imagining
the spitirual world
Marta Sananes
Nada
te turbe
Santa
Teresa de
Jesús
Nada
te turbe,
Nada te espante,
Todo se pasa,
Dios no se muda,
La paciencia
Todo lo alcanza;
Quien a Dios tiene
Nada le falta:
Sólo Dios basta.
Eleva el pensamiento,
al cielo sube,
por nada te acongojes,
Nada te turbe.
A Jesucristo sigue
con pecho grande,
y, venga lo que venga,
Nada te espante.
¿Ves la gloria del mundo?
Es gloria vana;
nada tiene de estable,
Todo se pasa.
Aspira a lo celeste,
que siempre dura;
fiel y rico en promesas,
Dios no se muda.
Ámala cual merece
Bondad inmensa;
pero no hay amor fino
Sin la paciencia.
Confianza y fe viva
mantenga el alma,
que quien cree y espera
Todo lo alcanza.
Del infierno acosado
aunque se viere,
burlará sus furores
Quien a Dios tiene.
Vénganle desamparos,
cruces, desgracias;
siendo Dios su tesoro,
Nada le falta.
Id, pues, bienes del mundo;
id, dichas vanas,
aunque todo lo pierda,
Sólo Dios
basta.
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The imagination is the crazy one, the crazy one of the
house
Santa Teresa
de
Jesús
Imagination is
more important than knowledge
Albert
Einstein
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Abstract
First
it came the idea of The World of Light -a parallel world lower limited
by the speed of light [Conference
"Towards a Science of
Consciousness", Tucson, 1996 ], later to think
that we
are because we cannt stop being , now to
imagine the spiritual world.
Some
current physical theories postulate the existence of tachyons
-superluminal,
faster than light particles- before and at the Big-Bang that generated
the
Universe. These theories will be put to test with the functioning of
the
LHC/CERN in Genève, Switzerland. [Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible,
2008,
2009].
Let us
imagine -using free imagination under influences of well known
religious, philosophycal and scientific ideas- that before the
Big-Bang what existed was an entity complex and
superluminal, comprising infinity superluminal conscious elements and
that this
superluminal entity induced the Big-Bang when a portion of its elements
reduced
their velocity in order to generate the two classes of substances of
the
Universe: the class of subluminal elements of matter and the class of
luminal
elements, like photons. Let
us imagine that there remained superluminal
elements just above the speed of light limit keeping some of
their conscious quality.
Let God be
the realm of superluminal substance and let Spirit be
each indestrutible conscious
element -that cannot stop being-
of
superluminal substance. Let the Universe be the realm of luminal and
subluminal
substances. Let Soul be
each conscious element almost superluminal
substance and Matter each element of the class of subluminal substance.
The
substances of the Universe would have evolved in parallel, with the
life arising
and evolving from the subluminal substance due to the action and
evolution of
companion souls.
Every soul
would have as characteristics a spiritual heaviness, being so much
heavy the
more loaded with destructive experiences and associated feelings of
hate, being
lighter when full of constructive experiences and associated feelings
of love.
Let us
imagine that the soul in freed state -when isolated from matter- dreams, that
its natural way of being is to dream. The very light soul would enjoy
delightful dream, the very heavy soul would suffer nightmares.
The soul
might achieve to recover sufficient lightness as for awakening to the
state of
spiritual consciousness and to recapture its original spiritual nature
-its
superluminality- integrating itself again into God's being.
In this
imagination, we all would have been a part of God and we all might be
again. We
all would have been makers of the Universe. We all might get connected
with the
spirits in God to beg for and to receive inspiration.
In Tucson II
Conference [1996] I presented the poster "The World of Light" with
the first idea that a parallel world made of tachyons could be the
"Other
World".
