By now it is well known that no one can figure out how the image got onto the cloth of the Shroud of Turin, or how to reproduce it. And, most likely, no one ever will. So where does that leave us? Even if the speculations of some are true (that the image was caused by a burst of radiation during resurrection), we can never know for sure. Some can build amazing machines, such as the LHC and the TEVETRON, to find the God particle. Others can attempt to use nuclear reactors to prove the image was caused by outside radiation. But more likely than not, all anyone can ever attain is a “it could have happened this way” answer. Not that people shouldn't try and keep trying, but maybe there is more to consider.
If we cannot, and possibly never will be able to prove or reproduce the image...what was the point? Why would Christ have left it behind for us?
– To rub it in how very inadequate we are?
– To offer us hope of eternal life?
– To give us solid evidence so we would find a scientific way to explain or recreate resurrection?
– To guide us to levels of mind power and free will power that we never realized were accessible to us – akin to Dorothy's ruby slippers?
– To leave behind proof that Christianity is the true religion?
No possible solid answers. Just theories and beliefs and hopes and skepticism and cynicism. Yet we are mystified and compelled to keep trying to solve the mystery. We want to swim in the not knowing. We want desperately to prove it is real or fake.
Faith is not about proving. Faith is about trusting.
We are an entertaining species, at once naïve and arrogant, always hustling and haggling with life, ever needing to exert our control.
The Christianity of the past, it seems to me, had a lot more to do with humility. If we have faith that the image of the Shroud is indeed the stamp of the Almighty...can we not find the humility to admit that the supreme creator of all just may have left us a sign of His power. Isn't rejoicing in that enough for the faithful? Or do we need to venture farther because we think there is a hidden message about our own capabilities. And even if we could prove how Christ left behind the image, do we really think our own consciousness is so all powerful that we can resurrect ourselves?
I like to imagine Christ, suspended between the top and bottom of the cloth, floating and then choosing to have His particles expand to such a degree that He, in essence, vaporizes and reassembles into the image in such a way that His particles fall onto the fibrils of the cloth and also extend into the cloth as holographic information, before He expands so far and beyond our cognitive capabilities that we are at a loss to pinpoint His domain. He becomes the everything and is stamped inside each one of us.
Do I think I would ever be able to reach such a level of consciousness that I would be capable of doing the same? No. And does that make me feel human and inadequate? Yes. And does it also make me feel humbled? Very much so.
I think it is important to balance our trying to prove with humility and acceptance that our science may simply be inadequate. This is difficult, for both believers and skeptics. Believers seek proof that their faith is valid. Skeptics seek proof that their science is valid. What if faith and science are both valid and invalid? What if human consciousness is simultaneously adequate and inadequate? What if we already know everything there is to know...but we are simply unaware that we already know it?
I think the Christianity of the past over-played the humility card to make it seem almost like punishment. It had degrading overtones – as though we were too stupid and incompetent to know God. Presently, the scales are tipped in the polar opposite direction and we have become so confident in all our technologies and theories that we over-play the arrogant card and are certain we are capable of explaining God. From that perspective, the Shroud is a fascinating test for both our science and our faith. And it allows us to tinker with the deeper meaning of our existence, which we love to do.
Part of the fun of being human is that, as we advance our knowledge and technologies, we seem to be getting closer and closer to fundamental truth (though I imagine many “explorers” from the past felt the same as they made their way through the journey of human living). We enjoy thinking, doing, philosophizing, explaining, creating, and expanding our consciousness. The irony might be that this expansion is already complete and we are simply unaware.
Perhaps questioning and explaining are simply two sides of the same coin. If you read this blog, you will see that I prefer to hang out in the realm of questioning, mostly because I am ill equipped to explain because I am not a physicist or scientist. I rely mostly on intuition. To me, truth seeking is sport and essence combined.
The truth may just be that we never really know if we are close to the answers or not. Or maybe we already have the answers and just don't know it. Perhaps our struggle to understand is unnecessary and is just another feeble attempt on our part to control human existence. Perhaps we long to control because we feel as though we are not enough as we are. Perhaps control is already completely at our disposal or is completely unnecessary. The image on the Shroud is of a man who has surrendered, to suffering, to death, to resurrection. But surrendering is difficult for us because it means giving up control.
Sometimes, in a quiet moment, I can feel a fraction of the absolute power and glory of God. It's in our DNA. It's in everything that surrounds us. And it is truly magnificent and worthy of our awe. In those fractions of awareness, I need no proof, no explanation, no theory.
humbled by
the spirit of God operating
being is enough
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Chapter 29: Hidden Symmetry
I consider myself to be a student of the Shroud of Turin. I study it and it teaches me, continuously. Locked inside its image are secrets so profound that I am compelled to persist with my exploration. I realize I will never be able to prove anything in terms of how the image got there or what it means...but the relevant journey extends far beyond any proving.
The more I contemplate the Shroud, the more I come to realize that no proof is proof. If we could recreate the image or prove how it got there, it would be of worldly things and no measure of God. The fact that we cannot reproduce it leans us towards it being something of God.
Sometimes radical thoughts about it cross my mind. The most recent of these is: The image on the Shroud is the living Christ.
