"When a cardinal appears, it's a visitor from Heaven."
I don't know if that's literally true, but it's a great way of reminding us of loved ones who are no longer with us in this physical world. So I like the saying, and I always love it when I get the chance to see the cardinals.
And the subject of Heaven is always intriguing. Of course, I have always tried to have faith, but I've always left a foot in the door because the reasoning side of my brain is quite stubborn. It's the same reason I doubt 'Climate Change' is caused by man, or controllable by man without wholesale annihilation of the human race. Numbers don't lie, but men do. And numbers can be and often are manipulated to say whatever someone wants them to say. But that's a story for another day.. I was talking about Heaven.
If there's anything we should know about Science, it's that there is precious little scientific fact that isn't always evolving. The more we know, the more we realize what we don't know, and what we thought we knew, was all wrong. Especially in the realm of astronomy, where so much of what we know is actually conjecture and extrapolation from what we *do* know.
Science has just learned that the physical world we see, feel, touch, smell, hear, and touch all around us is only a tiny percentage of the mass in the universe. All the stars in the galaxy, all the planets, moons, and quasars in the sky.. All the collections of galaxies and the trillions of worlds they contain.. All the fishes in the sea, and the seas they swim in, are all crumbs upon the table of what truly exists..
The rest, which they are calling Dark Matter and Dark Energy is in a form that Science can't explain. They can't see it, although they believe it is all around and in us all the time. They can't detect it in any yet known way, but they know it's there. Essentially they are saying that this Dark Energy, this Dark Matter is in another dimension that exists in the same space as ordinary matter, and has demonstrable effects on ordinary matter, but is in a form we can't see, hear, feel, or be detected by our finest instruments..
So, that stubborn side of my brain that needs to see to believe, wonders.. is there some reason Heaven can't be in another dimension? Is there some reason that our spirits couldn't in fact real be real, made of that "dark energy", and simply dwell in our bodies for a time, and for the reasons we're taught when we're babies?
Perhaps this is the reason we can't see spirits, or communicate directly with those who have passed. Perhaps they are in fact all around us when they have the time to visit. And who knows.. Perhaps sometimes they *do* give us a sign that they are there to give us hope, faith, and comfort..
And if it's not true, what harm does it do, to believe? What harm does it do to smile when a cardinal winks at me from his perch?
"When a cardinal appears, it's a visitor from Heaven."
I don't know if that's literally true, but it's a great way of reminding us of loved ones who are no longer with us in this physical world. So I like the saying, and I always love it when I get the chance to see the cardinals.
And the subject of Heaven is always intriguing. Of course, I have always tried to have faith, but I've always left a foot in the door because the reasoning side of my brain is quite stubborn. It's the same reason I doubt 'Climate Change' is caused by man, or controllable by man without wholesale annihilation of the human race. Numbers don't lie, but men do. And numbers can be and often are manipulated to say whatever someone wants them to say. But that's a story for another day.. I was talking about Heaven.
If there's anything we should know about Science, it's that there is precious little scientific fact that isn't always evolving. The more we know, the more we realize what we don't know, and what we thought we knew, was all wrong. Especially in the realm of astronomy, where so much of what we know is actually conjecture and extrapolation from what we *do* know.
Science has just learned that the physical world we see, feel, touch, smell, hear, and touch all around us is only a tiny percentage of the mass in the universe. All the stars in the galaxy, all the planets, moons, and quasars in the sky.. All the collections of galaxies and the trillions of worlds they contain.. All the fishes in the sea, and the seas they swim in, are all crumbs upon the table of what truly exists..
The rest, which they are calling Dark Matter and Dark Energy is in a form that Science can't explain. They can't see it, although they believe it is all around and in us all the time. They can't detect it in any yet known way, but they know it's there. Essentially they are saying that this Dark Energy, this Dark Matter is in another dimension that exists in the same space as ordinary matter, and has demonstrable effects on ordinary matter, but is in a form we can't see, hear, feel, or be detected by our finest instruments..
So, that stubborn side of my brain that needs to see to believe, wonders.. is there some reason Heaven can't be in another dimension? Is there some reason that our spirits couldn't in fact real be real, made of that "dark energy", and simply dwell in our bodies for a time, and for the reasons we're taught when we're babies?
Perhaps this is the reason we can't see spirits, or communicate directly with those who have passed. Perhaps they are in fact all around us when they have the time to visit. And who knows.. Perhaps sometimes they *do* give us a sign that they are there to give us hope, faith, and comfort..
And if it's not true, what harm does it do, to believe? What harm does it do to smile when a cardinal winks at me from his perch?