The Holy Ghost hides in the little I

I read a thought-provoking book by Arnold Mindell, Quantum Mind, who tries to reconcile spirituality, psychology and physics. It has some great stuff in it, for example the conjecture that metaphysical objects can hide in the many undetermined states and inequalities physics has to offer. Mainstream physics of course has the mission statement only to work with what everyone can perceive as real, but increasingly they realize that they perhaps need a new dimension, a spiritual, to come up with the next big bang in the evolution of consciousness.

The books covers many different ideas, but I especially liked his interpretation of the imaginary number i, i.e. the square root of -1. Nobody knows what the interpretation of an imaginary number really is; all we know is that we can transform i by multiplying it with itself to make a real. Still, physics is littered with imaginary numbers. So perhaps indeed the metaphysical component of the universe is hiding in it. The spiritual path traveler knows that at times we can perceive the Unkown, and then they are these mystics who claim that they can perceive the Unknown all the times, and it happens to be the 'real' world, while everything science perceives it just a dream or maya.

Well, I don't want to claim that I understand much of this stuff, but there is one idea that just clicked for me. The author reminded me that by conjugating a complex number, which is intuitively as if you are adding the mirror image of the number to itself, you are left with a real number. Of course it does! It is as if you are carrying the metaphysical aspect of yourself with you all the time, but you can rarely perceive it. But once you connect with your mirror image, you and your other part can perceive the holy aspect of your union as real in this holy communion.

I have always viewed people as our spiritual mirror images. Moment by moment we walk around with a big sign on our neck that reads, 'Brother, I need healing' and then we attract by the law of attraction exactly the person we need to. And if we really open up to this person, we click and we are both transformed in the process.Whenever two or more people gather in my name, there I am among them (Matthew 18:20). People are your mirror and if you truly embrace them as you do yourself, the mathematical - I am tempted to write Matthewmatical - little I becomes visible for both of us. The little I gets transformed into our capital I, the Holy Ghost, the one soul or whatever other name you choose for it .