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Science & Spirituality

The Union Between Science and Spirituality

Is it not good to know what follows from what even if it is not necessary for all practical purposes? Suppose, for example, that quantum mechanics were found to resist precise formulation. Suppose that when formulation beyond all practical purposes is attempted, we find an unmovable finger obstinately pointing outside the subject, to the mind of the observer, to the Hindu scriptures, to God, or even only Gravitation? Would that not be very, very interesting ? (John Bell, physicist)

The smallest particle is power incarnate. There is no atom, no merest speck of life that is not pregnant with all the possibilities of the universe. Yet all this world of forms.is only the shadow of the wonder and beauty that are there. Strip away the wonder of form and a yet greater wonder appears. For the world of forms that stretches out around us, shifting, fair, new, strange, familiar, passing, passionate, is not dense and corporeal but in reality a world of light . (James Dillet Freeman, Unity minister)

Our Website celebrates the common ground between science and spirituality. By relaxing the boundaries that have traditionally kept science and religion separate, we believe we'll ultimately find the power of a greater wisdom through the dance between science and spirituality.

With the awesome new discoveries hinting that consciousness may very well be the ground of all being since it affects everything from the cells of our bodies to the atoms of our world, there is a growing belief that the unified field quantum physicists are looking for is consciousness itself. What is exciting to us is that it has become the place where science, faith, and spirituality seem to be finding common ground.

The Cartesian separation between mind and matter occurred principally to allow science to pursue science without theological handcuffs. The intent to study "unconscious" mechanical matter without theological pruning launched the scientifically minded to examine the universe and its secrets.

The interest today in wedding science and spirituality is a Promethean task. Stealing the secret of fire (truth) from the sciences and presenting it to humankind is nothing less than a Sinai experience. Bringing spiritual insights into a material consciousness is a hero's journey.

Here are a few of the observations which surface when we look at the dance between science and spirituality:

• There is no observer separate from reality because the observer and the observed are one.
• The physical body (human, planet, solar system) is fundamentally made of information, vibration, and energy - and perceived as solid matter.
• There is an underlying Consciousness that underwrites (connects) all things - visible and invisible. It is this Consciousness that is the ground of all being.
• Time and physicality are ego constructs.
• We are the Multiverse of universes learning about itself.

We hope you'll enjoy the connections between rigorous scientific concepts, research, and hypotheses and their spiritual counterparts. We share them as consciousness-expanding invitations for your spiritual enlightenment and personal growth as you seek to understand why you're here, how you got here, and where you're going once you leave this human experience (skin school).

Grab your favorite drink and a snack as you delve into this site to unlock your connection to the Universe. Enjoy a higher consciousness trip that will send you exponentially into the 'next' you; the newer, improved you, a repotted you; a quantum you; a more spiritual you; and a more metaphysical you.

Our intent is to help you master your human experience by walking the spiritual path on scientifically-attuned, 'quantumly-aroused' feet.

We'll start by giving you a few extraordinary quotes to ponder from the worlds of science, spirituality, and metaphysics. Then you'll see comparisons between scientific subjects and complementary spiritual insights on the same subjects to spark your imagination and tease out your wisdom.

We will do our best to give you good science and sound spirituality. You are welcome to draw your own conclusions on anything we post and blog us with your comments and ideas.

A Potpourri of Science and Spirituality Quotes and Subjects

(We are constantly updating and adding to this warehouse of quotes and subjects so feel free to re-visit us as often as your time and interests allow)

"The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation.The universe is a quantum computer.As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds." (Seth Lloyd, physicist)

"In the field of consciousness, it appears that there's no clear boundary that tells us where we stop and the rest of the universe begins." (Greg Braden, geologist)

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, we ourselves are.part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." (Max Planck, physicist)

"Within and yet behind each invisible atom reposes the life order, love, and intelligence of Spirit, transmitted from the Absolute into a condition that appears as dense as matter. Behind each waterfall, every ripple in the sea, each furrow of brown earth, within the throbbing breast of every singing bird and each brilliant flower is the presence of the Infinite." (Marjorie H. Russell, minister).

