Week Two

I begin week two of the fall 2007 semester with a sense that I am where I am supposed to be, which, of course, is an odd sort of concept because where else could I be but where I am.

But according to Gregg Braden, scientist, theologian and visionary, there is really no here or there. In his book "The Divine Matrix" he writes "from the perspective of life as a universally connected hologram, here is already there, and then has already been now."

This concept, he says, is being discovered and explored through traditional sciencific methods.

I am taken by the thought that the whole of our world is like a hologram.

Everything and everyone is connected and each alters the energy or consciousness of the universe. This energy is like one blanket, that wrinkles and forms itself into our physical universe and into each of us. We are intimately connected, and we tug on this blanket, smoothing it over us, around us and through us with every single thought and, specifically, every emotion that we have. This tugging affects everything around us.

It's actually not a new thought.

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives, to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones, and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

Through the power of our non-local, holographic consciousness, each of those seemingly insignificant choices has consequences that extend well beyond the places and the moments in our lives. Our individual choices combine to become our collective reality and that is what makes this discovery both exciting and frightening.

And by and with this reasoning--that it is our emotions that form the basis of our transformational abilities and a measure of peace in our world--I am doubly happy to find myself content with where I am.