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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TheStockStalker who wrote (383)	8/26/2005 3:39:09 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 520

So many "singular" souls that spend only the briefest spark of temporal life on this material plane, only to be whisked away to judgement that's sealed forever and anon...it seems so final , and yet so vague and naive a plan , that I'd hardly believe there's a "God" so narrowly inclined in this "once in a lifetime" schemata . Always mystified me when a young student to first learn that some of the greatest scientific minds in recent times , were drawn to the simplest yet profound of ideas , of our own separate individuality being an illusion . That all of us beings living , belong together . In as much as we all are in reality the sides or aspects of one single Being...or consciousness. This is an ancient idea , many many centuries older than Christianity . In any case Erwin Schrodinger , the father of Quantum Physics thought so , atributetohinduism.com It is not generally known that before he created quantum mechanics he expressed his intention to give form to central ideas of Vedanta which, therefore, has had a role in the birth of quantum mechanics. In 1925, [before] his revolutionary theory was complete, Erwin Schrodinger wrote: This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the ``whole''; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: [tat tvam asi], this is you. Or, again, in such words as ``I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, [I am this entire world.]'' Schrodinger's influential [What is Life?] (1944) also used Vedic ideas. The book became instantly famous although it was criticized by some for its emphasis on Indian ideas. Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA code, credited this book for key insights that led him to his revolutionary discovery. ... and in no way does this in actuality or reality be diametrically opposed to anything which is found in any scripture on earth , whether Christian or Islam. So evidently it is not science that has diminished or divorced man from his divinity. Contrary to some dogmatic ,naive mindsets . This one remarkable scientist attempts to rejoin us back to the spirit to recognize that the Universe and the forces and energies that comprise it , are a reflection magnified in ourselves . In every moment we each participate in the act of creation , that is continuous both externally and within that vast space of our own psyche/minds . Of course there many gaps to be filled , but warring over dogmas & "historicity" , in light of the simplest universal realities , should/might cease at some point ...when people of all faiths, learn to see as that remarkable scientist above, learned to see . But it usually takes a long time to learn to live in the here and now ! Sometimes , many lifetimes ... ;-)