If we consider Christ's death and the disappearance of His body, how can we even be sure that His death would measure equally to a normal human death? If He was a man with supernatural capabilities, then it is possible that His physical death was a mirage, or at least that something beyond the typical indicators of physical death might have been going on – especially in terms of His consciousness.
The physical disappearance of His body too indicates that some force either acted upon His body or He evoked some force, via which He was able to make His physical body disappear. Mass into energy seems simple enough, except that the tomb and likely several nearby countries would have been blasted into smithereens...
But what if He did not completely disappear and the image on the Shroud is a living residue of His physical body? Loosely defined, living would mean that it possesses an energetic quality that has a vibratory presence. A frequency, so to speak, of a living entity.
If you were not fortunate enough to see the Shroud at the 2010 exhibition, you can see it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PakXpgcoijg
In the 20 hours I spent looking at the Shroud, I can say that the image itself has a pulse, a vibratory quality, as though it is simultaneously emitting and receiving light and energy from some unknown source. It has a grace and presence, calm and serenity. It feels energetically alive, not static or stagnant. It hums with the breath of the living Christ. (I wonder if anyone has ever tested it for the emission of any kind of frequency sounds).
Intuitively the image beckons us to keep searching for answers we very likely can never acquire while in our human body framework. Yet our quest to know is insatiable – even when we know we cannot know. The only reassurance we get is the intuitive impulse to keep exploring and explaining, wandering and wondering, questing and questioning...
This living energy quality of the image on the Shroud takes me back to questions of physics. Our definitions of human life and death tend to be limited to identifiable indicators of both. But if we consider questions of life and death within the larger framework of all existence, hidden energies and symmetries evoke deeper questions and meanings about life and death.
The God Particle. It's known as the Higgs Boson and physicists from around the world are on the chase for it. They know there is a range of values where the particle could be. They say it explains why everything around us has mass. They say that if it turns out it doesn't exist, then the Standard Model is incorrect. It's the only particle in the Standard Model that hasn't been observed. Some think it is the mediator of mass.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If before the Big Bang a symmetry existed, does that symmetry still exist and is the image on the Shroud is a reflection of it?
Is not the cloth under the image on the Shroud also exemplary of mediating mass? Is the Higgs Boson observable right in front of us — in the threads beneath the image on the Shroud?
If the mass of all particles, hence all matter, is derived from the Higgs field...and the Higgs Boson is the measurable particle of the Higgs field and is its own anti-particle and is CP even(charge conjugation symmetry + parity symmetry – meaning the laws of physics should be the same if a particle were interchanged with its antiparticle), then did the Higgs Field emerge from an original state of symmetry?
Does the image on the Shroud express CP symmetry? Is it CP even?
We focus so much on the actual image on the surface fibrils, but what of that which lies in the threads beneath it? Is the anti-image the mirrored parity symmetry of the image?
Does the holographic nature of the image and the mirrored image from the threads beneath bely the hidden symmetry between the image, the cloth and the mediating energy/radiation?
Is the image on the Shroud an example of simultaneous preservation and violation of CP symmetry?
The weak interaction is the only force capable of violating CP symmetry. If pions and muons decay during the weak interaction — does this mean they do not have parity symmetry?
Is the Planck mass responsible for originating consciousness?
If the resurrection was an expression of the symmetry that existed before the Big Bang, were the photons from Christ's body at resurrection the massless force carrier for electromagnetism that broke the symmetry between the other force carriers and interacted with the weak force carriers on the cloth to give the image its mass?
Does SUSY (supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model) tell us how the image was created and what it means? Are there many Higgs bosons particles or is it just a single particle?
Does SUSY account for dark matter?
And what of the theory of “weak dematerialization”? Was there some thermal neutron flux or radio-carbon anomaly that was the result of weak dematerialization of the body during resurrection? Did the release of pions and muons allow them to decay and bombard the cloth to form the image?
Did Christ use His free will to release gravity?
If nuclear radiation occurred in Christ's tomb, was the Shroud cloth irradiated by particle radiation?
Would the blast of radiation have acted as a shape charge, as though the explosion during Resurrection would have directed the force of the blast through the “projectile” (Christ's body) and onto the cloth?
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Out of asymmetry comes all universes, glued together by gravity, unglued by hidden symmetry. Just as massless photons and the heavy massed W and Z bosons allow each other to coexist, so too perhaps is symmetry allowed by forces that will forever remain (to us) an unobservable mystery.
The energies we would need to explain the gravity–related gaps are impossible to obtain. Even if physicists find the Higgs Boson, the hidden symmetry of God will always remain hidden because we cannot retain our mass and our human living inside a massless sea of radiation. If we are to live in the hidden symmetry of God, we live as light.
Perhaps the resurrection is the Anti-Big Bang...or the Little Bang, where Christ imploded and released into symmetry on such a minuscule, reverse subatomic scale that the process left Him living on tiny dots of particles, evenly sprayed across a linen cloth...as the mirrored inversion of the resurrection, the living radiation, the trail of mass leading us to faith.
silence holds all sound
light holds all darkness
space holds all form
mass is and is not
life is and is not
suffering is and is not
death is and is not
no proof is proof
The more I contemplate the Shroud, the more I come to realize that no proof is proof. If we could recreate the image or prove how it got there, it would be of worldly things and no measure of God. The fact that we cannot reproduce it leans us towards it being something of God.
