Debra Asis
1 min readApr 17, 2023

--

Thank you for this perspective that is resonant with a fundamental Christian understanding that the "many are one, one is many," as expressed in Jesus' prayer to God on behalf of the disciples, "that they may be one as we are one... that all may be completely one," (John 17.21) and with the distinctive image of Trinitarian Divinity, three are one, one is three. The paradox exceeds reason.

Assuming the above, we could substitute the word Divinity for the word Consciousness which the author substituted for the word God, "Divinity is everywhere all the time embracing past, present and future. I am part of that reality. Therefore, I am Divinity itself. Who I really am is beyond time."

What if Divinity or Consciousness is the spacious possibility of realizing (as in making real) and transcending seeming opposites? What if everything is both Conscious and Divine and Not Conscious and Not Divine?

I wonder if the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that states that the exact position and momentum of an electron cannot be simultaneously determined because it has the properties of both a particle (the many) and a wave (the one), might speak to this issue? Not being a physicist I am no doubt missing something however, as a bumbling theologian I welcome the simplicity of the uncertainty principle and its resonance with the apprehension that the many are one and the one is many.

--

--

Debra Asis
Debra Asis

Written by Debra Asis

Noticing Ordinary Holiness along the way I aim to read the gospel of life in nature, poetry, art and every messy moment of my ordinary life.

Responses (2)