus is mentioned one last time (& most significantly regarding the Shroud), as having assisted Joseph of Arimethea at Christ's burial.
“And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with spices,
as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never a man yet laid.
There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”
Certainly it is no accident that, of all people who could be present at the burial, Nicodemus (whose name means "Victory of the People") was the person there assisting Joseph of Arimethea.
This man, who tentatively approached Jesus in the darkness of doubt and disbelief, was perhaps predestined to be transfigured into a believer in the light of Christ. This man anointed the dead body of flesh of the Son of God, the first one to be reborn of water and spirit and to rise to sanctify all humankind by His light.
Is Nicodemus' presence at the burial Christ's way of reassuring us that the image on the Shroud is indeed proof of the water and spirit womb where Jesus is born again?
Should we not take Jesus' word for it? Word that is revealed to us in the Scriptures during his encounter with Nicodemus. Word that explains the resurrection process. Word that establishes God as working through Jesus for our salvation. Word where God can work through us so we can reflect His truth just by believing...
darkness and light
Nicodemus by night
water wind
spirit flight
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Chapter 58: Opt In and Rise
A Zen kōan posits:
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
The faint image on the Shroud whispers a paradox of its own:
“Suffering is inevitable. Salvation is optional.”
By voluntarily opting in to suffering, Christ covers us under the blanket of His forgiveness.
By rising in each of us, our suffering transmutes into His inevitable promise of salvation.
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
The faint image on the Shroud whispers a paradox of its own:
“Suffering is inevitable. Salvation is optional.”
By voluntarily opting in to suffering, Christ covers us under the blanket of His forgiveness.
By rising in each of us, our suffering transmutes into His inevitable promise of salvation.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Chapter 57: Image of Assimilation
We all sin. And even if, with maturity and some modicum of wisdom, we sin less and less as our lives progress, still we sin.
The image on the Shroud is our “insurance policy” to protect us from ourselves. It embodies the reassurance that, buried beneath the burden of our sins, a blueprint of redemption is already in place.
The Shroud image holds Christ's eternal and internal residing presence. In and beyond time, He loves and forgives us by enduring human suffering and dying a human death.
Through His image, Christ unifies, releases, and sustains the vibrant and continuous dance of the particles of sin and shame and their anti-particles of sacrifice and love.
His manifestation of both the evil of sin and His loving remedy for that evil is a place of equanimity. A place where we are made whole, to be a new creation, to live in perfect unity with ourselves, each other, and God.
His image frees us to never deny our sinfulness nor our goodness, because in doing either we compound His ongoing suffering on the cross.
By accepting ourselves, we coexist in the serenity of His image. Our flaws and failures, as well as our goodness... all are assimilated by the gifts of His grace.
No more fear. No more death. Just His holy design, the original blueprint for the forever creation of humanity.
The image on the Shroud is our “insurance policy” to protect us from ourselves. It embodies the reassurance that, buried beneath the burden of our sins, a blueprint of redemption is already in place.
The Shroud image holds Christ's eternal and internal residing presence. In and beyond time, He loves and forgives us by enduring human suffering and dying a human death.
Through His image, Christ unifies, releases, and sustains the vibrant and continuous dance of the particles of sin and shame and their anti-particles of sacrifice and love.
His manifestation of both the evil of sin and His loving remedy for that evil is a place of equanimity. A place where we are made whole, to be a new creation, to live in perfect unity with ourselves, each other, and God.
His image frees us to never deny our sinfulness nor our goodness, because in doing either we compound His ongoing suffering on the cross.
By accepting ourselves, we coexist in the serenity of His image. Our flaws and failures, as well as our goodness... all are assimilated by the gifts of His grace.
No more fear. No more death. Just His holy design, the original blueprint for the forever creation of humanity.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Chapter 56: Just Beyond Violet
the word Jerusalem
lives in our lexicon like a cave
a safe place where we return
again and again
to a larger and unified event
our foundation
the heart of a world of completeness
whole and sound
guiding pillar of vision
protection of the righteous
rain of peace of Lamb of God of salvation
exalted above the hills
the Lord shall see
~~~~~
If I could place myself anywhere back in time it would be in the sacred cave, the tomb where death became holy.
I imagine the walls of this cave, orthorhomic crystals of travertine aragonite deposited from springs. Magnetizable metallic iron oxidizing in the moisture, occurring naturally in the blood of Christ. Evaporation forms while soft, silvery white strontium oxidizes and ignites spontaneously in air, turning yellow.
