Soul Science or My Scientific Theories on Spiritual Pursuits and Behavior. When a procedure or process works and could be applied to other systems, wouldn't it be wise to use it, rather than developing a whole new and different one? If you were trying to create a unified whole from infinite components on infinite levels of complexity, wouldn't it be easier to use the same method of interaction and combination on all levels with any components? Are you scrunching up your nose trying to figure out what I'm saying? Search your memory for the Periodic Table of Elements. Yes, that colorful little chart you may have had to memorize or at least learn to read in school. It's a chart of independent components of our universe. The current table of Elements lists the ones we know of to date. We're still discovering. It describes atoms, their properties, and can be used to determine their relationships with each other. We're also discovering that there are even smaller parts but on most levels, their behavior and properties follow some general universal physical laws, not that we even know all of those yet. In fact, in a basic sense, one can extend the general rules of behavior and properties from these smallest components to the largest components. Clusters of atoms are formed and exist in much the same way as galaxies do. There are bodies of matter involved and forces such as gravity. There is energy passing between them as light or magnetism or electrical charges, etc. Why should we be any different? We are not. Our bodies consist of atoms and forces of energy. Humans have been shown to have electrical fields. We process energy and use forces so these bodies may exist and survive and maintain a solid appearance. We're susceptible to gravity so we don't float off the face of the Earth, or the Moon when we're there. And if we do float off into space, then we travel at a consistent speed in the vacuum of space until we are acted upon by an outside force, etc etc etc. If our physical bodies and inherent energy or forces adhere to the general properties and rules of matter and energy throughout the universe, then why wouldn't our spiritual energy? How do we even know we have any spiritual energy? Hmm.... How do we know there are other forces? Well, we know gravity exists because we see its effects. Don't we see the effects of an individual's will? Don't we do more than just react to outside forces? Don't we sometimes initiate? If so, then there is force, there is energy, there is independent action and all of that adds up to spirit, for me. It is certainly more than our physical selves and more than animal instinct alone. Now in the context of cooperation with each other and the universal whole, ponder this: Even as atoms collect with each other because of their positive and negative charges, their attactive properties, their natural affinities... Don't we? In fact, doesn't it stand to reason that if each of us is a unique spark of cosmic energy, with our own special properties, wouldn't we exhibit the same sort of behavior as atoms of the more mundane variety? I certainly think we do, otherwise I wouldn't have brought it up. If you extend this a little, you might see how some of us are 'active' atoms, ie awake, and open to the connections and bonding that may be available to us. The rest who are not yet active or awake, the sleepwalkers, may or may not connect in a significant way as yet, so the matrix is not yet stable or whole. It's there but the forces holding it together are weak. There are elements of erratic behavior out of innocence, and radical behavior out of malice or unwillingness to cooperate. In order to make the best bonds and create a uniform matrix, then every link would need to be whole or complete within itself and connected securely with others. I do not speak of conformity here. We are independent spirits. We seek to remain uniquely ourselves but that doesn't mean we must be isolated. This is a difficult concept to grasp, especially in Western Culture where conformity is usually rewarded with acceptance, and independence tends to be punished with isolation. Scientifically, when an atom of one element bonds with an atom of another, they become a new entity BUT they are still individual atoms. They're just sharing between them, connecting on equal or opposite properties. We can do precisely that. No matter how complete I become, I can still be a unique spirit. The likelihood is that I will connect more perfectly with other more complete spirits. If I am missing some of my own ultimate properties then it would logically be more difficult for me to connect on those points. Here's what I think. What you think is entirely up to you. I think that if we each work toward our own completeness then we will continue to form more bonds. The bonds will strengthen and draw us closer together such that we cluster more tightly with other spirits around us. At some point, when all souls are awake and we have all done our spirit work toward the full measure of ourselves, then the matrix will be completely connected. As we continue together, the matrix will grow tighter and tighter until it may collapse into one point at which we, as an infinite number of energy components of the universe, eventually become one singular component or point, being the universe. Whoa, eh? Almost sounds like a blackhole. If all this is true then what happens next? One, I don't know if this is true. Two, I haven't the foggiest notion what really happens next, but I'll make a guess. I would guess that the same initial 'divine' extra-universal power that started this whole thing, will start it again. Perhaps the collective mass and energy in such singularity will explode itself back out into an expanding universe again? It's just a guess. By the way, however big you think an infinite universe is, it seems there must always be something 'beyond.' We think of things in this way. We can't help it. We cannot truly grasp 'infinity' yet. Let's say there is an oxygen atom. It finds two hydrogen atoms, in some space beyond them. Together they form a molecule of water which exists 'somewhere.' The single molecule of water collects with other molecules of water from the same 'somewhere' and they make a collective amount of water. Through some outside action, the water is frozen and becomes crystalline and solid. It's an ice cube now. It's dropped into a glass from somewhere. Some liquid water is poured over it. The glass sweats onto a hand from someone in an even greater somewhere... etc. You see where I'm going. When we try to understand the universe, it's the same dilemma as a single oxygen atom trying to comprehend the planet on which there is a beach on which there is a sunbather who is holding a sweating glass of ice water. One wonders if we are indeed a few atoms of stuff in a cube in a glass in the hand of someone in a much greater somewhere. Could be. I don't know that we aren't. Nor am I concerned. I still have to function within what I understand or come to understand and I trust that as I learn more, I will be accepting of whatever there is, eventually. I feel humbled by what I've learned and felt of the Universe so far, but I also feel empowered. (Science)

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