You Can Remember Love
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Chapter 15: LIGHT OF HEAVEN AND LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Modern physicists have different ways of referring to and interpreting light. For many scientists, light usually means electromagnetic waves, not just what we call visible light. Light sometimes also means nonlocal linkage. For more mystically inclined physicists, light may refer also to the mental realm and the spaceless realm of the beyond.
Physicist Thomas Young in the nineteenth century started to see light as composed of waves and particles. In 1988, Stephen W. Hawking, in A Brief History of Time, states, "the theory of quantum mechanics is now based on an entirely new type of math that no longer describes the real world in terms of particles and waves. It is only the observations of the world that may be described in those terms." Hawking also writes that there is a duality between waves and particles. Sometimes, it is necessary to think of particles as waves; other times, it is the opposite.
In this book, unless stated otherwise, I use the term light as a symbol to represent the visible and the invisible light that physicists work with, and also whatever aspects of light are still undiscovered. Many of us understand that the light of the world is not the Light of Heaven. The light of the world is a symbol that is warped and distorted. As long as we keep thinking that light is outside ourselves, we continue to dig holes in illusions. We'll seek, but we'll not find.
As some scientists explore various possibilities, however, the closer they are to symbolizing the truth, although they may not realize or admit it. One of the most interesting examples was proposed in the 1980s by physicist Bohm as described in Dialogues with Scientists and Sages. Bohm refers to "an ocean of light" which is or has the potential for everything. He adds that this ocean is also energy and information. "It acts like a radar wave which is greeting the ship on automatic pilot," says Bohm. He also adds that "light can carry information about the entire universe."
This gives rise to other questions. How is information handled by waves of light, which are potentially active anywhere. How is information decoded by the light that produces particles. Since all matter is composed of particles, Bohm notes, matter "is a ripple on this vast ocean of light."
I find Bohm s ocean of light to be a fitting metaphor for the Light that is beyond space and time, to which different names have been assigned Ultimate Reality, Our Source, Higher Self, Christ, Holy Spirit, God, and so forth. Indeed, we can say that all events we observe on earth, including our relationships, are symbols that help us remember who we really are, which is beyond particles, beyond the visible light, and certainly beyond words, as we ll read in the following chapters.
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Inspired by Plato, Albert Einstein, A Course in Miracles, and others, Odete Martins Bigote presents complex metaphysical matters in a practical, informative manner. We can grasp the concepts she discusses and put them to use in improving our lives. Reflecting her genuine concern for humanity, Ms. Bigote regards everyone she meets as a fellow pilgrim and uses real-life episodes to describe a path of forgiveness. She also reveals a new and liberating approach to the problem of evil. This remarkable book will touch your heart and remain forever in your memory. Dear Friends: You Can Remember Love came into existence as a consequence of many years of inner searching. Questions such as: where do my thoughts come from, where are they goingand why am I here, paraded often in my mind. I started to study spiritual disciplines and to teach and give lectures. It all led to the writing of the book. I hope You Can Remember Love will help you in your ordeals as much as it has helped me, and even more. The book may fit into the category of self-help philosophy, psychology, metaphysical, motivational, spiritual growth, mind body and spirit, etc..., yet, it is a book for everyone who is curious about life and healing, and that is beyond any category. You Can Remember Love will help you discover how to: You Can Remember Love is filled with practical spiritual nuggets that help bring Light into any darkness. --Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. Ms. Bigote's book approaches the often male-dominated view of science with the touch of a soft feminine loving hand. This book warmly brings love to a cold universe and helps many who have lost their way because of a too restricted view of the loving miracle they are. --Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. You Can Remember Love makes the most brilliant use of the metaphorical possibilities of modern physics to date. Nature as an allegory of the spirit is an ancient theme which, over the past decades has been taken up by many modern writers on the spiritual implications of science. From the earliest times, philosophers and poets have perceived visible nature as a complex dance of symbols revealing the play of a deeper spiritual reality beneath. Ms. Bigote brings this ancient tradition to life once again and teaches us to interpret the paradoxes of quantum theory as the modern allegory of love and spiritual light. --Curtis Brooks, Ph.D. Odete speaks freely and easily about our apparent "paradox" of separation from God and being one with God, at the same time. While she mixes Science and Spirituality, we can see how our world really is not what we believe it to be. Odete has a wonderful way of giving us hard proven, scientific evidence that takes us to the edge of understanding. Then she softens it, with intimate, personal experiences of her life and relationships, that bring the idea of ultimate love and self-forgiveness. The meditation and affirmations are very powerful in recognizing our own fears, and allowing them to go back to the Source for completion. You Can Remember Love is a book that every "logical" minded person, who is searching for truth must read. --Rev. Melissa Leath Odete M. Bigote has written a spiritual guidebook for the 21st century. Drawing from her own experiences, and from spiritual texts from ancient times down to the present, she has set forth in a series of short, clearly written chapters, steps that will lead the grateful reader to self-awareness and peace of mind and heart. Ms. Bigote's book is free of the cant and jargon that often characterize spiritual self-help books. It is also a marvel of compassion. You Can Remember Love is a gift of illumination to anyone seeking a way out of the agony of self-doubt, envy, bitterness and the grief of a failed relationship. --Peter Rand, Odete Bigote's You Can Remember Love is a philosphical and also practical book about healing and self-discovery through re-discovering our unity with God and realizing that our seeming separation is only an illusion. Writing in a clear, accessible style expressing her lively, friendly personality bubbling over with love, good will, and joie de vivre, Odete combines science and religion, physics and theology, to show that we are part of the Light and never even really left the Light, though we erroneously believe we did. Using both metaphysics and the New Physics to demonstrate our oneness with our Source, she quotes from the Bible, the Upanishads, the Buddha, Plato, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Fred Alan Wolf, David Bohm, and A Course in Miracles. She uses modern science to show that while things and people seem to be separated in space, time, and our ordinary everyday consciousness from each other and from God, they are fundamentally united and will ultimately rejoin their Source. She describes her workshops where she has translated those concepts into practical reality, showing how she and others have successfully used the ideas of You Can Remember Love in everyday life. --Dr. T. Peter Park
--Transform yourself from catepillar to butterfly
--Recognize that your mind is a powerful hologram
--Transcend your problems and be guided to see the battle from above
--Remember love through a process of forgiveness
--Understand life is a dream of awakening
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