Someone sent me an email recently, asking why I talk about divine power.
I thought I'd share my response...
Having grown up in a world that seemed anything but divine, I became agnostic. My studies of anthropology, however, said all human cultures honor something beyond the brain-body experience, so it seemed a reasonable working hypothesis.
My continued studies of culture, psychology, and philosophy showed me lots of different models and ways, but no clear evidence. My journeys inward, however, led me through distress to a different kind of experience - wordless, nameless, very real.
My journey through a major health crisis (described in my book Finding the Path) introduced me to a Presence within that guided me through great distress into healing. Part of that journey included Reiki training, which introduced me to something that flows through us which anyone, anywhere, can experience and share and that, through simple intention, changes peoples' physical and emotional experience. Teaching others how to access this something has shown me that, truly, we all can tap it and use it.
My study of systems demonstrated that all systems, of every size and type, are part of one great whole and are sustained by a flow of matter-energy-information through them. My learning to trust in that flow and the Presence within has led me to do and say things I was not capable otherwise of doing or saying, including experiencing islands of peace in the violent neighborhood I lived in.
My communication with folks who are elsewhere on this planet and those who are no longer incarnate has given me experiences of a loving sharing of wisdom/energy among resonant beings, regardless of form - and helped me feel the process by which resonant fields overlap and reinforce each other.
When I say divine power, I'm including all these experiences and understandings. It's not some cliche I learned in church (never heard it there, actually :) ) In scientific terms, it is called the intelligent energy of the quantum field. In psychological terms it's the highest resonant aspects of the collective consciousness. In philosophical terms it is the metaphysical noumen. In religious terms it is the divine power and presence - by whatever name a given cultural group uses to call it.
It's everywhere, in everything, flowing through the All-That-Is, supporting and sustaining every being. All forms of matter are temporary condensations of that divine power in alignment with individual intention. All personal experience is the result of the projections of our perceptual framework on that flow.
Everywhere. Always. In and throughout this space-time continuum we call reality.
And so it truly is - which is why I talk about it. Thanks!
I thought I'd share my response...
Having grown up in a world that seemed anything but divine, I became agnostic. My studies of anthropology, however, said all human cultures honor something beyond the brain-body experience, so it seemed a reasonable working hypothesis.
My continued studies of culture, psychology, and philosophy showed me lots of different models and ways, but no clear evidence. My journeys inward, however, led me through distress to a different kind of experience - wordless, nameless, very real.
My journey through a major health crisis (described in my book Finding the Path) introduced me to a Presence within that guided me through great distress into healing. Part of that journey included Reiki training, which introduced me to something that flows through us which anyone, anywhere, can experience and share and that, through simple intention, changes peoples' physical and emotional experience. Teaching others how to access this something has shown me that, truly, we all can tap it and use it.
My study of systems demonstrated that all systems, of every size and type, are part of one great whole and are sustained by a flow of matter-energy-information through them. My learning to trust in that flow and the Presence within has led me to do and say things I was not capable otherwise of doing or saying, including experiencing islands of peace in the violent neighborhood I lived in.
My communication with folks who are elsewhere on this planet and those who are no longer incarnate has given me experiences of a loving sharing of wisdom/energy among resonant beings, regardless of form - and helped me feel the process by which resonant fields overlap and reinforce each other.
When I say divine power, I'm including all these experiences and understandings. It's not some cliche I learned in church (never heard it there, actually :) ) In scientific terms, it is called the intelligent energy of the quantum field. In psychological terms it's the highest resonant aspects of the collective consciousness. In philosophical terms it is the metaphysical noumen. In religious terms it is the divine power and presence - by whatever name a given cultural group uses to call it.
It's everywhere, in everything, flowing through the All-That-Is, supporting and sustaining every being. All forms of matter are temporary condensations of that divine power in alignment with individual intention. All personal experience is the result of the projections of our perceptual framework on that flow.
Everywhere. Always. In and throughout this space-time continuum we call reality.
And so it truly is - which is why I talk about it. Thanks!
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