Since it is the advent of Christmas, the birth of Jesus, Christ, the first Incarnation of God, I want to share with you what I see as the coming second Incarnation of God. You know the first story: Mary gave birth while still a virgin. Her parents were known to be “without sin” in that they knew no separation from God. Mary also knew no separation from God. The child was born knowing no separation from God: the Christ Child.
Jesus remained not separated from God and taught and demonstrated how all people can become like Him—not separated from God. He called that goal the Kingdom of Heaven. The church has taught us to clean up our acts and to do good works to encourage and grow the presence of God within us.
But there is another way.
Before creation, God was all there is. In the analogy of God as a knitted doll, when God decided He wanted to manifest, He unraveled part of Himself and re-knitted the material into creation. Looked at in this way, we are not separated from God at all. We are made of the stuff of God. We just need to recognize that— to see it.
“To see it.” To see the reality of something often requires an adjustment of focus.
Something I read yesterday adjusted my focus. In a community newsletter, Dow Harris was sharing his awareness that the new technology of minting assets such as artwork and other intellectual property to a blockchain was “a structured way of verifying reality.” When an image, for example, is minted to be a non-fungible token (NFT), it represents something tangible, the existence of which is promised and verified by the blockchain.
For example, Dow has taken an image of a painting of mine and created a blockchain that declares 1) the real existence of my painting, 2) when it was ‘created,’ and 3) it is my intellectual property. This is a huge advancement in the protection of intellectual property. But Dow also sees an even greater significance of this technology:
“NFTs are not just images minted to a blockchain. They are a window into a completely different type of shop or economy altogether. Everything will have an NFT aspect one day, a structured way of verifying reality through the power of decentralized blockchains.” Dow Harris, CommLink #42
A blockchain is a ‘proof of existence.’ The beauty and power of this new technology lie in that blockchains are not kept in just one place. If they were kept in one place, they would be at risk of communication failures, power outages, and threats from terrorists foreign and domestic. Like the Library of Congress and the National Archives, they would need the financial support of a National Treasury and the protection of a large maintained military. Instead, blockchains are reproduced as a whole and kept in sync wherever blockchains are stored. For example, I installed all of the Ravencoin NFT blockchains onto my own computer. Dow has all of them on his computer. Every instance is complete and kept in sync.
The big deal of quantum physics is that all possibilities are out there. The one that gets observed or measured is the one that materializes.
Back to the knitted doll having created us out of his skirt. Since we are already made up of God, why do we not act like it? Why do we not live like it? In quantum physics lingo, God is still in wave form until we observe or measure ourselves that way, and then God materializes. When you change your view of yourself by observing and measuring God in yourself through your thoughts, feelings, and actions, you change from a possible manifestation of God to a materialized manifestation of God—then the issue just becomes one of staying in sync.
A blockchain is a ‘proof of existence.’
The beauty and power lie in that blockchains are not in just one place.
Jesus was born a centralized manifestation of God: the first coming of Christ. Again, a centralized anything is problematic, particularly when there are communication failures, power outages, and threats from terrorists foreign and domestic. The second coming of Christ avoids all that through decentralization. The second birth of Christ is the ‘decentralized’ manifestation of God through those of us who observe and measure the existence of God in ourselves and remember to stay in sync.
We are individual instances of God. You might say the image we present to the world is our NFT. We have the potential of being “a window into a completely different type of shop or economy altogether.” We can each be a window into the Kingdom of Heaven and into a world where we act and live like we know no separation from God.
God bless us, everyone.
Merry Christmas, Y’all.