Whilst drifting in and out of slumber this morning I caught a snippet of “Thought for the Day” on the Today programme. It was being delivered by a dog-collared (ok I couldn’t see her, but as she was a vicar it was a reasonable assumption) lady who was explaining that this is Ascension Day, the moment, forty days after Christ’s Resurrection, when God made Man decided it was time to abandon this miserable planet and return to his throne in Heaven.
Coincidentally, only yesterday I was reading about space exploration and how there are hundreds of billions of stars and planets in our galaxy, which is only one of hundreds, or thousands or possibly billions more. What chance then that we are the only intelligent life? Zero, nil, zilch, none. All this made me curious as to where God lives. Obviously he went up, or they wouldn’t have called it Ascension Day. But with a constantly rotating earth, up would be forever changing. So to track and trace his route to Heaven, we need to know the exact moment he took off and where Jerusalem was pointing at that moment. Assuming we could decipher that second in time, we could presumably plot a track into the stratosphere that would eventually lead to Heaven. It’s a pretty big patch though and it’s interesting to ponder who was in charge of the whole kaboosh while he was ministering to the Jews? It’s fair to assume that he must have a large general staff (of angels?) who are authorised to take care of day to day matters; or could it all be complete baloney?
I have gained great physical and mental benefit from a mystical lady in Bath who draws on the power of the Universe to weave her magic. It’s called Network Spinal Analysis and is beyond my ability to explain how it works but suffice to say that it does. Like so many others, her business has been floundering under the imprisonment of lockdown, but she has found a way to keep going while more than maintaining her social distance. She describes herself as a “Vortex Healer” and with your permission, at a given time she will “treat” you as if you were in her clinic. I tried it for the first time a couple of days ago and it was extraordinary. I just lay on my bed, doing the required deep breathing and at the allotted time she opened the vortex and my body started reacting in the way it normally does with her. In essence it’s all designed to get the body to heal itself, using self-manipulation. It sounds crazy but it really does work.
In my mind there is no doubt there is a “power” out there in the Universe and it’s something you can definitely tap into with the right help and guidance. Should we call it God, in the Christian sense? I am very doubtful, personally. I’m beginning to think that perhaps all religions in their different ways, are merely manifestations of this greater power. Despite all our Google/Amazonian power there is still SO much we don’t know or understand.
So, time to continue the search for Heaven. I think I’ve got the track plotted, now it’s just a question of knowing how far I have to travel into the final frontier; to boldly go where no one has gone before…..
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