Sometimes radical thoughts about it cross my mind. The most recent of these is: The image on the Shroud is the living Christ.
If we consider Christ's death and the disappearance of His body, how can we even be sure that His death would measure equally to a normal human death? If He was a man with supernatural capabilities, then it is possible that His physical death was a mirage, or at least that something beyond the typical indicators of physical death might have been going on – especially in terms of His consciousness.
The physical disappearance of His body too indicates that some force either acted upon His body or He evoked some force, via which He was able to make His physical body disappear. Mass into energy seems simple enough, except that the tomb and likely several nearby countries would have been blasted into smithereens...
But what if He did not completely disappear and the image on the Shroud is a living residue of His physical body? Loosely defined, living would mean that it possesses an energetic quality that has a vibratory presence. A frequency, so to speak, of a living entity.
If you were not fortunate enough to see the Shroud at the 2010 exhibition, you can see it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PakXpgcoijg
In the 20 hours I spent looking at the Shroud, I can say that the image itself has a pulse, a vibratory quality, as though it is simultaneously emitting and receiving light and energy from some unknown source. It has a grace and presence, calm and serenity. It feels energetically alive, not static or stagnant. It hums with the breath of the living Christ. (I wonder if anyone has ever tested it for the emission of any kind of frequency sounds).
Intuitively the image beckons us to keep searching for answers we very likely can never acquire while in our human body framework. Yet our quest to know is insatiable – even when we know we cannot know. The only reassurance we get is the intuitive impulse to keep exploring and explaining, wandering and wondering, questing and questioning...
This living energy quality of the image on the Shroud takes me back to questions of physics. Our definitions of human life and death tend to be limited to identifiable indicators of both. But if we consider questions of life and death within the larger framework of all existence, hidden energies and symmetries evoke deeper questions and meanings about life and death.
The God Particle. It's known as the Higgs Boson and physicists from around the world are on the chase for it. They know there is a range of values where the particle could be. They say it explains why everything around us has mass. They say that if it turns out it doesn't exist, then the Standard Model is incorrect. It's the only particle in the Standard Model that hasn't been observed. Some think it is the mediator of mass.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If before the Big Bang a symmetry existed, does that symmetry still exist and is the image on the Shroud is a reflection of it?
Is not the cloth under the image on the Shroud also exemplary of mediating mass? Is the Higgs Boson observable right in front of us — in the threads beneath the image on the Shroud?
If the mass of all particles, hence all matter, is derived from the Higgs field...and the Higgs Boson is the measurable particle of the Higgs field and is its own anti-particle and is CP even(charge conjugation symmetry + parity symmetry – meaning the laws of physics should be the same if a particle were interchanged with its antiparticle), then did the Higgs Field emerge from an original state of symmetry?
Does the image on the Shroud express CP symmetry? Is it CP even?
We focus so much on the actual image on the surface fibrils, but what of that which lies in the threads beneath it? Is the anti-image the mirrored parity symmetry of the image?
Does the holographic nature of the image and the mirrored image from the threads beneath bely the hidden symmetry between the image, the cloth and the mediating energy/radiation?
Is the image on the Shroud an example of simultaneous preservation and violation of CP symmetry?
The weak interaction is the only force capable of violating CP symmetry. If pions and muons decay during the weak interaction — does this mean they do not have parity symmetry?
Is the Planck mass responsible for originating consciousness?
If the resurrection was an expression of the symmetry that existed before the Big Bang, were the photons from Christ's body at resurrection the massless force carrier for electromagnetism that broke the symmetry between the other force carriers and interacted with the weak force carriers on the cloth to give the image its mass?
Does SUSY (supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model) tell us how the image was created and what it means? Are there many Higgs bosons particles or is it just a single particle?
Does SUSY account for dark matter?
And what of the theory of “weak dematerialization”? Was there some thermal neutron flux or radio-carbon anomaly that was the result of weak dematerialization of the body during resurrection? Did the release of pions and muons allow them to decay and bombard the cloth to form the image?
Did Christ use His free will to release gravity?
If nuclear radiation occurred in Christ's tomb, was the Shroud cloth irradiated by particle radiation?
Would the blast of radiation have acted as a shape charge, as though the explosion during Resurrection would have directed the force of the blast through the “projectile” (Christ's body) and onto the cloth?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Out of asymmetry comes all universes, glued together by gravity, unglued by hidden symmetry. Just as massless photons and the heavy massed W and Z bosons allow each other to coexist, so too perhaps is symmetry allowed by forces that will forever remain (to us) an unobservable mystery.
The energies we would need to explain the gravity–related gaps are impossible to obtain. Even if physicists find the Higgs Boson, the hidden symmetry of God will always remain hidden because we cannot retain our mass and our human living inside a massless sea of radiation. If we are to live in the hidden symmetry of God, we live as light.
