Have you ever wondered why it's called the Feast of All "Souls"?? Wondered why, in the Creed, we talk about the resurrection of the "body"? What's with the "soul" and "body" disconnect? One the one hand, we're taught that the human person is a oneness. But this "soul/body" wording begins to sound like dualistic Greek philosophy. You know: material/spiritual, earth/heaven, body/soul, darkness/light, woman/man, passive/active, bad/good. In Greek thinking, all that was connected with the material, like earth, body, darkness, woman, etc., was bad. Everything that ws connected with spiritual, like heaven, soul, light, man, etc., was good. So this talk of "body" and "soul" has me wondering... is there still some dualistic thinking running around Christianity?
I find it interesting too that quantum science nowadays sees everything that exists as energy. When you get down past atoms and electrons and protons and quarks and strings... what you end up finding is that everything is energy, just vibrating at different speeds. Our thoughts are energy. Our bodies are energy. Our earth is energy. Our thoughts just vibrate at a higher frequency than the earth! Could it also be that our souls are energy? That in fact, we, as individual persons, are composed of pure energy, a oneness as it were. There is then, no dualism, for all belongs to the one energy and is simply a manifestation of that. Ultimately, you could say we are all connected to that Divine Energy, God, that animates all things, all of creation.
If we really got this, got the profoundness of it, how would it change our world? If we say the trees outside as manifestations of that divine energy, but simply vibrating at a lower frequency? What if we could see the animals around us, as expressions of the wholeness? Might be a very different world!
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Thank you for you Musing today. If we all realized how connected all of creation really is, I think our world would be a very different place. One filled with genuine kindness, light-heartedness, and love for each other and for all of creation.
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