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