For God's Sake, What Are You Talking About?

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

One of my good friends', a very intelligent and open minded person, and a complete unbeliever at the same time, will keep listening to me elaborating on the subject of spirituality, and then he'll say something along the lines, which gives away his opinion about me; "Elizabeth, you're off with the fairies."

And that's fine, as we're all entitled to our own acim  , and I don't expect everyone to share mine.

Often though, I can sense quite clearly what he thinks while I'm talking. And I'll say: "You know, when I'm talking spirituality, really I'm talking quantum physics."

But for him, like probably for many others, these two are completely separate and different issues.

So he'll say:" For God's sake Elizabeth, what are you talking about?"

Majority of people, like my friend, are probably somewhere between atheists and agnostics, so I find it quite amazing, that they are more prone to accept the idea of a separate divinity than spirituality.

They have no doubts that Einstein was a scientific genius, but are happy to 'forget' that he was a deeply spiritual man and apparently the theory of relativity came to him as a revelation.

They are happy to except the concept of energy as defined by science, but will not even entertain the consequences of the concept; that energy is all they are, including the world around them.

They can see miracles of life and nature happening every day, but will choose not to notice that the force/energy behind them obviously has to be intelligent beyond our human comprehension, otherwise how all this would be possible?

What I find quite annoying about this attitude is that if they can't explain something, they will try to classify it as nonexistent, until someone will come up with a scientific proof which they're happy to adopt.

It remains me of what I was learning at school about Copernicus, Galileo and the Inquisition. And I can't help, but to assign roles in my mind, which we're playing in our discussion.

When they're doing their best to present the idea of B ig Bang theory (the fact that they haven't really read enough on this subject is another issue), as they can't find any other explanation for the miracle of life, that's when I think to myself: "For God's sake, what are you talking about?"

I write about what I have experienced myself, either personally or as an observer. Even though many people have influenced and shaped my theories, they are mainly based on my own development and as such reflect my very personal point of view