Spirit Creators

 

World Renowned Cellist Yo Yo Ma in Concert

 

When an artist creates a work of art, we sometimes say it takes on a life of its own. It moves people in one way or another, often in ways unexpected or even unintended by the artist. This phenomenon is most easily seen in music.

One artist composes a musical piece. Another artist, or group of artists, performs the piece. In the case of a group, there may be a conductor or band leader who interprets the spirit of the music in the performance. One performance differs from another, even when the same artist performs. An artist may interpret the spirit of a piece differently at one point in his life than he does at another.

Is any one interpretation the correct interpretation? May the composer alone perform his work in the full spirit in which he composed it? May the piece grow beyond the vision of the composer? May each artist’s performance release its own spirit of the work? Did the composer create a living spirit – the spirit of the music? Does the interpretation of each later artist create and release a related spirit of the music? If so, does this become a family of related spirits?

Does this apply to every artistic creation and idea? I see the same effect in a philosophical idea and a scientific or technological idea. Those ideas surely take on a life of their own and grow in ways their originator could not have imagined or, even possibly, desired.

Are human beings spirit creators?

Am I then, as spirit creator, the father, so to speak, of my spirit creation? May I direct my spirit creation to go in a certain way? May my spirit creation choose to go in a different way, as children inevitably do?

We have established that a creation may go in a way unintended by its creator. That is precisely what we mean when we say it takes on a life of its own. Did I create a sentient, able to choose? Is it alive in itself, or is it only an effect? Maybe it’s just an effect, like toxic gas dissipating into the environment.

But what if my idea or artwork is like a dog? My spirit creation may be like an animal bred and trained for a specific purpose, yet it may or may not fulfill that purpose.  It may be used for another.

Who chooses the purpose for which the spirit animal is ultimately used? As I said, each artist interprets or directs it in one way or another. It may lie dormant for decades or centuries, and then rise again with old and new effects.

Once the artist’s idea is created, can it ever die? A work of visual art may be destroyed. A musical creation can go unrecorded and be lost. All those humans who were touched by the art may die without perpetuating any effect of it. So, yes, it may die.

This fact is the very reason human societies tend to value and preserve art. The artistic creation is more than just an expression from their history. It has a living effect on all who interact with it. It transcends both time and space. It is spirit.

Young Yo Yo Ma gives a Demonstration

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Known unto God…

The future is formed out of constantly developing, waving probabilities[i]. It is not a place on the 4-D Universe graph you can get to in a machine. It doesn’t exist; it isn’t there; it hasn’t happened yet.

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.  Acts 15:18

From the beginning of the world, God has a plan. He knows what He will do. Daily He works toward His goal[ii]. Jesus was working toward that goal too. Jesus said that he did what he saw the Father doing[iii]. Humans may also work against God and His plan, but that doesn’t stop God from working toward His goal.

The road toward the goal is paved
with a set of constantly developing, waving probabilities.

Probability is the key word. The daily works of God “collapse the wavefunctions[v]” of probabilities onto each probability that progresses His plan. Whatever things human choices may throw into the way to divert God’s plan, God will daily move toward His goal. As we live and pray daily, “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done,” we are paving the road toward God’s goal out of the material of today’s probabilities.

The six day creation story illustrates God building the mechanism of the Universe. At the end of the sixth day all the parts are in place. On the seventh day, God, like a clockmaker winding his clock for the first time, releases the mechanism of His creation. He rests while he enjoys watching every sub-atomic movement producing larger and larger movements as the clockwork of the Universe begins unwinding.

Unlike the predictability of clockwork mechanisms, the Universe incorporates free will. Human choices affect outcomes. Maybe animal choices affect outcomes. Maybe spirit beings affect outcomes. All of these effects produce the constantly developing wavefunction of probabilities that God uses as materials to pave the road toward His goal.

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world. The Universal Creator daily finds a way toward His goal among the constantly developing probabilities. He invites us to join Him in that work as Jesus did[iv].

That takes faith. That is faith.

[i] Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness; Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2011, p. 79, p. 135

[ii] Isaiah 46:9-10  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,  ¹⁰ Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

[iii] John 5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

[iv] John 14:12  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

[v] Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness; Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2011, p. 85

A Point of Life -A Philosophical Physics Riddle

Here is a riddle I have composed after many months of a certain line of contemplation.

A Point of Life -The Riddle

by Susan Ector Ward

I occupy a point.

The point is a location on a particular line.

The line is located on a particular plane.

Within the plane, I am occupying a location on an infinite number of other lines.

The location of my point is claimed by an infinite number of other planes each of which incorporates an infinite number of other lines whose path also claims my point.

My point is the center of an infinite sphere.

I may move in any direction along any of the infinite number of lines occupied by my point.

