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Larry King, on Larry King Live, asked his interviewees to pretend they were being interviewed “by an idiot.” To tell the truth, Larry’s questions are not the most thoughtful or perceptive. He does not seem to have given much thought to the edges of the universe. Nevertheless, these four are talking about Stephen Hawkings latest book, The Grand Design, and the participants in the discussion are physicist Leonard Mlodinow, co-author of the book, spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, and Jesuit priest Father Robert Spitzer. This makes for quite a thought-provoking romp as they consider eternal verities, transcendence, nothingness giving rise to something and the origin of nothing!
Fr. Robert Spitzer Debates the Question, “Did God Create the Universe?” on Larry King Live from John A. Keenan on Vimeo.
In “The Grand Design” Stephen Hawking postulates that M-theory may be the Holy Grail of physics…the Grand Unified Theory which Einstein had tried to formulate, but never completed. It expands on quantum mechanics and string theories.
In my free ebook on comparative mysticism, “the greatest achievement in life,” is a quote by Albert Einstein: “…most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty – which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive form – this knowledge, this feeling, is the center of all religion.”
E=mc², Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, is probably the best known scientific equation. I revised it to help better understand the relationship between divine Essence (Love, Grace, Spirit), matter (mass/energy: visible/dark) and consciousness (f(x) raised to its greatest power). Unlike the speed of light, which is a constant, there are no exact measurements for consciousness. In this hypothetical formula, basic consciousness may be of insects, to the second power of animals and to the third power the rational mind of humans. The fourth power is suprarational consciousness of mystics, when they intuit the divine essence in perceived matter. This was a convenient analogy, but there cannot be a divine formula.
Thanks for your comment and your intriguing formula — glad you realize you don’t have it down pat!
We seldom have anything down pat (even when we think we do). I wrote my ebook at age 70. You started your blog even later. The older we get the more we realize what we do not know.
God bless you, Ron. Let’s grow old(er) together.
God bless you, Ron. Let’s grow old(er) together!
Dorothy,
Your heading for this article is “Beyond Time and Space.” That is basically what my free ebook is about. The infinite here and eternal now may sound esoteric. Living for the present moment, however, is quite practical. Too often we are rehashing the past or anticipating the future. Living here and now will enhance this life and may lead us to the divine life.