We cannot stop being
Living the process
of an ailment I
was wondering for the sense of the life and of the
maternity, until suddenly this phrase came: we
are because we cannot stop being,
which I assumed as an answer
of the
spiritual unconscious
-the other unconscious, after Viktor Frankl [1]. A plausible response to
understand how we can keep on living unconcernedly knowing that we have
to die somehow and how, in spite of everything, cheerfully we want to
have children.
What
cannot stop being?
In
spiritualist thinking what cannot stop being is the spirit,
the immaterial being of eternal existence. For the materialistic
thinking the energy
is what cannot stop being, the physical magnitude
that is conserved in all processes. In a sort of unitary thinking they
might be of the same nature, imagining the spirit as absolute form of
energy.
What cannot stop being
The
soul would be the being of spiritual origin that makes us conscious,
our more intimate self, that can in free state recover full spiritual
nature. The spirit is what cannot stop being.
The idea of existence of the spirit is in the root of the religious
thinking [2]; also it it can be jn the root
of the attachment to life and of the acceptance of the death.
I
like imagining that we are because we cannot stop being and of that,
being so amazing the reality of the world in which we live, well other
even more amazing forms of reality could exist.
We all would be in essence eternal beings, so much those that we love
as that we detest, acquaintances or strangers, friends or enemies,
victims or killers …
We all would be souls alternating our existence between two worlds
while we manage to recover the spiritual nature: this real world and
another alternate world that only we can imagine.
Dream of the soul
Let's
us Imagine
that the soul while in the alternate world dreams, that its natural way
of being is dreaming [3], the sleep of
the soul.
The soul would be the state of the spiritual being while it has to live
in the real world or to dream in the alternate world. In the life and
in the sleep showing the memory of his experiences.
In the real world the existence of the soul would pass in a changeable
body that in addition to food and hearth needs to know the world, to
adapt itself, to understand it and to modify it, to be related to the
others, to love and to be loved, to produce, to discover, to create, to
invent, to reproduce. Also, every day, the body needs to sleep.
The sleeping body needs also to dream, thought it is not being well
known why. To
dream is a so common experience and
nevertheless so strange to the sense of space and time of the ordinary
life,
that it suggest to imagine that in the alternate world the existence
could pass
in a similar state, a continued state of dreaming [5] that,
since we know for our ordinary sleep, they could be either unimportant
dream or wonderful daydreams or also they could be nightmares.
The dreams of the sleeping one in the real world would be passengers
visits of the soul to the alternate world.
The soul might dream –as it often happens in the ordinary sleep-
without being fully conscious and without it could control the script
of the development of the dream.
Also like in the ordinary dreams, the contents of the dreams of the
free soul would be related to the experiences of the life and the final
state, may it had been in peace or tormented.
To imagine the nature of the
spiritual world
Once I imagined a nature of the spiritual world [6]:
There is supposed the existence of the
World of Light: a parallel world constituted at elementary level by
tachyons, superluminal particles whose speed is lower limited by the
speed of light. It is supposed also that the World of Light is the
world to which there appear the mystics and the prophets, the world of
the religious visions, the Kingdom of Heaven.
Following
this imagination, the World of Light would be the other extraordinary
reality, the realm of Spirits that, as the supposed tachyons [7],
would be of superluminal nature, capable of acting and interacting
voluntarily without limitations of space or time, shaping the God's
being: simultaneous Unit and Infinity.
God of infinite spiritual energy, of superluminal nature –more rapid
than light– containing any possible capacity of conscience: thought,
memory, dream, imagination.
God of infinite spiritual energy, of nature superluminal – more rapid
than the light – containing any possible capacity of conscience:
thought, memory, sleep, imagination.
God would have induced the Big-Bang that created the Universe, without
being exhausted but remaining in its spiritual infinite nature.
With the Big-Bang some part of God would have generated two classes of
substances in two interwoven sub-worlds: The luminal substance that
forms the luminal sub-world, including the souls as conscious substance
of luminal nature
and The subluminal substance that forms the material sub-world.
For the superluminal realm it holds the law that nothing spiritual can
move less rapid than light.
