Wandering toward the light

QUALIFIER: Below are my own feelings and beliefs about certain aspects of science and religion, etc. They are not up for debate or dispute, as they are fully my opinions and what I have come to "know" at the ripe old age of nearly 49. You should feel free to agree, disagree, be offended, or humored, or any other emotive reaction you wish as I feel it is your God-given/natural right to do so. You just don't need to feel compelled to debate anything I say with me <bwg>! I don't do debate... for reasons I won't go into here.

Now... Wandering Toward the Light:

So... we're coming into the Winter Solstice and my mind is focusing somewhat on just what this means, to me and has meant to many generations of humings for thousands of years, as I am doing a Solstice Celebration with my friends at one of the churches we attend.

As always, my mind is wandering on several looped and circuitous pathways at once! One of these pathways has led me to linking some school we were watching the other day with my own personal beliefs about God (or how I am willing to define such a huge concept). We watched some science about the Universe which described the theories surrounding "dark matter" and "dark energy"... What my brain has done with what we watched and my own beliefs is to intertwine them, thusly:

My belief in God is strong and intuitively unshakeable, though continually being clarified and defined in my own huming terms. My feeling about the dark matter/dark energy explanations is that they're close, but still off with some of the theorizing. I have a major problem with the naming either of them "dark" because of the tendency we humings have in equating "dark" with bad or evil. But, I have not yet come up with better labels... I'm currently trying on "unseen viscous matter" and "self-sustaining energy source", and kinda like those...

So, how do these two fit together?

I believe (or intuit) that what we call God is more an energy flow that connects and makes up all existing things, living and otherwise. I believe that we are all part of One (that would be God, in my dictionary), and that we flow in and out of live material form/presence. I don't believe we cease to exist when our physical bodies die, for two reasons. I have witnessed what I would call proof of otherwise, and I am much too imaginative and fanciful for such a boring and dry (MY OPINION) description of "life".

I believe some of the proof for each of us being a part of a greater whole can be seen in Howard Gardiner's work relating to the different intelligences... I also believe it can be found in the vast diversity and variety of all visible matter...

I truly believe that when one gathers all of it together, we begin to see how it starts to form a whole picture. In my opinion, the greatest disservices that are done in huming existence are done when one mindset is revered over any others... when ONE way is shown to be right to the exclusion of others...

I believe that each religion has part of the answer... that each huming holds part of the light... that each species is part of the painting... that each and every thing that is (whether visible or palpable in huming terms or not) is a vital piece of the whole.

Enter the science... what if what they're labeling "dark matter" is what (we would normally label) "living things" when they die, or more accurately where living/non-living things go when they lose their "physical" presence? And, having lost their physical contraints, they become a flowing, viscous pooling of invisible matter. What if all that " material being" has simply entered into a different state of being, yet still exists? Couldn't "dark matter" be a reflection of all that has been that isn't currently taking "tangible matter" form?

What if God is the "dark energy" that flows through and between and surrounding all creation, sustaining all of us and itself? They say the Universe is expanding at a fairly decent rate of speed... does this correlate at all with the gaining populations on the Earth? And if not, couldn't there be growing populations on other planets or parts of the Universe? Just wondering... and wandering... and grinning ear to ear in mirthful play.

In my theoretical (though intuitively true :-) world, God isn't an entity with huming emotionals so much as a presence and energy source for and of life (in its fullest definition)—a wellspring, if you will. God is so vast and so intangible that the closest most huming minds can come to grasping it is to form huming-type descriptions and definitions that are easier to hold onto (not meaning to belittle this Greatness by using the label "it", rather trying not to assign a gender). While this huming tendency is wholly understandable to me, it's also ripe with the failing (again, my opinion!) of needing to stay put and within a comfortable realm of "known" rather than venturing out into a larger arena of vastness, learning and growth.

Well now... how's that for some seeds to chew on? And, yep! That's how my brain woke me up this morning... sure is fascinating to witness this puppy when it's in full wander, even though it often robs my body of the needs it has. Just one small drawback to the physical plane, I suppose... But, that's a whole other wander <bwg>...