I would yearn to wander just beyond violet in the visible spectrum, ending at the beginning of X-rays, where space time curls up and a range of invisible radiation wave lengths hovers in this sacred vacuum cave, protecting itself from being absorbed by air.
There I envision the physical body of Christ, lying covered on both sides by the Shroud, His blood spilling onto the cloth. I conceptualize that, in His mystery He becomes something akin to a human semiconductor. An atomic lattice of three dimensional quantum dots, tuned beyond visible light into the infrared or ultraviolet, a polymer backbone of cross linking, self-assembled nanocrystals.
I fancy the cave to be some kind of Casimir cavity, a relativistic environment wherein the plates, rather than made of metal, are wafers of cloth with no charge. The two layers of cloth, the cloth above and below the corpse, are perhaps acting as thin slices of semiconductor material formed from a crystalline substance, imprinting His image through some process akin to photolithographic patterning.
Here, inside the vacuum cave and wafers of cloth, I picture Christ's body becoming a gap, an area of lower radiation due to its limits on wavelength. I dare to perceive that, as this gap, He could render that space between the taut layers of cloth empty of matter, with zero point energy.
In this quantized field, I envisage that the net attractive force between objects in the vacuum cave, caused by quantum mechanical vacuum wave fluctuations, would create radiation pressure, thereby pushing (from the outside) the wafers of cloth towards the body of Christ. Here His atoms stick together, creating friction in the nanoworld, and He becomes the force that attracts because the radiation pressure of the field outside the cloth is greater than the pressure inside the gap.
At this point, I imagine the Casimir-like cavity has negative energy density. Now acceleration in the cave is reduced on the spatial axis because space time is bending in the opposite direction, thereby accelerating time (relative to us) and perhaps accelerating the linen aging process of the Shroud.
In my mind I see in the Casimir-like cavity that the wafers now define an abrupt boundary that breaks the isotropy of space time. The cavity now creates a depletion zone, thereby producing acceleration in a method opposite to an event horizon.
But then... I frame a picture of everything reversing.
The Casimir-like force now switches from attracting to repelling. It becomes a force that is due neither to electrical charge nor to gravity, but to fluctuations in the all pervasive energy fields in the intervening empty space between objects. Here I behold Christ's body becoming the vacuum, a force that pushes the wafers of cloth and the cave (which is now the gap) away from Him, rendering Him friction free and holding His molecules aloft to levitate and rise.
And so goes His light...
I wonder if His body produced vacuum fluctuations that started an amplified spontaneous emission where the luminescence went in all spatial directions. I imagine this isotropic scattering to be with identical, uniform physical properties that radiate the same intensity of light in all directions, thereby instantly and evenly imprinting His image on the cloth. Then, like an X-ray where scatter is relevant, the intensity of the two dimensional image contains three dimensional information about the body.
I conjure up a picture of His body hovering in parallel between the top and bottom of the cloth with no trace of gravity. Acting as an interface, he designs an exact relationship between the gradient of the image and the distance between body and cloth. Perhaps he transposed His image through electron quantum holography – nanoscale writing in electron wavelengths. And perhaps now, by dividing space time, the information in the nanoparticles He imprinted between the two sides of the cloth cannot communicate.
I try to grasp that His message has no measure of lost information. That it is fully transmitted onto the cloth, without the help of gravity but with the help of something far more brilliant. Perhaps gap and vacuum fuse and time collapses to absolute zero time.
Perhaps cryptographer and message become one.
But what is the message? It seems to me that there was something else inside that cave, namely the totality of the past, present and future sins of humanity. The Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world by both dying and rising. But in the cave, before rising, what happens to the infinitesimal energy and information of all that sin?
Perhaps the entropy of sin reverses and Christ's alchemy of faith causes the isolated system of evil to collapse.
I contemplate the idea of a singularity emerging and new patterns of information taking hold, information that is not tethered to time or space. This information is living in the nanoscale on the Shroud. Arriving to us from the future of the forever Resurrection, the waves of a free communication of information that transcends light. Living waves, that can linger without threats from field or force or space or time.
Building castles in the air, I wonder if the image we see of His blessed corpse, locked in time on the cloth, is perhaps not locked at all but is alive with the impulses of a larger, unified event. Perhaps it is His body continuously and directly controlling matter on the atomic scale. A body that has already burst through the boundary of the space time singularity. A body already risen beyond the cave, already exalted above the hills...