For the subluminal substance it holds the opposite: nothing material
can move more rapid than light. [8].
The souls would remain in a frontier state between the spiritual world
and the material world -at the limit of the speed of light- unconscious
of their spiritual original nature but still conscious enough to manage
themselves in the material world.
Deepak Chopra in his book How to know God [9]
presents a similar vision. The sub-worlds that here I imagine would
correspond with the vision of Chopra like that:
Superluminal Substance |
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Luminal Substance
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Quantic
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Infraluminal Substance
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Material
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The substances would have evolved in parallel, with life arising and
evolving in the material sub-world animated by the action of the souls
of the conscious luminal sub-world.
The soul might recover sufficient lightness as to recapture its
original spiritual nature – its superluminality - integrating again
into the God's being.
This way, God would be a community of conscious, holy, wise spirits, in
another
extraordinary reality. It would be simultaneously one and infinite,
generating
multiple currents of thoughts, of dreams, of imagination, keeping
infinite memoirs,
without limitations of time or space.
Jacopo
ROBUSTI, dit TINTORET - Venise, 1518 - Venise, 1594
Le Couronnement de la Vierge, dit Le Paradis Vers 1580 ©
Musée du Louvre/A. Dequier - M. Bard
In this imagination, we all would have been part of God and we all
might be again. We all might get connected with the spirits in God to
ask for and to receive inspiration.
Return
of the soul
Let’s imagine that every soul would exhibit a spiritual heaviness, the
more weighed the more loaded with destructive experiences. The lighter
the nearer to constructive experiences. The very light soul would enjoy
delightful daydreams, the very heavy soul would suffer nightmares.
The very light could soul wake up from its sleep transformed in
the original spirit to return to the extraordinary reality,
as if the spiritual agility werw impelling it to hasten and elevate.
Redemption
and resurrection
If following the Christian inspiration, [10]
–that supposes only one opportunity of real life for the souls with
the final award of the resurrection- let’s imagine that the heavy soul
could dream indefinitely being its dreaming a process of healing to
allow it to lighten its heaviness in order to be able to wake up in
plenitude as spirit. It might have dream experiences that would
correspond with the Christian credence of stays in hell or purgatory.
This way, the soul would experience a process of redemption that would
culminate with the achievement of the state of lightness that would
allow it to wake up or to resuscitate to the extraordinary reality of
God.
The idea “a soul – a life” satisfies the desire of conservation of the
identity and of the reunion in the spiritual reality with the spirits
that as souls animated the loved beings in the real world.
Dreams
and life experiences
If following the Hinduism inspiration [11]
–que
Iet’s imagine that the very heavy soul could wake up again in the real
life as if the spiritual heaviness lead it to slow down and fall .
Both the "sleep of the soul" and the experiences of life would be
episodes of a process of mitigation until finally the soul, light of
spiritual weight, could wake up [12] to the
another extraordinary reality as spirit.
This way the spiritual evolution would pass alternating between dreams
and experiences of life. The past lives would not be remembered because
as it happens generally with dreams, everything would be forgotten when
awakening to the new real life.
The enlightment would be the awakening to the spirit in
real life of exceptional souls. Also, according to
hinduistas and Buddhists traditions, exceptional souls may return to
life not for mitigation but for the will to help or to serve others.
The idea "a soul – several lives" seems more compatible with a logic of
justice and evolution.
Spiritual
and material evolution
The material and the luminal sub-worlds would evolve in parallel [13], being the souls the agents
of the evolution, evolving themselves while they make to evolve the
material sub-world. The souls that dream would hope to realize their
dreams but also they might see their nightmares realized.
In the extraordinary reality of God the spirits would live daydreaming,
conscious, harmonious. They would be like supercomputers interlaced in
a super-network in which they create and share in unison thoughts,
memoirs, ideas, dreams, imaginations...
