moving mountains, God knows how

We are told to pray whenever there’s a problem, and that if you have faith you can move mountains, but there are millions of people who truly believe in Jesus, and truly believe he can work miracles, but for some reason not many mountains seem to be moving around. Things seem to be going from bad to worse. So what does this mean?

- Er... good question James, but I don’t see what the problem is – obviously those people lack true faith. They believe in God and our Lord Jesus, but only superficially.

- Hum... I’m not sure I agree with you. I know that’s what people usually say, but come on, there are literally millions of people with deep faith who pray with all their heart.

- And many miracles happen, all the time.

- But not all the time. In any case, praying doesn’t seem enough to me.

- What do you mean “not enough”? Praying is our direct connection with God. What more do you want?

- I don’t want to ask God to do the work. I want to do it myself.

- How do you mean?

- Like in “Prince Caspian” by C.S.Lewis, Aslan doesn’t go into the mound to deal with the werewolf and the hag, does he? He gets Peter, Edmund and Trumpkin to fight their own battle.

- Ok. And what?

- I want to fight my own battles. I know God can fight them for me, but I want to do it myself, and just ask for guidance and protection.

- Ok, nothing wrong with that. But what’s the problem? I fail to see what you’re getting at.

- This terrible situation in Ukraine.

- You mean you want to go and fight there as a volunteer?

- No, of course not. In any case, I wouldn’t be allowed to.

- Then what?

- This is where my quantum field comes into play.

- Your what?

- My quantum field.

- What on earth are you on about?

- It’s what I’ve been writing about for years and years.

- And?

- Well, as far as the quantum field is concerned there is neither time nor space.

- If you say so.

- And every thing connects up here in me.

- Everything?

- Literally.

- So you mean the troubles in Ukraine can somehow be resolved internally?

- Precisely.

- Without any fighting?

- Absolutely.

- But that’s insane. How?

- Because everything’s infinitely connected at the quantum level. Whatever’s happening there, must have its counterpart within me.

- You mean to say the huge crisis in Ukraine must have its exact equivalent in you?

- Absolutely.

- But that’s...

- Totally insane?

- Yes.

- I agree, and yet that’s how things work – it’s how reality is structured.

- Or so you say.

- Indeed, but not because I take delight in sticking my neck out and sounding absurd.

- You could have fooled me.

- The thing is... reality is nothing like as monolithic, as set in stone as it appears. It’s a constantly updating snapshot of creation, and creation is, in fact, an ongoing process in which time oscillates, constantly zeroing back to nought and beyond, through the needle’s eye, to regenerate the universe on t’other side of infinity, without us even noticing.

- So it’s duolithic, you’re saying?

- Kind of, but as it constantly oscillates back and forth across zero point, and thus straddles infinity, the word “lithos” or stone  is perhaps inappropriate.

- What then?

- I don't know. Beyond my pay grade I'm afraid. All I know for sure is that things are constantly big-banging, so to speak, re-emerging from nought, as if nothing could be easier, and that “nothing” is merely where the two wave amplitudes cancel out, where both sides are in perfect equilibrium, and therefore matter not.

- Oh dear. Why so complicated? Why can't things just be things?

- And people?

- More than things, of course.

- There's the rub. It's mathematically unworkable so the universe keeps collapsing in on itself, or tripping over its tail.

- You mean God never stops picking up the broken pieces?

- I mean creation turns on and off faster than you can possibly see or feel, but that at centre it is completely still, completely calm. At its centre in the “off” state it is simply God, and God as we all know is, by definition, good, with a capital G.

- So why does creation seem so terrible, like now what’s happening in Ukraine?

- Because we’ve allowed time and momentum to take over.

Huh?

- And been drawn into a nightmarish version of reality, in which people imagine, mistakenly, that they are just little, rational human beings, serving time, attempting to manage the world for better or for worse by squaring things dutifully, creating interlocking numeric temporal chains.

- But surely that's exactly what we’re supposed to be doing.

- Well yes, but only until we realise it's futile and that we’re almost guaranteed to annihilate one another. At that point we, hopefully, realise that we’re nothing of the sort, and that infinity cannot be excluded from the equation. Boom! There goes “time” which, like money, exists to prevent you from really experiencing the real moment.

- I simply can't understand why you believe that time is any more than a useful tool, to help us coordinate our actions.