Perhaps the resurrection is the Anti-Big Bang...or the Little Bang, where Christ imploded and released into symmetry on such a minuscule, reverse subatomic scale that the process left Him living on tiny dots of particles, evenly sprayed across a linen cloth...as the mirrored inversion of the resurrection, the living radiation, the trail of mass leading us to faith.
silence holds all sound
light holds all darkness
space holds all form
mass is and is not
life is and is not
suffering is and is not
death is and is not
no proof is proof
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Chapter 28: Constructs
questions asked
theories posed
an image on a cloth reposed
resurrection
salvation
serenity
suffering composed
near death
reliving the past
foretelling the future
reincarnation
out of body
aura emission
power of thought
mystery of dream
mind over matter
thought into matter
virtual visualization
energy elicitation
matter manipulation
density derivation
thought transformation
theory modulation
sleep simulation
human conglomeration
life liberation
death desecration
what we think we know
constructs shared
by cultures and generations
beliefs and religions
practices and faiths
miracles
no space
no time
no locality
not defined
holographic
holocentric
holoverse
holodiverse
layers
phases
transparencies
alternate dimensions
potential futures
parallel universes
particles
waves
vibrations
forming fate
determining destiny
creating consciousness
reality participation
questioning
why we bother
what it all means
who cares
why me
why us
anybody out there
please answer
answer seeking mongers
stuck in perceptions
defined by the physical body
mind is
consciousness is
awareness is
God is
free will is
individuality is
unity is
God
faith the gift paramount
theories posed
an image on a cloth reposed
resurrection
salvation
serenity
suffering composed
near death
reliving the past
foretelling the future
reincarnation
out of body
aura emission
power of thought
mystery of dream
mind over matter
thought into matter
virtual visualization
energy elicitation
matter manipulation
density derivation
thought transformation
theory modulation
sleep simulation
human conglomeration
life liberation
death desecration
what we think we know
constructs shared
by cultures and generations
beliefs and religions
practices and faiths
miracles
no space
no time
no locality
not defined
holographic
holocentric
holoverse
holodiverse
layers
phases
transparencies
alternate dimensions
potential futures
parallel universes
particles
waves
vibrations
forming fate
determining destiny
creating consciousness
reality participation
questioning
why we bother
what it all means
who cares
why me
why us
anybody out there
please answer
answer seeking mongers
stuck in perceptions
defined by the physical body
mind is
consciousness is
awareness is
God is
free will is
individuality is
unity is
God
faith the gift paramount
Friday, July 16, 2010
Chapter 27: Reality Fields Forever
Human reality is generally confined by our perceptions, which are generally confined by our senses. Some people are able to hang out in the fringe and do things like see auras or move objects with their minds or materialize matter out of thin air. Many have been documented. Their access to reality fields extends a bit further than ours.
Some of the saints and mystics delved into alternate reality fields, as do some of those who experience stigmata or other miraculous phenomena for which no plausible explanation exists inside conventional reality.
Most of us exist in a box where we experience our lives through our senses and then make sense of our world through the information we take in and mold into our perceptions. Human life, in this way, is so limiting.
If we imagine a human frequency, beyond our senses and perceptions, a higher frequency than that of normal matter/energy, a vibratory energy (according to the Hindus), we can start to understand how some have seemingly supernatural abilities. We can also begin to fathom different reality fields stretching out into forever.
Our human construct, the thing we think we know, is solidified by our thinking we know and understand human reality. We take comfort in our box and most of us would probably prefer not to see auras or be able to move objects with our minds because what would that mean about the true nature of our reality? Is our box a complete illusion, only a construct to which we adhere for comfort's sake?
At times we all intuitively yearn for life outside the box, for alternate modalities in order to expand our existence. We sometimes experience frustration, knowing in our minds and hearts that so much more is possible, yet we remain trapped by the limitations of our human perceptions.
Certainly experiences where the normal human reality field meets the human energy field are worthwhile in that they prove that the simultaneous coexistence of the two realms of being are possible. Throughout history some people have stepped outside the box and shimmered for awhile in an alternate reality.
But no one can really define what a human energy field is. Like an electron, it exists beyond the limitations of our human definitions. We can only define it loosely, based on our observations of how it behaves. We cannot solidify it as a construct and then explain what it is made of or name its essence.
One has to wonder what modalities Christ was able to access or if He used free will to transfer His image onto the cloth of the Shroud, or to “cause” His image to appear. When any of us uses our free will to cause something to happen, we take ownership of that cause, meaning nothing else is doing the causing. It is as though our free will is connected to, or is the manifestation of, our human energy field.
Some interface between thought and matter must have allowed Christ to cause His suffering to transform into light and leave behind His serene image. He somehow released the matter of his physical body into light. And that light somehow managed to leave behind residual matter (His image).
Matter -- into light -- back into matter
Because no one has ever been able to explain or duplicate His image on the Shroud...
Because the image challenges science and religion to merge their efforts and share their insights to solve the mystery...
Because my birth resulted from having been cloned from the blood on the Shroud...
All these reasons have lead me to use my free will to cause and continue to deeply question how Christ was able to leave behind His image and why He would have chosen to do so...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Is the image on the Shroud a picture of one possibility of how the human energy field behaves?