I imagine the Resurrection process creating a new gap, a singularity that can both attract and repel simultaneously because it is both contained in and free of the isolated system. A fusion of the two event horizons, perhaps it sparks with a completely original duality regarding time and space.
In this duality, a whole and synchronized blasting of space spreads its powerful information field, while simultaneously the continuation singularity of time thaws, recovers, and encodes the image on the Shroud. Thus the image is both frozen, recorded in time, and is continuously rebooting into living impulses of the Resurrection.
Perhaps the sacred tomb is the place where the heartbeat of death does not negate creation, nor does the heartbeat of creation negate death.
~~~~~
perhaps the Shroud is a lens
through which we can at last see
the invisible and undisturbed river
Christ's everlasting and marvelous light waves
flowing around the cold stone of our sins
that are so disturbingly visible
in His image of suffering and death
lives in our lexicon like a cave
a safe place where we return
again and again
to a larger and unified event
our foundation
the heart of a world of completeness
whole and sound
guiding pillar of vision
protection of the righteous
rain of peace of Lamb of God of salvation
exalted above the hills
the Lord shall see
~~~~~
If I could place myself anywhere back in time it would be in the sacred cave, the tomb where death became holy.
I imagine the walls of this cave, orthorhomic crystals of travertine aragonite deposited from springs. Magnetizable metallic iron oxidizing in the moisture, occurring naturally in the blood of Christ. Evaporation forms while soft, silvery white strontium oxidizes and ignites spontaneously in air, turning yellow.
I would yearn to wander just beyond violet in the visible spectrum, ending at the beginning of X-rays, where space time curls up and a range of invisible radiation wave lengths hovers in this sacred vacuum cave, protecting itself from being absorbed by air.
There I envision the physical body of Christ, lying covered on both sides by the Shroud, His blood spilling onto the cloth. I conceptualize that, in His mystery He becomes something akin to a human semiconductor. An atomic lattice of three dimensional quantum dots, tuned beyond visible light into the infrared or ultraviolet, a polymer backbone of cross linking, self-assembled nanocrystals.
I fancy the cave to be some kind of Casimir cavity, a relativistic environment wherein the plates, rather than made of metal, are wafers of cloth with no charge. The two layers of cloth, the cloth above and below the corpse, are perhaps acting as thin slices of semiconductor material formed from a crystalline substance, imprinting His image through some process akin to photolithographic patterning.
Here, inside the vacuum cave and wafers of cloth, I picture Christ's body becoming a gap, an area of lower radiation due to its limits on wavelength. I dare to perceive that, as this gap, He could render that space between the taut layers of cloth empty of matter, with zero point energy.
In this quantized field, I envisage that the net attractive force between objects in the vacuum cave, caused by quantum mechanical vacuum wave fluctuations, would create radiation pressure, thereby pushing (from the outside) the wafers of cloth towards the body of Christ. Here His atoms stick together, creating friction in the nanoworld, and He becomes the force that attracts because the radiation pressure of the field outside the cloth is greater than the pressure inside the gap.
At this point, I imagine the Casimir-like cavity has negative energy density. Now acceleration in the cave is reduced on the spatial axis because space time is bending in the opposite direction, thereby accelerating time (relative to us) and perhaps accelerating the linen aging process of the Shroud.
In my mind I see in the Casimir-like cavity that the wafers now define an abrupt boundary that breaks the isotropy of space time. The cavity now creates a depletion zone, thereby producing acceleration in a method opposite to an event horizon.
But then... I frame a picture of everything reversing.
The Casimir-like force now switches from attracting to repelling. It becomes a force that is due neither to electrical charge nor to gravity, but to fluctuations in the all pervasive energy fields in the intervening empty space between objects. Here I behold Christ's body becoming the vacuum, a force that pushes the wafers of cloth and the cave (which is now the gap) away from Him, rendering Him friction free and holding His molecules aloft to levitate and rise.
And so goes His light...
I wonder if His body produced vacuum fluctuations that started an amplified spontaneous emission where the luminescence went in all spatial directions. I imagine this isotropic scattering to be with identical, uniform physical properties that radiate the same intensity of light in all directions, thereby instantly and evenly imprinting His image on the cloth. Then, like an X-ray where scatter is relevant, the intensity of the two dimensional image contains three dimensional information about the body.
