WHERE EAST MEETS WEST

Since the Quantum physicists have discovered that the atomic structures of matter can be influenced by the mind, Western physic and Eastern mysticism have begun to merge.

Werner Heisenberg, physicist: "In the history of human thinking, the most fruitful developments take place where two different lines of thought meet. These lines have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times, or different cultural environments, or different religious traditions."

Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha: "All matter is in a constant state of movement, of change, of impermanence. It is a series of heat impulses and vacuums."

Neils Bohr, physicist: "For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory we must turn to those kinds of problems which already have been confronted by thinkers like the Buddha and Lao Tzu."

The Buddha: "It is mind which gives things their quality, their foundation and their being."

Sir Arthur Eddington, physicist: "The stuff of the world is mind stuff."

The Buddha: "Mind precedes reality, mind governs reality, mind creates reality."

Sir James Jeans, physicist: "Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realms of matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter."

The Buddha: "there is consciousness in all matter."

The Christ: "Life the stone and you will find me, cleave the wood and I am there."

The blessed Mikael, an ancient mystic: "When it be that ye journey through life's learnings and come upon a pebble, embrace it, for thou art also embracing an aspect of God."

Werner Heisenberg: "You cannot observe a thing without altering the thing by observing it."

Paul of Tarsus: "I know, and my Lord Jesus Christ has said, that nothing of itself is evil; but if you believe a thing to be evil. And if you believe a thing to be good, that thing becomes good."

So we begin to discover that it doesn't really matter which path we take; physics on mysticism, atheism or sun worship; in the end all paths lead to That which we call 'God'.

© David Hurst 1995
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