It’s hard to stop drinking or smoking or taking other kinds of narcotics. It’s hard to stay away from drugs like serotonin that we produce in our minds when gambling or buying and selling or involved in dangerous activities.
It is far harder to break mental habits with which we’ve grown comfortable. Most of us are comfortable with the long time spans we hear so much about. We think it’s a sign of education and intelligence to nod wisely and say, “The earth is twenty billion years old.”
That fact fits like an old shoe. Giving it up is like knocking down the keystone of an arch, a lot of other comfortable facts fall down along with it. We find that part of our mind which has been carefully decorated with the latest geegaws is suddenly empty. “Too radical!” we say to ourselves, and retreat into the comfortable world of endless timelines.
Saying to oneself “God has the ability to program three dimensional particles.” is a first step toward freedom from convention. Once we see that He, or His angelic sub-programmers, could easily program and arrange enough particles for all creation in a week, fundamentalism begins to make more sense than anything else.
Under the “books” section of this web site, there’s a free download of “New Road to Rome”. It’s a book in three parts, the creation of space and what’s in it, another on time, and another on human history. It’s all in a couple of hundred pages. Consider taking a look. It’s free, but, if you’re comfortable with all that time on your hands, you may have a hard time with it.
