| Many people are familiar with the passage in the Bible | | | | only difference is scale. But if you compare scales, you |
| that says that, 'God created man in his own image'. | | | | find that the bacteria on your arm compares to the |
| When people hear this they immediately project | | | | size of you in the same way that you compare to the |
| human ideas on a non-human entity. They assume that | | | | size of the planet. We are so tiny it is as if we are the |
| this passage means that God has arms and legs, a | | | | bacteria of the planets surface. Zoom out and that |
| head, a mouth, two eyes, etc. At the same time they | | | | huge blue ball becomes like bacteria among the other |
| will tell you that God is ever present, in all places at | | | | stars in our galaxy. |
| once. Obviously you cannot have a bodily form with | | | | This is what is meant by being made in the image of |
| spatial limits and also be omnipresent. What people fail | | | | God. We are a microcosm of the larger whole. God is |
| to realize is that we are made in the image of God in | | | | one thing made of up smaller things, which are made |
| a much more interesting but different way. | | | | up of even smaller things, on and on down the line until |
| This universe you see around you is the body of God | | | | you reach the quantum level where everything |
| in this dimension. God exists in many dimensions | | | | becomes energy again. We are made in the same |
| simultaneously. If you could get far enough away from | | | | way, we are one thing made up of even smaller things. |
| the Universe and looked back, it would look like one big | | | | All of these things work together to create one |
| thing. The same as a galaxy or a planet or an island or | | | | synergy of being and shared experience. |
| a person. But if you zoomed into any one of these | | | | It is also true to say that we are made in the Image of |
| things you would find they are actually made of up | | | | God because we, like God, are made up |
| many smaller things. | | | | holographically. A hologram contains all the information |
| Take a person, they look like on being, but if you zoom | | | | of the whole in each part. Every cell in your body |
| in, that person is actually made up of trillions of cells, | | | | contains the entire blueprint for you body. In the same |
| living organisms that are independent life forms in their | | | | way, every division of energy in the Universe contains |
| own right. Cells from your body can be taken out and | | | | all the information of the rest of Universe. All is one. |
| grown in a petri dish and have no ill effects as long as | | | | It is a bad idea to project human ideas and human |
| they are fed. They can live for years without you | | | | thinking onto spiritual concepts because they tend to |
| being anywhere near them. | | | | get muddled up with our preconceptions and |
| Look at the Earth. From space it looks like a blue ball. | | | | expectations. In order to be open to learning, you must |
| One thing. But zoom in far enough and you see a | | | | take a position of "not knowing" and seek the answers |
| whole world of activity that was unnoticeable before. | | | | out. If you assume you know what they will be, then |
| This is a concept know as micro/macro. The large | | | | why does your search end in vain? |
| mimics the small and the small mimics the large. The | | | | Something to think about. |