Peace, prosperity, art and the quantum field

 

Nave, Ely Cathedral, Cambridge, UK*

I wonder if I would be wrong in saying most artists are not religious, or at least, they don't follow the religions expected in their country. I can't say I've ever met many artists in church, but then, I don't actually go to church. 

If I did go to church, I would alternate between Anglican (Church of England in the UK, Episcopal in the US) and Religious Science. (No, NOT Scientology. Religious Science is also called Science of Mind.)

Indeed, that's what I did when I lived in the US where one can find both formats of approaching the godhead within driving distance of just about anywhere. (OK, maybe not in what a friend calls Chokelahoma.....) In the UK, Anglican is easy. Religious Science? Well, there's one congregation about 2.5 hours from my house--so no, I haven't been there.

Church art

I love the Anglican Church for the artistic qualities, mainly. The music, often world-class even in mid-sized churches. The beautiful historic buildings. The lovely vestments. The poetic cadence of readings from the King James Bible. And the coffee hour. Gotta have a coffee hour. If it doesn't, it won't matter what else it has, I won't attend. Because church is also about community. If it has all that, I can forget the sometimes ludicrous interpretations of the wise sayings of that gentle guru, Jesus of Nazareth, and all of the medieval claptrap about bodies zinging on up to heaven without so much as a ticket for Ryanair.

As for Religious Science, it always has a coffee hour after a service. Good thing, because there is no liturgy to speak of, the music is usually modern (think Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken, one of the best you'll hear there), and it's often held in a meeting room in an industrial estate.

Thoughts are things

But one goes for the teaching. Religious Science, founded by a man named Ernest Holmes, was early into the quantum physics movement. Holmes KNEW that thoughts, properly used, created things. "Thoughts are things" is a primary tenet of the belief. (Find a brief explanation of Religious Science/Science of Mind here.) Thus, don't think about what you don't want as, by being cast out into the quantum field, those thoughts will produce results you don't want.

By the way, the quantum field is a real thing. 

Do you think that matter and energy are different things? Not to a quantum scientist. In the quantum universe, there is no such thing as matter and energy; EVERYTHING is energy. Here's an example, stainless steel. A lump of the stuff is no more than molecules of steel energy components vibrating so slowly that they seem solid. (You may have heard that even within atoms, there is so much empty space that the distance between a proton and a neutron is like the distance from the earth to the sun, in miniature.)

This is not the quantum field; it is a Hubble telescope photo of LOTS of little universes. Indeed. all of this is in the quantum field, and the quantum field is in it. (NASA.gov photo)

So, what does any of this have to do with art? Simple. Your thoughts are creative in so many more ways than you might ordinarily think about that it is worth it to paint your entire life, not just the canvas on the easel, or to choreograph it or write the notes or it in such a way that it is as beautiful a creation as the ones you can see or hear.

Art/life/politics

And that applies to ALL of life. Even politics.

And politics, at the moment, requires a whole lot of attention in the quantum field. It is, in the English-speaking worlds of the US and the UK, at a point of change. Will it be nurturing to all its people and and all its neighbors, or will it be hostile, penalizing all people and things unlike themselves or worse, unlike them and begging for their help?

The point of change is in the middle. Western society is at a point o change. Will it go up or down?

In Christian religions, the second course of action is wrong. The Christ bids everyone to care for his or her neighbour at all times. No exceptions. Friend or foe. And so, by the way, do Orthodox Judaism and the better practices of Islam. (ISIS is to Islam as Ian Paisley is to Protestantism in Northern Ireland, in short, a very dangerous departure from godly teaching--in Religious Science terms, using the mind for negative results for people.)

I don't want to get to far into any religion here. There are tons of books about the loving teachings of Jesus if you want them, or about the foundational ethical tenets of both Judaism and Islam.

But few people would know where to find Religious Science tenets, or even that the primary belief of the approach to life, death and everything in between is "thoughts are things."

That having been said, it seems to me using a bit of Religious Science wouldn't hurt. It seems inconceivable to me that any artist working in any genre would want to subscribe to thinking or actions that are inimical to human life, as those thoughts are likely to become things. Among those thoughts would be: 

• kill refugees instead of helping them
• mistreat people of genders you don't understand
• hoard
• deprive others of what you have and what you can give
• ....and onward. 

Be aware: whatever evil you desire for others will, MUST, eventually come back to you. Thoughts are things. 

We could, therefore, just wait for the wheel to go round and the despicable governments of the US and the UK to be gone...sometime.

In equine competition, when asked how do you get over those big fences, the answer is: You toss your heart over first, and then the horse will follow. In short, you set the intention to jump it, ask the horse to agree, and it is done. Thoughts are things.

Or we can cast Religious Science thoughts into the quantum soup, believing that it does not have to be this way, that people do not have to suffer at the hands of the greedy and the vicious. We can fervently repeat a prayer like this one:

There is one quantum field. Everything that exists is, was and will be a part of this quantum field. The quantum field has no desires; it produces exactly what we tell it to produce; thoughts are things.

Therefore, we demand that the quantum field immediately negate the processes of negativity, processes of greed, processes of intimidation, and processes of neglect of the citizens of the US and the UK.

In the place of these things and all other harmful actions, we demand that governments take care of the people instead of subjugating them to the demands of the unenlightened few.

We demand that governments cease seeing how much they can get away with and instead see how much they can provide in terms of peace, abundance and opportunity for all the citizens, both within their borders and those who need protection and come from elsewhere.

We demand this now.

And so it is.

I believe if all people of goodwill fervently issued such instructions repeatedly to the Quantum Intelligence, we would see a change in the very chaotic conduct so prevalent in the US and the UK at the moment. We would create the work of art we desire; peace and prosperity for all, in which all could create what their souls desire.

Goodness knows, our temporal actions--marches, letter campaigns, etc.--have fallen on deaf ears. It is time to turn it over to the intelligence of the Universe, and demand relief. For all. No matter how. (We cannot tell the quantum field HOW to do something, but simply what to do; it must work in its own ways of quantum physics law. But work it must when the demand is made upon it. That is its nature; to run the universe for good.)





*Photo credit:
Ely Cathedral By Diliff - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34607450