The following quote, from Joel and Michelle Levey’s daily quotes, provoked some thoughtful contemplations.

The Sioux idea of living creatures is that trees, buffalo and man are temporary energy swirls, turbulent patterns.  You find that perception registered so many ways in archaic and primitive lore.  I say that it is probably the most basic insight into the nature of things, and that our more common, recent Occidental view of the universe as consisting of fixed things is out of the main stream, a deviation from basic human perception.
                                                      - Gary Snyder

If we accept that what is written in the Bible is subject to our reinterpretations in the light of contemporary thinking... And we all know that periodically, even the most rigid of religious groups reinterprets their traditional teachings, however selective they are and however careful to craft them to the advantage of keeping the flocks in their fold...

Is it not time to re-evaluate the whole structure of religious thought and teachings in the light of Einstein’s observations that we can perceive and experience the world as matter or we can do so as energy?

Are we any different from the desk or chair or computer that you are using at this moment? We commonly accept that the chair we are sitting on can be perceived as matter or as energies. Quantum physics has amply confirmed this theory.

Newtonian medicine has been very slow to absorb this lesson – that our bodies can be addressed as energy as well as being addressed as matter. This is what healers have been saying for a long time.

Newtonian and earlier Western religious traditions have likewise tended towards the matter side of the equation.

Implications – if we are energies:
Energies are not destroyed. They are transformed. Death is a shift in energies.
Energies interact. Each of us, energetically, is a part of an energetic collective entity.
Biblical teachings, that humans are somehow separate and superior to other energy entities, is a theory that has no support in energetic perspectives.

Your views?

Blessings

Dan Benor