The Journey

There was a guerilla war occurring between the Palestinians living in Jordan and Saudi Arabia ,with Israel. They would send frogmen across the seven kiilometer stretch of the Red Sea from Jordan to the Negev. To combat this, an Israeli destroyer would cruise up and down the Red Sea for the length of the borders, dropping depth charges returning every two hours. One night Josh was asleep on the shoreline. He had covered the coals of his fire with sand and lay down to sleep on it to stay warm. Our traveler would hear the depth charges blow up in the sea. I He would hear them first through the sand (sound travels faster through solids), then a second explosion (sound through the water came next), and finally the third explosion (the sound through the air arrived last). The time differential was only a small fraction of a second between hearing the three blasts. One night Josh heard the Jordanian shore guns firing. The destroyer had gotten to close to the shoreline. He sat up and could see the outline of the Israeli destroyer. There were hundreds of canon and 50 caliber tracers from the Jordanian shore outlining the ship that was firing its own guns at the shore. He could see explosions on the shore from the Israeli guns. Suddenly there were popping sounds in the sand all around me. Everything that missed and went over the destroyer was now coming down all around him. He lay flat and prayed for it to end quickly. The whole incident seemed like a lifetime but, in reality, only lasted about one minute. The universe blessed him with a quick end to the incident, probably because of the intensity of my prayer and emotions. HOW DOES ALL THIS WORK When a physical scientist looks at all matter, he or she sees the law of conservation of matter and the law of the conservation of energy. Matter and energy cannot be destroyed or made. It can, however, be changed in form. Break any piece of matter down, even our flesh, and we find compounds and molecules. Break the molecules apart, and we have atoms. Within atoms are subatomic particles that move, vibrate and are constantly in motion. What power is the source of these particles and their movement? The physicist will tell us it is energy, pure energy. Energy cannot be made; it always has been, it cannot be destroyed, and it always will be. It is always with us, omnipresent and eternal. When we say, “God has blessed us,” the skeptic asks, “What is God?” The theologian tells him, “God has always been, always will be, and is with us always, (omnipresent and eternal”). A neurological scientist will tell us that thoughts have vibrations. A brain wave of a certain frequency will cause harmonious waves to come into being. Just as the waves of a stringed instrument have certain properties, so the waves in the mind have similar properties. Waves can create harmonies or interference. Waves have always been here, are with us always with us, and always will be. They are omnipresent and eternal. Energy, God, waves, the Oneness of the Eternal Spirit, Jesus, Buddah, The Tao, all are omnipresent and eternal. Just like the genii of the lamp.