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Concerning Matter

“Concerning matter, we have all been wrong. What we have called matter is energy whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to the point of visibility. There is no matter.”

Albert Einstein

          Albert Einstein, perhaps the most respected scientist ever, became more and more spiritual as he aged. He spent the last 30 years of his life attempting to find a theory that combined the electromagnetic and gravitational principles of the universe into one that he called “unified field theory.” He was still working on it when he died from an aortic aneurism. Cracking his unified field theory code is still a goal of theoretical physics but has not yet been solved. His ideas about matter and energy, however, are widely known and accepted.

          I used to do an exercise with my students regarding our bodies as visible energy. When you look at the back of your hand, you see skin, right? If you were to place your hand into a high-resolution microscope and take another look, you would see a layer of denucleated cells, and if you began cranking the power of the microscope up, you would see that there are nucleated cells beneath that. Inside those cells, you’d see the constituents—the nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondria, and such. At an even higher power, you could look inside the nucleus and see chromosomes, the nucleolus, and as you keep powering up, eventually you would see atomic particles—atoms, molecules, with their constituent parts—electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks, etc. In other words, we are, as is everything else in the known universe, atomic in nature. We are made of energy, and we live in an energy field that we can see with our eyes simply because the vibration of that energy is slow enough to be visible.

          As you undoubtedly already know, the word in Hebrew meaning spirit, breath, and wind, is the same —ruach. It also translates to “the breath of God,” that in the book of Genesis breathed upon the water and brought into being all of creation, breathed into Adam and gave him life, that parted the Red Sea in Exodus. What Einstein called spirit in the quote above is the energy of the universe that is the basis for all life--the breath of life. 

         We are matter, visible energy, and we are made up of the same ingredients as the tree that stands outside my perch on the porch. We vibrate at a similar rate to our pets, and all the small furry creatures that live around us. We have the same vibration whether we are black, white, brown, male, female, gay, straight, other, child, adult—there is no difference. We are all the same.

I hope you have only good vibrations today. Namaste.

                                                  In the Spirit,

                                                  Jane