Our human ability to connect with a personal God should be obvious. Our connection experience is backed by multiple stories in the Bible, ... and the written works of every major religion. It is also backed by hundreds of stories through the ages and into the 21st century. Granted: some of them are farfetched, but they can’t all be bogus.
So: - if our ancestors can connect with a personal God, so can we....
A Spiritual Connection
Having stated the obvious, let us also examine how 21st century science and theology support our ability to make a spiritual connection.
In order to fully understand God, we must abandon the requirement that all phenomena have a physical material explanation that we can detect and test with human technology. Human technology has been unable to explain (or even find) all that is physical, and has thus far proven to be deficient in our quest to understand dark matter, dark energy, or the not physical (spiritual).
In Summa 21 we explore the natural biological mechanisms that enable the interaction of our conscious self with the spiritual consciousness that is the Holy Spirit. We humans are certainly conscious beings, and we are capable of experiencing the spiritual as an extension of our awareness. We become aware of the spiritual through prayer, meditation, our sensitivity to the thoughts and feelings of others, the awe and joy brought forth by a beautiful experience, and our emotional response to someone we love. There is no physical dimension to love, loyalty, honor, integrity, morality, or righteousness. These are embodied in the spiritual nature of our being and the values of God’s Cosmos.
For those who are worthy, there is a similar connection after we transform into the spiritual self that will live in Heaven. In simple terms, we are like the river that becomes one with the ocean. We connect with the consciousness and awareness that is the Holy Spirit. We are aware of God’s divine unity. We are able to find and communicate with those who have also ascended into heaven.
Understanding 21st Century Knowledge
For educated 21st century Christians, the image of God as a nice old man with a long flowing white beard is charming mythology. We believe this cannot possibly be true in a literal sense. But then, this raises a question: are we able –each one of us – to have a personal connection with God?
Unfortunately, our human concept of a Christian God has not changed much in almost 2000 years. Jesus wisely framed our understanding of God in terms we humans could understand circa 27 A.D. Jesus clearly believed in a personal connection with the God he knew and loved. He encourages us to embrace our own personal relationship with God, either though him or through sincere prayer and sensitive states of consciousness. But what is the methodology of this connection?
Fortunately, 21st century scientific knowledge, philosophical concepts, and enlightened theology do give us the clues we seek. We need to sort through all the available information in order to develop a consistent and logical answer to this question.
The personas of God exist in the dimension of another universe. Although they may exist as a form of energy that is unfamiliar to us, they are everywhere. There is no limit to the number of simultaneous appearances that may occur at a moment in time, nor is there any limit to where they may happen. The Holy Spirit can appear (or connect) to us as God the Father, God the Mother, God the Holy Spirit, as Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, or in whatever form the Holy Spirit creates. The personas of God surround us at all times with compassion, love, and the energy of life. Creation of the familiar makes it easy for us to relate to the spiritual. The more open we are to them, the closer we get to the moral life-force that exists throughout the Cosmos.
All over our planet there are people who use meditation as a means of connecting with the universal consciousness of the Cosmos. They become aware of a higher level of spiritual being. However it may be expressed, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Christian theology all support the reality of this connection. For some, a connection with a higher consciousness (or higher plane) is a sufficiently rewarding spiritual experience. But for many of us, we yearn for a one-on-one connection with a personal God.
And we can. Does it not seem logical that if God is powerful enough to create Heaven, earth and living creatures, then God is also able to manifest himself in the form of a familiar person?
Philosophers and theologians of multiple faiths from all over our planet have long believed we humans are all interconnected. Consciousness is energy. Energy is the basis of all life and matter. The energy of consciousness enables awareness and connection. Since consciousness is not a material entity with length or volume, nor weight or mass, it must be treated as a singularity that surpasses our inadequate perception of the Cosmos.
It would appear our active conscious, semi-conscious, and core conscious thoughts are influenced by quantum connections (or coherence) with an intelligence whose character we can only guess at, but whose universal principles frame our understanding of what is moral, what is virtuous, what is beautiful, and what is true. This omniscient cosmic intelligence is also the creative source of our physical universe and all forms of life
The separation between the dimensions of our familiar universe, and the dimension within which he dwells, is but a very thin veil in the space time continuum. If we make an honest, sincere and humble attempt to seek God, he will listen and counsel. God may connect with us as a stream of consciousness (a stream of thoughts) in our meditative state, or may choose to reveal himself as a familiar life form. God can appear to us in whatever form best serves his purpose – a beloved relative, a long lost friend, a favorite pet, or a natural wonder of nature. Life connects with the living. God in the form of the Holy Spirit is living spiritual energy – the essence of life and love.
Yes - of course we can make a conscious connection with a living God. We can always connect through the mechanisms of earnest meditation and prayer.
Ron
What is the Cosmos?
We need to distinguish between the Cosmos and a universe. As Carl Sagan, astronomer and astral chemist put it: “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” When we speak of the Cosmos, we are referring to something that is larger and more complex than a single universe. By contrast, a universe is “all that exists within a single set of space time dimensions.” The Cosmos includes multiple universes, each in its own space time dimension.
The Cosmos, by these definitions, embraces everything there was, is and will be. It includes multiple universes of differing size and characteristics. Each universe is a separate reality. The laws that govern the activity of energy, matter and mass differ from one universe to the next. The characteristics of a specific universe may influence the characteristics of one or more other universes. And if there are physical universes, there may also be parallel non-physical universes.
Quantum Science
Quantum science describes everything around us. It is one of the best-tested theories of physics. The quantum realm is extraordinary. Quantum objects can be “in two places at once”; they can move through barriers; they move so fast travel (regardless of distance) appears to be instantaneous; they can share a connection (entanglement) no matter how far apart they are; and the source quantum may be in a different time dimension than the time dimension experienced by the receiver. Quantum consciousness proposes that physical laws and interactions from classical mechanics or connections between neurons alone cannot explain consciousness. Quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as entanglement and superposition, may instead explain multi-universe connections.
Will Quantum Science eventually explain how we humans can make a sixth sense conscious connection with God (who resides in a different universe)?
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