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Becoming an Angel is the work of humans.

CHRYSALIS WELCOMES EVERYONE

Chrysalis' year begins the first Sunday after Labor Day in September. Services are held each Sunday at 10AM to 12 Noon. There will be no services held during August 2014. First meeting in the fall will be September 7, 2014.

Sunday Services from 10 am to 11:30 am each week
805 Mercer's Fernery Road
DeLand, FL (the white 2 story farm house)
Pastor - Skuli Thorhallsson

For more information or counseling phone (386) 478-9201

Email questions or requests to chrysalisgarden@gmail.com

Chrysalis Spiritual Center is a Swedenborg based congregation that studies non-deno
minational topics based on the value of certain writings and speech to society as a whole. Services are frequently presented by guest speakers. No denomination is excluded from meeting with us. We welcome all religions, ages, genders and beliefs.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

July 2010 Will the “God Particle” Replace God?



Chrysalis Spiritual Center
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DeLand, Florida 32720-2310
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VACATION TIME

Skuli and Mary Anne are on vacation and have begun their adventure to Iceland. Tomorrow's program at Chrysalis will be presented by Bill Blue.


THE GOD PARTICLE                                                                                                                 

June 25th, 2010
from: Deepak Chopra web site


If you went to church in the 18th century, you would have heard God described as a celestial clockmaker who had wound up the universe and left it to run itself. Today, the wind-up is the big Bang and the clock’s arts are subatomic particles. But the problem of creating matter out of emptiness remains the same.

How does matter form from the immaterial? What gives particles their mass, and how do they stick together? The physicists at the CERN facility in Europe are busy using the massive- multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider to try to answer those questions by hunting for the elusive Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle.”

The search takes place between the visible and the invisible. The hypothetical Higgs boson is a virtual particle, which means it can be coaxed to enter spacetime for the tiniest flash of a millisecond. . It operate at the Planck scale, which is millions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom.

The excitement over finding the Higgs particle is that physical science will have uncovered the mechanism for how the tangible world arises from the intangible. that’s as close to the divine act of creation as physics can get. Yet there’s an irony in basing the solid physical universe on — nothing. Could this in fact be where materialism destroys itself from within? The Higgs boson may be the key to unlocking the mystery of creation by affirming very different things than materialism dreams of.

Assuming that the particle allows itself to be discovered, the second step is the exploration of the invisible domain. It is literally nothing, and yet everything comes form it. Centuries ago the wisdom traditions of the world compared creation on a small scale to creation on a massive scale. The great sages noted that our minds are nothing, too. Before a thought appears, there is emptiness and silence. And yet once the mind produces its creations, they are potent, meaningful, and coherent.

Creation doesn’t move from the invisible to the visible with random particles like foam on the surface of the sea. they look random in the Large Hadron Collider, but the scientists running the machine, who are themselves part of creation, don’t have bodies that fly apart into a cloud of particles. Rather, our bodies, like the human brain and DNA itself, are exquisitely ordered creations, the farthest thing form random events.

Physical forces cannot explain such exquisite order, much less the meaning we derive from it, which is why God came into being. The god particle delivers the tiniest bits of the clock but not the maker. I don not mean that an actual person in the sky made the universe. Keeping strictly with the scientific worldview, the maker must be impersonal, intelligent, universal, invisible, yet manifest in the visible world. The only viable candidate is consciousness.

The Higgs boson particle represents a tiny stepping stone toward a theory of creation that rests upon consciousness as the primal stuff of the cosmos. Many theorists are already getting there; it’s been several decades since the concept of a self-aware universe has been in play.

Someday it will be commonplace to concede that the intangible, immaterial domain of quantum physics is conscious. In that world of virtual particles, non-locality, and indeterminacy, things don’t exist with shape, hardness, or color. Their existence is a fleeting display of tendencies, and the superposition of possibilities. It will be a huge realization for science to recognize that all of these tendencies and qualities are tendencies of consciousness.

