The Ambient Christ: The Inside Story of God in Science, Scripture, and Spirituality

By Joseph Masterleo

There is a unified field in the cosmos that holds everything together, and every discipline is a portal to it. Science calls it a field of fundamental forces and elementary particles. Religion calls it God and accepts it by faith as an impenetrable mystery. How can their unbending perspectives be reconciled? In The Ambient Christ, the author proposes a novel paradigm that explains their complementarity as a seamless unity. This innovative model provides a new story for an ailing and divided planet in the twenty-first century, and a viable solution to the holy grail quest. "There is something too narrow and missing in the gospel as it is presented to us. In spite of appearances, our age is more religious than ever; it only needs stronger meat" -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge." -Carl Sagan>>

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098042462

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The Ambient Christ

The Untold Story of God in Science, Scripture, and Spirituality

Joseph C. Masterleo

ISBN 978-1-0980-4245-5 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-0980-4246-2 (digital)

Copyright © 2021 by Joseph C. Masterleo

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Tribute to the Whitetail

Stone Age spiral petroglyph, Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland

Prologue

Preface

THE FINGERPRINT OF SPIRIT

The Electric Universe Model

Theology: The Eastern Fathers

The Ambient One

Scripture and Light

Spirals in the Universe

THE HUSK OF SPIRIT, Religion

Religion, Theology, and Spirituality

Quantum Theology: The Physics of Spirit

Shrouded In Mystery: The First Selfie

THE ENERGY OF SPIRIT, Nikola Tesla

The Second Coming of Nikola Tesla

Michael Faraday

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SPIRIT

Buckminster Fuller

The Axis Mundi

THE GEOMETRY OF SPIRIT

Nassim Haramein

Sacred (Electronic) Geometry

Abridged Crossover Dictionary of Science and Spirituality

THE EVOLUTION OF SPIRIT

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

THE OMEGA POINT OF SPIRIT

The Number of Perfection

The Eye of Horus

A Postmodern Cosmotheology

The Advent of Homo elektor

Epilogue

Postscript

The Third Nature of Christ

Declassified: Earth's Best Kept Secret

References

About the Author

Dedication

For my grandmother, Clara Mull, whose bent

frame was a bowing sanctuary of goodness and light. And whose

serenity in her 9×12 room in our home was a magnet

beckoning grandchildren and pets alike.

Truth has to appear only once, in a single mind,

for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Critique

am·bi·ent: (adj) [L. ambiens, to go around]:

existent or present on all sides:

Encompassing, encircling (Merriam-Webster)

The phi-spiral or double-spiral

A close up of a flower Description generated with very high confidence

Ah Sunflower! Weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the sun:

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the traveler's journey is done.

Where the Youth pined away in desire,

And the pale virgin shrouded in snow:

Arise from their graves and aspire

Where the Sun-flower wishes to go.

—William Blake (1794)

Acknowledgments

Simplicity is a puzzle of subtle and complex design. With gratitude for the puzzle pieces placed on my path whose knobs and sockets fell into a mating connection of their own accord. The picture they form speaks with a simple eloquence unequaled by my words, and heralds a new story whose time has come.

THANK YOU

Behind every completed manuscript are those whose silent contributions lend refinement, polish, and possibility to the work of every author. Heartfelt thanks to my tireless and dedicated assistant Kim Hunn, whose formatting and secretarial skills were immeasurable in giving order and visual clarity to this text. And for my wife, Ruth, who selflessly guarded my privacy over the countless hours needed to give expression to the ideas contained herein.

In memory of Bernard Grabosky, childhood neighbor and gardener extraordinaire. One glorious summer Bernie's garden sprouted a giant sunflower that wowed an entire neighborhood. Its arresting seed pattern roused a boy's curiosity, and became a spiral staircase to worlds unseen.

Tribute to the Whitetail

Aspecial note of gratitude to Tom Yacovella, artist, outdoorsman, Renaissance man, and inspirational catalyst behind this book, who passed away before its completion. Tom crafted his crowning artistic achievement by assembling a deer sculpture to scale, utilizing over three hundred shed deer antlers gathered over a lifetime in the woods and fields of upstate New York. Telling the story behind his creation, Tom marveled at how the odd-shaped antlers rightly fell into place under his artistry, as if by design. His story galvanized the pieces of this book into an image of a different sort. Such is creativity under fiery inspiration.