I conjure up a picture of His body hovering in parallel between the top and bottom of the cloth with no trace of gravity. Acting as an interface, he designs an exact relationship between the gradient of the image and the distance between body and cloth. Perhaps he transposed His image through electron quantum holography – nanoscale writing in electron wavelengths. And perhaps now, by dividing space time, the information in the nanoparticles He imprinted between the two sides of the cloth cannot communicate.
I try to grasp that His message has no measure of lost information. That it is fully transmitted onto the cloth, without the help of gravity but with the help of something far more brilliant. Perhaps gap and vacuum fuse and time collapses to absolute zero time.
Perhaps cryptographer and message become one.
But what is the message? It seems to me that there was something else inside that cave, namely the totality of the past, present and future sins of humanity. The Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world by both dying and rising. But in the cave, before rising, what happens to the infinitesimal energy and information of all that sin?
Perhaps the entropy of sin reverses and Christ's alchemy of faith causes the isolated system of evil to collapse.
I contemplate the idea of a singularity emerging and new patterns of information taking hold, information that is not tethered to time or space. This information is living in the nanoscale on the Shroud. Arriving to us from the future of the forever Resurrection, the waves of a free communication of information that transcends light. Living waves, that can linger without threats from field or force or space or time.
Building castles in the air, I wonder if the image we see of His blessed corpse, locked in time on the cloth, is perhaps not locked at all but is alive with the impulses of a larger, unified event. Perhaps it is His body continuously and directly controlling matter on the atomic scale. A body that has already burst through the boundary of the space time singularity. A body already risen beyond the cave, already exalted above the hills...
I imagine the Resurrection process creating a new gap, a singularity that can both attract and repel simultaneously because it is both contained in and free of the isolated system. A fusion of the two event horizons, perhaps it sparks with a completely original duality regarding time and space.
In this duality, a whole and synchronized blasting of space spreads its powerful information field, while simultaneously the continuation singularity of time thaws, recovers, and encodes the image on the Shroud. Thus the image is both frozen, recorded in time, and is continuously rebooting into living impulses of the Resurrection.
Perhaps the sacred tomb is the place where the heartbeat of death does not negate creation, nor does the heartbeat of creation negate death.
~~~~~
perhaps the Shroud is a lens
through which we can at last see
the invisible and undisturbed river
Christ's everlasting and marvelous light waves
flowing around the cold stone of our sins
that are so disturbingly visible
in His image of suffering and death
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Chapter 55: Gratitude
sent by your father
you came here
to be more like us
so that you could teach us
to be more like you
through your Passion
you demonstrate a remedy
for us
an opportunity
to have great compassion
for your suffering
folded on a shroud
the reflection of all human pain
an ethereal hovering
of an image ascending
father
sacrificing son
son
human holy
holy
spirit mystery
you came here
to be more like us
so that you could teach us
to be more like you
through your Passion
you demonstrate a remedy
for us
an opportunity
to have great compassion
for your suffering
folded on a shroud
the reflection of all human pain
an ethereal hovering
of an image ascending
father
sacrificing son
son
human holy
holy
spirit mystery
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Chapter 54: Chutes and Ladders
Which comes first – forgiveness or sacrifice? Is it because of forgiveness that Christ sacrificed Himself and died for our sins or is it because He made this sacrifice that we are forgiven? Or both?
As of late, I am more and more cognizant of the controversy of the Shroud. If there is only one truth... there is only one truth. Likely none of us fully knows it.
When we entangle ourselves in the morality game of chutes and ladders, striving to climb above each other's understanding and knowing, claiming our way is what is true...down the chute we go.
Your way, my way, every way the highway. There is only one way, God's way, and when we profess to know it, take ownership over it, leverage it for our own purposes...I'm guessing we are just being ridiculous.
God's truth is at once singular and abundant. Our interpretations of it are many and we each tend towards claiming ours is the only answer. But there is no need to function in scarcity where truth is concerned if the one truth is the abundance of God's love.
All this wrangling over the image on the Shroud and how it got there and if it is real or fake is our wrangling. Nothing in any of it poses any genuine threat because we cannot render threats against the Almighty, no matter how powerful we think we are.
The questions I ask come out of the freedom to explore that the fiction of my existence affords. Perhaps we are all fictitious characters in God's story of the truth about the Shroud. Perhaps He created the Shroud as a storyboard upon which we can sketch out our doubts and fears about suffering, forgiveness, salvation and the unknown.