Does a human energy field exist everywhere at the same time...is it non-local?
Does human perception transform this frequency into solidity for the sake of controlling and comprehending our existence?
Was Christ's body at death a solid construct or a holographic image...or both?
By solidifying His image on the cloth, did Christ provide us with a glimpse into nonlocality, one that we can experience via our limited human perceptions for the sake of teaching us that we are both a solid body and a human energy frequency, capable of so much more that we realize?
If God is the consciousness that produces the appearance and awareness of the brain, matter, space, and time...then is the image on the Shroud the only human energy field perceivable to humans?
Does consciousness, via the human mind, create all realities or are all realities a manifestation of God, a consciousness that encompasses all and the human mind is just one of its realities?
If Christ's physical body was one reality field, that of solidity, then is the image on the Shroud evidence that matter (solidity) can co-exist simultaneously with the reality field of an energy frequency?
If we were to simply open ourselves and let God in on an energetic level, would we shift into deeper, more fascinating and reliable reality fields?
Is our free will to choose to live God's will for our lives equal to the choice to transform the matter of our bodies into light?
Is our free will our mechanism for the continuation of the life of our human souls?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It almost seems moot to look for answers/proof inside unexplainable phenomena...its existence already is an answer, already is the proof that we exist far beyond our perceived limitations, regardless if our senses are able to conjure perceptions that confirm this or not.
regarding matter
say it so
so be it
Some of the saints and mystics delved into alternate reality fields, as do some of those who experience stigmata or other miraculous phenomena for which no plausible explanation exists inside conventional reality.
Most of us exist in a box where we experience our lives through our senses and then make sense of our world through the information we take in and mold into our perceptions. Human life, in this way, is so limiting.
If we imagine a human frequency, beyond our senses and perceptions, a higher frequency than that of normal matter/energy, a vibratory energy (according to the Hindus), we can start to understand how some have seemingly supernatural abilities. We can also begin to fathom different reality fields stretching out into forever.
Our human construct, the thing we think we know, is solidified by our thinking we know and understand human reality. We take comfort in our box and most of us would probably prefer not to see auras or be able to move objects with our minds because what would that mean about the true nature of our reality? Is our box a complete illusion, only a construct to which we adhere for comfort's sake?
At times we all intuitively yearn for life outside the box, for alternate modalities in order to expand our existence. We sometimes experience frustration, knowing in our minds and hearts that so much more is possible, yet we remain trapped by the limitations of our human perceptions.
Certainly experiences where the normal human reality field meets the human energy field are worthwhile in that they prove that the simultaneous coexistence of the two realms of being are possible. Throughout history some people have stepped outside the box and shimmered for awhile in an alternate reality.
But no one can really define what a human energy field is. Like an electron, it exists beyond the limitations of our human definitions. We can only define it loosely, based on our observations of how it behaves. We cannot solidify it as a construct and then explain what it is made of or name its essence.
One has to wonder what modalities Christ was able to access or if He used free will to transfer His image onto the cloth of the Shroud, or to “cause” His image to appear. When any of us uses our free will to cause something to happen, we take ownership of that cause, meaning nothing else is doing the causing. It is as though our free will is connected to, or is the manifestation of, our human energy field.
Some interface between thought and matter must have allowed Christ to cause His suffering to transform into light and leave behind His serene image. He somehow released the matter of his physical body into light. And that light somehow managed to leave behind residual matter (His image).
Matter -- into light -- back into matter
Because no one has ever been able to explain or duplicate His image on the Shroud...
Because the image challenges science and religion to merge their efforts and share their insights to solve the mystery...
Because my birth resulted from having been cloned from the blood on the Shroud...
All these reasons have lead me to use my free will to cause and continue to deeply question how Christ was able to leave behind His image and why He would have chosen to do so...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Is the image on the Shroud a picture of one possibility of how the human energy field behaves?
Does a human energy field exist everywhere at the same time...is it non-local?
Does human perception transform this frequency into solidity for the sake of controlling and comprehending our existence?
Was Christ's body at death a solid construct or a holographic image...or both?
By solidifying His image on the cloth, did Christ provide us with a glimpse into nonlocality, one that we can experience via our limited human perceptions for the sake of teaching us that we are both a solid body and a human energy frequency, capable of so much more that we realize?
If God is the consciousness that produces the appearance and awareness of the brain, matter, space, and time...then is the image on the Shroud the only human energy field perceivable to humans?
Does consciousness, via the human mind, create all realities or are all realities a manifestation of God, a consciousness that encompasses all and the human mind is just one of its realities?
If Christ's physical body was one reality field, that of solidity, then is the image on the Shroud evidence that matter (solidity) can co-exist simultaneously with the reality field of an energy frequency?
If we were to simply open ourselves and let God in on an energetic level, would we shift into deeper, more fascinating and reliable reality fields?
Is our free will to choose to live God's will for our lives equal to the choice to transform the matter of our bodies into light?
Is our free will our mechanism for the continuation of the life of our human souls?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It almost seems moot to look for answers/proof inside unexplainable phenomena...its existence already is an answer, already is the proof that we exist far beyond our perceived limitations, regardless if our senses are able to conjure perceptions that confirm this or not.
regarding matter
say it so
so be it
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Chapter 26: A Piece of Peace
“I leave you peace. My peace I give you.”
