May 13, 2025

Rabbit on a Hill — Charlotte, North Carolina
I took this photograph through my den window with my iPhone and the rabbit was out of focus,
so I did a paint-by-number job on it and used the oil paint filter in PhotoShop on it to make it presentable.
If we take the Hindu idea of Brahman as the spiritual 
foundation of the cosmos and understand it to mean that "All
is Brahman," so that everything is the same essence appearing in different guises--which Einstein encourages us to do using the word, "energy" instead of "Brahman," in his statement, "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted or transformed," no one would object. "Brahman" brings forth objection. "Energy" does not.

And I have another word for you. I propose that the spiritual--"spiritual" because it has no material/physical properties in that it cannot be weighed, measured, observed and kept in the attic--foundation of the universe be thought of from this time forth as "Psyche."

We all experience Psyche. From Jung and Freud we understand Psyche as the source of our dreams, neurosis, psychosis, and a wide variety of powers, proclivities and phenomena. I propose that Psyche is cosmic-wide and the source of energy and life,
and is readily mistaken for/confused with God, and is "That Which Has Always Been Called God." And, best of all in my book, is completely without theology! Though it probably will not remain so, because it is a human propensity to make up stories and force other humans to believe their stories to be true. No?

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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