How apropos that the Shroud should induce so much doubt. Even those who believe it is real possibly, at some point, have had moments of doubt and fear that they will be proven wrong.
To fully trust the love of God, perhaps we need this cloth as a place to reconcile our doubts and fears. The level playing field is the mystery – the fact that no one knows for certain how the image got onto the cloth.
Those who say it is a fake are perhaps so doubtful and fearful of the perfect love of God that the Shroud becomes their crutch of disbelief, their desired “I told you so” with which they can challenge the faith of those who believe it is real.
It may be that, for all of us, the cloth evokes our deepest fears regarding the possibility of suffering as punishment. But if God's perfect love is abundant, then Christ's suffering drives away any doubts we may harbor about forgiveness and any fears that haunt us where suffering and death are concerned.
Perhaps in the serene suffering and sacrifice recorded on the image on the Shroud we witness God's perfect love.
As of late, I am more and more cognizant of the controversy of the Shroud. If there is only one truth... there is only one truth. Likely none of us fully knows it.
When we entangle ourselves in the morality game of chutes and ladders, striving to climb above each other's understanding and knowing, claiming our way is what is true...down the chute we go.
Your way, my way, every way the highway. There is only one way, God's way, and when we profess to know it, take ownership over it, leverage it for our own purposes...I'm guessing we are just being ridiculous.
God's truth is at once singular and abundant. Our interpretations of it are many and we each tend towards claiming ours is the only answer. But there is no need to function in scarcity where truth is concerned if the one truth is the abundance of God's love.
All this wrangling over the image on the Shroud and how it got there and if it is real or fake is our wrangling. Nothing in any of it poses any genuine threat because we cannot render threats against the Almighty, no matter how powerful we think we are.
The questions I ask come out of the freedom to explore that the fiction of my existence affords. Perhaps we are all fictitious characters in God's story of the truth about the Shroud. Perhaps He created the Shroud as a storyboard upon which we can sketch out our doubts and fears about suffering, forgiveness, salvation and the unknown.
How apropos that the Shroud should induce so much doubt. Even those who believe it is real possibly, at some point, have had moments of doubt and fear that they will be proven wrong.
To fully trust the love of God, perhaps we need this cloth as a place to reconcile our doubts and fears. The level playing field is the mystery – the fact that no one knows for certain how the image got onto the cloth.
Those who say it is a fake are perhaps so doubtful and fearful of the perfect love of God that the Shroud becomes their crutch of disbelief, their desired “I told you so” with which they can challenge the faith of those who believe it is real.
It may be that, for all of us, the cloth evokes our deepest fears regarding the possibility of suffering as punishment. But if God's perfect love is abundant, then Christ's suffering drives away any doubts we may harbor about forgiveness and any fears that haunt us where suffering and death are concerned.
Perhaps in the serene suffering and sacrifice recorded on the image on the Shroud we witness God's perfect love.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Chapter 53: Alpha and Omega
“I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:8
Recently physicists have discovered evidence that possibly points to undermining the speed of light as the universal speed, our cosmic constant of “nothing travels faster.”
According to the theory of relativity, it takes an infinite amount of energy to make anything go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But now evidence exists which seems to prove that neutrinos arrive 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light when traveling though a vacuum.
If proven true:
Do different dimensions exist?
Would cause and effect be rendered ambiguous?
What would become of E = mc²?
Would time travel be possible?
Can Christ's image, like neutrinos, pass through everything undetected, thereby vanishing and mysteriously appearing at will as matter in the photographic negative of the Shroud?
Could the resurrected Christ capture and hold still enough neutrinos to create His image on the Shroud?
Do neutrinos capture and reflect the light of Christ?
If the sun moves light towards us and neutrinos move towards us, away from us, and through us faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, then is the resurrection that vacuum?
The image on the Shroud = resurrection matter?
~~~~~~~~~~
Science tells us that neutrinos are particles that are produced when high energy cosmic rays collide with matter. The most common particles in the universe, neutrinos originate from radioactive interactions such as nuclear reactions, solar fusion, radioactive decay, supernovae, and cosmic rays colliding with the Earth's atmosphere.
Neutrinos are ghostly, with a non-zero yet vanishingly small mass, and they can pass through matter undetected.
Did Jesus' image on the Shroud originate from the high energy rays of the sun and radioactive disintegration?
If the image on the Shroud could be weighed, would it have a minuscule mass?
Is the image comprised of neutrinos that, for some reason, we are able to detect?
