| Mention the word "metaphysical" around a Christian | | | | material things in spirit terms and spiritual things in |
| fundamentalist and you will be met with a suspicious | | | | material terms. I guess I call it metaphysical Christianity. |
| glare. That kind of talk is not found in the bible. It is | | | | Within this understanding we are recognizing an |
| modern, it is science, it is secular, it is witchcraft, it is | | | | energetic force and we are attributing good things to it |
| New Age and it is a threat. I ask you however, what | | | | such as kindness and love and healing and beauty. |
| part of the bible is not metaphysical? | | | | This force can be broken down into a comprehension |
| The term "metaphysical" simply refers to something | | | | of tiny electric ions which are moving in a life enhancing |
| that is outside the presumed limitations of physical | | | | direction. We are at liberty to hop on at any point of |
| reality. I never know how much of the bible to take | | | | the belief spectrum, but no matter where we choose |
| literally but I do know that walking on water, rising from | | | | to identify ourselves, there is still a reality-based |
| the dead, feeding thousands with one fish, virgin birthing, | | | | explanation for our conviction. |
| escaping bodily destruction from fire, making the blind | | | | Fundamentalists hook up to their viewpoint by way of |
| man see, plopping down instant human beings and | | | | intense, non-intellectual emotion. That's fine, ideas can |
| turning water into wine definitely pushes the boundaries | | | | be feelings and don't have to have words. |
| of our perceived reality. I would call these activities | | | | Metaphysicists hook up to theirs by way of scientific |
| metaphysical. | | | | explanation. That's fine too, because actually ideas and |
| Notice that I said "perceived" reality. It is what we | | | | feelings are two vehicles which lead to the same |
| decide based on what appears to be. Research has | | | | understanding. Both lead to the experience of faith. |
| recently shown us that particles and energy can be | | | | Energy and particles. Interchangeable substances. In |
| interchangeable because they are really forms of the | | | | fact, we could even do away with the word |
| same essence. In other words, thought energy is | | | | metaphysical because the phenomenon we are |
| transmitted by actual little electric ions. The higher we | | | | referring to is actually all physical. Or is it that that |
| are tuned to spirit vibrations, the quicker our intention | | | | everything begins and ends in the spirit, so the |
| gets across and in so doing it bypasses heavier, | | | | manifestation is really just a byproduct of that great |
| slower methods of moving these ions around. So | | | | mystical power? Mystical? That word is not in the bible |
| there really is a scientific explanation for many of the | | | | either, but so what? We have merged the two |
| miracles we find in the bible. | | | | populations of science and religion and so we have |
| Do you see what this discovery means? It reconciles | | | | made the world into a more integrated and harmonious |
| science and religion which have vehemently opposed | | | | place. |
| each other since the beginning of time. It explains | | | | |