Love the title! Most see god as an energetic non physical manifestation. But I’m one of those non dualists who thinks we can’t separate energy from matter or science and religion. I can believe we are cells of gods body or some microscopic microbiome. Looking forward to the read.
We seem to be into similar topics, because you keep showing up in my feed! I grew up within a Protestant framework, attended a private Christian university (and minored in religion) and was pretty active in the church, even serving as an elder in a liberal Presbyterian church at one point. I also deconstructed, developed a tarot practice, and long-story-short am now on a Christian Hermetic path (which combines the exoteric and esoteric). I've been attending a local Catholic church for the past year-and-a-half and recently started a substack to share my own perspective.
I had to google the word "zygote" yesterday (don't ask! Haha!) - I read the description and the word "eucaryotic" kept playing in my head over and over. A eucaryotic cell is the first "original cell" of the new life form - the first cell combining both sets of DNA. I wondered about the origin of this word, and my mind went straight to The Eucharist. When I combined these two events in my mind, really let it play in my soul for a while, I uncovered a beautiful little mystery there. The Eucharist could perhaps act as an act of conception towards the human group spirit, as shown through the mystery of Golgotha.
I'm not sure if that makes sense or not to anyone except me. I'll think about it some more and if I can find a better way of saying it, I will, somewhere or other!
Oh, I like this. The first eukaryotic cell evolved when one kind of single celled organism, Archaea, swallowed another kind, Bacteria, and two became one. So it was literally a kind of communion. I wrote about it at the beginning of this essay: https://rebekahberndt.substack.com/p/covid-positive-or
Ah! Hahaha I had no idea you'd already written about something similar! (New follower, not up to date...) but it's so fascinating that this stuff is in the field. It feels like something very old, yet very new, is showing itself incrementally to more and more people. Utterly beautiful. I'll read your other article now, thank you for the link! :)
Love the title! Most see god as an energetic non physical manifestation. But I’m one of those non dualists who thinks we can’t separate energy from matter or science and religion. I can believe we are cells of gods body or some microscopic microbiome. Looking forward to the read.
We seem to be into similar topics, because you keep showing up in my feed! I grew up within a Protestant framework, attended a private Christian university (and minored in religion) and was pretty active in the church, even serving as an elder in a liberal Presbyterian church at one point. I also deconstructed, developed a tarot practice, and long-story-short am now on a Christian Hermetic path (which combines the exoteric and esoteric). I've been attending a local Catholic church for the past year-and-a-half and recently started a substack to share my own perspective.
Yes, very similar paths!
I had to google the word "zygote" yesterday (don't ask! Haha!) - I read the description and the word "eucaryotic" kept playing in my head over and over. A eucaryotic cell is the first "original cell" of the new life form - the first cell combining both sets of DNA. I wondered about the origin of this word, and my mind went straight to The Eucharist. When I combined these two events in my mind, really let it play in my soul for a while, I uncovered a beautiful little mystery there. The Eucharist could perhaps act as an act of conception towards the human group spirit, as shown through the mystery of Golgotha.
I'm not sure if that makes sense or not to anyone except me. I'll think about it some more and if I can find a better way of saying it, I will, somewhere or other!
Oh, I like this. The first eukaryotic cell evolved when one kind of single celled organism, Archaea, swallowed another kind, Bacteria, and two became one. So it was literally a kind of communion. I wrote about it at the beginning of this essay: https://rebekahberndt.substack.com/p/covid-positive-or
Ah! Hahaha I had no idea you'd already written about something similar! (New follower, not up to date...) but it's so fascinating that this stuff is in the field. It feels like something very old, yet very new, is showing itself incrementally to more and more people. Utterly beautiful. I'll read your other article now, thank you for the link! :)