The most remarkable contrast evident upon the image on the Shroud of Turin is the overwhelming sense of peace amidst ample forensic proof of so many tortuous wounds and bloodstains. Clearly the man of the Shroud suffered immense physical pain, yet the residue of His image projects complete serenity.
Why would the image of serenity immersed in suffering have been the only artifact left behind? Was it Christ's intention to show us another possibility for our relationship to suffering?
Given the right set of circumstances, it would be safe to say that “the whole world is against us.” Among the billions of people on the planet, there are very few people, mostly our family and friends, who care deeply for us. Are we so naïve that we actually believe the world population really cares about our tiny individual lives before their own? If the whole world were to fall into a state of crisis, we would likely all be capable of turning on each other to fight for our own and our family's survival. Our lives hang in such a precarious balance and we are always on the edge of this primitive “survival of the fittest” mode, even though we perpetuate an illusion to the contrary.
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is only one tiny fragment of proof that having zero back up plan is the norm for many human endeavors. We coexist in the illusion that our governments, companies, and institutions have their acts together and can handle all manner of large scale crises. We fabricate this false comfort zone because the reality of the tenuous nature of human existence is too overwhelmingly scary to contemplate. Good thing we have a sense of humor...
As one crisis after another emerges in our world, we are starting to see that our relief efforts only go so far. Haiti is still a disaster and most who were there to help have moved on. It's understandable – people can only do so much to help others; our own lives inevitably beckon us back home to help ourselves and those we love.
The time between disasters and crises seems to be shortening. It begs the question:
Why hasn't the the whole world already fallen into crisis all at once?
And that question leads me to other questions...
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What is this force that binds together all our fragile realities and doles out the suffering incrementally so that we can recover and sustain our existence as a species?
Is it the same force that binds the scars and stains of torture embedded into the image on the Shroud?
Is human suffering holographic in nature, existing on many planes, in various domains, all suspended in some illusion of reality?
Is our suffering like a holographic image in that it is nonlocal – it cannot remain in a fixed location in space and time?
Do the particles of our suffering convert to waves when we are not directly experiencing the pain?
Is suffering part of the indivisible subatomic system, part of the implicate order that enfolds all realities into one?
Is each mark of suffering embedded into the image on the Shroud part of the 3D road map that answers the age old questions about why we are here and why we suffer?
Does the subatomic spray-like image that so faintly graces only the surface fibers of the cloth do so as a metaphor to remind us that the scars of suffering are temporary, but that salvation is eternal?
If you were Jesus Christ, a person with supernatural powers who could heal the sick and raise the dead, who could die and be resurrected... what would you leave behind for the world to contemplate?
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It makes sense that Christ would have left us the gift of peace because we have no sustainable way to find true peace in our exterior tumultuous world. Amidst constant suffering and always on the brink of destruction, we tread the waters of this life and hold ourselves together as best we can. Peace in this world is a fairy tale we tell ourselves –- a way to hold onto hope.
Peace is not to be attained in our world. Serenity inside suffering is something we can only find deep within ourselves. It is a gift that we can only fully receive through faith, faith in the force that binds and protects us.
I marvel at how hard the skeptics work to prove the Shroud is a forgery and not the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. I wonder if each of them was left the gift of a million dollars and was told it was a gift from Christ if they would work equally hard to prove that gift a fake.
The mere presence of the image of serenity on this piece of cloth imbues us with the gift of peace. This Son of Man, who so willingly agrees to always be with us no matter the crisis, to never abandon us like most of the world would, to grace us with the detailed record of His suffering for our salvation...His is the image that remains largely ignored, ironically even among those who have faith.
His gift of peace serene
on cloth suspended
our dream
The most remarkable contrast evident upon the image on the Shroud of Turin is the overwhelming sense of peace amidst ample forensic proof of so many tortuous wounds and bloodstains. Clearly the man of the Shroud suffered immense physical pain, yet the residue of His image projects complete serenity.
Why would the image of serenity immersed in suffering have been the only artifact left behind? Was it Christ's intention to show us another possibility for our relationship to suffering?
Given the right set of circumstances, it would be safe to say that “the whole world is against us.” Among the billions of people on the planet, there are very few people, mostly our family and friends, who care deeply for us. Are we so naïve that we actually believe the world population really cares about our tiny individual lives before their own? If the whole world were to fall into a state of crisis, we would likely all be capable of turning on each other to fight for our own and our family's survival. Our lives hang in such a precarious balance and we are always on the edge of this primitive “survival of the fittest” mode, even though we perpetuate an illusion to the contrary.
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is only one tiny fragment of proof that having zero back up plan is the norm for many human endeavors. We coexist in the illusion that our governments, companies, and institutions have their acts together and can handle all manner of large scale crises. We fabricate this false comfort zone because the reality of the tenuous nature of human existence is too overwhelmingly scary to contemplate. Good thing we have a sense of humor...
As one crisis after another emerges in our world, we are starting to see that our relief efforts only go so far. Haiti is still a disaster and most who were there to help have moved on. It's understandable – people can only do so much to help others; our own lives inevitably beckon us back home to help ourselves and those we love.