The composition of antlers is bone the world over. Likewise, with ideas emerging from the electrical activity of thought worldwide. As Tom's handiwork gave new life and form to the pile of bones given him, the author aims to give life and rhyme to the jumble of ideas given him.

All that can be built into a lifetime of preparation can one day come together in an inspired flashpoint of synergy. In his masterpiece, Tom referred to the visual flow of his sculpture as musical. The chapters herein are less a scientific treatise than a musical orchestration, a layman's eye view of an electrically flowing, sustained and evolving cosmic symphony that is never off-grid.

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: ‘Surely I will cause breath to come into you, and you shall live' (Ezek. 37:5).

Stone Age spiral petroglyph, Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland

Predating the pyramids, this passage tomb is best known for the

illumination of its entrance and chamber by the winter solstice sun.

Found at many Celtic gravesites, the stone is not only linked to the sun

but to the idea of death and rebirth. Like the sunflower, the stone bears

the imprint of the phi-spiral (double-spiral), signifying the transference

of energy between body and soul, heaven and earth, and the constant

cycle of life amply depicted in Celtic symbolism. Found throughout the

universe and nature, phi-spirals image the currents of energy that flow in

different directions—like the equinoxes—balancing the forces of ebb and flow, birth and death, light and darkness, in a perpetual circuitry of evolution and involution.

Prologue

What follows is a novel way to look at reconciling science and religion, in the Western world having long since parted after theologians censured the findings of Copernicus and Galileo centuries ago, thereby stifling the free spirit of scientific inquiry. Perception is everything. Discoveries are made not so much via knowing more, but knowing with more of the observer fully present. There is a widespread disconnect between heart and mind in the Western world, a world that lives culturally in the scientific age and religiously in the Middle Ages. Only when head and heart work together in a way that allows things to be seen in wholes will any significant advances be made reconciling long-standing breaches, rivalries, and divisions. Hence, the highest perceptual acuity is in seeing things not as we are (divided) but as they are (whole).

Seeing something novel and articulating it plainly is no small task. This is particularly so when venturing into uncharted waters, like those of explaining the seamless connection between the visible and invisible worlds. Little discussed, there is nonetheless a powerful connection between spirituality and science. In the past, each discipline has been insular, restrictive, and dismissive of the other, eclipsing a truly comprehensive and binocular perspective of their related subject matters. Yet, human consciousness is ever evolving and is currently reaching critical mass toward a fuller realization of its integral unity. As all roads lead to Rome, the entire universe of human thought (science, religion and philosophy) is converging, coalescing around a central axis in a linked organic pattern.

Through applied study, correct training, and personal discipline, it is now possible to attain an integrated understanding of both worlds, which to the casual eye only appear separate. Such has been life in the Western world for centuries, placing a premium on the development, exclusivity, and separation of perceived contraries: mind from body, head from heart, Spirit from soul, Spirit from matter, and sacred from secular. The collaborative efforts of science and spirituality afford the best opportunities for removing these walls of partition and of arriving at the most comprehensive understanding of the universe to date. By opening a unique door to the nature of reality, the created order, and human consciousness, such an endeavor promises to provide hope toward settling long-standing disputes between factions at all levels.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one (John Ruskin).

To divide asunder is human, but to unify is divine. There exists a place of agreement or one in every dispute or difference that offers the most complete resolution. The place of synergy is where both sides become one solution. Such requires multivariant thinking, often accompanied by a creative tweaking of the traditional, the known, and the timeworn. It is my intent to invite multiple parties to the table in order to begin the process of recreating and restoring that synergy. Standing in the breach in order to bridge build can be both rewarding and harrowing. One runs the risk of being misunderstood or trampled on by both sides. Nonetheless, the best contributions are made by those who creatively hold the tension of opposites together at critical times, and on complex issues. Settling the dust takes time, and though painstaking, can be rewarding.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many (Chuang Tzu).

