GOD’S SCIENTIST: What does it mean to wake up with the awareness that you are not a chair and discover where it all fits together?

In my opinion, there are several scientists who are God’s scientists, not all of whom are professional ones. For me, they would be the late Stephen Hawking, Enrico Fermi, of the Fermi’s Paradox fame, plus influencers such as Gallileo, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Einstein, Bishop Robert Barron, Pope Francis, Dr. Scott Hahn, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Father Henri Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta, St. Charles de Foucault, and so many other men and women who looked out on reality and asked, “Where is everybody?” All of these insightful people wondered about all that is and ask Why? How? When? Where? and What? What they wrote down became the bedrock of critical thinking. Critical thinking is not proving what exists and doesn’t, but rather gathering intellectual (visible reality) and experiential (invisible meaning) together to come up with new ideas about

• What it means to be a human being in the midst of chaos;
• What it means to love fiercely;
• How all of the various points of view fit together (or don’t) using a template of truth;
• How to choose a center for your life that provides you with a purpose for existence;
• What that existence looks like from the unique viewpoint of your life experiences (which will definitely not be the same as mine);
• How to confront the last locked door of reality, death in a way that leads to fulfilling what it means to be human at the next step of our evolution.

The main influence in my life has been my mom and dad, followed by those ways of thinking and behaving (morality) that they held. For me, this included my Catholic Faith, my need to be a helper and teacher to others based on my learned principles of life, love, and service, and my personal commitment to use The Lay Cistercian Way as a template for how I relate to reality both visible and invisible. I am literally the sum of all my experiences, those that move me forward, and those that hinder my intelligent progression. `

Out of all those influences and detours of what is good for me, I have used the Template of The Christ Principle as the one, unifying explanation of how all of history and my unique role in that grand design, plays out. The Teilhard de Chardin template of the progression or movement of life towards greater and greater complexity serves as my “spine of reality” upon which all other ways of thinking make sense or do not.

These views are what I have learned about what it means to be human so far. I am stretching my thinking to try to reach what I consider the next level of my human consciousness, Omega.

To prepare me to dine at God’s table, if you will forgive my crude analogy, what I eat now is what my treasure will be. Each person confronts the six questions in the Divine Equation (given above) whether they realize it or not. Each of us forms our heaven or hell on earth which we will enjoy or regret later on in a state of existence where there is no time, no matter, no space, no properties of reality with which we are dependent. Like a snowflake or a fingerprint, each human builds their destiny by what they choose to be good for them or not. The Christ Principle is the template that I hold (based on my knowledge, my love, and my service). This way of thinking requires that I abandon my preconceived notions about me being the center of the universe, which ironically, I am, to embrace what some call a fairy tale or what seems like the opposite of existing reality. It is only what I realize that there is another level to my humanity, one which takes the absurd choice of denying oneself or giving to a source of energy outside of myself, that I can possess all that I had before, but now with the viewpoint that I begin to live the life intended by my human nature before Adam and Eve’s fall from grace. The effects of original sin are still part of my physical and mental universe, and there will be temptations to abandon my Faith and allow the seduction of the world to put obstacles in my path (temptations). The Christ Principle not only allows me to see and hear that deeper dimension of my humanity, but also the energy to keep myself centered on the way, the truth, and the life. And, in addition, if I should fail, I have, as an adopted son (daughter) of the Father, God’s own energy to make all things new again. Life, for me, has been about starting over and over and over. Because I know how to walk in the minefields of life without being blown away, I still have the martyrdom of being human until I reach Omega, but Christ has gone that way before me and tells me to “not worry,” and keep moving forward. The expression of this for me is being a Professed Lay Cistercian. http://www.trappist.net.

Because I have the writings and thinking of God’s Scientist, Teilhard de Chardin, and the path he walked, I have used his wisdom, as I have other influencers, to craft what I call my 82.11 years of existing on this rocky ball of gases called earth.

I encourage you to look into the ideas of this phenomenal man who wrote The Phenomenon of Man.

https://archive.org/stream/ThePhenomenonOfMan/phenomenon-of-man-pierre-teilhard-de-chardin_djvu.txt

I am not you; you are not me; God is not us; and we, most certainly, are not God.

RESOURCES FOR THE CRITICAL THINKER

Here are my favorites that I use on a regular basis for inspiration, formation, and transformation from my false self to my true self as nature intended.

www.peterzeihan.com — My favorite commentator on geopolitical happenings in the world.

https://www.organism.earth– My favorite website for an existential look at how all reality fits together.

www.newadvent.org — My favorite website for reflection on all things Catholic.

www.usccb.org —  My favorite website for the latest news and primary resource for all things Catholic.

https://thecenterforcontemplativepractice.org — My favorite website (I wrote it) about contemplation, the Lay Cistercian Way.

htpps://www.ecatholic2000.com — A great place to discover your heritage.

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