The time between disasters and crises seems to be shortening. It begs the question:
Why hasn't the the whole world already fallen into crisis all at once?
And that question leads me to other questions...
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What is this force that binds together all our fragile realities and doles out the suffering incrementally so that we can recover and sustain our existence as a species?
Is it the same force that binds the scars and stains of torture embedded into the image on the Shroud?
Is human suffering holographic in nature, existing on many planes, in various domains, all suspended in some illusion of reality?
Is our suffering like a holographic image in that it is nonlocal – it cannot remain in a fixed location in space and time?
Do the particles of our suffering convert to waves when we are not directly experiencing the pain?
Is suffering part of the indivisible subatomic system, part of the implicate order that enfolds all realities into one?
Is each mark of suffering embedded into the image on the Shroud part of the 3D road map that answers the age old questions about why we are here and why we suffer?
Does the subatomic spray-like image that so faintly graces only the surface fibers of the cloth do so as a metaphor to remind us that the scars of suffering are temporary, but that salvation is eternal?
If you were Jesus Christ, a person with supernatural powers who could heal the sick and raise the dead, who could die and be resurrected... what would you leave behind for the world to contemplate?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It makes sense that Christ would have left us the gift of peace because we have no sustainable way to find true peace in our exterior tumultuous world. Amidst constant suffering and always on the brink of destruction, we tread the waters of this life and hold ourselves together as best we can. Peace in this world is a fairy tale we tell ourselves –- a way to hold onto hope.
Peace is not to be attained in our world. Serenity inside suffering is something we can only find deep within ourselves. It is a gift that we can only fully receive through faith, faith in the force that binds and protects us.
I marvel at how hard the skeptics work to prove the Shroud is a forgery and not the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. I wonder if each of them was left the gift of a million dollars and was told it was a gift from Christ if they would work equally hard to prove that gift a fake.
The mere presence of the image of serenity on this piece of cloth imbues us with the gift of peace. This Son of Man, who so willingly agrees to always be with us no matter the crisis, to never abandon us like most of the world would, to grace us with the detailed record of His suffering for our salvation...His is the image that remains largely ignored, ironically even among those who have faith.
His gift of peace serene
on cloth suspended
our dream
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Chapter 25: 2D/3D
Of the many things that make the image on the Shroud unique, the one that most captures my attention is the fact that 3 dimensional distance information is hidden in the image density itself and is encoded into the 2 dimensional image. Remember, the image only rests upon the surface fibers of the cloth and still it contains this hidden 3D information. No other 2 dimensional image – anywhere – ever – has this kind of information encoded into it. And no one has ever been able to reproduce this effect using modern science.
When considering Christ's death and resurrection...specifically the time in between the two, it makes one wonder about His consciousness. In other words did He die, slip into a state on non-being, no consciousness and then reanimate? Or was His physical body “dead” by all human definitions but His consciousness alive and well and intentionally deciding to leave us the imprint?
When you think about all the stuff you own and what would be left behind after you die, it's interesting to ponder that all our belongings, our physical objects and possessions, reflect who we are on this earth while living and who we were after we are dead and gone. Especially anything we created ourselves – these are the things that tell our story.
But we cannot directly go through Jesus' scrapbooks, photos albums, treasured childhood toys, writings, records...all we have to go on is Scripture and that comes from a variety of sources.
So if the Shroud is the only “thing” we have (and the Sudarium), how is it possible that all of Christianity is not completely fluent on the subject of the Shroud? It baffles the mind. Is it not enough that the Shroud is the one major “thing” Christ left behind, that it is embedded with an imprint of His suffering and resurrection, and that this 2D/3D phenomenon cannot be explained or reproduced...is it not enough for our faith to fathom...to marvel...to believe?
When considering Christ's death and resurrection...specifically the time in between the two, it makes one wonder about His consciousness. In other words did He die, slip into a state on non-being, no consciousness and then reanimate? Or was His physical body “dead” by all human definitions but His consciousness alive and well and intentionally deciding to leave us the imprint?
When you think about all the stuff you own and what would be left behind after you die, it's interesting to ponder that all our belongings, our physical objects and possessions, reflect who we are on this earth while living and who we were after we are dead and gone. Especially anything we created ourselves – these are the things that tell our story.
But we cannot directly go through Jesus' scrapbooks, photos albums, treasured childhood toys, writings, records...all we have to go on is Scripture and that comes from a variety of sources.
So if the Shroud is the only “thing” we have (and the Sudarium), how is it possible that all of Christianity is not completely fluent on the subject of the Shroud? It baffles the mind. Is it not enough that the Shroud is the one major “thing” Christ left behind, that it is embedded with an imprint of His suffering and resurrection, and that this 2D/3D phenomenon cannot be explained or reproduced...is it not enough for our faith to fathom...to marvel...to believe?
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Chapter 24: Connecting the Dots
I believe the number is 2 million, people that is, from all over the world who made their way to Turin to see the imprint of the resurrected Christ on the Shroud. Imagine if He were alive and preaching how many millions would come to hear Him speak. No stadium would be large enough.