Successively and momentarily as I move, I will be occupying one of an infinite number of other points each one not only located on the line along which I move but also located on an infinite number of other lines and also located on an infinite number of other planes, few of which are occupied by the point at which I began.

As I move, each point whose location I occupy becomes the center of a new infinite sphere.

I may change my direction by choosing to move along any of the infinite lines whose path
claims the point of my new location.

As I move, I find that I have influenced an infinite number of spheres whose center I have occupied.

If I move backward to retrace my path, though I will again pass through the center of every one of the infinite spheres whose center I had occupied before, I cannot influence any sphere in the same way I had influenced it before because I have been influenced by each of the infinite spheres along my path.  The fact of my movement has changed me.  Though I go back, neither I nor my point can ever be the same as we once were.

Who am I?

Image credit
http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/

Finished guessing?  The answer here.

The Time Axis and a 4-D Universe

My friend Dave says he manipulates events captured in time every day.  Dave is a video editor, among other things. He views the video on a screen with a timeline below it. He can move to any particular frame by clicking the timeline. Then he can edit out unwanted parts.

A photo, like a single frame of a movie, is a representation of a 3-D event captured on a 2-D surface in an instant of time. Movies capture images of the 3-D universe on 2-D surfaces represented on a timeline. Videos are a way to describe Time.

I have thought that Time was a dimension, one of four: length, height, depth, and time. Given a precise moment in time any point in the physical universe can be mapped by its coordinates in relation to lines designated x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis. Length is a line we express as parallel to an x-axis. Height, similarly, is a line parallel to a y-axis. Depth may be expressed as a line parallel to a z-axis, where the axes x, y, and z are perpendicular to one another and intersecting in a common point. The intersection creates three planes, plane xy, plane yz, and plane xz. Any 3-D figure touches each of these three planes. However, can Time be expressed by such a plane?

Can a line pass through all three planes? Yes, I think so, but I need a model to be sure.

If it could, then such a line could represent Time, and Time could be expressed as a plane such as; plane xt, or yt or zt. If so, Time would be understood as a dimension, as are length, height and depth.

Right now I’m wondering if the point of origin (0,0,0) is the only available point at which a single line may pass through all three planes. If it is, could Time be expressed as infinite points of origin along a single axis, a t-axis? I don’t think so because that would require constantly generated new points of origin. Wouldn’t that seem to disrupt the continuity of the timeline and all things 3-D?

Wait a minute.

We know that points on a line do not require space between them. Isn’t that a definition of infinity? With no space between points on the t-axis, wouldn’t the 3-D universe move smoothly along a timeline? -Even though all things 3-D may constantly be moving in relation to all other things 3-D.

Any movement in 3-D might be “captured” as in a single frame of a video. The “capture” is imaginary, of course, since Time, in the words of Josh Garrels‘ song, “keeps on slipping into the future.”

Can Time ever be expressed by a 2-D plane? If not, then Time incorporates all of the 3-D universe upon each infinitely small point of time and propagates it on to the next infinitely small point on the timeline.

Does this mean that the 3-D universe is newly propagated at each infinitely small movement along the timeline?

Is this not exactly what has been discovered in Quantum Physics? -What Einstein said he’d spent 100 times more thought on than his theories of Relativity, yet he died without disproving? Isn’t this the quantum theory that Niels Bohr and others used to develop the foundation of all modern technology that runs 1/3 of our economy today? What?! Yes to all!

Does this Theory of Time affect my faith? Yes and no.

No, in that I continue in the same faith I had before this understanding came.
Yes, in that miracles no longer seem so far away, and Jesus can heal Schrodinger’s cat.

If you enjoy this kind of thinking, you may enjoy Quantum Enigma, Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner published by Oxford University Press, 2011.
Disclaimer: Rosenblum and Kuttner are not responsible for my theory of Time espoused above. They only opened my eyes to what traditionally only physicists have known.

ASIDE:  A Point on Time Travel

Do you really think we can ever gather up all those points on the 3-D universe graph to reproduce any one point on the timeline of the past? If we could, it would only be one “snapshot”. Time travel remains a wonderful imagination for science fiction.  -Sorry, Albert.

Time and the Grand Unified Theory

Elusive intrigue of time travel may have blinded us from the answer to the question in plain sight.

The x, y and z axes contained in Time

The 3D universe is infinite edges contained within the ever constant acceleration of Time.  Time is the ultimate boundary.  Not even God will break its boundary.  Time moves at a constant never-changing rate, neither changing in direction nor changing in acceleration.

Ever Constant Acceleration of Time

All heaven and earth; that is, all spiritual and physical universes, each with its own infinite-ness, are yet contained within the ever constant acceleration of Time, like a tunnel with infinite walls.

All movement is necessarily contained within Time.  Without Time there can be no movement; neither of physical objects, nor of energy, nor of thought, nor even of spirit.  If Time could stop, all would freeze in immediate stasis, the definition of ultimate death, even for God.  Time cannot stop because God cannot stop.

