Matter & Energy: The Holy Spirit

We wonder how the idea could be independent of a persona which is in this case, the intermediary divine being, how the mind can be separated from the man. Philo does not sound any less crafty than the best scientists of the 21st century or any theologian or clergyman.?We shall point at the Philos of our time; the French physicist, Louis de Broglie who showed matter and even energy as existing both as particles and as waves. What appeared worrisome9 to his friend, Erwin Schr?dinger who was also a Nobel laureate was not only this complication of dual existence of the basic things of material reality but also that the forces purported to act on them are particles themselves. No wonder Heraclitus says this logos holds always but humans always proved unable to understand it.

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“Listening not to me but to the logos, it is wise to believe that all things are one.”

- Heraclitus.

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Now, I am not about to build my philosophical castle in the air as I do not feel convinced at this point that we have properly established the rudiments of our discourse. If the foundation is weak, says the Holy Bible, what can the righteous do?

?We will not go about swallowing everything Heraclitus says. He is after all, unlettered but we notice a semblance between his concepts of oneness of experience with those of a more formally educated Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis who showed the consistency of human psyches in his works. Freud seldom considered geographical or cultural factors in his analysis of the human mind. Same goes for Erick Eriksson who divided the human life into three stages in his work and many behaviorists, some of whom showed even greater assuredness in their grossly generalized depiction of the human experience. The unity of life experiences, we find, is not unique to psychoanalysis or behavioral sciences but is found in almost all other subjects that have been explored so far.

?There is an almost clear-cut consistency in the human biochemistry as we find in the works of many post-Watson-Crick geneticists. From mammals to amphibians and even plants; life is shown to have building blocks, the DNA and that is not all. The bases of the DNA are arranged in sequences and it is in this sequencing that the synthesized proteins derive their identity. Human genomic composition is only 2% different to the chimpanzees’. Even the plants show appreciable similarity to all other forms of life. The basic unit of reality exists in unity not only for living things but also for the inanimate.

?Democritus anticipated the actuality of this indivisible entity as far back as 567BC (circa) when he described the atom which he called the simplest unit that makes up every material reality.?His explanation presupposes that the atom is common to every tangible substance. Through successive works of Rutherford, Einstein, Bohr, De Broglie, Schr?dinger and the likes, the world had discovered how much this unity had been understated.?

We encounter predictability in Biology almost as much as we do in the physical sciences. This must have accounted for the success of Watson and Crick in the 1952 construction of the DNA model. The two were able to predict ‘correctly’ because of nature's rationality, also because of a certain oneness which permeates the mind of nature as Plato had explained that perfection exists in the mind of God, a mind of such infinite power that all conceivable thoughts must exist in it. If human, then, with their less than perfect minds could think of something, then God could think of it too and if God thinks of something it must therefore exist10.

?It is this oneness, as we shall see on subsequent pages that enable theoretical physicists like Einstein and Stephen Hawking to speak of a world several million miles beyond without having to move an inch away from their office desks or private study.?Einstein for instance knew in his imperfect mind that if observed motion is relative to the frame of reference then time can be dilated wherefore timelessness will result in places and cases of extreme condition i.e. where there is extreme gravity.?Remember Plato’s conjecture that if we could think it God could think of it too and whatever God thinks of must exist. About half a century after Einstein extrapolated this absolutely bizarre possibility from his famed theory of relativity, NASA had returned pictures suggesting the existence of this cosmic place of absolute gravity from where even light cannot escape, which also parades all the conditions necessary for timelessness as rightly predicted by this theoretical physicist. 11

?Hopefully it is the unity of experience that makes the concept of love so universal such that we do not have too much trouble recognizing it when it comes our ways or when we see it between couples. The reader should consider the poem below to see how familiar it seems to them or how much it seems like something they might have written at certain times in their lives, given the chance.

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Now I will lie down inside

And act as if I’m sick

My neighbors will come to visit,

And with them my girl.

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She will put the doctors out

For she’s the one who know my heart. 12

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The above poem was not from some wannabe Shakespeare of the 21st century but one unknown ‘Egyptian’ who lived even before the times of the pharaohs.?This again is a great demonstration of the unity of experience which transcend time or geography or culture. We encounter this cosmic universality a lot in genetics thereby allowing ourselves the knowledge of what would otherwise be an intractable puzzle- the human genome. The manner with which the DNA replicates, copies to the RNA and instruct for protein synthesis all reminds us of the existence of reason- that there is really no abundant choice but streamlined paths through which our thought process must take as a nation, to be able to arrive at a wanted end. Einstein, on realizing this basic truth had come up with the phrase by which he is probably best known; that God does not play dice with the universe. Discerning inventors have learnt in the course of their work that the world is rational and full of certainties. Rockets may not travel beyond the earth’s orbit except it moves at a speed greater than the escape velocity. The nuclear bases Adenosine may not pair up with Cytosine or Guanine with Thymine in the composition of the human DNA. Indeed there is reason behind creation and it is with this reason that all biological, physical and logical principles are governed. It is when we find this (reason), says Hawking, that we can know the mind of God (as it concerns life). 13

??9.???Erwin Schr?dinger discussed this paradox, according to Encarta Encyclopedia, in a lecture in 1952.???????

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10.??As quoted in Human Evolution. An?introduction to Biological Anthropology, C. Lorin Brace & Ashley Montagu, 2nd Ed., 1997, pg. 13

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11.?? Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity ???????????anticipates theoretically, the existence of the celestial phenomenon of Black Hole which Astronomers showed in 1994 as existing.

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??12.???A love poem from the Literature of ancient

Egypt. An anthology of stories, instructions ??and poetry. E.d William??Kelly, Yale University press, 1972, pg. 300

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13.???Stephen Hawking is popularly regarded as a great physicist, sometimes referred to as heir to Einstein. He talked about man knowing the mind of God in one of his short books while explaining the importance of the anticipated “Theory of Everything” Also, He writes this as forward to a book by Filker; “If we understand these laws, we would in a sense be masters of the universe.”

Stephen Hawking’s Universe: The Cosmos Explained, David Filker, Cambrige, 1972