About Mike Morrell
Michael Morrell is the collaborating author, with Fr. Richard Rohr, on
The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation. He's also the founder of Wisdom Camp, a day-retreat for mystical misfits, and a founding organizer of the justice, arts, and spirituality Wild Goose Festival.
Michael curates contemplative and community experiences, taking joy in holding space for the extraordinary transformation that can
take place at the intersection of anticipation, imagination, and radical
acceptance.
Michael is also an avid writer, publishing consultant, author coach, futurist, and curator of the book-reviewing community,
Speakeasy. His two children are growing up entirely too fast and he lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
As far as I can tell, they’re like a combination of community organizer, gravity enhancer, and social butterfly. In a nutshell, God particles are part Obama, part Bono, and part Marilyn Monroe.
Is there nothing religion will not claim?
Kevin, as I understand it, it wasn’t “religion” that claimed that phrase, but rather, the marketing people who worked with the scientists who first theorized them.
Hello Roger. Yes. Marketing people, media people and a ton of hype to confuse and confound the rest of us into believing…whatever.
My preferred source for a layman’s take on this stuff is Michio Kaku. According to him the search for the Higgs boson is about efforts to finalize the standard model. He says the standard model only accounts for 4% of the matter and energy in the universe and that it doesn’t consider gravity.
Because it speaks with only one voice – authority – when religion speaks people listen. So I wish religion would stick to its knitting. It looks pretentious when it speaks about big things that don’t relate.
Love the levity, Mike:) How’s this gravity for a science-religion BOTH-AND… I call it rational faith:
(42:1.2) Matter—energy…are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality, as a universe phenomenon is inherent in the Universal Father. “In him all things consist.” Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy and to exhibit self-contained powers, but the lines of gravity involved in the energies concerned in all these physical phenomena are derived from, and are dependent on, Paradise. The ultimaton, the first measurable form of energy, has Paradise as its nucleus.
— The Urantia Book
Physics comics to the rescue!
http://www.phdcomics.com/higgs
Cool, Roger.
End point…who’s your DATA ?!?!!!!
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You’re not on any contact lists, I promise; if you don’t respond, that’s it, and the invitation is open as long as you’re actively blogging. Hope you join us!