Anyone who has been around me lately knows of my passing fascination with matters of quantum physics. And it is not that I purport to have anything more that the most superficial of sight in it, knowing just enough words of and about it to probably fool myself into some trouble, but nevertheless…smell something ‘about it’ that removes any previous indifference to it…I sense ‘something there’. I see a ‘parallel’, even if such parallel be light years apart from the truth it runs parallel to.
I do not justify my excursions or considerations by Jesus’ own utilizing of plainly ‘natural’ matters to refer to spiritual, but likewise I find no prohibition. Nor do I seek to reverse any stance found in whatever may sum up any confession I hold to Jesus as Lord.
Rather I would make as plain as possible I do not believe because this ‘thing’ points such and such a way, but rather that believing, I am no longer reluctant, indeed persuaded, that even all things ‘in the natural’ being first owing to spirit, may be explored with that light to even disclose a nature from which they speak. Or are propounded. And of course, no one in Christ is less free than myself to ‘have to accept’ any of it.
What I am persuaded is too late for me to surrender is the notion that ‘man’s’ logic in all, is linear in nature. Not circular (or at least he thinks so). Indeed circular logic is most often scorned, held up for ridicule if and when a man plainly believes he sees another ‘using it’. Or seeking to have another adopt it, be drawn into it, or accord it anything other than deriding and exposure.
Oddly (perhaps) I have found that is precisely my calling and honor…to be as a thing held up for exposure and such as necessary deriding that I might, and in communion with another, bear His reproach. I do not doubt many of you have experienced such, and may well know it to a far deeper reality than I presume to know it, or declare it for myself. I may still tend to recoil more at being spat upon or slapped than some of you have mastered.
God is God. God is no longer to me (and I trust to many of you) God is God…because…
He is whom and who supports all, not only ‘not needing’, but quite ‘not at all’ or perhaps better, not at all who and what is not supported by any such ‘because’. In such way His “am-ing” in His ‘I am’ always bears distinction from and of form even the deepest of my own I may apprehend. I can say “I am” (and do, and have) without shame or prohibition…but any investigation-ally sound excavations either hold their ground in He alone, or I am found liar. And I have often been found…liar. My being is owed. I am…because…
How much in giving of law and prescription(s) is found followed by “I am the Lord”? Or, “I am the Lord your God”? No explanations of a why nor a “do this because” (with appeal to man’s rationality for discovery of ‘sound reason’ for obeying). We could explore Leviticus for this superscription and frequency if need be.
His word is support as His word proceeds from Him in all authority ‘of Him’…He may stoop to explain and show (thanks be to God for Jesus the Christ!), but none can lay upon Him any demand to either make sense of, nor show Himself to what may appear as another, nor lay some requirement to explain any “why”.
But I am, I think, beating a dead horse amongst you. It is plain…anything other than God, including all and any ‘anothers’ only hold their being according to His good pleasure. Being upheld by His word of power. Otherwise it is the clay demanding explanation of the potter to all absurdity. (Is this horse dead enuff?)
Yet…I gotta admit, I often find myself in that absurdity, thinking what I ‘feel’ as a need to know is what must initiate response…failing to see even ‘need to know’ if at all ‘real’ as need, only originated from Him, in all, anyway. I know, I am getting quite circular. And unashamedly so. He gives and takes according to His will…over which I have no exercise of control, His being the only ‘free will’ I may barely glimpse. Nothing can leverage it, nothing withstand it.
“Superposition”, How I have come to appreciate that term and what is now for me a right application, even if seemingly derived in explanation from this thing called ‘quantum mechanics/quantum theory/quantum physics. Superposition and the ‘collapse’ of the wave function as best elucidated by this AI response:
AI Overview
The collapse of the wave function is the phenomenon where a quantum system, existing in a superposition of multiple possible states, abruptly reduces to a single definite state upon measurement or observation. It is the transition from a “cloud of possibilities” to a single, measurable reality.
I will not belabor the utility, even if to some poverty, of similes and metaphors. Jesus was not ashamed to use the wind to describe both those born of the spirit, and the experience of those being ‘acted upon’ by it. Such are those who believe.
