Sparks from the Fire

“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, 1670.

“The words ‘We are ALL One’ have reverberated through the hearts and minds of Humanity in one form or another since the beginning of time. They do not express a lofty platitude or a sweet cliché even though our lower human egos have often perceived them as such. They profess a profound Truth.” — Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

This concept of Oneness is one that I’ve always wanted to believe in, but never really understood.  I’ve sometimes felt ‘at one’ with the world in lofty moments, sometimes I’ve found a kind of oneness with my mate, I’ve experienced a sense of being at one with great teams I’ve played on, and I’ve certainly felt a kind of oneness with God in true healing moments.

But I have to admit, most of the time I walk around in an individual state, lost in my ego, trying to find my way back to this concept of oneness, trying to scramble back up that mountain of daily doings to the heights of Mind.

For the first major portion of my life I considered only my oneness with God.  This was often confusing because my concept of God often changes (hopefully evolves) and so becoming ‘at one’ with a changing thing that is not always easy to grasp can be confusing and elusive.

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So let me see if I can get this straight – or at least straighter. The recent discoveries in quantum physics state that there is an interconnectivity to all things in the universe. The words “We are all one” have reverberated through the hearts and minds of humanity in one form or another since the beginning of time. All the religions that I have studied in my life have taught this great, but seemingly unfulfilled Truth.

In my last posting, “The Allness Of God”, I quoted David Bohm, author of The Undivided Universe, as saying, “The inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality.”
Also “Einstein said, “The illusion that we are separate is an optical delusion of our senses.” Irwin Schroedinger, the quantum physicist who developed the wave equation in quantum physics says, “If we could just measure the sum total of the minds in the universe there would be just one.”

Mary Baker Eddy says in her Scientific Statement Of Being, “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.”

The question I ask is, “If quantum physics is a study of this material world and Jesus, Buddha and those millions of others are speaking about the spiritual world, is there an interconnectivity between the two?  Or are these really two separate issues?

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This is a true story. I know it’s true because it happened to me.

For a while, a couple of decades ago, I owned a funky little beach house and a parcel of land in a cove near St. John, Antigua. It was a very private place in a very exotic paradise. The cove was protected from passers by on land and by a gorgeous living reef in the bay.

I used to go there to write 2-3 times a year for a month or so at a time and wrote a number of musicals there and many songs that always seemed to come out with a distinctively Caribbean flavor. It was an idyllic time I shall never forget.

Because of the incredible beauty of the reef, the clarity and warmth of the water and the shallowness of the cove, we would always spend a great deal of our free time snorkeling.

We often went out once or twice a day and I got to know the reef like my own back yard. Actually it was my own back yard, or perhaps better, God’s back yard.

While exploring, we would often come across some pretty large fish. At those times fear was a factor because even though we were well equipped with masks, snorkels and fins and were good swimmers, the fish had it all over us in the water. It was always dramatically clear that any large fish that we encountered could have his way with us at any time he chose.

And so we reasoned that our only protection really, was to love the fish. So each time we went into the water, we all took a moment to stop and get our minds clear that we really loved the fish. We would practice this every day. It was not hard actually. They were all amazing creatures, each with their own individual beauty and grace.

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