The spiritual creations would inspire the dreams of the souls and they
would be received with diverse ways of fidelity according to the
disposition of the souls to be in tune with the inspiration. This way
the God's realm could guide the evolution. The souls in situation
of heaviness they could have small or no tuning and
they could prevaricate the handlebars of inspiration.
Finally the experienced, wise and holy soul, would end its trip of
return to the spirit, be after only one real life according to the
Christian inspiration or after several real lives according to Hinduism
inspiration.
When a new life is conceived the opportunity would be happening to a
free soul to live to advance in his trip of spiritual comeback.
Another imagination
Imagination flows in many ways: in all expressions of art, in
technological inventive, in entrepreneurship, in scientific research,
in extreme sports …
Spiritualists philosophies
and
derivative religions offer to the persons imaginary attainable worlds
for all after the death, someone of them explicitly offer the "eternal
life". The believers fulfill naturally the order of "grow and multiply
you" with the certainty of which the offer spreads to the descent. With
spiritual imagination we can suppose that every being, beyond his
appearance present and conduct, is a soul in his trip of comeback to
the spirituality.
For materialistic philosophies nothing waits for the individual person
after death. Nevertheless, the materialistic science impliedly is
offering another imagination: a world also imaginary of eternal life,
but for a future humanity, with disappearance of all the illnesses,
eternal youth, change to another planet if the life becomes untenable
in this one. With scientific imagination it's possible to appreciate
the life with confidence that the evolution will continue, that science
will be deciphering all the puzzlers, that it's possible that human
beings go so far as to "to be like gods"[14]
-immortal, wise, without illnesses and forever young people.
The materialistic persons at present can assume altruistic conducts: to
take part to their capacity in the big project of the future and to
"donate" their genes through their children so that the genetic
algorithmic
does not stop and possibly the offer materializes. These altruistic
targets are not clear. For the first one, if there is little or no
connection with the scientific development. About the second one, if it
is thought that the world is already very inhabited but especially if
it brings in the doubt that it is really an altruist decision and not
rather an egoist one of satisfying the maternal or paternal desire,
knowing that the children will be able to ask themselves the same
questions that we all one day have done: what is that thing about to
live? or: what will be with to me when I die? or: how will it be when I
am dying? …
L. Marinoff says in its book "Plato, not Prozac" [15]:
“We find that nor science nor religion can
answer all our questions. The psychotherapist philosopher Viktor Frankl
warned that this fact was leading one <<existential gap>>
and that the current people needed a new route of exit ”
[translated from spanish edition]
To calm the existential gap [16]
it is common to resort to all kinds of distractions, of addictions or
of fanaticisms, some form of alienation that serves to contain the
thoughts and the fears for our sure death and that of the dear beings.
The existential gap can be a result of some form of repression of the
spirituality in the deep of the spiritual
unconscious.
From that unconscious wherefrom it sprouts sometimes, in moments of
maximum bleakness or anxiety, a sensation of plenitude with a message
that rests, which whispers: that's all right, everything is well in the
universe or as Saint Teresa of Jesus expressed so well: nothing turbe
you, nothing frightens you; everything passes …
Thanks
To Carlos and MR
To my doctors, especially to Haydée [Prisma/IPP],
Víctor [CECLINES] and
Gabriela
To relatives and friends that accompanied and took care of me, especially Annie and Marcel
To IPP/ULA,
especially to Ruth and Carmen
To Laura for the poem of Saint
Teresa
Notes
and references
- Spiritual Unconscious
Viktor Frankl, father of the third school of psychotherapy of Vienna
postulated that, in addition to the unconscious impulsive one of Freud,
the unconscious spiritual one exists in every person wherefrom there
comes the search of the sense of the life, still in the worst
circumstances. In his book " The ignored presence of God " [Publishing
house Helder S.L., Barcelona] says:
“This species of <<faith>>
unconscious in the man, who here reveals us – and that comes included
and included in the concept of his <<unconsciously
momentous>> - it would mean that there is always in us an
unconscious tendency towards God, that is to say, an unconscious but
intentional relation to God. And precisely for it we speak about the
ignored presence of God.” [Translated from spanish edition]
- Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The man does not believe in the immortality because he believes in
God, but he believes in God because he believes in the immortality ".
