Welcome to the start of the blog that has existed for years unwritten.
Quantum Goddessing is a blog by and for self-identified "Goddess Womyn" (women/wimmin/wombOnes/weMoon).
I chose
Quantum Goddessing because that is how I have long (always?) viewed
spirituality: both discrete and yet flowing, paradoxically, at the same time...like photons of light that follow both particle AND wave motion. Further, like a fractal, the quantum Goddess is a discrete unit from sub-cellular to multiversal expression, infinitely repeated at various scales, both within and without our comprehension at the same time.
'Quantum' is defined by
wikipedia as "
the minimum unit of any physical entity involved in an interaction" and "discrete packets with energy stored in them". Thus the Goddess/multiverse (many layers of the universe bent and folded in space-time giving rise to multiple universes existing at once) is Einsteinian energy equaling mass multiplied by the theoretical speed limit, the speed of light, multiplied again by the speed of light (because it's bent/folded). (or e = mc^2)
Wikipedia continues in the entry about
quantum mechanics: "
the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at the atomic and subatomic scales, the so-called quantum realm"
http://knol.google.com/k/how-to-use-quantum-physics-plus-norse-god-goddess-rituals-to-attract-wisdom#
How To Use Quantum Physics Plus Norse God/goddess Rituals To Attract Wisdom, Protection, Rejuvenation
http://www.amazon.com/Goddess-Spirituality-21st-Century-Kabbalah/dp/188457064X
Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics [Paperback]
Judith Laura (Author)
excerpt: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KMFCNwkEma0J:assets.booklocker.com/pdfs/3290s.pdf+quantum+goddess&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShfr_Z-TrMU0yLHk7UO7hBNrWXiT9D6O7-Jc7up-qPol6RsD4juGUmF7auJ_KP2wB
Foreword, by Rachel Pollack: ...many people, especially women, and even more, women with a spiritual bent, just assume that physics lies far beyond their ken, or worse, is simply a meaningless activity unconnected to spirituality or daily life. As with Kabbalah, Laura manages to absorb vast amounts of information (not just in quantum mechanics, but in relativity and cosmology) and then give it out in precise details and large ideas. And as with Kabbalah, she demonstrates ways in which physics indeed affects our lives, and the kind of inspiration and direction we can find in such areas as superstring theory, with its twenty-four dimensions.
Preface to Second Edition:
Interest in Science
Interest in the relationship between Goddess concepts and scientific theory is increasing in the Goddess community, but there is still room for more growth, which I believe will occur as an increasing number of Goddessians with advanced degrees in various sciences explore this area further. Of particular current interest are the relationships between Goddess and such topics as black holes and chaos theory, as well as other aspects of quantum physics and cosmology. Examples include Glenys D. Livingstone's Gaian Cosmology: Reinventing Earth-base Goddess Religion (2005), Marcia Kelley Hunter's doctoral dissertation for Empresarial University of Costa Rica, In Search of Dark Mater: A mythopoetic study in imaginal cosmology (2003), and science professor Jenny Kien's exploration fo physiology and Kabbalah in Reinstating the Divine Woman in Judaism. Of course the environmental sciences, as well as evolutionary theory, have been friends with Goddess spirituality for some time.
http://www.amazon.com/tag/womens%20spirituality/ref=tag_dpp_ct_itdp
Amazon.com Review
Ursula Goodenough is an internationally recognized cell biologist; she is also an accomplished amateur theologian--an unusual combination of interests in a time when science and religion are widely divided. In The Sacred Depths of Nature, she proposes what she calls a "planetary ethic" drawing on the lessons of both science and metaphysics, celebrating some of the mysteries that are central to both: "the mystery of why there is anything at all, rather than nothing," for one, and "the mystery of why the universe seems so strange," for another. Exploring scientifically based narratives about the creation of the universe and the origins of life, Goodenough forges a kind of religious naturalism that will not be unfamiliar to readers of New Age literature--save that her naturalism has the hard-nosed rigor of a laboratory-trained scholar behind it. Goodenough offers a crash course in the life sciences for her readers, encompassing the basics, for instance, of biochemistry in just a few paragraphs (and getting it right in the bargain), touching on Darwinian biology and population dynamics and even chaos theory to make "an epic of evolution" that has all the hallmarks of an origin myth. Faith and reason, in her view, are not mutually exclusive, and her well-written treatise makes a good argument for bridging the gap between the two. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
In eloquent prose, Goodenough, a noted molecular biologist, offers a scientist's insight into the dialogue between science and religion. The book's structure is similar to the Daily Devotionals found in some Protestant denominations, but with a decidedly broader approach to the vast ontological questions being pursued. Beginning with an autobiographical sketch, Goodenough moves resolutely through the major questions of being. Her inquiries cut across the boundaries of cosmology, astrophysics, cell biology, evolutionary theory, sexuality and death, moving into the realms of philosophy and theology. The author, while no theist, recognizes the eternal human quest for meaning engendered by the essentially non-quantifiable mystery of consciousness. Displaying open-mindedness to non-scientific approaches in her search for ultimate understanding, she writes with equal respect of Taoism's enigmatic, ironical credo and of 19th-century Transcendentalists' humanistic vision. This spiritual diversity, accompanied by scientific observations drawn from such authorities as Stephen Hawking and Edward O. Wilson, makes for a stirring, enlightening read. In part a reverential memoir by a dedicated scientist, this book provides a meeting place for the revelations of advanced science and technology and the universal, unanswerable questions of humanity. 18 line drawings.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
pantheism vs. panentheism vs pantheaism
