You're half a world away, standing next to me
It seems that every day, I'm losing you almost invisibly
Though you are near, I can't reach that far
Across to where you are and so you stay
Just half a world away
And I would cross the universe for you
What good would it do if you weren't even there?
Till you return and until your way is clear
I will be here, not half a world away
Virtual Reality is back, over 20 years later, based on smart phones and mobile devices with many times the power of the original goggles and gloves, which suffered from lag-time and crude pictures.
Perhaps you have tried one lately, much as if you walked into a movie screen and found yourself immersed in another world. These new devices can be very convincing!
Is this by accident, now that our Mother Earth seems imperiled by climate change and a thousand other woes? Could it be that the number of worlds is truly infinite, and the old Newtonian world of billiard balls is now totally obsolete?
Many Worlds Beyond
In an era of space-based telescopes, such as the Hubble, we are discovering a much vaster universe than we ever imagined.
The nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would require several light years to reach, traveling at 186,000 miles per second. Even reaching Pluto, one of the furthest out planets of our solar system, required us several years with a very fast spaceship.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains hundreds of billions of such stars. Each of these stars may have planets, a few of which may contain some form of life. The distance between galaxies may be measured in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of light years. The known universe is flying further apart every year.
Just think of it!
Many stars that you see on a clear night may have actually burned out thousands, or even millions of years ago, and we, in our lifetimes, may never find out. New stars are forming, and others are burning out or blowing up all the time. Is there truly a farthest star? We can’t say for sure at this time.
Many Worlds Within
If we look within our bodies, we discover that we are composed of billions, even trillions, of cells, many of which are dying, and others which are being replaced.
We now know that each cell in our bodies has intelligence built into it, composed of many different parts, including the human genome.
We may be shocked to find out that we have more bacteria in our gut than separate cells in our body. Medical researchers have discovered that we couldn’t even live without the benign bacteria, which help us in the vital digestion process.
We know that these cells are composed of molecules, which are composed of atoms, which are composed of subatomic particles, the smallest of which we have yet to determine.
We are now at a point of supposing that they may all be vibrating strands or membranes of pure energy.
Are we a dance of creation?
A New Physics of Possibility
Quantum theory, the basis of the entire high-tech industry, has overturned all previous paradigms, although Newtonian physics still works at the eye-level. Even Newton fails us at the interstellar level, as Einstein showed us how space is curved. It would seem that each layer of visible “reality” has its own laws.
At the subatomic, quantum level, particles pop in and out of existence. They can go back into the past, and possibly touch the future. We are never quite sure if they really are particles, but rather waves, waves of probability.
Quantum physics has produced phenomenally accurate predictions in the high-energy physics laboratory. So, we are not talking about the ravings of a lunatic physicist, but hard science.
In attempting to interpret the strange phenomena at the subatomic particle level, Hugh Everett III invented the Many Worlds Interpretation.
Dr. Everett postulated that every single movement is a fresh state, a new frame of reality, much like the frames of a film, or the fields of a video display. They flash so fast that our brains can’t process them. We interpret it all as movement.
A Whole New World with the Snap of a Finger
It will be no surprise to many that the ancient Indian Vedic culture anticipated infinite worlds, even infinite universes, all residing within the imagination of Vishnu, or God. This strand of thought went on to develop the theory of the Spanda, that the heart, and the universe, itself, vibrates in pulses thousands or millions of times per second.
The Hindu idea that all is vibration accords with the Biblical notion that God literally spoke the world into existence. In Vedic culture, sound, Vak, is vibration. This sound produces the entire apparent world.
In other words, God imagined us into being, and sustains our being in His imagination. In reality, Who and What we call God is our only true Self.
As Swami Yogananda declared, the human attribute most like God is our imagination.
We create with imagination, as may be witnessed by every work of art and every industrial or high-tech device on the market.
Even though it appears “out there,” it all started “in here” (within). To create a new world, all we have to do is engage in imagination, with words, with images, with sound. We can each create and star in our own movies, as we do from evening to evening in our other life of dreams.
We may yet find that our waking life is just another prolonged, intermittent dream.
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Multiple Worlds and You
You are never alone. How then do we touch the one we love half a world away?
Great physicists, such as Dr. Fritjof Capra, who gave us The Tao of Physics, inform us that interrelationship is at the heart of reality, much like the obscure Christian doctrine of the Trinity, everything is a matter of relationship, a continual flow, a divine dance.
Just as there must be billions, if not trillions of planets outside our solar system, some of which may sustain life, we can be assured that there is always someone to love.
You are already related to everyone and everything in the universe by virtue of your occupying the position you do. The world could never be the same without you.
We can enter a whole new world with our power to love another, even if she seems “half a world away.” If she is a goddess in our eyes, then she, indeed, is a goddess, and may love us back.
All you need do is open your heart. Love at the snap of the finger.
You are within her, and she is within you. Through love alone, you discover that you are never really alone. In this way, we can see that our entire history is one giant love story.
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