Saturday, August 09, 2008
The God Particle (poem)
The God Particle
If there's one truly extraordinary concept to emerge from the past century of inquiry, it's that the cosmos we see was once smaller than an atom. . . . Our existence, our entire universe, emerged from things that happened at the smallest imaginable scale. The big bang theory tells us that the known universe once had no dimensions at all--no up or down, no left or right, no passage of time, and laws of physics beyond our vision....Physicists have high hopes for Europe's giant new atom smasher-they want nothing less than to discover the god particle.
(National Geographic)
Tantric Shaivism would have us understand that the vibratory energies that comprise our physical reality are themselves condensations of ultimate consciousness: "the spanda is....the divine pulsation of consciousness, the ecstatic throb that stirs the stillness of the absolute." (Paul E. Muller-Ortega)
They call it the god particle.
No one has ever seen it,
but they say it is what
holds everything together,
the glue of the universe.
This all pervasive
binder of creation
can’t be located
though they keep searching
with their colliders
and fine instruments,
night after night,
through the long hours,
the many years.
Some claim they have detected
traces,
but the claim is
circumstantial,
anecdotal evidence unconfirmed
by independent observation.
Maybe they are searching
in the wrong places, all this
insistent scanning of the
infinitely small
to explain
the infinitely huge.
How did this world
of things
emerge from the dark bead of nothing?
Have they not heard
of the original trembling,
the first heaving
of primal rapture?
Dorothy Walters
August 6, 2008
(Note: Early texts of Kashmiri Shaivism explain that the world of matter derives from supreme consciousness, which first vibrates at an infinitely high rate, then slows into progressively slower and thicker vibrations, out of which tangible, perceptible forms emerge. This "primordial and unimpeded light of consciousness...is totally free and pellucid, ever expanding into waves of completely new bliss." See "The Yoga of Vibration and Divine Pulsation," Jaideva Singh, foreword by Paul E. Muller-Ortega)
(Note: Early texts of Kashmiri Shaivism explain that the world of matter derives from supreme consciousness, which first vibrates at an infinitely high rate, then slows into progressively slower and thicker vibrations, out of which tangible, perceptible forms emerge. This "primordial and unimpeded light of consciousness...is totally free and pellucid, ever expanding into waves of completely new bliss." See "The Yoga of Vibration and Divine Pulsation," Jaideva Singh, foreword by Paul E. Muller-Ortega)
(Image from National Geographic)