Mystery ever intrigues the curious, hoping to glimpse something beyond the edge of what is already known—the natural world unconcealed, the foundation that is without foundation, the innermost of the innermost. In pursuit of cracking the mystery of the unity of all things, the efforts of several innovative luminaries are featured herein. They are imaginative thinkers who I believe made significant headway toward achieving that integral holy grail of understanding. Among those featured are scientists, mystic-poets, inventors, philosophers, a scientist-theologian, and an architect. There are many more whose corroborating remarks and observations are rightly included, and countless others whose contributions, for certain, were inadvertently left out. Given the vast pools of existing knowledge, there are limitations on what one person can absorb and process over a lifetime. Limitations notwithstanding, only the essentials pertinent to the proposed model are assembled here. The ideas of those not mentioned herein, whoever they may be, must in some way have their unique niche in the proposed unified model. If a single discipline can be found that fails to fit into this model, it cannot be a truly unified one. Like the integral components in a fine sculpture, every piece must snugly fit, organically cohere, and musically flow, no exceptions.

By their respective threads, all persons mentioned in this book were in some manner fervently enlightened by or on the trail of this mystery, or at least pondered, stumbled upon, or felt their way around its rough outlines and subtle features. As there exists a glut of information in all fields, more than can be understood, the time seems ripe for a grand synthesis, a by-product of the synergy between science, theology, and mysticism. This book and its proposed model are the products of such an undertaking, reconciling the diverse pixels into a coordinated image of the unified whole.

As nature does not give up her secrets easily, both science and religion are best served in the collaborative pursuit of unraveling her enigmas. Science, owing to its intellectual quest to study the structure and behavior of the natural world. Religion, because of its belief in a supernatural order that informs and controls the natural world and humankind; each, opposite sides of the same integral coin awaiting synthesis and detente. The best secrets are often found where least expected, in places and things that are otherwise commonplace, overlooked, or regarded as ignoble and unseemly. Pondering how to go to heaven is vitally linked to a scientific understanding of how the heavens go. The simple paradigm proposed in the pages that follow attempts to explain their living nexus.

In this book, I have favored the soft-science path, as it is my talent, charism, and experience. Such is the road less traveled, the wilderness path of the intuitively inspired poets, playwrights, prophets, and seers. For it is the poet-seer who forever searches for the broader and deeper reality, the unifying awareness that frees consciousness and community from the divisiveness of egocentricity and clan toward unity in diversity. Poet-seers are uncommonly aware of the broader band of reality beyond the limited range of ordinary perception, often knowing and explaining things without knowing how they know them. Such persons are marked by full-access knowing. That kind of knowing involves an awareness that is transrational, intuitive, and rational all at once.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper (W. B. Yeats).

This book was largely inspired by the life and work of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Merton. Grappling with the mysteries of the universe and the biblical revelation, Chardin achieved a workable synthesis of the two, bridging the span of evolution from the distant past to the future development of mankind. Writer, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion, Merton reintroduced western Christianity to its essence in the eastern tradition, long lost to the West. His earthly life was cut short while pondering the mystery of the holy spark hidden within each living soul and every religious tradition. In view of what follows, Merton's sudden departure from this world via a rotating electrical appliance (a fan) is eerily ironic. The reader will understand the nature of that irony in the pages that follow.

The theological tenets referenced herein are mainly from the Judeo-Christian scriptures, the spiritual tradition most familiar to me. However, the scriptural texts are neither embraced or presented in a dogmatic or sectarian way. Like those of other religious traditions, the sacred writings are considered as portals and signposts leading to the invisible mystery they merely point to or suggest. That mystery is a Word that has no letters or voice, yet which silently speaks and indelibly writes in a universal language. In pursuit of understanding that language, I merely revisited and reinterpreted the signs and wonders found in the ancient scrolls, in the wondrous geometric patterns of nature, and in the discoveries of the curious and venturesome who have gone before me. The new is often discovered in the old when viewed with fresh eyes open to new possibilities.

There is a saying in the East that a good teacher makes the ear an eye. A fitting word picture can be powerful, leaving the most lasting impression in conveying any idea or concept. The spiral motif and related geometric forms imaged herein best encapsulate the ideas and concepts that follow for several reasons. Chief among them is that such forms comprise the vibrational architecture of everything in the universe. These geometric forms reveal something about the invisible scaffolding on which all things rest, the vital energy that informs their moving parts, and the patterns that connect them. That is, the shape, energy, and patterns of creation reveal something about the shape of the Creator and how s-he works throughout the universe. Lastly, a spiraling geometric model best symbolizes the learning process and life path, realities that seldom follow straight lines or lead to dead ends.