The third step to a full comprehension of the universe will be connecting the consciousness, which is the ground of the cosmos, to our individual experience of consciousness. Our ground of existence is the same as the ground state of the universe. This is the message of Vedanta: Atman is Brahman, that individual consciousness fully awakened is the same as the essential nature of the entire cosmos. Somehow our consciousness participates and is integral to the creation of the universe. Sadly, by the time we realize our true creative role, our ignorant actions might have already destroyed our planetary home.

The creative function of consciousness in quantum mechanics was originally outlined in the Copenhagen Interpretation which says that an observer is required in order to collapse the wave function into a single occurrence and produce a measurable outcome. Without a conscious observer, the wave function remains a superposition of eigenstates that are not real in a measurable way.

The Many Worlds theory of quantum mechanics seeks to avoid the need for an observer and the collapse of the wave function by positing enough parallel universes to contain all possible states of the wave function. But in the end, to solve the measurement problem without an observer, they would need a measuring apparatus that is physical yet when analyzed quantum mechanically would not itself be a wave function, or superposition of eigenstates.

The Transactional Interpretation of quantum mechanics describes quantum interactions in terms of a standing wave formed by retarded (forward-in-time) and advanced (backward-in-time) waves. Here it is assumed that the interaction with the measurement device somehow activates the emission of a possibility wave going backward in time. This is a way to avoid the need of an observer, but like the Many Worlds theory it too implies a dualistic universe that takes us outside of the rules of quantum measurement. Again, the equipment that measures the wave function would have to be made out of matter that does not obey quantum physics with the superimposition of possibilities.

A more promising theory of quantum mechanics is David Bohm’s paradigm of Implicate and Explicate Order where primacy is given to wholeness over the parts which include space, time, particles, and quantum states. In this view, the parts unfold from the whole.

Sir Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, PhD. have evolved the Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR) and this I find to be the most progressive theory to bridge universal consciousness and individual consciousness. Penrose starts with the position that consciousness is fundamentally non-algorithmic and therefore incapable of being duplicated by a computer or machine. He proposed that consciousness could be explained through quantum theory with a new type of wave function collapse in the brain.

Hameroff’s expertise in the field of neurophysiology provided a likely quantum link in the microtubules in the neurons. Instead of the conventional view is that consciousness emerges from complex computation among brain neurons, they propose that consciousness involves sequences of quantum computations in microtubules inside brain neurons. The quantum computations in the brain are also ripples in fundamental spacetime geometry, the most basic level of the universe.

Penrose suggests that quantum wave function collapse happens by itself above the Planck scale. He postulates that each quantum superposition has its own spacetime curvature and these bits of curved spacetime form a kind of blister in spacetime maintaining superposition. but when it gets larger, gravity’s influence makes it unstable and it collapses. That is the objective reduction or collapse of the wave function into a measurable particle.

This theory approaches the perspective of Vedanta, where Brahman the all inclusive consciousness is the self-interacting dynamic of observer, observed and process of observation. This process of self-interaction gives rise to all diversity and phenomenon while it remains unaffected by it. As science continues to probe the exotic and extreme reaches of physics we can take some comfort that we are actually coming closer to understanding what is most intimate to us, our own consciousness, our self. The tangible springs from the intangible, and that intangible is what we are and what we call God.

BOOK NOOK



This month's book review is a blog review. I recently placed a blog on-line for The Cat's Eye Project and set up a facebook page for the organization. Ramona Whaley is the founder of The Cat's Eye. She loves all animals, but especially cats. Her life's work has brought her recognition as a writer, Peace Corps volunteer, community activist and animal rights activist. Her deep and abiding love of cats inspired her to start a magazine called The Cat's Eye Project.

There are no advertisements in the magazine or backers to defray expenses. Ramona and her friend Jami Baker and Jami's husband Rik Bedeker (who is a photographer) produce the magazine at their own expense about 4 times a year. I teamed up with them and instead of doing page layout and design (and writing) for the magazine I developed a blog to help get the word out to other animal lovers.
Both the magazine and the blog are dedicated to animal assistance. Ramona's goal is to save the lives of healthy cats. She denounces euthanasia (as it is used) and claims it is a shame to kill healthy and somewhat tame and adoptable cats. Humans must learn to respect all life. The life or essence in a cat is just as sacred as that of a human. Those who would hurt animals may also hurt people.

