Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More
Bishop Jim’s insightful messages help others find THEIR METRON through M~otivation E~nlightenment T~ranscendence R~enewal O~utreach and N~etworking
Today’s Notes:
I – “Indeed, I am now saying (or: I am truly saying now) that whoever may say to this mountain (or: in this mountain), ‘Be picked up, and be cast (thrown) into the midst of the sea,’ and may not be undecided or be divided in his discernment or judgment within his heart, but to the contrary, can (or: may; would) continuously trust and believe with confidence that what he is speaking is progressively occurring (or: birthing itself; coming into existence), it will proceed being [thus] for him (or: by him; to him; in him; with him).”
(Mark 11:23 – JMNT)
II – In the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts…in other words, according to the best theories of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective…multiple realities can and do co-exist…reality manifests (or realities manifest) in the Multiverse…the glass is simultaneously half-full AND half-empty…the phrase in Genesis in the original Hebrew isn’t “In THE beginning, God created…”, it’s actually “In A beginning, God created…”…Moses sends 12 men to spy out the land of Canaan, and 10 of them come back with a completely different story than that of Joshua and Caleb, and yet they are all telling the truth about what they saw there…on the Day of Pentecost, Peter stands up and sternly rebukes his audience for murdering an innocent man, and in the very same breath says that the crucifixion happened according to God’s plan…the worst thing that ever happened to you can be the best thing that ever happened to you…
Multi-dimensional reality is an important part of ancient wisdom…Jesus spoke of the manifestation of a 30fold, 60fold, and 100fold return of the same seed that the sower sowed…Paul talked about the “good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God” being the proof of the renewed mind…the Tree of Life has infinitely more branches than does the limited, binary choices offered by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil…
Observers are powerful players in the quantum world, and this goes deeper than just the “perception is reality” piece…perception is undoubtedly important, but the reality is that “reality is reality”…according to a certain theory in quantum physics, particles can be in several places or states at once…this theory is called a superposition…oddly, this is only the case when the particles aren’t observed, however…the second you observe a quantum system, it picks a specific location or state, which breaks the “superposition”…the fact that nature behaves this way has been proven multiple times in the lab, as the subatomic world is studied…”if any 2 or 3 of you agree as touching anything” simply means “if any 2 or 3 of you see and agree on the existence of the same reality”…
Keep turning the dial until you find your right reality today…everything is everything…let him/her who has an ear, hear…
―Jim Swilley
III – “Being present is being connected to All Things.” ― S. Kelley Harrell
IV – “Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.” ― Blake Crouch