Parting creatively from the timeworn trail of convention and tradition, this book seeks to discover a new cosmology, a simple way of knowing and seeing that preserves perennial principles while leaving a fresh new trail. Such trail is found by navigating the tricky path between the established forces of scientific materialism, religious orthodoxy, and academic psychology, all of which claim pieces of the mystery but miss the whole of it. With the above as our guiding principle, we begin.

Preface

In Lewis Carroll's The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Alice encounters a white, red-eyed rabbit wearing a white coat and holding a watch. While the image of a rabbit was likely no stranger to Alice, this particular rabbit arrested her attention as an animal unlike any she had seen before. Burning with curiosity, she ran through the field in pursuit of same and fell down the fabled rabbit hole into an enchanted world.

All science and art begin with keen observation. Alice's rabbit represents the new, the unexplored, and the unidentified, following through with any novel avenue or idea presented solely for the excitement of discovery and adventure. As revealed in the words contained in this text, the author has been curiously enchanted by a field of a different kind, and like inquisitive Alice pursued it for its own sake.

There is in all visible things…a hidden wholeness (Thomas Merton).

Great truths often lie hidden in plain sight, revealed to those who see them, concealed to those who cannot. Their mysteries are often secreted in the entangled depths of things where nature lies unconcealed (Ps. 42:7). Therefore, in discovery, only getting to the bottom of things will do. It is the premise of this book that a curious rabbit hole of sorts exists in the space-time field where the big mysteries lie secreted beyond the threshold of the visible. Whether the rabbit hole in question is a fanciful dead end or a unique perspective on the unity of all things is for others to decide. If the principles, themes, and patterns put forth here are true, they are true everywhere.

From an empirical standpoint, one cannot devise an experiment that proves the validity of what follows, nor can others be convinced of same. Such would be as impossible as convincing someone to fall in love. Likewise, in pursuing mystery, like the adventurous Alice, one tends to fall into it more than reason toward it. The convincing is in the firsthand experience, without which the empirical remains a glazed window shading an incandescent reality beyond itself.

It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves (John 4:42, KJV).

By way of systematic presentation, interdisciplinary knowledge and illustrations to build his case, the author invites the reader to ponder whether the subject matter of science and Scripture actually incline toward the same core phenomena, each using different language and methods to arrive at their respective truths and claims. The primary subject and focus of religion and spirituality worldwide posit a constant in the universe called God, whose being is most often referred to metaphorically as light, and who in Scripture appears literally as light. Likewise, in a post-Einstein world, it is understood that energy, movement, and life itself are not isolated phenomena but dynamic facets of a single constant as well. Along with the strength of gravity, that constant is also light (electromagnetism), which as this book proposes is linked with the spiral pattern, a universal motif found everywhere in the cosmos and nature.

The patterned prevalence of this mysterious coupling is more readily observable to the lens of the physical sciences (outer space) than either religion or psychology (inner space), where it is nonetheless palpable to the discerning eye. The author holds to the view that so-called outer and inner space are the same space governed by the same constant—light—via its oscillations, processes, and laws. As such, notions of outer and inner only appear separate to divided perception and the binary thinking resulting thereof. In the apocryphal gospels, a question is asked, How will we know when the kingdom shall arrive? The question is answered: When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner as the outer, and the upper as the lower…then you will enter the kingdom (Jesus, Gospel of Thomas, saying 22).

This strongly suggests that accomplishing same not only involves a global synthesis or whole-making thrust, but will include an evolutionary thrust as well, one unfolding in personal and collective history that unites apparent contraries, all of which harmonize in a truly unified field. Teilhard de Chardin wrote everything that rises must converge. This implies a parallel to personal growth and integration, whereby cosmic evolution moves toward unity at ever-higher levels until in the end there is only God who is all and in all (1 Cor. 15:28).

With modification, what follows borrows from the Electric Universe Theory (EUT) made popular by the work of Wallace Thornhill and David Talbot. EUT is a model of the cosmos which theorizes that electricity, magnetism, and plasma play a leading role in the workings of the known universe. Its adherents purport that everything from the formation of stars and galaxies to the workings of stars and weather patterns have possible explanations involving plasma, electrical currents, and magnetism. The book also revisits the much overlooked and censured contributions of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla, many of whose ideas and predictions on electromagnetism are becoming realized in this century, a prediction he made prior to his death in 1943.