• Anthropomorphism
  
  
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• Cosmic Genealogies
  
  
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• Many Worlds Interpretation
  
  
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• DNA and Human Emotions
  
  
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• The Divine Matrix
  
  
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• Collapsing the Wave
  
  
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"It was necessary for (humankind) to evolve (its) awareness of deity in order that (we) might consciously, as an act of will, demonstrate that deity. It is through this process that (humankind) moves from a state of bliss in coexistence with * deity to an understanding awareness of (ourselves) as * deity." (Robert P. Sikking, minister)

"We must free ourselves from the limitations of the personal ego. We must see ourselves as part of the whole.We can reach that state of consciousness referred to as illumination or enlightenment, spiritual awareness, sameddhi , or a state of grace." (Donald Curtis, minister)

"When we understand us, our consciousness, we also understand the universe and the separation disappears." (Amit Goswami, physicist)

"So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!" (Itzhak Bentov, scientist, mystic)

"Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past." (Albert Einstein, physicist)

"The great Truth taught by the mystics of all ages is: Life is lived from within-out. This means that the whole universe is concentrated at the point where you are. More than this - you are the universe expressing as you." (Eric Butterworth, minister)

"The Universal Principle of Being (Elohim God) designed all creation. Elohim is God in His capacity as creative power. Create means ideate. Elohim creates the spiritual idea which is afterward made manifest. God created not the earth as it appears but that which produced the earth." (Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity movement)

"We do not have to die to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In fact we have to be fully alive. When we breathe in and out and hug a beautiful tree, we are in Heaven. When we are aware of our breathing, our eyes, the heart, our liver, and our non-tooth-ache, we are transported to Paradise right away." (Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk)

"(Unfortunately), it (is) apparent how much modern research, discoveries and significant insights, yet clings to the external side of phenomena, and is not at present able to build a bridge to that which permeates the universe spiritually." (Hans-Werner Schroeder, priest, author)

"The common division of the world into subject or object, inner world or outer world, body and soul is no longer adequate." (Werner Heisenberg, physicist)

"The primary emphasis is on undivided wholeness, in which the observing instrument is not separated from what is observed." (David Bohm, physicist)

"Remarkably, modern Christian doctrine has moved a long way toward a picture of the integrated brain and mind, with its emphasis on the resurrection of the whole man through Christ, rather than the traditional idea of a distinct immortal soul being cast adrift from its material counterparts to carry on a disembodied existence somewhere." (Paul Davies, physicist)

"Every quantum transition taking place on every star, in every galaxy, in every remote corner of the universe is splitting our local world on earth into myriads of copies of itself. Here is schizophrenia with a vengeance." (Bryce DeWitt, physicist)

"To seek for supply, health, or even companionship is an impossibility spiritually, because spiritually there are no such things. Spiritually, there is only God; but in attaining God, we attain all that God is, that is, God appearing as all form. Let us not seek the forms of God, but seek the allness of God, and in seeking the allness of God, we shall have all the forms necessary to our own unfoldment." (Joel Goldsmith, mystic, author)

"They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them." (Bhagavad Gita)

"The intellect functions in a particle-based reality. The heart operates as a wave-based reality. Our level of Christed awareness, and the perceptual framework on which we base our views of the world, creates the template from which we divine our daily experience." (Bil Holton, minister, author)

"A strict interpretation of the Bible states that God created the universe in all of its entirety in a mere six days, but this explanation of our existence does not correlate with proven facts regarding the age of the Earth. Science cannot prove the existence of God or other supernatural occurrences because science is involved with the natural world and there are not such tools that have been developed to prove in the reality of an omnipotent force. Conversely, Genesis contains no scientific evidence nor provides an explanation of the diversity of life and the universality of cellular biochemistry in living organisms." (John A. Moore, biologist)

"Humanity, the world disciple (through its various stages of unfoldment), will enter into new states of awareness and into new realms or spheres of mental and spiritual consciousness.One of the lessons to be learned by humanity at the present time (a time which is the ante-chamber to the new age) is how few material things are really necessary to life and happiness." (Alice A. Bailey. Theosophist)

"A singularity is the nearest thing that science has found to be a supernatural agent." (Paul Davies, physicist)

"Our true work is to become 'at one' with the Christ of us. This 'at-one-ment' is expressed through our prayers, meditations, affirmations, denials (refusals to give power to outer appearances), and unselfish service to humankind." (Cher Holton, minister, author)

"In crossing a heath (moor) suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever; nor would it, perhaps, to very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I (stumbled across) a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer I have given before that, for anything I knew, the watch might always have been there before. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone?" (William Paley, philosopher)

"Modern physics, with its discovery of the mutability of time, drives a wedge between God's omnipotence and the existence of his personality. It is difficult to argue that God can have both these qualities." (Paul Davies, physicist)

"When cosmologists talk about the origin of the Universe in a fireball of energy smaller than an atom, they mean the entire visible Universe.The total number of atoms in all the stars and galaxies of the visible Universe is estimated to be merely 10 raised to the power of 80 (1 followed by 80 zeroes)." (John Gribbon, physicist)