Ludwig Feuerbach quoted by Savater, Fernando: The eternal life.
Publishing Ariel S.A. Barcelona 2007, pag. 69.
- Redfield,
James
He imagines that souls dream in the "afterlife":
http://www.celestinevision.com/
- “Dream of the soul”
http://buenasiembra.com.ar/salud/meditacion/la-vida-despues-de-la-muerte-744.html
- Savater,
Fernando
"I believe firmly that if we should not dream on having slept ever we
should imagine the possibility of a lasting life later to the deepest
sleep of the death ". Savater, Fernando: The eternal life. Publishing
Ariel S.A., Barcelona, 2007, pag 56.
- “El Mundo de la
Luz” Marta Sananes.
Unpublished Article, 1993
- Superluminality
Olexa-Myron Bilaniuk and E. C. George Sudarshan in
article published in Physics Today, May 1969 [“Particles beyond the light barrier”,
Phys. Today 22, 43 (May 1969),
DOI:10.1063/1.3035574 http://scitation.aip.org/],
they introduced the term "tachyon" [taquión] referred to the
possible existence of particles superluminales whose speed was limited
inferiormente by the speed of the light. The Abstract says in:
FOR MANY DECADES now the view has
prevailed that no particle
could
possibly travel with a velocity greater than the velocity of light in
vacuum, c = 3×108 m/sec. It is generally held that this
limitation is a direct consequence of the special theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein himself has said so in his original paper on
relativity. ©1969 American Institute of Physics
In this article the authors classify elementary
particles in three classes. To the Class I belong the ordinary subluminal
particles
or tardyons; luminal particles or luxons belong to Class II and the superluminal
particles
or tachyons, whose existence they postulate, belong
to Class III. The tachyons would have the property of hastening
when they lose energy and on the contrary, would gain energy after
comes closer at their speed low limit, the speed of the light.
- “The World of
Light”
Marta Sananes. “The World of Light”, poster in
conference Tucson II:
Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, 1996. “More on the
World of Light”, poster in conference Towards a Science of
Consciousness, Elsinor, Dinamarca, 1997.
- How to know God
In his book “Conocer a Dios” [Deepak Chopra: “Conocer a Dios”.
Plaza-Janés, 2000. Pag. 24. [How to know God]], Chopra presents
his cosmological vision integrating the ancient tradition hinduista
with concepts of the quantum Physics.
“The theory on the creation that better
works is the following one: before Big Ban, the space was infinite, it
was expanding as an accordion in infinite creases or dimensions,
whereas the time existed of embryonic form, in the shape of eternal
presence without events and that, therefore, it did not need from past,
present or future. This state was absolutely empty in a sense and
absolutely fully in other, not containing anything that we could
perceive and, nevertheless, there there was residing the potential of
all the things. As the vedic clairvoyants declare, one could find
neither the existence nor not existence, since these terms only serve
to things that have had a beginning, a way and an end. The physicists
refer often to this state as a singularity: space, time and the whole
material universe they were contained once in a point; a singularity is
concebida as the very small puntito that we could imagine and,
therefore, it is already not a point.” [translated from the spanish
edition]
- Christianity
God sent his son Jesus to the life to give testimony of his kingdom and
to promise the resurrection to the eternal life: "And any that one who
lives and believes in me, will not die eternally ” [John 11:26]
In the Christian imagination the spirit has the only opportunity
to make use of his life in the real world to deserve the eternal life
with God. A variant of imagination of Christian inspiration believes
that the spirit could remain indefinitely in state of sleep of the soul
- between daydreams and nightmares. To suffer nightmares indefinitely
would be the most similar thing to a hell. Daydreaming indefinitely
would be like to remain in a limbo.
