We should maintain that if an interpretation of any word in any religion leads to disharmony and does not positively further the welfare of the many, then such an interpretation is to be regarded as wrong; that is, against the will of God, or as the working of Satan or Mara.

Buddhadasa Bikkhu, a Thai Buddhist Monk


Saturday, June 11, 2011

A Force Field Around the Solar System?

New View of the Edge
It seems that nearly every day science is discovering something new that changes the way we look at our world and universe.  Now, comes word from NASA that its two Voyager probes, launched in 1977, have discovered "foamy magnetic bubbles" at the edge of the solar system that may act as shields for some kinds of rays.  It isn't clear yet, but maybe these huge bubbles, measuring 100 million miles across, are something like a science-fictiony force field.  Cool!  According to the NASA news release, "A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar system," these bubbles are a surprise.  Scientific theories going back decades didn't predict them.  That is cool, too.

Maybe, some day scientists will begin to catch on that there really is something supremely intentional and pre-planned going on here and that the unified field theory they hunger after will take them into realms of the Spirit their blinders today just won't see.  Meanwhile, it's a whole lot more exciting to look at the universe with both eyes—the eye of science and the eye of faith.