From a scientific standpoint, the reader is to understand that light and electromagnetism are basically one and the same thing, presented here as the crucial point of intersection between science and religion. Integrative in scope, the text also includes the contributions of Buckminster Fuller on the architecture of the universe, in particular the atomic and subatomic complexion of the microuniverse, as well as the contributions of paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, and physicist Nassim Haramein. Along with Tesla, each of these innovative thinkers have a chapter devoted to them in support of the author's integrative thesis.

Like most innovations, the EUT model is both controversial and unrefined, differing from mainstream cosmology and traditional physics in many ways. As such, it has been deemed pseudoscience by hard-science counterparts. Nonetheless, EUT remains interdisciplinary in scope, a work in progress that seeks to integrate and support diverse subjects like the hard sciences (astronomy, geology, physics) with soft sciences, like ancient history, comparative mythology, and natural philosophy, the precursor of modern science. Like the divisions of the human brain, it is incumbent on all sides (science, religion, psychology, and the arts) to coordinate in discovering the patterns and energies that connect each to the other, identifying the unified whole that reconciles, informs, and organizes each to itself in the grand orchestration. And like the human brain, or the sections of this book, it is the author's hope that the evidence presented herein will reveal that the cohering nexus of interbeing among the parts is electromagnetic in nature. And to forever dispense with the science vs spirituality debate, which is tantamount to disputing whether it is Uncle Sam or the Federal Government that requires its citizens to pay taxes.

The popularity of EUT outside mainstream science is that it welcomes all that traditional science has suspiciously excluded, namely, the deeply archetypal that resonates with the underlying patterns, energies, and analogues unifying mankind's diverse global stories. Such stories are significant in that they surround the mysteries of the fundamental nature of reality and being—mythological stories about creation, floods, virgin births, dying gods, odysseys, and heroes. Such phenomena are outside empirical, sense-bound perception and knowledge, yet remain intimately associated with them. In this transdisciplinary endeavor, it is therefore proper that physics not replace or rival metaphysics, nor is the reverse to be true. Rather, there is room for both disciplines to reconcile their tensions by becoming accountability partners. At the same time, physics must defer to metaphysics (theophysics) a cautionary inside track. That is because, by definition, the natural-visible must be shown to fall from or originate in the spiritual-invisible, the latter forming the archetypes or blueprints which out-picture in the material realm. The higher cannot proceed from the lower, and the greater cannot proceed from the lesser. As such, physics (natural theology) is to study how its subject matter bears the imprint and carries the energies of the invisible world that creates and animates its diverse complexity and laws. As Einstein stated, The purpose of science is to excite the religious feeling. In a truly unified model, it is at once fitting and imperative that the tail (science) give deference to the dog (theology) that wags it, not the other way around.

Therefore, any integrated theory of the universe must include and harmonize with all fields of knowledge, framed by the metaphysical or theological (spiritual). Despite prevailing views to the contrary, it is the author's thesis that the EUT model has compelling electromagnetic qualities that incline it toward the integral and inclusive, particularly with regard to the more recent theoretical models proposed by discoveries in quantum physics. As a vital ingredient in a comprehensive integration model, it is imperative that EUT have compelling theological validity as well. However, its proponents have yet to embrace a viable theological component, one consistent with a body of perennial truths and principles that would serve to strengthen and revitalize its credibility along truly integral lines. As to their complexity and relevance in developing a more unified model, the proposed quantum implications of EUT will be explained in subsequent chapters, especially with regard to the subject of Sacred Geometry, in particular cosmometry and the donut-shaped torus outlined in part 4.

So far as possible, the segments of the book are sequenced so as to convey a sense of the presence, flow, and fluency between what is proposed as the signature icon of the universe (the spiral) along with its informing radial energy (electromagnetism) at all scales. The reader will note that quantum and EUT vectors appear to fit snugly into the spiral model, whose scattered components fall into place like puzzle pieces or melodic notes on a musical scale.

Though not a focus of most mainline spiritual traditions, the theological model that best segues with EUT, and the subset of components included herein is the alternative orthodoxy view that began with a few Eastern Fathers in the second and third centuries AD, namely Origen of Alexandria and Maximus the Confessor. From the start, these Eastern luminaries understood Jesus as a visible blueprint of an invisible reality. Consistent with Scripture, they saw Christ as organically embedded in creation, incarnating and cohering the universal union of Spirit and matter, the local embodiment of a Universal Mind or Cosmic Consciousness. Their views and those that followed are delineated in part 1.