Does the image have trillions of neutrinos passing through its mass every second (just like they pass through each of our bodies every second)?
Is the image on the Shroud residual evidence of neutrinos colliding with matter?
~~~~~~~~~~
A neutrino is a fermion, because it has half-integer spin. The three types of neutrinos – electron, muon, and tau – can spontaneously turn into one of the other forms by a process called neutrino oscillation (the neutrino flavor transition mechanism). Thus they must have some mass.
Oscillation is one complete cycle of repetitive to and fro motion, from one extreme (maximum or minimum) to another(minimum and maximum) and back. Alpha to Omega and Omega to Alpha?
Is the human Christ the only matter through which neutrinos can be detected as having moved through and then oscillated, settled, accumulated as dust on the Shroud?
Light from the resurrection = speed of light + neutrino oscillation in a vacuum?
Neutrino oscillation = the invisible mass of space = stillness?
Stillness = a byproduct of neutrino oscillation – they are moving so fast with so little mass that we experience it as stillness? (just like flying on an airplane does not create the sensation that you are moving very fast, though you are).
Image on Shroud = stillness, the shadow/image dusting of larger mass (Christ's body)?
If Christ wanted us to know stillness, is His image on the Shroud our roadmap to it?
~~~~~~~~~~
From our present time, we look back into history through the Gospels and experience Jesus' life linearly, from Alpha to Omega.
Jesus the Alpha, traveling to us from from His conception, through His life, and up to (and after) His death would: be born, live, be crucified, die, rise from the dead, and then leave the imprint of His image on the Shroud (in that order).
Jesus the Omega, traveling to us in the opposite direction of time, would imprint His image on the Shroud before His resurrection and before His crucifixion.
The Lord is indeed the Alpha and Omega...does that mean He moves in multiple directions of time – at the same time?
Did the infinite amount of energy of Almighty God send neutrinos through the vacuum of space and onto the image on the Shroud so that we could have a way of studying, experiencing, and relating to Jesus as the Alpha and Omega?
Did His image only settle on the top fibrils of the cloth because it originated in the future and then traveled backwards through His rising and then into his dying?
Is evidence of His rising then stored in the parts of the cloth where His image vanishes?
Do we begin our understanding of Jesus' life from Omega as our starting point so that His transcending suffering marks the beginning of eternal life?
Every time we look at the image on the Shroud are we simultaneously seeing Alpha and Omega?
~~~~~~~~~~
Neutrinos are all around us, trillions of solar electron neutrinos passing through each of our bodies every second. Even though neutrinos are extremely light in mass, because they are in such abundance, they may account for dark matter in the universe. They have an antiparticle – antineutrinos, which may be one and the same as neutrinos.
Electrically neutral leptons, neutrinos only interact through the weak sub-atomic force (as opposed to interacting between the strong or electromagnetic forces). This is why they can travel through matter quickly, barely being affected by it.
Did the matter of Christ's body reconvert into neutrinos?
If the resurrection could be seen by the naked eye, would it look
like the image on the Shroud?
Is the resurrection still happening each time we gaze upon the image?
Image on Shroud = faster than speed of light = dark matter = God?
Did Christ grace us with evidence of His will as “form” by imprinting His image on the cloth?
Trillions of neutrinos with very light mass moving through each of us every second = unique fingerprint phenomenon = Shroud image as God's fingerprint?
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The letters and language of God include and reach well beyond relativity, time, space and any cosmic constants of our making. The language of God includes us.
We sink ourselves into matter, stick to it, deem it supreme, revel in its seeming significance, live according to its law of gravity.
The image on the Shroud is a matter mystery. Perhaps its message is: “Let go of matter and rise into light.”
Revelation 1:8
Recently physicists have discovered evidence that possibly points to undermining the speed of light as the universal speed, our cosmic constant of “nothing travels faster.”
According to the theory of relativity, it takes an infinite amount of energy to make anything go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But now evidence exists which seems to prove that neutrinos arrive 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light when traveling though a vacuum.
If proven true:
Do different dimensions exist?
Would cause and effect be rendered ambiguous?
What would become of E = mc²?
Would time travel be possible?
Can Christ's image, like neutrinos, pass through everything undetected, thereby vanishing and mysteriously appearing at will as matter in the photographic negative of the Shroud?
Could the resurrected Christ capture and hold still enough neutrinos to create His image on the Shroud?