The Adventists believe another variant: they suppose that the activity
to dream can be decreasing up to stopping completely. It would be like
the second death, the death also of the spirit. It is in contradiction
with the concept of spirit as imperishable entity. On the credence of
the Adventists in the " sleep of the soul ": "Their doctrine of the "sleep of the soul"
is novel. They deny the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and add
that the man, on having died, his soul or spirit stays in a state of
finished unconsciousness until the day of the resurrection."
http://www.salvacioneterna.com/aniquilacionismo.pdf
- Hinduism
According to hinduism
tradition
of credence in the reincarnation, the spirit can live through multiple
lives, while it stayed karma for paying, until liberated, reaching a
state of conscience as the state Moksha [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha]
of Hinduism or the Nirvana of Buddhism.
http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Nirvana_(religi%C3%B3n);
http://www.ministeriosprobe.org/docs/budismo.html;
http://www.meta-religion.com/Religiones_del_mundo/Budismo/budismo.htm;
http://www.libros.com.sv/edicion52/budismo.html
If the spirit lives several times, according to the ideas of
reincarnation and karma, the process of cancellation of the karma up to
reaching the state of the extraordinary reality would be carried out in
the multiple lives in the real world. After every life in the real
world and while the karma will not have been balanced, the spirit would
return once again to the real world with a new life and a new
opportunity to balance.
- Gurdjiev,
G.I.
Gurdjiev trained his disciples to be alert, conscious, inclusive in the
sleep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff
- Spiritual Evolutionism
http://www.unav.es/cryf/evolucionismoycristianismo.html
Josefina
Chacín Ducharne
Josefina Chacín, the slave of
the Lord. Her visions and her " God's message " inspired a group
of persons to join in an experience of community life " living
through the Gospel " in the "Farm The Pilgrims", San Diego de los
Altos, Venezuela.
She imagined and expressed in drawings that the human beings come from
an evolutionary lineage differentiated from the most primitive forms
for being cheered up by "souls". [The Bible and the Message to the men
of the "New Earth", Editions A/V (Non-profit association Action and
Life), Venezuela, 1984]
Martinus
In the imagination of Christian inspiration of Martinus
17:
"The universe is an alive being that includes everything and in that we all live. Every
alive being has an existence with an eternal duration. The experience
of the life takes place by means of an infinite evolution in that the
contrasts light and darkness, pleasure and pain, kindness and
nastiness, etc. they are necessary for a continue renewal of the conscience. The whole
humanity terrena will go so far as to live gradually, here in the
Earth, through an existence completely happy and rich in events. This
will happen progressively, as every man, because of the discomfort, the
sufferings and other experiences, goes so far as to live completely in
accordance with the laws that the life expires for the human
existence.. The object of the life is the experience of the same life
and, with regard to this, all the men and the rest of the alive beings
have, actually, the same value." [Translated from spanish edition]
In Martinus's cosmology the spirit evolves in
progressive cycles so that every cycle stage of existence happens in
one of the different kingdoms that he considers, from the vegetable
kingdom, the animal, the human being, that of the knowledge, the divine
one up to that of the good blessed. His imagination is expressed in his
writings and in his drawings of the symbols.
http://www.martinus.dk/layout_pages/index.php?lang=sp
- “Seréis
como dioses”
The Bible says that the snake said to Eva and to Adán: "You will
be like gods”. Genesis, 3, 5.
- Marinoff,
Lou
“Más Platón y menos Prozac”. Ediciones B, S.A, 2009.
[original: “Plato, not
Prozac!”]
“Man's search for meaning”
In his main book, “Man´s search for
meaning” [“El hombre en
busca de sentido”. Editorial Helder S.L., Barcelona], Viktor
Frankl says:
"We can
discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by
creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a something or
encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward
unavoidable suffering."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
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