In the news today, a group of German Catholics want to do away with Santa Claus because of the fictional figure’s commercial hype and replace him with St. Nicolas and the selfless giving they say he represents. I’m going to now tell them how to make this happen, starting with a story my now deceased missionary cousin told me about when he was in what was the Belgium Congo, now Katanga. My cousin’s mission, to bring Christianity to primitive villages in the Congo, the only means of penetration of the jungle, rivers, my cousin, on a return visit to a jungle village, came upon a problem. The elders told him of an old woman in the village who refused to accept Christianity. She believed God lived in a tree near her hut. The elders cut down the old woman’s tree. Instead of becoming a Christian, she died of a broken heart.
I asked my cousin about the moral of his story. He told me that was for me to decide. After considerable thought, not that Christianity is not for anyone, I decided that Christianity was not for me. I’m a deep thinker. I look within for my answers. I’m inclined to think my cousin thought he was serving Jesus and his simple message: we are all God’s children, including the old woman who thought God lived in her tree.
The church is stained glass windows, beautiful music, all the trappings, dogmas, and doctrines, not selfless giving, not the inner self. “I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life,” please follow me in my reasoning. Light travels in waves. When observed in the physics lab, wave collapses and becomes photon, a particle. Said photons, tiny packets of energy, are processed in our brains. We see a tree, there by natural law. Not so with our minds. A thought is shapeless, yet becomes manifestation. Man’s creations are by Higher Law, which happens to be the background of American constitutional law.
Once away from the Higher Law, out of fear, it is do unto others before they do unto you, reminding me that in Psalm 23, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. . .”
I found the sea to be comparable to the valley of the shadow of death. While in a violent storm at sea, I felt that God’s hand was on my wheel; that I was saved for a purpose. At sea on a small boat, when everything could have gone wrong—when I was asking for a disaster, you might say—everything started going right. I’ve always given a lot of thought to my life. Being a pioneer, out of the mainstream of thought, in order to learn who I really was, a leap into the unknown, was it the luck of the draw that my sea adventure ended well?
From what Jesus taught, I believe luck favors the prepared mind. The cutting edge of science backs me. “The observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation,” writes quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker in The Physics of Consciousness. “The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence.”
Religion, the law, and science are all out of the same mold. What is this President Obama tells us? Is our Constitution flawed, our liberties negative? The man is living in La La Land.
The microcosmic cannot be separated from the macrocosmic. When we take the clockworks universe apart, we find, says Walker, that “we can understand mind as including conscious experience and will. We can see how these fit into the physical processes of the brain that are involved in thinking. . .”
Were our thinking straight, there would be no question about it. St. Nicolas is preferable to Santa Claus. The Higher Law, which is behind life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, says that our highest purpose in life is to become selfless.
When we look within for our answers, I can tell you from experience, we don’t need the makers and keepers of our laws or God’s laws guiding us. God put each of us here for a special purpose, of which we are each capable of knowing. Think on this: If we’d been put here for authority’s purpose, with hive mentality, then God would not have said in Gen. 1:26, “Let us make man in our image.”
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