Let us meditate on remembering our origins and the images of our ancestors who worshiped all of God's creation as a part of him. Imagine your soul joined in a circle with all souls who have gone before and will go ahead. Imagine the unity of one God and one Love. Include the natural earth in that vision and bless all of nature with peace and dignity. While we are in the meditative mood, let us pray for the release of the threat to all the animals in the path of the deadly oil spill in our beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Let Earth be Clean and Pure and bubbling with crystal springs and sparkling waves in our streams and oceans.

Please go to http://thecatseyeproject.blogspot.com and read our articles.

DeLand Fall Festival Of The Arts

Art Lovers, there is now a web site for the DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts. Go to
www.delandfallfestival.com. The web site was created by Trophy Factory Plus owner Brad Strickland. If you want to see the blog go to http://fallfestivalofthearts.blogspot.com
I created the blog for them.

MEDITATION

Consider the divine spirit in the human soul.
This spirit is not easily satisfied.
It storms the firmament
and scales the heavens
trying to reach the Spirit that drives the heavens.
Because of this energy
everything in the world grows green,
flourishes,
and busts into leaf.
But the spirit is never satisfied.
It presses on
deeper and deeper into the vortex
further and further into the whirlpool
the primary source
In which the spirit has its origin.
This spirit seeks to be
broken through by God.
              God leads this spirit
into a desert
into the wilderness and solitude of the divinity
where God is pure unity
and where God gushes up within himself.

from Meditations --  with Meister Eckhart
"The path is beautiful and pleasant and joyful and familiar."

AFFIRMATION

I am one with Thee,
Oh Thou infinite One.
I am where Thou art.
I am what Thou art.
I am because Thou art.




NEWS FROM THE GARDEN


The Okra is growing so fast that Barry can't pick it all. If you love Okra please go to the garden and pick some. Remember, if it grows too big it gets woody and tough to eat. 
Hear is a genuine Cajun Okra recipe.

1 to 1.5 cups of okra (whole with ends trimmed off, or slice crosswise)
Okra cooking tip: A lot of people complain that the slick moisture inside the okra is unpalatable. If you really want to remove most of it ... rinse cut or trimmed okra in VERY HOT water in a colander.
6 strips of lean bacon
1 large Vidalia onion diced
1 Tbl spoon of sun dried tomato diced - or tomato paste - or half cup diced fresh tomato
1/2 cup green bell pepper diced

Fry bacon crisp and remove to a paper towel. Pour off excess bacon drippings and saute the okra until is looks a little soft. Add onions, bell pepper and tomato. Stir over medium heat and reduce heat to let the ingredients simmer about 5 to 8 minutes. If it is dry add some chicken or vegetable stock. For seasoning add to taste: salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper or Cajun seasoning, pinch of powdered garlic. Vegans use a vegetable oil and leave off the bacon.

Serve over hot rice and sprinkle crumbled bacon on top.

This is a recipe I learned from a real Cajun cook in S. Mississippi.


 HEALING 

Healing Energy Wand
from Daily Om web site



You may have been hearing that advanced technology products will be coming to us in the healing field. Our Healing Energy Wand is one of those products which harnesses Source energy to heal our bodies of pain and other maladies. We have all tried here at the Daily OM offices and are addicted to this wand. At first we were skeptical, but the results can’t be denied. 

To use the wand, simply wave it over your body in a circular motion over the area you wish to have healed. You may feel a warming or buzzing sensation and you may feel an overall blissed out feeling. Try the wand on your sick or injured pets, or on your food and drink before you consume it. If you are an energy worker, this can be a great tool to add into your practice. There are no rules on how to use it, allow your intuition to be your guide. 

In scientific terms the wand works by the use of technically-engineered minerals that are structurally bonded and energized using a proprietary fusion technology and placed into the wand. A frequency is developed that is in line with our body’s frequency thus bringing about change in our cells. The Healing Energy Wand is about 5.5" in length and comes packaged in a sleeve. Cost is $145.95


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Gift of the Week 4-30-2010


POSTER FOR PERFORMANCE BY DANIEL BERKMAN

My nephew, Daniel Berkman is one of the performers in this event. If you are in CA you might want to catch it. (Nan)