From the Author
The universe is akin to a multi-dimensional cube. Each point in this cube mirrors every other point. Enveloped within this mind-set, I wrote my book; Sophia's Web: Understanding the Unity and Diversity of Religion, Science and Ourselves.
This is a book where science, Christianity, Judaism, Atheism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Native Spirituality become various faces of one Divinity. "Sophia (Wisdom) is multi-faced," the Bible's Book of Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) says. There is unity in diversity and diversity in unity.
This "multi-dimensional cube" model of the world reflects more than the unity of all the diverse religions. It encompasses all. This includes us. We are mirrors of the universe. Our sexuality, in turn, mirrors universal processes. Who we are as women and men reflect the female and male powers of the Godhead. For example, when we make a metaphorical statement such as "your words are food for thought," we are saying your words serve a fertilizing function to the Psyche. Words are seminal to the generation of new ideas. What is above mirrors what is below. Our sexuality mirrors our cognition and, in turn, mirrors Nature as a whole.
The beauty of all this is that we are the process. Our individual lives are a facet of the multi-dimensional cube that is a unity. To illustrate this, I will use personal experiences to show how my life fits into ancient spirituality and modern day quantum physics.
In reading my book, I hope you will re-awaken to what you have known all along. You do not live in a cold universe where your human characteristics exit as aliens. As a child looks like his mommy and daddy, you mirror the Godhead.
There is a beautiful Pagan myth where the Goddess sees Herself in a mirror and falls in love with Herself. She then waltzes over to the mirror and kisses Her mirror image. The image then bats Her eyelids, and flutters away from the great Goddess. Eventually the mirror image becomes the created world and forgets Her true Nature. She forgets who She is.
This is not a story about a strange Goddess who falls in love with Herself. This same idea is illustrated by Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, who once quirked, "God loves creatures not as creatures but as God." This means the mirror image is each one of us.
I sincerely hope that in reading my book, you will re-discover the original kiss given by your Mother. As I will show, it happens always and now. Who else could the mirror image be other than you. This is the message to my book. Read and discover how.
About the Author
Burl Hall is a single 45 year old man who currently works within the field of mental health. He has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Psychology, and a Master's degree from Towson State University in Counseling Psychology. Burl is currently employed as a mental health therapist is Virginia.
Burl's interest in the Goddess has been life-long. Even as a child, he had a deep love and awe for Her. This love is eternally passionate. Burl describes it as a longing for home, much in the fashion of the journeyman, Odysseus, longs for his wife, Penelope, meaning, "She Whose Face is Veiled." This passionate quest for Home for Burl has included visions of the Goddess as a five-year-old child, and a falling in love with Her, as Athena, or Wisdom, at the age of seven. Intuitively, Burl realized Wisdom as a Woman due to Her ability to give birth to thought, to insight.
In the spring of 1992, Burl began having a series of dreams in which his childhood Goddess-friend reappeared. He realized the Woman whom he envisioned in the dreams was the Goddess. Indeed, he realized it was She who created the dreams and Her image. The image became realized as a projected form serving as a metaphor for a power that had no form. Image described function. It was at this point that Burl began to contemplate that the bodies of women and men describe universal processes. This insight was the fathering impulse for the conception of his current book, Sophia's Web.
Burl has never felt any particular religion was right, or THE WAY. The Way for him involves creative process and not dogma. As such, it became a driving force for him to realize the unity of all religions. This unity he knew intuitively in his heart. It was as if God had planted this knowledge in Burl's Soul. In his adulthood, it sprang forth from his depths as a tree sprouts from the Earth's womb.
It was this idea that attracted Burl to the physics of David Bohm and his theory of the Unmanifest Implicate Order. What has yet to unfold in our surface minds awaits birth from within its implied state, existing within us. As an egg exists in a woman's ovaries as a potential child, it appeared to Burl that knowledge of the universe's Wisdom existed as a potential within the Soul awaiting for the correct and fertile time in which it could emerge. It thus appeared to Burl that Bohm's theories mirrored ancient ideas about the Goddess. Physics had married the Divine Wisdom, Sophia. His book is a celebration of this marriage. Want to join the festivities?
