Science and Spirituality:

Life Can Be Lived as a Dynamic Whole

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Below: I do not want you to "lose your faith."

This page will have links to writings about how life can be enjoyed more if it is understood as a combination of physical attributes and also unseen energies.

I spent a year with a diverse group of individuals who met each month for a long weekend as part of Bastyr University's Spirituality, Health & Medicine program. Listening to many different people present stories of their experiences gave me a rich storehouse of memories. We heard from clergy, shamans, scientists, physicians, nurses, artists and many others about their life and its relationship to what I see as the duality of life. I started this essay as much more than a fond recall of that one program. There are several beneficial stories and presentations I would like the reader to know about; some are my own and others are from the lives of other people. [Download Thesis (PDF), title: "God is not (That) Far Away".]

There is a lot that we can do to support a world that respects a diversity of ways to understand Life. That will allow students, researchers, philosophers, and the general public the chance to make connections and discoveries that can enrich us all.

Resources (some open new window to another internet site):

Speaking of Faith: Interfaith interviews on the dialogue of Science & Spirituality; American Public Radio

BeliefNet.com: Multiple views of faith and religion. Home of Belief-O-Matic quiz

"Does the Universe Have a Purpose?": Guest essays invited by the John Templeton Foundation

InterFaith Radio: Interviews of members of various faiths. Example: A Woman escapes Fundamentalist Polygamous Sect: a stunning glimpse of women in patriarchal religions.

Family Constellation Work

Science, Quantum Physics, Fractal Graphics

The Future of Einstein's Faith [link to website]

The Expanded Paradigm

Shamanic Death/Life Experience

Brain Health Resources 

Hybrid or "Half-breed"?: Science and Human Family Dynamics: Announcement for OIUCM presentation 2007; notes for presentation [click here]

[added May 2007] Adventures in Autism (a deeply moving blog of a mother and her spiritual journey that includes raising an autistic child) [link to website]

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Native American	Indigenous Spirituality

I Don't Want You to Lose Your Faith

From notes for a recent public talk about Integrative Medicine and "Health Puzzles":

...Your Faith is a key to your healing. Whether it is a mainstream religion, Optimistic Atheism, Agnosticism or other philosophy, I want to support your sovereign control of your life. None of my work is intended to change anyone's mind about their faith and religious commitment.

...One of my principles is that Life is Relationship: -- To yourself, your family and community, the world around you and the Creation/Creator around it all and through it all.

Regarding Spirituality there are several factors I consider -- I appreciate them all: 

I will list a few –

>> The Singularity of the Christ event / The crucial Moslim message of the oneness and sovereignty of God / The grounding reminder from the Hebrews of the essential nature of community and the need to respect nature and God's Law. 

>> All of that was presaged by other world-views such as I encountered when I lived with First Nation/American Indian healers and Mountain Taoists whose "Medicine" was basically learning to know and follow Nature's laws.

>> The Optimistic Atheists I've known are impressed with the complexity of Life.

>> An observation from my Buddhist friend is that if you don't know about yourself and how Life works then there are natural laws dealing with repeating cycles of ignorance until you learn the lesson.

>> I will finish these introductory observations with some wisdom from a Sumarian text that is quoted in The Science of Homeopathy written by George Vithoulkas: He introduces it first --

“…The human spirit is intimately connected with the physical organism in a single integrated totality… Despite modern trends to the contrary, this holistic perspective has been understood very clearly throughout history, as illustrated by the following quotation from a very ancient Sumari text, The Sacred Script of the Covenant:

“Honor your body, which is your representative in this universe. Its magnificence is no accident. It is the framework through which your works must come; through which the spirit and the spirit within the spirit speaks. The flesh and the spirit are two phases of your actuality in space and time. Who ignores one, falls apart in shambles. So it is written . . .”

Additional writing about an expanded understanding of life:

World Healing  |  Touching Nature

 

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