The Sacred Depths of Nature

Brian McDonald

Recently I was reading a section in the Book, The Sacred Depths of Nature. In this book I read a section discussing ideas about creation, and about the universe itself. The passage talks about all the crazy new concepts that researchers have about even our own world. One such mind boggling concept states that sub-atomic particles may in fact be minute, vibrating super strings of space. Perhaps the most interesting suggests that our four dimensional world may actually in fact be ten dimensional, and we simply can’t visualize the other dimensions yet.

This book had some quite interesting ideas and concepts that were completely new. The fact that some physicists think there could be 10 dimensions is absolutely mind boggling. Now how exactly do these things relate to sacred place? Well in previous readings there was a common theme speaking of an alternate world that exists that our mind can not comprehend; a world that parallels our own, and holds great religious power and teaching. Perhaps the religious experience that one has is a brief moment of clarity where we rise above to these other dimensions. It is very hard to comprehend many of the ideas suggested in this book, similarly how the event of religious experience is so complex. Our understanding and knowledge compared to what is possible is minute.

(The Sacred Depths of Nature; Ursula Goodenough)