Archive for June, 2007

Illusion

by Dale on Jun.13, 2007, under Personal, Thoughts

Professor Mike Disney, an astronomer from Cardiff University has articulated for me a journey I have been on spiritually. In reference to the search for dark matter and dark energy (don’t worry too much about these terms…they don’t matter to the story really…though they are intriguing) he gave his opinion about the commonly held belief of scientist at large. A commonly held belief he disagrees with.

Prof Disney said
“The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge and the illusion that we know already what’s going on when we don’t.”

He is speaking to the scientific community about scientific matters but he could just as easily be speaking to each and every one of us about spiritual matters.

For years one of my favorite quotes has been from the Talmud “Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know’.”

We operate, mostly, on the assumption that the ‘now’ is the most important and the most real. But actually, I believe, that even though I fall into the same myopic mindset as the rest of the world, someday I will realize what tiny vision I had. What incomplete knowledge I had. How small the box was I tried to force God into. And even though now my ignorance stifles my progress with him because I think I know what’s going on when I don’t and I suffer the pain and sorrow that comes with this stifling…..someday, him and I will sit and talk and even laugh at what now seems to be a mountain insurmountable.

So from now til then I will remind myself (like the band Atomic Opera wrote) “sometimes I think I know, but I know better.”

What’s going on? I have no idea…but he does.

dale

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