The Spiritual Universe and American Freedom

By Gregory Thomas

The Spiritual Universe and American Freedom

The survival of the American Republic is in jeopardy. A culprit has been identified. Bible believing Christians are to blame.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gregory Thomas
• Release date: May 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9780991497294

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PART I – THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE

CHAPTER ONE

WHY ARE WE HERE?

The English noun universe has its origins in the Latin word universitas (meaning: whole, entire.)  This ancient word has meandered through the Greek, old French, and old English languages.  It has come to rest in our present-day vocabulary with a daunting task.  The noun universe has come to mean the entire celestial area we affectionately call space.

Scientists currently speculate that the observable universe has an approximate diameter of ninety-three billion light years.  Universe, as a unit of measurement, is a miserable failure.  A word has yet to evolve; an adjective has yet to be created, that adequately conveys the enormity of this expanse.  Light year is just as fraudulent as universe.  The distance light travels in one year is just shy of six trillion miles.  The volume of the universe is impossible to quantify.  Why not measure Earth’s oceans by the number of droplets using an eye dropper?

Images taken from the orbiting Hubble telescope have been extrapolated and there are estimates that there could be trillions of galaxies scattered throughout the known universe.  Galaxies, mind you, not planets.  There are billions of planets in our galaxy alone!  Astronomers have been sweeping their telescopes across these galaxies searching for planets in what they describe as a Goldilocks zone.  A sun, planet relationship that is not too hot, not too cold, but Earth-like with a possibility of sustaining life.

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Is Anybody Out There?

Someone once asked me if I thought there was human life elsewhere in the universe.  I replied, I don’t know. A thorough onsite inspection of all the planets in the universe would be required to answer that question with certainty.  Statistics alone, with trillions to the trillionth power of planets in the survey, would seem to guarantee life elsewhere in the universe.

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The following remains a singular fact concerning life in our universe: we are the needle in the galactic haystack.  Nestled in the Orion arm of the spiral galaxy called the Milky Way is an insignificant medium-sized yellow dwarf star.  There are eight[1] planets orbiting this star.  On the third planet outward from this star, human life has found a home.  These human beings have sentience: they know that they are alive.  They have the ability to survey the vast universe around them and declare an undeniable truth: We are here!  Their follow-up question, Why are we here? has been, is, and continues to be a source of great speculation.

The overwhelming majority of the Earth’s scientific community believes an event they have chosen to identify as the Big Bang spawned our universe.  The typical layman envisions the Big Bang as something akin to the detonation of a huge cosmic cherry bomb.  This is inaccurate.  The expansion (a preferred alias some have for the Bang) has filled the universe with a smorgasbord of stuff.  It has been swirling about in a choreography that is consistent with Einstein's static-spacetime general relativity.[2]  If you find this all very confusing, might I suggest you have a dinner party?  Include on your guest list the leading experts in astrophysics and quantum mechanics.  Over the sorbet, may I suggest you mention Higgs boson particle?[3]  Fix doggie bags for everyone, buckle your intellectual seatbelt, and hang on.

Our current stellar field of vision, however myopic from Earth, reveals two undeniable scientific facts.  Objects in the universe are traveling at high rates of speed, and the trajectory of these objects indicates the universe is expanding.  Something had to put these objects in motion.  A bang is a logical and plausible scientific explanation.  Equally mind boggling is the chronicle of the events that took place within the first few seconds after the bang.  This gargantuan blast wave hurled red hot debris in every direction.  As this embryotic material began to cool and coalesce, it brought forth its first offspring:  deuterium and helium.  For 13.7 billion years, a continuous process of homogenization has grown these humble elements into more and more complex matter. 

Why are we here? Voila!  You and I are here:  kinetic by-products of a bang.

CHAPTER TWO

THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE

Experiments in particle physics and quantum mechanics permit an extraordinary possibility.  An entity identified as the multiverse could exist.  Multiple universes could parallel our own universe.  The everyday events of our lives could simultaneously diverge into a parallel universe.  Imagine a train traveling through the countryside approaching a big city.  In the city there is a rail terminus with multiple tracks that would allow this train to travel in many directions.  The multiverse model speculates – that this singular train – as it approaches a different track option – divides into another train – on a different set of tracks – at the same time – and then these trains go on their merry ways.  If this concept of quantum mechanics were true, shouldn’t we all have a longing to complete a pilgrimage to the Cern Particle Accelerator[4] before we die?

To people that have to work for a living, this is all poppycock.  However, these theorists are partially correct.  There is another universe that is interwoven with the observable universe.  That universe is the spiritual universe.  A Being that has chosen to identify Himself as God resides within this universe. This God created the