Today I’ve been mulling over creation and how the world we live in continues to exist. A fellow Examiner columnist had written an article about how scientists believe the world could be a holographic image. In other words, they believe we live in a gigantic image created by a laser. So, I wrote a column on a similar topic: the Kabbalistic perspective on God sustaining the world through continuous thought. (You can read that column here.)
Here’s the gist of what the Kabbalists believe about creation:
Kabbalists describe creation as a thought in the mind of God. If God removed Its attention from that thought, all of creation would disappear. If God were to focus for even one moment on a new thought, the universe as we know it — and us, too — would disappear. The world in which we exist would collapse, folding into the Source of Creation.
From this perspective God’s thought could be seen as the laser that creates the hologram of the world in which we live.
That, however, got me to wondering if our thoughts of God continuously sustain the Source of all Creation? I know that God existed before the world. In fact, initially the Source of Creation was all that existed and made space for something else to exist within All that Was/Is. So, we must assume that God exists no matter what.
Yet, without us thinking about God, without us focusing our thoughts–our laser beams (energy)–on God, what happens to God? Does God cease to exist?
Like a hologram that appears real but isn’t, when we stop thinking about God, God does seem to disappear from our lives. When we turn off the laser (our thoughts of God), the image disappears. Poof. Gone. However, God’s presence does not disappear. God continues to exist, but we can only see God when we focus our thoughts upon God. Only when we turn the laser on does God become apparent, it reveals God all around us in the world.