- Yes, I know your quandary all too well. As long as you’re in thrall to Kronos, living in a finite, time-locked reality, you’re simply unable to see what you’re missing, as in merry timeless-ness. Time is a seductive trap. “A little longer and things’ll improve” is the mantra. We kick the can down the road hoping Time will save the day, which it might well do, short-term, but only by dragging us deeper into the quicksand of “a better tomorrow”, as if reality were a fixable mechanism, as if things could replace the inconceivable perfection of being-ness. We’re forever snorting hopium, and fail to recognise that we’ve inadvertently become children of Kronos and Saturn, instead of God, buying into the illusion of time, and the belief that things such as money, or even beliefs, truly matter.

- Well I think that’s a terrible thing you’re saying. You're accusing us of being pagans, of worshipping false idols. Shame on you!

- Yes, it doesn’t sound very nice, I agree, but my intention is to learn, to truth-seek, not to offend you.

- But what can you learn from these wild conjectures?

- That “God” and infinite peace is always present, even in the most terrible situations.

- Ok.

- And that we become part of the problem when we lose the ability to feel God’s presence, the infinite stillness present always and throughout; though probably nothing like the kind of God we were expecting.

- But how are we supposed to feel this stillness, the off-phase of your postulated electric circuit, if the world is going to hell in a hand basket, so to speak?

- By recognising the fact that we are inadvertently attached to the drama, the storm, the chaos, because we have slipped into “oh God-ness”.

- I beg your pardon! What do you mean by “oh God-ness”?

- You know – whenever something bad happens people say “oh God!”

- Well yes, but isn’t that because they’re asking God for help?

- No, not really.

- What then?

- This is actually blaming God for what has happened.

- Blaming God? You've gotta be kidding!

- I know, it sounds insane but that's what we're doing, inadvertently.

- But why would we blame God. You must be mistaken.

- It's not deliberate. It happens subconsciously. It's because we left God in charge of the off-side of reality, trusting, assuming, hoping he'd be able to fix things if they got out of kilter, as mostly He can and does.

- But not always?

- Correct, not always, because sometimes things get way too left of centre.

- But surely God can do anything?

- Absolutely, but it's a partnership, and if you're unwittingly steering into the gaping jaws of hell, He's only able to do so much, without dissolving the partnership and taking full control which, admittedly, is what he sometimes does.

- But not always.

- Correct, otherwise you'd never learn, and reality would be invalidated.

- So what are you planning to do with Ukraine?

- When the situation gets dire it’s time to get much closer to the off-side of Creation, to go from an arm's length relationship with God, preferable for high speed navigation, into a fingertips relationship, or even closer.

- Oh.

- I have to rediscover that pulse, that stillness present throughout, and that actually I'm an equal partner in this relationship. It’s time to dance or die.

- Er...

- I have to get rid of anything that's preventing me from feeling how what's happening there, in Ukraine for example must be, at the quantum level, present within me, a disequilibrium of some sort.

- Oh.

- Once I start to feel the imbalance or the pain, internally, then “God” can swiftly, easily work with me and, through me, recalibrate the system, which is, in fact, self-correcting when zero and one are in happy unity.

- Once I've got myself out of the way?

- Correct, once I've stopped being a heavy, obtuse, limiting factor, stuck in my ways, a spanner in the spokes.

- Ah.

- So I use science and this somewhat clumsy concept of the “quantum field” to get myself out of that heavy state in which, powerless and fearful, I was asking favours of God but ignoring my own responsibility for what was happening, in order to start becoming more aware of how it's all really going on here, and that, as soon as I start dancing elegantly with God, the doom and disaster of war is incomprehensibly transformed into an other version of things, an updated reality in which God is no longer forced to play the role of Kronos or Saturn, is once again able to reveal his true nature, his 0=1ness.

- Huh, but why would he play Kronos or Saturn in the first place?

- There's always going to be a version or an approximation of God, no matter where you are mentally, no matter how unbalanced your world has become, but if you’re way off centre, if time and matter have locked horns, then you're only going to see or be able to access one aspect of the Father, the red wavelength of light, for example, instead of the full spectrum in white light.

- Ah, I get you. So God himself doesn't really change?

