Random thoughts in the Mind of God

Random thoughts in the Mind of God

Based upon the work of Dr Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the United States, who is heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon, it appears that it may be possible for a black box that generates random streams of 1s and 0s to predict when global events of great significance will happen.

Separately there have been many experiments where large groups of people have been called upon to focus their attention, thoughts, prayers, meditation and wishes upon a common subject in an attempt to influence the outcome. In some cases this has even been attempted in respect to altering the path of hurricanes. Strangely enough it appears that such massively focused thoughts have had an effect.

On yet another front, physicists subdivide matter into smaller and smaller constituent parts until the boundary between matter and energy becomes vague and blurred. Indeed even at the level of the photons and electrons we have the apparent duality of their behavior as both particles and energy waves.

Yet again quantum physics is the realm of quantum entanglement where photons can become identical twins of one another. In fact they become so identical that if they are separated and sent off in opposite directions they will react to changes of their counterpart instantaneously even when separated by distances of light years. They are connected in a way that transcends the speed of light.

Could it be that all of these things are just manifestations of the same underlying cause?

Occams Razor tells us that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. This principle is often called the principle of parsimony. It underlies all scientific modeling and theory building. A very elegant example of this is the famous E=mc^2. It’s ultimately simple yet profound. We’ve all seen it, but what is it really telling us? In simple words is says Energy and matter are interchangeable and are related by a universal constant which is the speed of light. Maybe it tells us even more.

Is it possible that it is telling us that energy and matter are just different expressions of the same thing? Is matter just energy in a different state of expression? Would this be the simple answer?

If energy and matter is the same thing it would be little wonder that the distinction breaks down at the quantum level. Further, the relationship between the focused thoughts of people and material effects may become much less of a surprise. But then, are the same people who focus their thoughts on a subject nothing but energy themselves? Energy thinking about energy and affecting other matter that is also just energy becomes something of a mind boggling concept.

When we dream, daydream or fantasize about something we mentally picture people and objects interacting. We do not think in terms of them being real people or objects, but just thoughts. But what if instead of just being us, we were a massive, infinite, universal consciousness. What happens if God, if you will, has a daydream? Would the daydreams of God form energy into that strange state we call matter? What if everything we see, everything we are, everything we experience is the ebb and flow of thoughts in the mind of God?

As God contemplates the coming actions of 9/11 might the ebb and flow of energy affect a black box random number generator? As God contemplates a billion people in his mind focused on the funeral of Princess Diana might this not also affect the ebb and flow of energy and therefore also possibly affect a black box number generator. Might this be especially true if God, like we in our daydreams, plays scenes forward and backward thereby affecting the flow of time? Might this universal consciousness with its memory of multitudes of past lives sometimes demonstrate itself when a part of a prior life leaks through to a current one? Perhaps God uses basic personalities multiple times, but just exposes them to different experiences and interactions along the path of different lives.

I realize I am asking a lot of questions, and not presenting a concrete conclusion, but then again is concrete not really concrete? The bottom line here is that the simple answer is likely to be the right one. Instead we seem to generate a myriad of explanations for pieces of the puzzle when maybe we should realize that the pieces fit together quite nicely and don’t require a myriad of explanations after all.

Even in the spiritual sense Jesus put it quite plainly while in religion we try to make it very complicated. Jesus said it was God living in him who was expressing Himself (capital intended) through him (Jesus the physical being). I’m suggesting the same possibility. The ultimate universal consciousness brought everything into existence and is expressing Himself/Herself/Itself through us and all that we see, hear, and experience.

So let’s look at some of the things we consider a little mind boggling.

Could there be space aliens who have traveled here from tens, hundred, or thousands of light years away? I’m sure if God chose to daydream about them they could materialize at the drop of a hat complete with an absolutely sound, logical, and rational explanation of how they got here. Reincarnation becomes absurdly simple. Sure God could choose to reuse a personality multiple times and even allow old memories to cross-over for specific reasons. Mass prayers could certainly be made to seem to affect things simply because the massive consciousness was choosing to affect them anyway which might even be why He/She/It might orchestrate the mass prayer activity. Finally, there simply is no such thing as coincidence. The most massive odds against something happening just don’t mean anything if God wants that thing to happen.

Then there is simply life itself.

What more simple explanation might there be for that spark that makes the difference between our physical body in life and that very same physical body the instant after we die? Doctors and scientists are at a loss to explain what causes this lump of flesh to possess life. They can’t tell where our personality comes from, but I’ve yet to see any parent accept that kids are a blank slate on arrival. Perhaps life is simply the means by which God has chosen to animate us for purposes of interacting with his other thoughts in much the same way we might animate various characters in our dreams.

So is there such a thing as free will, or is that as meaningless as coincidence? Sometimes it seems like characters in my dreams have free will, but how can they if they are really just expressions of my thinking? It would seem that if life is independent of a universal consciousness or God then free will is possible. If life is just an expression of a universal consciousness then there might be free will, but it is the will of the thinker (God) rather than the thought (us). A third possibility is that we really are independent, but that the universal consciousness, or God, can and does influence us but refrains from controlling us somehow.

Now, having said all of this, it could all be hog wash, but it does raise an interesting question. Who was it that was thinking about all of this? Was it me, or was it God?

Curtis Eickerman

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