Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts, fears and emotions--time--all related... thought waves--heat waves--all vibrations-- All paths lead to God.

More reflections on energy and the message of Jesus

“No matter what... it is God.

He is gracious and merciful.

It is most important that I know Thee.

Words, sounds, speech, men, memory, thoughts,

Fears and emotions--time--all related...

All made from one... all made in one.

Blessed be his name.

Thought waves--heat waves--all vibrations--

All paths lead to God.

Thank you God.

His way … it is so lovely … it is gracious.

It is merciful – thank you God.

One thought can produce millions of vibrations

and they all go back to God … everything does.

Thank you God.”

– John Coltrane, Album - “A Love Supreme”, “Psalm”

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash

More Energy!

This week we continue with further reflections on energy. During the past few weeks we have looked at the insight that both matter and consciousness are forms of energy. We also learned that consciousness creates the material world, rather than the other way around. Jesus knew how to intentionally use consciousness to affect the physical world. His miracles were an ability to manipulate energy. He did this to show us what we ourselves are capable of.

Vibrations

At the beginning of the Book of Genesis we are told that God speaks and creation comes into being.

“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light” - Gen 1:1,3a.

In other words, sound, vibrations, their energy are what create the physical universe.

“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth… For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.” – Psalm 33:6, 9

God thinks the possibility of creation. God then has the intention to create. God then has faith that God’s expression of this intention through sound and light, both vibrations of energy, will, in fact, create. God finally, then, creates. Scripture tells us that God’s act of speaking, through the Word, of producing sound and light, waves of energy, is what generates us and the physical reality in which we live.

“the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.” – Hebrews 11:2b

Thought & Intention & Faith

Thought, intention, and faith impact the physical world. They too are forms of energy. Thought imagines the potential. Intention focuses the thought to manifest. Faith offers trust that the intention will, in fact, happen.

The disciples are unable to cure an epileptic boy plagued with a demon, so Jesus cures him.

“Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ He said to them, ‘Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.’” – Matthew 17:19-20

Other passages of scripture specifically mention thought and intention in relation to energy and illustrate how it is used in miracles.

“[A sick woman] had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.’ Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’” – Mark 5:27-30

Here Jesus senses his “power,” his energy, being used to perform a healing miracle. It shows him to be very attentive to his energies and the energies of those around him. For while in the crowd he is touched and jostled by many people, he is distinctly aware of this particular person and her touch.

Interestingly, in this case, Jesus’ thought and intention are not involved with the healing, but rather those of the woman touching him. The energy of her intention galvanizes Jesus’ energy, healing her body, which itself is simply a form of energy.

[Jesus visits his hometown] “Then Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’ And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And he was amazed at their unbelief.” – Mark 6:4-6

The intention of those involved plays a role in whether or not miracles happen. In all healings either Jesus, or the person being healed, have the intention for the healing to happen. In this example, “unbelief” in Jesus’ power, or lack of faith in the possibility of healing, or lack of intention, as opposed to merely acquiescence, seems to actually inhibit healing. In Jesus’ hometown, the local folks who knew Jesus before he became famous have “unbelief” that he can now be as great as people say. Isn’t he just that kid that used to run around with the other kids? If people don’t want it, or don’t believe it, miracles and healing cannot happen. Intention, putting our thought energy out there, is critical. There are many passages where Jesus says, “your faith has made you well,” and so it is. But it doesn’t seem to be the “faith that Jesus is the son of God,” but rather “faith that Jesus can heal you.” Even so, this faith on our part is not necessarily required, because faith on Jesus’ part is sufficient. Just look at the man born blind who had no opinion of Jesus whatsoever, and yet was healed. The above passage, however, shows how active unbelief, negative thoughts, and hostility to healing will inhibit it.

That is why today many never see a miracle. Most people in the West are materialists. Not only do we have no intention of seeing miracles, we firmly believe they are impossible. We don’t think about them. Therefore, miracles either won’t happen around us, or they do happen and we don’t see them.

Jesus came to open our eyes.

What is Faith?

Faith is a thought which is energy. What kind of thought? Is it simply “trust”?

Christian mystic and theologian Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault writes,

“I am quite certain, for example, that this direct noetic seeing is what St. Paul had in mind by the term faith (as in “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”). But in our own diminished age even faith has now gone dark and tends to be understood as a ‘blind leap into the dark’ rather than a luminous perception of the invisible golden thread.”

By “noetic seeing,” Bourgeault means: to know God by a direct spiritual experience. Paul had many spiritual experiences which caused not a blind trust in God, but rather a direct knowledge of God. Bourgeault quotes Paul from Hebrews 11:1 - Faith is the “evidence of things not seen.” Faith is the evidence, knowledge, of things which are beyond the material realm. Paul, and those who have mystical experiences, gain a “perception of the invisible golden thread.” We begin to know and trust the greater reality. Everything is Energy. Everything is One. Everything is God.

Since God created vibrations of energy, and our material selves are simply forms of these same vibrations, it seems likely that our mental and spiritual energies can be used to affect other bodies of energy, simply through thought or intention. Again, quantum physics is now proving that our thoughts actually do affect reality. Science is catching up with Jesus.

“While they were sailing Jesus fell asleep. A windstorm swept down on the lake, and the boat was filling with water, and they were in danger. They went to him and woke him up, shouting, ‘Master, Master, we are perishing!’ And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm.  He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?’” – Luke 8:23-25

I do want to put a caveat here that I don’t mean that if we wish really hard a million dollars will fall into our laps. Rather, as we become whole and integrated with the fullness of reality, life opens up, and we attract more wholeness to ourselves. Part of that wholeness may mean money, but wholeness does not mean the fulfillment of ego.

Jesus, as a divine being, simply understood better than the rest of us how our universe works and how to use our bodies, minds, and emotions in this realm to their fullest. They affect energy, which can manipulate matter, because matter is energy. That is why Jesus could heal the sick, walk on water, and speak to other entities. But he didn’t do these things just because he was God, he did them because he was also human. He showed us and told us we could do the same.

This is why it is imperative that churches help facilitate spiritual experiences with their members, as well as help them integrate the ones they’ve had outside the church. This knowledge of the transcendent, this noetic seeing, is critical to understanding and having the faith to use our God-given gifts of energy to the fullest.

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All Scripture quotes are from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.