falling through the wormhole

"wormhole: A theoretical structure in spacetime that forms a tube-like connection between two separate regions of the universe." -- Nova

The idea and reality of wormholes has caught my attention for quite some time, which if modified somewhat gives me an explanation of how it is that a person can live in more than one dimensionality. The dimension I know most strongly is the one called "mystic" in the western tradition, though that term does not sit too well with me. Too wishy-washy a term to describe something so firmly real.

When my head opened up to the universe 58 years ago, and I found myself out in space looking at the earth, I didn't see Jesus or God anywhere, just the cosmos. Now don't get all weirded out or overly exultant (depending on your theistic predilection), that doesn't prove anything one way or another.

So color me crazy (though I'm the one with the doctorate in psychology and can have you locked up) or anything else you want, but I like the view of several dimensions existing and wormholes or passages between them. In that language, at age 12 I fell through a wormhole. I got "back" but I have never been the same since.

Go with me a little further on this. The practices of meditation and contemplation allow one to open to another reality. The Christian contemplatives say we are mirroring God. The Zen meditators (who see no need to posit a God) say little or nothing. The big debate in interreligious dialogue (here and here, for example) is whether or not they are opening up into the same wormhole (the dialogists use more esoteric terms of course). You can see why the answer to that might make a difference.

I'm not here to resolve that question. I don't have the interest or the debating skills. I do know this however, at times I am in the Zen mode with clarity in all "directions" and at times I am in the Christian mode and see/feel the presence of God. Both are real to me.

An interesting wormhole take on the Christian idea of salvation is that the "saved" people will fall through or be pulled through one wormhole when they die and the "unsaved" will be yanked through another. Kind of like a potato sorter -- the little potatoes fall through the holes here and the big ones move on further down the line. You can see that I have some trouble with Christian doctrine.

Be that as it may, I know what I know. I have fallen through a wormhole and there is no turning back.