You are nothing ...

The title of this entry isn’t meant to be sarcastic or deprecating. It’s meant to give you a new perspective on “who” you are in the third dimension.

I think we can all agree that we are comprised of atoms. For thousands of years, atoms were thought to be solid balls. It wasn’t until fairly recently that physicists discovered they were comprised of more elementary, subatomic particles … electrons, protons and neutrons.

Atoms are, indeed, small … measuring about a billionth of an inch across. But the subatomic particles that comprise atoms are much, much smaller. In your minds eye, envision an atom’s nucleus being the size of a grain of rice. The atom itself would then be as big as a football stadium. The electrons would be other grains of rice orbiting the atom. Matter, you see, a very small part of the Universe. In fact, matter is 99.9999999 percent empty space. The atom is simply a small metaphor for the larger Universe where great expanses separate stars and their planets … where solar systems are separated by other solar systems by vast distances … and galaxies are separated from other galaxies by immense divides.

If that’s true, you may ask, why does the physical world seem so … well … so physical?! A very simple explanation is this … electrons circulate so quickly around an atom’s nucleus that they create an impassable fence through which other particles cannot penetrate. It’s like an airplane propeller at rest. You can throw a stone between the blades and it passes right through. But if you threw that same stone at a spinning propeller, it wouldn’t stand a chance of making it through.

That raises all sorts of issues for the critical thinker. How much smaller can subatomic particles get? Are electons, protons and neutrons comprised of even smaller particles? At a certain point, does a particle get so small that it becomes pure consciousness? Can we even draw that line?

At some point, faith and speculation take precedence over science because we simply don’t have the capacity to measure consciousness … to define precisely where that blurred line between pure consciousness and matter can be drawn.

But here’s my conclusion. Somewhere down the ladder all matter is comprised of pure consciousness … which leads us to God. Therefore, we are all parts of God. God is All That Is. We cannot separate ourselves … or anything else in the Universe from All That Is. All matter is of God and is, in a sense, God. And all “space” that exists between that matter is of God and is, in a sense, God.

So … you are “nothing” in the sense that most of you is “just” space! But you are also everything … because everything traces its origin back to God.