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Why words govern everything
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light”
Genesis 1:3
In my latest two articles I have described how everything is energy and why it is important to understand energy in order to create with energy, you can find them here Beyond Manifesting and here The Energy You Want To Become. On a similar topic, I thought it would be good to make short stop in the magical world of words.
In my understanding of how the universe works and how it must have been created I think that words are central. It’s not just the Bible that may give us these clues into how the world around us was created by words, the ancient Greeks had the concept of Logos – a rational principle that orders the universe. As I mentioned in The Energy You Want To Become, the universe is in constant change, as energy is always moving. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus had made similar observations, he believed that the universe was in constant change, however, not in chaos. Instead, he saw the changing universe as governed by an underlying rational principle, Logos – the hidden law of reality, cosmic logic if you like.
As the universe is based on some cosmic logic, this means that there is an underlying intention – and reasonably, a language of some sort. This idea was later adopted also by Christian scholars:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Gospel of John 1:1
However, this is not a concept of just Judeo-Christian tradition. In Islam, God creates through commands – “be , and it is“. In Hindu philosophy you obviously have the concept of Om, the primordial vibration of the universe. Buddhism prescribes that all phenomena arise dependent on causes and conditions, which basically means that reality behaves like a dynamic relational system where everything that exist also has an impact on other things and so on. To the contrary, if something doesn’t exist – it may not have an impact on anything else.
In a modern context John Archibald Wheeler coined the term “it from bit”, basically meaning that every physical object arises from information and that fundamentally, reality consists of information events, like an information processing system. The universe is code, you find it in physics, our DNA and everything around us.
The key thing here is that information must come before matter. The same way as the Greeks would say that reason must come before creation of the universe, and Buddhists would say that for something to exist it must depend on something.
When you think about it – well – it makes no sense that it could ever be the other way around. I mean, think of it – what if there were just matter, why would matter just create something like the universe? The only rational explanation behind the universe is that it is intentional. Designed.
Isn’t it fun proving that God exists on a Friday!?
Let’s take this up a notch! If we agree that the universe couldn’t be created from nothing, and that the universe given its properties – must be created from information – where does this put you?
You – as well as all matter – are based on information. You have been given the ability to experience the world around you and to understand it.
But it’s more – you are not just based on information – you have the ability to contain information. You can learn skills, you remember things. You carry information that can be transformed into something new, into matter. You can create.
“God created man in his own image”
Genesis 1:27
The Creator created you to create. So, if I were you, I would definitely go out and create something this weekend.
I wish you all the best in your creative endeavours!
Thanks Sebastian!!!