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Invisable Power
Posted on 11/02/09, 05:58 pm
I have come to believe that it possible to see evidence of God’s work. Like watching a lap-lighter from a distance after dark it is easy to see where he has been. I have seen many tiny miracles that by themselves don’t amount to much but when combined in just the right way add up to miraculous changes. Carl Jung called these seemingly amazing coincidences “synchronicity”.
Werner Heisenberg was a physicist who noticed something highly unusual going on in the world of quantum physics. It seemed to him that there were certain attributes of subatomic particles that could not be measured. He proposed that the problem was not simply a matter of man’s lack of sophisticated instruments but rather it was the result of certain aspects of the universe that “refused to be measured”. In other words, he predicts that no amount of scientific progress or advances in technology would ever solve these mysteries. He went on to explain that they were caused by some kind of universal law that was “built in” to the fabric of the universe. This “feature” as he called it, of the laws of physics was a permanent enigma to man and would remain true till the end of time.
This limit to man's ability to “know for certain” these kinds of things is why it is called the “Uncertainty Principle”. There are branches of philosophy dedicated to these kinds of limits to man’s knowledge known as epistemology, gnoseology and existentialism. Knowledge of the existence of God frequently falls into this category.
The interesting thing about Heisenburg’s “Uncertainty Principle” is that it partly explains why God’s trail can be seen but his presence cannot be detected. God has built certain “features” into the fabric of the universe that allow both a clockwork universe and divine providence to take place simultaneously. Oddly enough there are religions that have recognized this for thousands of years. Mainly Hinduism and offshoots of it, such as, Tantra and Chan Buddhism. Taoism even has a name for it; they call it Wuwei or “invisible power”.
Another source of “invisible power” built into the fabric of the universe is what several Eastern Religions call Karma. The word Karma simply means “action” but some religions say the Karma includes intentions and expectations as well. One of the laws associated with the Law of Karma is that it cannot be seen directly. It can be reflected upon using hindsight but there is something about man’s limited intelligence that blocks him or her from seeing it from a salient perspective. Some spiritual teachers say that they can see other peoples Karma from a second or third person perspective but even they cannot see their own Karma without the help of a Guru or mentor.
There is still at least one other source of “invisible power” in the universe. Carl Jung called it the “Collective unconscious”. He theorized that deep within every human being there was a shared or universal knowledge that could be tapped into under certain conditions. This universal knowledge was species specific and shared by all life forms.
Spiritual authors such as Emmet Fox, James Allen, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Troward have written many books about the reciprocal relationship within the universe but are not always consistent with the terminology that they use to describe it. Soren Kierkegaard also believed that there were some things that man could never know without God’s help and started a movement against philosophy which would later become known as Existentialism.
The Law of Reciprocity says in a nutshell that every thing we think, do or say comes back to us some day and every thing we experience is influenced by this cause/effect relationship. Thomas Troward sums it up this way:
“It is a universal rule that nature obeys us exactly in proportion as we first obey nature. Spirit is life pure and simple, external things are the result of interior forces. We shall find that there is in us a constant action and reaction between the infinite and the individual, like the circulation of blood from the heart to the extremities and back again. The self in us includes the infinite as well as the individual.”
Werner Heisenberg was a physicist who noticed something highly unusual going on in the world of quantum physics. It seemed to him that there were certain attributes of subatomic particles that could not be measured. He proposed that the problem was not simply a matter of man’s lack of sophisticated instruments but rather it was the result of certain aspects of the universe that “refused to be measured”. In other words, he predicts that no amount of scientific progress or advances in technology would ever solve these mysteries. He went on to explain that they were caused by some kind of universal law that was “built in” to the fabric of the universe. This “feature” as he called it, of the laws of physics was a permanent enigma to man and would remain true till the end of time.
This limit to man's ability to “know for certain” these kinds of things is why it is called the “Uncertainty Principle”. There are branches of philosophy dedicated to these kinds of limits to man’s knowledge known as epistemology, gnoseology and existentialism. Knowledge of the existence of God frequently falls into this category.
The interesting thing about Heisenburg’s “Uncertainty Principle” is that it partly explains why God’s trail can be seen but his presence cannot be detected. God has built certain “features” into the fabric of the universe that allow both a clockwork universe and divine providence to take place simultaneously. Oddly enough there are religions that have recognized this for thousands of years. Mainly Hinduism and offshoots of it, such as, Tantra and Chan Buddhism. Taoism even has a name for it; they call it Wuwei or “invisible power”.
Another source of “invisible power” built into the fabric of the universe is what several Eastern Religions call Karma. The word Karma simply means “action” but some religions say the Karma includes intentions and expectations as well. One of the laws associated with the Law of Karma is that it cannot be seen directly. It can be reflected upon using hindsight but there is something about man’s limited intelligence that blocks him or her from seeing it from a salient perspective. Some spiritual teachers say that they can see other peoples Karma from a second or third person perspective but even they cannot see their own Karma without the help of a Guru or mentor.
There is still at least one other source of “invisible power” in the universe. Carl Jung called it the “Collective unconscious”. He theorized that deep within every human being there was a shared or universal knowledge that could be tapped into under certain conditions. This universal knowledge was species specific and shared by all life forms.
Spiritual authors such as Emmet Fox, James Allen, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Troward have written many books about the reciprocal relationship within the universe but are not always consistent with the terminology that they use to describe it. Soren Kierkegaard also believed that there were some things that man could never know without God’s help and started a movement against philosophy which would later become known as Existentialism.
The Law of Reciprocity says in a nutshell that every thing we think, do or say comes back to us some day and every thing we experience is influenced by this cause/effect relationship. Thomas Troward sums it up this way:
“It is a universal rule that nature obeys us exactly in proportion as we first obey nature. Spirit is life pure and simple, external things are the result of interior forces. We shall find that there is in us a constant action and reaction between the infinite and the individual, like the circulation of blood from the heart to the extremities and back again. The self in us includes the infinite as well as the individual.”
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