- What is God? He changes when you do, not before. It all depends on whether you’re willing to evolve, if and when that becomes necessary. It's a relationship that needs to deepen and constantly adjust to real changes and real needs. It's a relationship that, like it or not, has to transcend even physical reality. Either it takes you to the next level or becomes nothing more than spiritual comfort candy; it’s a relationship that compels you, willy nilly, to grow beyond your fears and limitations into a level of mutual trust that beggars belief.

- You’re making it sound like I’m equal to God, which is absurd. God is almighty and I am not.

- Yes, but at the same time this is a partnership, and without coming to terms with our blockages and inhibitions we’re never going to get anywhere. We may as well drop dead from vaccine poisoning.

So how does your quantum field fit into all this?

It reactivates when physical reality has reached its limit, when things are falling apart. It enables us to rediscover the infinite present within and present throughout. It enables us to detach from the tyranny of seemingly monolithic physical and material reality, opening up the can of worms known as “consciousness” that we’ve conscientiously kept shut, to reveal other layers or levels of reality that we didn’t know existed. In other words, it enables us to detach from the Borg, the machine-mind version of things, and cut reality a little slack, thereby allowing it to realign or reconfigure. By God’s infinite mercy and grace creation can once again flow through twin channels of is-ability, and therefore shift and evolve more elegantly, inwardly, so to speak.

I’m not sure I understand.

Absolutely! It goes way beyond the convenience store of understanding. It reactivates your awareness of the unknown, of things that seem to make no rational sense. A walk on the wild side! The quantum field kicks into gear if and when your erstwhile bubble of certainties starts to implode, if and when you need to re-establish contact directly with creation, simply in order to survive, if and when reality approaches its term limit, as one cycle ends and nothing-good prevails.

What? How can reality have a term limit?

Because any set up, any platform, any arrangement that smoothes or flattens reality to make it seem comprehensible, sticking things to a grid, is necessarily, from inception, exclusionary: is not what it seems, is finite. A ticking time bomb, it’s guaranteed to come apart at the seams in a manner that blows you away, that utterly confounds your paper-thin logic n’ reason, that much is certain, and suddenly you realise that “God” is not just a matter of faith or spirituality, but now reconnects, unexpectedly, with science and technology.

What?

People may not necessarily welcome this, but ultimately all roads lead to Rome, so what can you do? There is a divine circuit, and we are, like it or not, at the centre of it: the missing link, you might say, between matter and thought, between thing-y-things and mind-y-me.

No. I can't believe we just happen to be at the very centre of creation. It seems too convenient, too good to be true. It’s wishful thinking on steroids!

Yes, and thus the rational mind beguiles us, keeping mind trapped in fear or disbelief, until the waters burst and the child enters the birth canal. Suddenly, you’re experiencing what was being blocked, bewildered by the intensity of everything you were excluding, everything you denied, everything you’d flattified. Yes, you discover you are in fact an immensely powerful being, not just a little person in a big, bad world of things.

Ah...

But with power comes responsibility, and also the need to let go of convenient untruths. You find yourself battling to hold onto sense n' reason as the infinite sloshes through the brain-mind sluice gates, utterly confounding your expectations, redesigning the very landscape and nature of reality.

Yikes!

An existential readjustment. The quantum field, by God’s infinite mercy and grace, takes us beyond the presumptuous power, beyond the ken of those sociopaths and unhinged individuals who believe it is their destiny and right to enslave humanity. Ironically, the more they try to keep a lid on the box, the more they empower this quantum unfolding, or what we might refer to as “mean reversion”

Ah. Back to where we always were.

Yes, that’s right – we’ve always been surreptitiously citizens of both realms, otherwise reality would have imploded long ago under the cataclysmic stress of all the distortions we’ve incorporated mentally and physically into our Kronosphere.

Our time-locked reality?

Correct.

So ultimately it's a foregone conclusion? We cannot fail? The change is in? We’re already all we need to be?

Yes and no. The quantum field always gives uncertainty pride of place, until the next iteration is complete, but momentum or love of God carries us effortlessly through the end of time, the end of things, into what, in all honesty, I know not. Let infinity herself decide; let ye mountains again move!

Ah! 

So let us pray for the peace that passeth all understanding, for God’s unfathomable grace, without which life is moribund and things, if truth be told, utterly meaningless.

Amen.

 

 

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