There has never been a time without Time.  Had Time ever not existed, it would not exist now because change requires motion, and Time is required for a change from a state of “no Time” to a state of “Time”.

Time in the Theory of Everything

Einstein said Time can bend.  I don’t know about that, but maybe Time has come for The Grand Unified Theory to be discovered.  Make Time the constant, and I predict that the equation can be balanced.

But who am I?  I’m no physicist; I’m just an apologist.

Time/Eternity

What if Time is the medium of Eternity?

As water is the medium of the ocean

And all sea creatures move through water;

As air is the medium of the atmosphere

And all surface creatures move within air;

So Time is the medium of Eternity

And all Heaven and Earth move through and within Time.

The Bird and The Fish by Geninne Ziatkis, http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/search?q=bird%2C+fish

 

A Present Moment of Reality

The movement in Time
of the collective consciousness
constantly creates reality
in the ever changing present moment.

The past is gone.
Yet, the past has left evidence
that it was present.

The future hasn’t happened yet;
it doesn’t exist.
It’s still in the planning stage.

 

definition: collective consciousness -the sum of every individual awareness of every conscious being

A Wave Begins

Photo credit Greg Stablein

A wave begins at a point of agitation,
like a ripple in a pond.

What if your prayer is the source of agitation?
Imagine the following verse in terms of a chemical bond.

 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  -Jesus in Matthew 18:18

Jesus cursed the fig tree, and by the next day it had withered. (Mark 11:20-26)

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 
Mark 11:22

God, Elohim, is the Supreme Ruler, the Ultimate Authority. Have faith in the Ultimate Authority. Say to the mountain,

“Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea…” 
Mark 11:23

Jesus continues:

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Mark 11:24

Jesus sets parameters for this kind of authority in prayer.

First, we may notice the word desire. This is not just whatever you want. This prayer is for something that is due by your actual authority to ask for such a thing.

desire – Strong’s Concordance #154: to demand what is due

Second, the authority to demand in prayer exists only in love and forgiveness.

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. 
Mark 11:25-26

There you have it. The problem of your unanswered prayer may not be your not lack of faith. Two other hindrances to your prayers could be:

1. You must have the authority to ask for the thing you pray for.
2. You must forgive those who trespass against you.

Jesus demonstrated this principle also in the healing of the paralytic man.

They brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”  3 And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!”  4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?  5 “For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?  6 “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” — then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”  7 And he arose and departed to his house.  8 Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men. 
Matthew 9:2-8

The chief priests asked Jesus,

By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority to do these things?
Mark 11:28

Jesus could heal because Jesus forgave.

The intercessor forgives and therefore is authorized to heal.

He who has the authority to forgive is he who has the authority to heal.

A wave begins at a point of agitation,
like the ripple in the pond.

What if your prayer is the source of agitation?
Imagine the following verse in terms of a chemical bond.

 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  -Jesus in Matthew 18:18

 

Nothing – A Poem

by Justice Ward, 10 years old

Nothing is a never ending abyss.

It has not one atom.

It is a mystery.

It is dark,

And nobody has ever seen nothing.

It is easily killed,

And nothing can live inside it,

Or it would be something.

Nothing is scary and interesting.

by Justice Ward, 10 years old

In the quest for higher learning,
we would do well to continue to cultivate
the logic of 10 year olds.

Home schooling my three grandchildren, I gave them an assignment to copy any paragraph of their choice. Justice asked, “Can I just make something up?”

I answered, “Yes, what do you want to write about?”

He responded, “Nothing.”

I said, “Well, it’s okay if you write about nothing, but you may not write nothing.”

He wrote the above in paragraph form. I saw a poem.

I asked him about the line, “It is easily killed.”
He said that it is gone even if only one atom enters it, so in his mind to be killed is to be gone.

(I am home schooling these grandchildren because they lost their mother to cancer four and a half years ago.)

 

Your Equation of 12

Imagine that the number 12 represents you as a fully mature son of God, as in Ephesians 4:13.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

 

Equations of 12

In our analogy the number 12 represents you, fully formed into the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

1 John 3:2-3  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.  3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 

6+6=12                 5+8-1=12        

2+10=12                2 x 6=12      

4+4+4=12             24/2=12

3+3+3+3=12        100-88=12          950.4/79.2=12

There are an infinite number of ways to get to 12, but they all equal 12.

Cattle Chute

What if the choices we make every day are creating the equation of our lives?
What if God is NOT guiding us down a cattle chute toward our 12?

Maybe, as our poor choices send our equation off the mark, God brings situations that offer opportunities to correct our equation.

My equation interacts with your equation and many other equations.  We add to and subtract from one another’s equations.

All the time there is a Guiding Hand, not manipulating, but offering a path that leads to 12.