Because the Shroud contains holographic information, I'm keen on learning more about the broader concepts associated with holograms. As always, I am coming up with more questions than answers...
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Does the image on the Shroud only exist because we are observing it?
All the tiny dots, the subatomic particle spray — do these dots, when measured, show us the framework of the holographic grid?
Does the Shroud cloth act as a piece of holographic film, recording interference patterns and thus remembering all the information about the entire original image?
If the part of the Shroud that contains the image were to be cut into squares, could each piece be used to reconstruct the entire image?
Could the density of neurons in the brain be responsible for a kaleidoscope of interference patterns that result from vast amounts of electrical impulses in the brain cell connectivity? In this way could Jesus have “thought” his image onto the cloth during the Resurrection?
Holograms are virtual images that create the illusion that things are located where they are not. Does nonlocality apply to the image on the Shroud?
Can we produce of Fourier Transform of the image on the Shroud?
Is the image a frequency domain that can only be transformed into our perception of reality via employing our senses? If so, does this mean that Christ left us a legible “admissions ticket” into the frequency of the Divine?
When we die, are we simply enfolded back into the one thing reality...the whole?
Is there a hidden order enfolded into the interference patterns in the image on the cloth of the Shroud?
If the totality of an image on holographic film is hidden because it is enfolded into the interference patterns, then the actual hologram projected from the film is only the perceptible version of the image...in that same way is the image on the Shroud merely the perceptible reality and, thereby, is something far more profound enfolded into the cloth that we cannot perceive?
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If we can communicate using every cell, atom, molecule in our being and all realities are unbroken, then it stands to reason that each of us is everyone else. In this way, Christ dying on the cross for all the sins of humanity makes practical sense. He would have been a fully realized human being, one with self-actualized potential. A shape shifter who could take on the pain and suffering of every single human being throughout all of space and time by essentially “becoming” the reality of everyone else.
When we do something that helps another we feel an enormous satisfaction. In that respect, perhaps Christ was comforted by a satisfaction so profound that every ounce of His (our) suffering paled in comparison. The miracle of the Shroud is that the image conveys so much more than suffering...
slats of spheres
cylindrical specters that vector
subatomic chameleon
cloud like layers
transparency indicators
of helix horizontals
webbed verticals
and implicate dimensionless electrons
quanta
order
the chaos illusion
now you see it
now you don't
connecting the dots
framing the grid
while photons chatter and agree
their polarization angles
identical
instantaneous spatial orientation
crisscrossing ripples
into a deeper order
of subtle matter
where all particles agree
to nonlocality
interconnectedness
and the unbroken
flowing
Because the Shroud contains holographic information, I'm keen on learning more about the broader concepts associated with holograms. As always, I am coming up with more questions than answers...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Does the image on the Shroud only exist because we are observing it?
All the tiny dots, the subatomic particle spray — do these dots, when measured, show us the framework of the holographic grid?
Does the Shroud cloth act as a piece of holographic film, recording interference patterns and thus remembering all the information about the entire original image?
If the part of the Shroud that contains the image were to be cut into squares, could each piece be used to reconstruct the entire image?
Could the density of neurons in the brain be responsible for a kaleidoscope of interference patterns that result from vast amounts of electrical impulses in the brain cell connectivity? In this way could Jesus have “thought” his image onto the cloth during the Resurrection?
Holograms are virtual images that create the illusion that things are located where they are not. Does nonlocality apply to the image on the Shroud?
Can we produce of Fourier Transform of the image on the Shroud?
Is the image a frequency domain that can only be transformed into our perception of reality via employing our senses? If so, does this mean that Christ left us a legible “admissions ticket” into the frequency of the Divine?
When we die, are we simply enfolded back into the one thing reality...the whole?
Is there a hidden order enfolded into the interference patterns in the image on the cloth of the Shroud?
If the totality of an image on holographic film is hidden because it is enfolded into the interference patterns, then the actual hologram projected from the film is only the perceptible version of the image...in that same way is the image on the Shroud merely the perceptible reality and, thereby, is something far more profound enfolded into the cloth that we cannot perceive?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If we can communicate using every cell, atom, molecule in our being and all realities are unbroken, then it stands to reason that each of us is everyone else. In this way, Christ dying on the cross for all the sins of humanity makes practical sense. He would have been a fully realized human being, one with self-actualized potential. A shape shifter who could take on the pain and suffering of every single human being throughout all of space and time by essentially “becoming” the reality of everyone else.
When we do something that helps another we feel an enormous satisfaction. In that respect, perhaps Christ was comforted by a satisfaction so profound that every ounce of His (our) suffering paled in comparison. The miracle of the Shroud is that the image conveys so much more than suffering...
slats of spheres
cylindrical specters that vector
subatomic chameleon
cloud like layers
transparency indicators
of helix horizontals
webbed verticals
and implicate dimensionless electrons
quanta
order
the chaos illusion
now you see it
now you don't
connecting the dots
framing the grid
while photons chatter and agree
their polarization angles
identical
instantaneous spatial orientation
crisscrossing ripples
into a deeper order
of subtle matter
where all particles agree
to nonlocality
interconnectedness
and the unbroken
flowing
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