Source: “Quantum Theology, Spiritual Implications of the New Physics”, By Diarmuid O’Murchu, Crossroads Books, Revised Edition, 2012.
This topic explores a cosmocentric shift in human consciousness, moving away from rigid historical facts and toward the transformative power of myth. By comparing the theological concepts of resurrection and reincarnation with the scientific principle of autopoiesis, the author suggests that both fields are actually describing the same inherent will-to-life and capacity for self-renewal within the universe. These narratives are not meant to be frozen into dogma, but rather serve as essential tools to help humanity embrace its infinite destiny and the interconnectedness of all existence. Ultimately, the work functions as an invitation to move beyond a mechanistic worldview and learn to feel at home within a living, eternal cosmos characterized by open-ended possibility.
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For centuries, we have huddled within the small, comfortable room of an anthropocentric worldview, convinced that the human drama was the only play on the cosmic stage. Yet today, we are witnessing a quiet revolution where the cold, mechanistic gears of a clockwork universe are being replaced by the vibrant pulse of a cosmocentric unfolding. As our old certainties dissolve, we find ourselves standing on the threshold of a vast, invisible landscape, realizing that our species is—in the evocative words of Brian Swimme—just "learning how to survive in infinity."
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the push for "demythologization" sought to strip sacred texts of their poetic resonance in a desperate hunt for historical data. This movement assumed that once we found the "pure facts" of a story, we would finally possess the truth. However, we have discovered that the more we focus on the rigid logic of a narrative, the more its essential meaning evaporates; historical fact, in its sterile precision, often distracts us from the transformative challenge of the mystery itself.