Divine Assistance

Morphogenetic fields

One of the oldest forms of Christian prayer, as one might guess, is rooted in the Hebrew prayers used in temple services. It is known as versicles and is most popular in the Eastern Church, however this form of prayer is also found in Catholicism, Anglicanism and Lutheranism. One of my favorite versicles is the Trisagion (thrice-holy). It begins like this:

V. Lord, open thou my lips. R. And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. V. O God, come to my assistance. R. O Lord, make haste to help me. 

The availability and assurance of Divine Assistance, as invoked in the above prayer, has been a hallmark of Christianity since its very beginning. We’ll survey the physics of Divine Assistance directly. First, a little context.

Saint Augustine’s self-autobiographical series of 13 books titled Confessions, which date to the 4th century, represent not only a major contribution to theology but also philosophy. Augustine asserts, “The mind needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.” This idea evolved into the Doctrine of Divine Illumination, which states that human beings require help from God (agent intellect) in everyday thought.

Agent intellect is an Aristotelian conception that dates to ~350 B.C.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, 800-or-so-years after Augustus, argued in Summa Theologica that, “human beings possess a sufficient capacity for thought on their own, without the need for any ‘new illumination added onto their natural illumination.’”¹ The agent intellect, in Aquinas’s view, accounted for our capacity to grasp self-evident truths; we have an immediate and direct grasp of the truth of first principles.

Consciousness Is Inseparable from Quantum Theory

Today many accept that transpersonal, nonlocal consciousness connects all things, both animate and inanimate. This hypothesis is called panpsychism. Whereas an agent intellect was once exclusively thought to be an aspect of God, nonlocal consciousness, with help from quantum theory, has nudged its way into that role today. Consciousness as the Ground of All Being is therefore divine.

What once was believed to be supernatural in nature, is today conceptualized as a network of interlaced quantum fields of information, matter and energy. No longer is there need to imagine a supernatural realm beyond time and space.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force…We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and Intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter…I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. ~ Max Planck (1858–1947) Founder of Quantum Physics, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1918

Science's most successful theory, quantum mechanics, has been saying that everything is ultimately consciousness for the last century! Suffice it to say that many physicists have no interest at all in understanding quantum theory.²

The truth is that unseen forces such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, psychic healing and other anomalous phenomena inextricably link us via consciousness to the spiritual domain of Divine Mind. While many skeptics and scientists deny the existence of such spiritual phenomena, the experiences of millions of people tell us otherwise.³

Spiritual phenomena, per se, need not insinuate supernaturalism and though they may be metaphysical in nature, a stubborn divide remains between science and spirituality. We predict this eventually will change once a cogent physics of information is invented. When the measurement of the mass of one bit of information becomes possible, as it surely will within the next few years, science and spirituality will become integrated components of the Nature of Reality. Moreover, a physics of information augurs significant implications for cosmology, e.g. it will debunk “dark matter.”

So, we must rid spirituality from its supernatural prison; make it secular. Spirituality is a connection with something bigger than we are, seducing our imagination, creating an urge to know, to embrace the mystery that surrounds us and the mystery that we are.⁴

This is not to suggest religion and religious rituals are suddenly superfluous. Far from it! Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance posits that human societies have memories that are transmitted through the culture of the group, and are most explicitly communicated through the ritual re-enactment of a founding story or myth, as in the Jewish Passover celebration, the Christian Holy Communion and the American thanksgiving dinner, through which the past becomes present through a kind of resonance or syntony with those who have performed the same rituals before.⁵

Ritual observances and founding myths are mortar that binds the bricks of civilization. Perhaps this is why long held beliefs associated with these spiritual practices have catalyzed so much spiteful tension and hate over the past few years. A compelling case could even be made for a well orchestrated and sinister effort to transvalue American history and destroy America’s economy, and along with it Western Civilization, all in furtherance of a tyrannical global governance.

Lord, make haste to help us.

Returning to Aristotle’s agent intellect as a metaphor for God.

Rational Spirituality equates the agent intellect with Max Planck’s transcendent Intelligent Mind - “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force…We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and Intelligent Mind..”⁶ At Rational Spirituality we envisage Intelligent or Divine Mind as the superconscious nexus of all universal informational fields - the supreme photonic memory, if you will, which is one and the same with God the Father, a construct we argued in our Trinitarian Theory of Consciousness.

Not to wade too far offshore, but in the same article we equated superconsciousness with God the Son. Most are able to realize this supremely acute state of awareness we call superconsciousness. Jesus said so.

Communing with Intelligent Mind, which we also could term invoking Divine Illumination, is best demystified by our direct access to all universal fields, such as Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field or Jung’s collective unconscious. We engage or commune with these fields via prayer, contemplation and meditation or simply by letting go of our need for inspiration. This is the rhizome of reality, emanating from pure cognizant information.⁷ We truly live in a participatory (not a mechanical) universe!

Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives God [Divine Mind] and the Universe permission to send us what we’re meant to have.

Letting go means we acknowledge that hanging on so tightly isn’t helping to solve the problem, change the person, or get the outcome we desire. It isn’t helping us. In fact, we learn that hanging on often blocks us from getting what we want and need.⁸

The act of letting go is not surrender to fate. Not at all! If we accept we have free will, as we do, then there can be no such thing as fate. Destiny, on the other hand, is a different story. We actively participate in achieving individual destiny. We make daily choices; some of these choices flow in destiny’s direction, some don’t.

The choices we make also may influence our genes:

The theory of morphogenesis supposes that something imposes a pattern of organization on a field – producing specific outcomes in matter. These fields are not fixed; they evolve. This is part of the reason you can see a child that doesn’t have cancer in her genes develop cancer when she is exposed to a ‘field’ which consistently creates the disease. It is also why some people with cancer-causing genes don’t get cancer at all. [Rupert] Sheldrake thinks these messages in the morphogenetic field are passed down through ‘non-local’ resonance, which ancients called consciousness.⁹

In conclusion, and regardless of how you define Divine Mind, we humbly suggest you commune with it often. How you do so makes no difference at all. Maintain a loving, peaceful environment that will engender high-vibration positive energy. Always keep an open mind - scientific or religious dogmatism, media propaganda and tribal rigidities bottleneck critical thinking and present formidable obstacles to realizing superconsciousness.

Caitlin Johnstone wrote a very informative Substack piece titled, “Why Propaganda Works.” She explains why critical thinking can be so difficult. Access it here.

1. Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica.

2. Why Physicists Don’t Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics. (Article)

3. Tart, Charles. The End of Materialism (2009)

4. Gleiser, Marcelo. The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning (2014)

5. Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields. (article)

6. Matrix of all matter. (article)

7. Glattfelder, James. Information—Consciousness—Reality: How a New Understanding of the Universe Can Help Answer Age-Old Questions of Existence

8. Beattie, Melody. The Language of Letting Go (1990)

9. Beyond Deterministic Genes: The Morphogenetic Field. (article)