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“Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

“As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (John 9:5)

The Periodic Table is a complete list of all of the world’s 118 known chemical elements that comprise our physical world. It’s arranged by atomic number, starting with the elements with the fewest atoms, to that with the most atoms.

Atoms are comprised of Protons, Neutrons & Electrons and based on various factors such as heat or pressure, their energetic field vibrates or is excited at different rates. If the excited state drops to a lower energy level, the atom releases energy as a packet of light, known as a photon. Quantum theory teaches us that It also works conversely where photons (light particles) are attracted to an atom and join it.

The scientific world is the institutional power that most people entrust to define the cosmos for them. However, as Newtonian science moves from the telescope to the microscope and enters the sub-atomic cosmos, the disciplines of science begin meeting new challenges as things become so small as to possess no mass, like a photon. The distance from the nucleus of an atom to its electron field is so vast, that 99.999% of the atom is simplified to essentially be empty space.

This means that the cosmos of the periodic table is philosophically very different than that of the quantum cosmos. While in one sense, our cosmology is comprised of empirical, measurable, weighable, tangible things, when viewed from a quantum lens, those “things” are 99.999% nothing. The cosmos is essentially comprised of non-things. But that’s a philosophical problem for empirical science (which is too small) and insists only matter and motion exist. To get around this Science has added a tab called “Theoretical Cosmology” where scientists no longer have to live according to the empirical worldview to explain the phenomenon that reside outside of empiricism. It may as well be called “Theological Cosmology.”

Photons or light particles flow in wave forms. They interact with atoms flowing in wave forms, creating chemicals that function in wave forms and various states of existence. These chemicals bond together and interact in a way that assembles the physical world as we experience it. All existence, in a simplified way, exists because of light.

I’ll add one layer more. In photon split tests, the observation of the photons alters their wave-pattern. Additionally, corresponding particles, separated by much space and time are capable of direct interaction with no physical connection between them. These discoveries unfold that something like a consciousness, must be a necessary precondition for all intelligibility, even down to the sub-atomic cosmos.

Religion gave us a cosmology that is mostly smaller than our known universe. Attempting to enlarge this, there are countless texts books which drill down on the hybridization of spiritual and our physical world, but they don’t get us any further. Common sense helps us avoid concluding our cosmology is limited to only the spiritual or the physical. The key take-away is that our cosmology is only intelligible if both spiritual and physical reality are fully integrated. Furthermore, all humanity can share this faith assumption, because it transcends both science and religions in that, love, logic and things like mathematics truly exist but are not empirically measurable… we just don’t know how to share it.

Reality is both.

Jesus claim: “I AM the Light of the World” is precisely the same cosmological claim. Remember, Jesus didn’t start a new alternative religion, but deconstructed all religions by providing people a system of truth which all comers are invited to follow. As we understand (hear) His truth claims and follow them (faith), the world (kosmos) opens up for us (light of life).

To claim that higher consciousness and light are the building blocks of the material world isn’t a challenging reality, but becomes a stumbling block when the religious disciples of either “theology only” or “empirical only” argue from their un-evolved, binary assumptions. Joseph Stoll is quoted as saying: “For every mile of road there are two-miles of ditch.” We must not get sucked into the tribal propaganda of either ditch, and follow the third-way of the Road.

All of this is Christological. The office of the Christ (Messiah) is cosmological, transcending all time, and is far larger than solely the life of Jesus. This is the foundational invitation to Christ following that is obscured by religion, but which the Bible widely embraces.

 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:1-5)

“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” (John 1:9)

Sit with this for a minute. Let this over-write your existing Jesus files which were likely given to you by the propaganda of the Religious Industrial Complex. If you can trust the revelation of scripture here, then you can begin to see the Christoform pattern through which everything exists. We can begin to grasp the cosmic scale of Paul’s Christology.

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” (Collosians 1:15-17)

As bi-vocational person who works in the sciences and in ministry, I have now given you both cosmological perspectives which resolve themselves in the Biblical (not religious) Christology. The pattern is life, decline, death, and new life…there are peaks and troughs, warp and woof, and nothing exists outside of this Christoform pattern. This is the transcendent view which allows us to stop arguing if the earth is presently in daytime or nighttime. As we gain consciousness of this Christ pattern, Jesus promises that we will have the light of life. In other words, once we see Christ in and through everything, our true life can actually be seen (understood) and navigated. If we ignore or reject or skim over this reality, we fumble our way through life, reacting to everything we run into. Living in darkness is insisting on either day or night.

My work helps people become free of religious over-identification, and begin a life of incrementally entrusting themselves to the revelation of Christ in the scripture, and in the created world. Once we discover that the visible part of us is first and foremost the loving invisible light of life, designed and intended to exist in and as our very existence (in our nothingness apart from God), then we become free of the entrapments of religion, science, and the delusions (darkness) of life. We will finally gain a cosmology that makes sense, answers our biggest questions, and to which our existence is absolutely integral in every moment of our lives.

If we remain confused or resistant to the claims of either science or faith, then our Christology is too small, and therefore our cosmology can only exist in one of two-ditches.