A larger frame of reference calls into question smaller frames of reference, often harmonizing their viewpoints. Viewpoints are a collection of views, each from a distinctive point on the compass, of which there are at least 360 degrees. An integral theory is an attempt to draw together and assemble an existing number of separate paradigms into a grand nexus that encompasses the totality of matter, body, mind, soul, and Spirit. The integral model proposed herein differs from other models in that it (a) is internally consistent and (b) offers a universally integral paradigm that replicates itself at all scales. Like spokes radiating from a unifying hub, this paradigm also allows for the development of an updated, viably annexed integral spirituality, worldview, social order, and future-looking global vision. Most importantly, the proposed model offers a welcome transfusion to the popular, controversial but developing EUT model of the universe by nudging it toward a more comprehensive perspective of the whole. Brokering this arranged marriage will be challenging, and among some EUT adherents, unpopular. If successful, this more inclusive model promises to lend EUT greater credibility, coaxing it into a cozy betrothal with quantum physics and spirituality, whose offspring may be the long-awaited heir to the coveted Theory of Everything throne (TOE). Composed in the spirit of reconciling warring factions, this book leaves past and current quibbles between proponents of the hard sciences and EUT to themselves.

As stated prior, in any corporate takeover of this magnitude, theology must of necessity become the prime mover, informing dynamic and executive function of any credible integration model. In addition, for any model of this kind to purport its dynamic as the prime mover of a truly unified field, a plausible theoretical explanation must be advanced that necessarily includes a quantum (nonlocal) dimension, the subject matter of Quantum Theology delineated in part 2. There, a plausible explanation is given as to how a zero-point quantum locale centrally annexes and energizes the space-time field in a seamless two-way fashion, lending said field its distinctive complexion, character, and laws. In order to do so, this model proposes that its energy source and informing principle be essentially intracosmic as opposed to intercosmic in origin and transfer, a notion that is in keeping with the scriptural account of the created order, along with recent discoveries in quantum physics. It is mainly from the innermost of living things that the great mysteries of growth, transformation, healing, and evolution generate and unfold. It is therefore imperative to acknowledge this mysterious generative force that is coinherent in matter, programmed to create, recreate, and grow things both from within and from without, as they take in light, nutrition, and water.

Further, this inclusive model purports that its informing dynamic must be inherently copresent always and everywhere to the space-time field in a nonlinear way. That is, it must be plausibly demonstrated how this dynamic can be omnipresent and operate without surcease at all times, and is capable of traveling faster than the speed of light. Of necessity, a unified model must respect and preserve the notion of maintaining a connection between the spiritual and temporal, or science and any higher principle. To disregard same is to rob the temporal and everything in it of all deeper meaning. Like a cosmic wheel, the circumference is to exist only by virtue of the center, which maintains the integrity of the whole and all its parts. Following the radius leads to the center. In a truly integrated model, there can be no creation, existence, and dispersion of multiple things without union, as everything must be shown to link to a higher principle or essential substance. This allows for all science to become sacred science, part of an integral whole giving it a higher or deeper meaning than that which it possesses in itself.

The Christian tradition, science, and psychology all concern themselves with growth and development as central to their worldviews. At the same time, the silent energy and impetus propelling those growth trajectories are accepted and assumed as factual givens; yet, their essence remains unidentified. Nature's truths and mysteries lie hidden in the depths of things, revealed to those who search diligently for them. What are those silent hidden dynamisms, and how do they play out in creation? A plausible explanation of same is given in the text. Moreover, each of these disciplines embrace transformation as a cardinal process-phenomenon central to their particular field of study. Transformation is likewise accepted and assumed as a mysterious factual given, though little understood as to its nature as a cosmic catalyst.

Regarding the metamorphic term transformation, it seems several questions are also in order, such as: (a) At root, what is the substance of those endeavors that is being transformed, so fluid and malleable as to make it transformable? (b) Is that transformable substance a constant or a variable in the created order, or is it both? (c) From what state prior and to what state after does said substance take form, evolve and/or transform, particularly in psycho-spiritual development? and (d) If there is an invisible, nonlinear counterpart of this substance directly related to its linear expression in