Do neutrinos capture and reflect the light of Christ?
If the sun moves light towards us and neutrinos move towards us, away from us, and through us faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, then is the resurrection that vacuum?
The image on the Shroud = resurrection matter?
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Science tells us that neutrinos are particles that are produced when high energy cosmic rays collide with matter. The most common particles in the universe, neutrinos originate from radioactive interactions such as nuclear reactions, solar fusion, radioactive decay, supernovae, and cosmic rays colliding with the Earth's atmosphere.
Neutrinos are ghostly, with a non-zero yet vanishingly small mass, and they can pass through matter undetected.
Did Jesus' image on the Shroud originate from the high energy rays of the sun and radioactive disintegration?
If the image on the Shroud could be weighed, would it have a minuscule mass?
Is the image comprised of neutrinos that, for some reason, we are able to detect?
Does the image have trillions of neutrinos passing through its mass every second (just like they pass through each of our bodies every second)?
Is the image on the Shroud residual evidence of neutrinos colliding with matter?
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A neutrino is a fermion, because it has half-integer spin. The three types of neutrinos – electron, muon, and tau – can spontaneously turn into one of the other forms by a process called neutrino oscillation (the neutrino flavor transition mechanism). Thus they must have some mass.
Oscillation is one complete cycle of repetitive to and fro motion, from one extreme (maximum or minimum) to another(minimum and maximum) and back. Alpha to Omega and Omega to Alpha?
Is the human Christ the only matter through which neutrinos can be detected as having moved through and then oscillated, settled, accumulated as dust on the Shroud?
Light from the resurrection = speed of light + neutrino oscillation in a vacuum?
Neutrino oscillation = the invisible mass of space = stillness?
Stillness = a byproduct of neutrino oscillation – they are moving so fast with so little mass that we experience it as stillness? (just like flying on an airplane does not create the sensation that you are moving very fast, though you are).
Image on Shroud = stillness, the shadow/image dusting of larger mass (Christ's body)?
If Christ wanted us to know stillness, is His image on the Shroud our roadmap to it?
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From our present time, we look back into history through the Gospels and experience Jesus' life linearly, from Alpha to Omega.
Jesus the Alpha, traveling to us from from His conception, through His life, and up to (and after) His death would: be born, live, be crucified, die, rise from the dead, and then leave the imprint of His image on the Shroud (in that order).
Jesus the Omega, traveling to us in the opposite direction of time, would imprint His image on the Shroud before His resurrection and before His crucifixion.
The Lord is indeed the Alpha and Omega...does that mean He moves in multiple directions of time – at the same time?
Did the infinite amount of energy of Almighty God send neutrinos through the vacuum of space and onto the image on the Shroud so that we could have a way of studying, experiencing, and relating to Jesus as the Alpha and Omega?
Did His image only settle on the top fibrils of the cloth because it originated in the future and then traveled backwards through His rising and then into his dying?
Is evidence of His rising then stored in the parts of the cloth where His image vanishes?
Do we begin our understanding of Jesus' life from Omega as our starting point so that His transcending suffering marks the beginning of eternal life?
Every time we look at the image on the Shroud are we simultaneously seeing Alpha and Omega?
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Neutrinos are all around us, trillions of solar electron neutrinos passing through each of our bodies every second. Even though neutrinos are extremely light in mass, because they are in such abundance, they may account for dark matter in the universe. They have an antiparticle – antineutrinos, which may be one and the same as neutrinos.
Electrically neutral leptons, neutrinos only interact through the weak sub-atomic force (as opposed to interacting between the strong or electromagnetic forces). This is why they can travel through matter quickly, barely being affected by it.
Did the matter of Christ's body reconvert into neutrinos?
If the resurrection could be seen by the naked eye, would it look
like the image on the Shroud?
Is the resurrection still happening each time we gaze upon the image?
Image on Shroud = faster than speed of light = dark matter = God?
Did Christ grace us with evidence of His will as “form” by imprinting His image on the cloth?
Trillions of neutrinos with very light mass moving through each of us every second = unique fingerprint phenomenon = Shroud image as God's fingerprint?
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The letters and language of God include and reach well beyond relativity, time, space and any cosmic constants of our making. The language of God includes us.
We sink ourselves into matter, stick to it, deem it supreme, revel in its seeming significance, live according to its law of gravity.
The image on the Shroud is a matter mystery. Perhaps its message is: “Let go of matter and rise into light.”
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