Nor would I seek to waste time explaining any useful application of ‘super’ position, as to what may be found ‘above all’ for a ‘yet’ knowing, or ‘to be’ known; and of such nature that can only be ‘known’ by any man unless first being made submitting to collapse into some observable fixed estate, or state. The Word became flesh suffices that.
Even to such exquisite point of descent into ‘our’ experience that is rightly said:
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
For even in so called ‘worldy science’ or ‘worldly investigations’ (which I no longer ‘fear’ no eschew as strictly contaminating things)…right on down to the most fundamental investigations as to the nature of ‘our reality’ God remains true:
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Conclusions may be contaminated, but the creation, even if obscured by insufficient or purposely skewed investigation, yet testifies. The greatly mysterious One of all (lest I be casual) who dwells in inapproachable light, holds a creation of such profound mysteries, there are barely words of man enough to even begin to describe.
If we investigate (as I am told, and understand with very limited understanding) the collapse of “all possibilities” into a distinct state for apprehension and knowing, there are some who, of a more metaphysical bent say it is due to ‘mere conscious observation’…that just ‘looking for’ or ‘looking at’ a thing is what causes its being and estate. I.e. Consciousness applied…’makes stuff’ to what it is. Strangely perhaps, though often refuted by the more knowing ‘physicist’, I cannot easily disagree…just only with level of consciousness as ascribed as its origin.
For yes, I easily agree, all seen and perhaps known is a result of “a” consciousness…just not man’s as initiator of being. All has a mind ‘behind it’…even when man, looking for the laws governing, may foolishly undercut his own investigations by simultaneously holding out against a ‘law’ giver. Always kicking against goads. Till he can establish ‘a’ reality to consciousness and that it is fundamentally a reliable thing…it is rather fey of him to use it so presumptuously as means of discovery and irrefutable verifications.
He may say, “Well, it’s all I [even we] got!” and not of necessity be wrong. But that never comes close to verifying its reliability. The matter of oversight, though perhaps resisted by many, but if not asserted; leaves man in all unknowing. He has nothing against which, or by which in superiority he can determine either the reliability or accuracy of consciousness, much less even verify to its reality. It is not merely that all collapses into subjectivity, but that that myth has never even been real as though to collapse from.
Now, of course, merely asserting oversight, that there must be a superiority to, or of man’s consciousness does not, of itself, verify such as extant. It may say ‘It must be so…otherwise…” but cannot again, of itself, negate that ‘otherwise’. Otherwise we are all in subjective darkness. But to deny the assertion, there is not nor cannot be any superior consciousness or “being” that establishes consciousness a s a ‘real thing’, one is already surrendered in, and to the overwhelming darkness of all subjectivity. And from there manifestly denies any estate from which to utter anything at all in regard to a thing that might be called reality.
And it is not that that the “god proposer” stands on firmer ground, but that the god denier has already undercut from himself any ground at all to stand in opposition. He is self asserting his consciousness, or lack thereof to the existence of a greater, is all and only that could establish his consciousness (and even therefore his very self) as real, and left (though he would surely deny it) out of the conversation.
But, the theist, the ‘god proposer’ must find himself (if he be honest) in no less peril of, and to the abysmal darkness of all subjectivity, lest he can assert to some form of nature of that God…that would deign to inform him. And of what nature such must be, for he, the man, to have any informing at all. He is not ‘off the hook’ for merely confessing to a higher power, a greater consciousness able to establish his consciousness (even all consciousness) as real, and as the one giving it and making of it to reality…
For once he has opened that box (so to speak), if he be at all honest (do I define honesty as a subjective matter, or to you, does it ‘exist’?) he must concede in the opening of that box, he no less has to contend with (of all possibilities of a god) the also possibility of a ‘trickster god'(?). In that sense the mere ‘god affirmer’ and ‘god denier’ are de facto on same ground.
Someone showed an obvious wrestling in this arena when he wrote:
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Even a god proposer may find himself in no more than the company of devils. At least if one believes such a writing, or of the man who wrote it…as honest…and due some reference.
Maybe more on this later.
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