THE COSMIC MYSTERY - 2

Kabbalah describes 72 names or attributes to God but stresses that the Creator defies any description at all. All we can say is what the Creator is not.

The Zohar calls the direct experience of God realization Adam Kadmon but recognizes fully that this is only an anthropomorphic representation of the Divine.

"The form of man is the image of everything that is above [in heaven] and below [upon earth]; therefore did the Holy Ancient [God] select it for His own form." The Zohar

In other words - the Law of Correspondence - as above so below. We are microcosmic representations of the Divine and can only think of the Great Spirit in terms of an anthropomorphic representation of ourselves. We see this in religious art, best represented in Michelangelo's Sistine chapel.


The Ancestors

The realization of some form of "Adam Kadmon" may occur for some highly advanced trance healer Bushmen of the Kalahari who in their out of body trance states say they have seen a likeness of the Divine and 

"they make themselves very small in front of Him."

They may be akin to advanced Kabbalists who have been in awe of  seeing Adam Kadmon. The Bushman do not use mind altering  plants or entheogens in this remarkable out of body state where they travel to the spirit world to retrieve non local information vital to the healing and survival of the clan. They only use dancing and chanting (those interested can view videos on my web site davidcumes.com.) They call the experience the Little Death.

People who have had Near Death Experiences also have an experience of this type of ecstasy after passing through a tunnel into a field of overwhelming love and light - so much so that they do not want to come back. The N.D.E, can completely overturn anyones' ideas of God and life after death regardless of their beliefs before the epic phenomenon. They almost all come back with a sense of purpose and wanting to do good in the world. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, is one of those who before his own experience believed the N.D.E. was just a chemical aberration in a brain starved of oxygen (his book is revealing.)

OTHER "STORIES" THAT MAY DISTRACT OR ENHANCE OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE MYSTERY AND THE UNFATHOMABLE

Cern scientists have been humbled by the fact that rather than completing the jig saw puzzle there are many other unexplained "pieces" or particles that have not been explained or even seen. 
The term "god particle" or Higgs boson was given by the physicist Leon Lederman who used it for the title of his book. Scientists and clerics alike objected to the name which came out of the frustration of trying to find and explain Higgs. He joked that its was so elusive he really wanted to call it the goddam particle. Higgs himself was worried it would offend people of faith especially in view of the first commandment and taking the Name in vain.

There are other examples by well meaning, like minded  researchers to glibly liken something they cannot explain to a god or worse - the Creator. 

Another attempt to describe the Great Spirit has been called the god molecule or spirit molecule or D.M.T.  Dimethyl tryptamine is found in the vision or ayahuasca vine of the Amazon rain forest. Seekers who have imbibed the brew or taken D.M.T. itself sometimes describe a feeling of experiencing the Divine or the Great Spirit or a profound sense of Spirit. Some scientists believe that in birth and in death the brain releases large quantities of D.M.T. 

 Richard Dawkins who wrote the God Delusion believes that anyone who believes in a Creator is an idiot as in; 

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion its called a religion." Robert Persig

He has a large following and has almost ironically become a god and religion of himself. He seems to confuse religion with spirituality and states that natural selection and science are superior to the god hypothesis and that through evolution and natural selection we developed empathy because it is advantageous. He shows very little understanding of consciousness, paranormal events, life after death, the law of karma and ancient wisdom which can take us much further than just the feeling of empathy.

He seems to be at odds with many quantum scientists who are more humble and admit they really do not know what is going on. Some may not have faith in a Creator God but do understand that there is a fundamental organizing principle or Infinite Intelligence at work here. Most agree as did Einstein that anyone who says they understand quantum physics really does not understand it. This seems more in line with the Zohar's teaching that all we can say is what God is not. 

Dawkins is a professor at Oxford and carries a lot of intellectual clout but seems to be disconnected completely from the reality of the mysterious and the fact that data and science are still seriously lacking in their understandings.  Moreover, that concepts that seem set in stone often become replaced with more advanced or even different concepts. Newton, though having taken us very far, is proving somewhat limited today. It seems we are going where language can no longer help us and we may well have to find wisdom in myths, fables, legends which are the basis of the universal truths of archetypes. Poetry also helps.

More than likely he is among the majority of scientists who totally disbelieve in paranormal phenomena or the neuroscientists who still think that consciousness resides in the brain.

It is difficult to imagine that this Humboldt lily came about as a random event and not some extraordinary imaginative enterprise comprising intent, order, aesthetics and love and that it lives, dies and recreates itself again and again each year much like we do - given a belief in reincarnation.

Of course there are others who dispute any existence of a Divine Being - the Buddha himself being one of them. 

"Gripped by fear men go to the sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines."

He taught that the god concept was a response to fear and frustration

(rather than awe) 

 and that we should understand our fears, lessen our desires and replace irrational belief with rational understanding. He felt the concept of a Creator was unnecessary to explain the origin of the universe and that each human could and should purify the mind and develop love and compassion for all beings. He urged we shift our attention from the heavens to the heart (when in fact the two are not mutually exclusive.) Buddhism, however, does state they are not a religion but a tool and each seeker should also keep their own belief system.

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