Hawking on God and Philosophy
Stephen Hawking’s recent comments about creation, the existence of God and the death of philosophy has aroused much interest, and it is good that controversial views have been expressed that challenge accepted thinking and cause us to look again at our own beliefs with an open mind.
For me, God is a word to describe the totality of all that is, at every level and every dimension. It is something higher than me but of which I am a part and which is a part of me. Since everything has a beginning it has a creation, and I am a part of it too. Nothing ends, it only changes form, and the infinity of limitlessness in everything includes universes, dimensions and me.
Scientific theories come and go, sometimes disproving as well as developing what has gone before. The universal wisdoms,however, are proven and timeless, as applicable today to each time they have been expressed since man was seeded on Earth. A scientific theory will not change my life, but understanding and practising the spiritual laws will, and it is because their importance is so great that I have given them prominence on my website.
Just as a key purpose of this new cycle is to achieve the integration of the spiritual with the human in each of us to bring about the ending of duality, so one day, not so far away now, we will see a merger of science and philosophy in a way which will be phenomenal. It will result in a new understanding of spirituality based on fact, and the nature of science itself will be transformed. From this, spirituality in human practice will become universal - and duality will at last be finished.
So, for me, philosophy is not dead and “God” is everywhere. What a fitting subject for this new moon today.
TrackBack URI for this entry
Subscribe to this comment's feed
Show/hide comments
Marta Freundlich
said:
|
... I agree Claire that spiritual laws are infinite and scientific theories do come and go. I also think that the scientists are the new kids on the block and in time they will provide 'proof' of spiritual laws and the simultaneous existence of multi-universes and dimensions. As a result the term God might be redefined in more infinite terms and metaphysics elevated to its rightful status, not being beyond the physical and nature but very much a part of it. Go scientists go...... |
Victoria Prekate
said:
|
... Dear Claire Nature can be approached in many ways, felt, connected to, sensed, or understood, in one particular way, which involves linear human logic and a specially devised language, such as mathematics. So, science, to me, is really just one, limited, way of approaching the Universe, and even then, we can never know it all. Many scientists do not believe in God, yet they rush to exclaim the name of God, whenever the ‘discover’ something, like the ‘particle of God’, the ‘equation of God’, the map showing the ‘face of God’ etc. So, they almost turn science into a religion, science to replace God. Just like in channeling, those who are humbly open to God to receive information and insights to whatever extent God sees fit, did so and beautiful scientific theories resulted, like Einstein’s relativity. But to demand all knowledge and claim it from God (for what motives really? Ego? Curiosity? To be used for ill purposes?), well, I believe this attitude has something to do with why theoretical physics has not advanced much over the past decade. |
Show/hide comment form