"Because the Akashic Records are an ' aetheric library' imprinted on an omnipresent akasha (a soniferous ether) we can mentally 'Google' all of the past, present, and future knowledge of the universe anytime we want when we are in certain states of heightened consciousness. Depending on our psychic sensitivity and Akashic interests we can even 'bookmark' various knowledge banks so the information is available to us instantly." (Bil Holton, minister, author)

"In our solar system there exist perfectly definite planes, each with its own matter of different degrees of density. Rising from the denser to the finer (essences) are the physical, astral, mental, Buddhic, and nirvanic. (There are) two remarkable characteristics of the astral world - first, many of its inhabitants have a marvelous power of changing their forms with protean rapidity. and secondly, sight on the astral plane is different from and much more extended than physical vision." (Charles W. Leadbeater, Theosophist)

"The strongest force used in the destiny of (each of us) is the sun first then the closer planets to the earth, or those coming to ascension at the time of the birth of the individual. But let it be understood, no action of any planet or the phases of the sun, the moon, or any of the heavenly bodies surpass the rule of our will power, the power of choosing for ourselves." (Edgar Cayce, psychic)

"According to quantum physics, what we think of as empty space - a vacuum - is actually seething with short-lived entities produced in this way. They are called vacuum fluctuations, or quantum fluctuations." (John Gribbin, physicist)

"The superior beings who created our universe inhabited a universe not greatly unlike our own. They were not only intelligent but intelligible, and were perhaps similar to our distant descendants who might also create universes." (Edward Harrison, astronomer, cosmologist)

"There is no picture - or theory - independent concept of reality. Instead we will adopt a view that we will call model-dependent realism: the idea that a physical theory or world picture is a model (generally of a mathematical nature) and a set of rules that connect the elements of the model to observations. This provides a framework with which to interpret modern science." (Stephen Hawking, physicist)

"We are astrological melting pots of individual consciousnesses becoming aware of ourselves. And our present condition (concept of ourselves) is astronomically configured with each choice we make. The 'signs' we create can become milestones or millstones in each incarnation we manufacture." (Bil Holton, minister, author)

"There is quite a chance that if there is a God, he will make something of the finitude and complexity of a universe. It is very unlikely that a universe would exist uncaused, but rather more likely that God would exist uncaused. The existence of the universe.can be made comprehensible if we suppose that it is brought about by God. This supposition postulates a simpler beginning that does the supposition of the existence of an uncaused universe, and that is grounds for believing the former supposition to be true." (Richard Swinburne, philosopher)

"I simply believe that some part of the human self or soul is not subject to the laws of space and time." (Carl Jung, psychologist)

"Is an atom a thing , or just an abstract construct of imagination useful for explaining a wide variety of things? If an atom really exists as an independent entity then at the very least it should have a definite location and motion. But quantum theory denies this. It says that an atom can have one or the other, but not both." (Paul Davies, physicist)

"We are localized 'islands of matter' endowed with non-localized consciousness." (Bil Holton, minister, author)

"Some critics have claimed that dogmatic rigidity means that every new discovery and every novel idea is likely to pose a threat to religion, whereas new facts and ideas are the very life-blood of science. The new physics has overturned so many commonsense notions of space, time, and matter that no serious religious thinker can ignore it." (Paul Davies, physicist)

"Awareness, in the sense of our familiar day-to-day mental processes, does not exist apart from or independent of the brain. The cause of this awareness is to be found in a preceding continuum of awareness, and that is why one speaks of a stream of awareness from one life to another.which is the subtle clear light of consciousness that continues beyond our physical demise." (Dalai Lama, Buddhist leader)

"When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness." (Eugene Wigner, physicist, mathematician)

"The universe, and all in it, derives from a pre-manifestation state of latency and being, in which is contained the potentiality of all that ultimately emerges into manifestation. This be-ness rather than being, within which all is in a state of potentiality rather than actuality is a latent undifferentiated spiritual state in the process of emerging into its present manifested state. The vast evolutionary scheme has passed from latent unity and be-ness into a conditioned duality or polarization of opposites. These (opposites) are spirit and matter." (Helena Blavatsky, Theosophist)

"The consciousness that appears as the body - the consciousness that I Am - is becoming conscious of itself. When I no longer confuse who I am with a temporary form of 'me' then the dimension of the limitless and eternal - God - can express Itself through 'me' and guide 'me.'" (Eckhart Tolle, spiritual teacher, author)