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On last week’s interview with Martha Beck on The Mommy-Muse Is In: Empowering Your Journey into Motherhood, I asked an important question: How can somebody who has been extremely skeptical about religion and superstition, who believes there is a scientific explanation for everything, speak openly about her mystical experiences? Here is what Martha had to say:
“A lot of peoples’ experience with religion is actually about people being dominant. For example, Galileo could make observations through his telescope and say, ‘Guess what guys; the Sun does not revolve around the Earth; it’s the Earth revolving around the Sun.’
The Catholic Church, at the time, thought that was heresy because it meant that man was not the center of creation. That didn’t go well with their personal philosophy and the way they interpreted their religion. They arrested him and said, ‘No, it’s not true and you can’t make us say it is.’
It wasn’t until 1984, I believe, that the Catholic Church said, ‘Okay, Galileo was right.’ The Enlightenment, which was pushing back against that religious oppression, was all about the scientific method. You don’t believe anything until you can prove it. You approach everything with skepticism.
I very much followed that same path in my own life. By the time I was a young adult at Harvard, where I spent ten years as an undergraduate and then as a graduate student, it was all about not believing anything that couldn’t be verified, tested, and validated.
However, I started to have experiences that I could validate. I could repeat, and I could test, yet, there is really no explanation for them in our current understanding of science. Although, at the edges of science – for Catholics, you look at quantum mechanics, which is the leading edge of physics right now; it’s very, very mystical. Stuff is going on there that any other earlier scientist would have said was magical thinking. In fact, when Einstein was dying, he said the biggest mistake of his life was that he didn’t acknowledge that because it just seemed too crazy. That is what experimentation is continuing to show us.
The fact is that if two particles are ever connected, they become entangled with one another’s energy, and thereafter, will always affect each other, no matter how far the distance is separating them. That means that if you had a baby, that baby’s physical self was intimately connected with yours. That baby will always be connected to you through quantum entanglement, even when you are far, far apart. (Author’s note: This gives scientific backing to mother’s intuition!)
The science is much more complicated than that, but basically, they’ve been able to test things in the laboratory such as the fact that people know who is calling them on the phone – not with 100% accuracy, but with an odds against chance rate of like trillions to one; they can guess who is on the phone before they pick it up. There have been many really good, very solid science that is done on things that we once would have called paranormal or even superstition.
It’s real, it’s just that scientists are having trouble explaining it and we have that push back that comes from being dominated by people who arbitrarily said, ‘My religious belief trumps your observation.’ The science is actually coming right along.”
So there you go, it is entirely possible to believe there is a scientific explanation and absolutely know that mystical phenomena happen, period. For more information on Martha Beck and her wonderful offerings, read Discover Your Inner Stargazer with Martha Beck, Martha Beck TEAM Connect, and of course, go to MarthaBeck.com.
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Great intereview – thank you.
I think there is a massive shift right now as people struggle to find their balance in the world, as things they once thought they knew ‘for sure’, are no longer true and things they may never have believed are ‘feeling’ truer.
My guess is that more folks will gravitate toward people like Martha, who oozes integrity, and open up to new parts of themselves and the universe.
I am a Martha Beck Coach and I am constantly amazed and delighted when new clients show up and begin talking about starting a new business or trying to figure out what to be when they grow up, and within minutes casuallly mention a ’strange’ experience they’ve had. Often, my clients, my kind, big-brained women/moms, and I are drawn together because of a sense of curiosity or frustration or something similar about feeling called in a direction that ‘does not make sense’. I love seeing people go from ’supposed to’ living, where things are logical and rational to full-on, integrated alignment, where things can’t always be ‘proven’ but you know, beyond a shadow of doubt that they are true for you.
It’s a pleasure to meet you, Pam. A high, consistently sustained level of integrity IS key! Heads up everyone, visit Pam’s new blog: http://www.everymomneedsawife.com