So I found myself of late learning about physics. About classical physics and quantum physics and the quest to find a meeting place for these two ways of viewing the universe. Now I’m not going to profess to understand the mathematics or even much detail about the many physic theories, but what I did hear very clearly were some concepts that connected with the idea of the dance that is created between the fluctuations of the self that is based in what is lower, and the self that is based in what is higher, the self that is based in the Lord.

I was particularly enamoured by a quote by the physicist David Bohm (1917-1992)

....any particular element of space may have a field that unfolds into the whole, and the whole folds and enfolds it to it

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It spoke to me instantly of the reciprocity that we each experience with the Lord, with what is Divine. There we are in our little individual self, living in its little individual world when it finds that it is called out, drawn-out, by an affection for truth and by a desire to connect with 'Something Deeper'. And so this self finds it is drawn out by a quest for truth, for knowing. The idea of something being unfolded brings to mind the image of the foetus curled up tight and then gradually unfolding and emerging from the womb. And when it gets to the outside world everything is dazzling and confusing and inspiring and stimulating. It could accurately describe the experience of what it is like when a truth from the Word opens up our hearts and expands our minds and our perception of things. At times it can be almost too stimulating and overwhelming, as we stand and gaze at the many, many stars that are appearing in what has been darkness up until now.

I came across another concept in my reading which talked about how it’s not the stars or the things themselves that are important but that it's the space between them. It seems to connect with the idea that it’s the silence that we need to listen to between the notes of a melody. Or it’s the essence that lies beneath the Text when we read it, that reaches out and changes us. And that ignition of love and affection when we read the Word is different for every one of us. Because we are each a unique star in the ever-expanding universe of awareness. We are each a unique part of the Whole. But it is only once we have been unfolded into the Whole and we see the many stars around us, the many varieties of truth, that we realise that we are part of a Whole.

DP 63

For, as has been said, every angel is distinctly his own affection; and the form of heaven is the form of all the affections of the Divine love there. To unite all affections into this form is possible only to Him who is love itself and also wisdom itself, and who is at once Infinite and Eternal, for what is infinite and eternal is in every thing of the form, the infinite in the conjunction and the eternal in the perpetuity;

and if what is infinite and eternal were withdrawn from it it would dissolve away in an instant. Who else can combine affections into a form? Who else can even unite a single part of it?

For a single part can be united only from a universal idea of all, and the universal of all only from a particular idea of each part.

That form is composed of myriads of myriads; and myriads enter it each year, and will continue to enter into it to eternity.

So it is the awareness of the Whole that then enfolds and envelopes us again. That loves us. We have moved from a state of one in our own self out into a state of plural only to realise that we are in a state of one again but that this time the one is The Whole. We are in The One that is the authentic true self. The self with a capital S.

If we turn back to the conflict between classical physics and quantum physics, the basic gist is that classical physics sees everything as ...