Divine Collaboration is not a science fiction publication. Yet, at times, we cannot help but enter the land of What If’s.
In an earlier article, I suggested we should marry Idealism and Theology. This marriage of philosophy and theology leads to the view that the universe exists as the Mind of God.
When Creative Divine Consciousness co-mingles with a the cumulative spiritual consciousnesses of souls, those souls may experience existing in a Matrix. We might speculate that existing in the Mind of God is like living in a Spiritual Matrix.
In contrast, films and popular culture reference a Programmed Matrix, a reality that emerges from the collective output of computation. In other words, a world of Artificial Intelligence, AI.
It is not difficult to imagine the Computational Matrix is simply a subset of the Spiritual (Divine) Matrix. Human creativity, employing mechanical or computational means, simply churns out new structures and manifestations in the Divine Matrix.
The source of the (subset) Computational Matrix, like the Spiritual Matrix, remains the collaboration of Spiritual Consciousness of souls with Divine Consciousness.
When one pulls way back to a macro view of the universe, one views energy forms and shapes and patterns. The patterned energy might be considered a recorded history of all the interactions in this universe, a Memory Pattern of the universe.
This Spiritual Matrix, which includes computational matrices as subsets, is a patterned record of the cumulative physical interactions between souls—and between souls and God.
The Spiritual Matrix in an Idealistic “Mind of God” world would be a physical imprint of the history of consciousness, it would be a record of all thought. It would be the cumulative “thought form” of Creation.
We might speculate that Prophets read the patterns in this Memory Matrix, discerning which patterns can be expected to repeat. Perhaps Prophets extrapolate possible futures that will arise of the Spiritual Matrix.
In other words, Prophets might be experts at Pattern Recognition. They may be skilled at reading the Mind of God. This speculation echoes the idea that we live in a sacramental universe comprised of signs that point to the Creator.
In this speculative model, Prophets would be skilled navigators of the past, present, and future. As expert pattern readers, they generate stories that arise from the Spiritual Matrix, the Mind of God.
In keeping with our speculation, we might ask if the author of Revelation, assumed to be St. John, viewed contents of the Mind of God, past, present, and probable future. Perhaps John “read” the matrix patterns and images and issued his prophecy based on his reading of the Spiritual Matrix he viewed while “caught up in the spirit”?