The Bible: Commentary and Controversy

Maybe you don’t believe you have one. A higher power, that is. Maybe you’re convinced you do, and pray daily to it. Maybe you try to reach your higher power through meditation. Or medication. Or magic mushrooms. Or whatever.

The truth is sometimes you connect; sometimes you don’t. Or as the vested clergy say, sometimes the answer is “no.” Which is more twaddle by people who don’t really understand what’s going on, and what Jesus’ biographers were trying to tell us with his words. Because as they wrote, the computer was about 1900 years from being invented, so they couldn’t accurately describe the process.

I can, and will. It’s simple and achievable. In fact, it’s in your DNA.

But first, let’s backtrack a bit. Somewhere on this website I talked for a bit about DNA.

Technically speaking, DNA (or deoxyribonucleic acid) is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA, located in the cell nucleus. The information in DNA is stored as a code made up of four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). The order, or sequence, of these bases determines the information available for building and maintaining an organism, similar to the way in which letters of the alphabet appear in a certain order to form words and sentences.

For simplicity’s sake, think of it as code, the kind used to write computer programs. Binary code has only two building blocks, or bases: one and zero. The way they are arranged tells the computer what to do. Human DNA is a very long and intricate “code,” containing more than 3 billion bases.

I believe DNA, like a well programmed computer, is intelligent in the way a computer is intelligent. Let me explain. Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly the biggest field in computer science today. Basically this means the computer inputs data, analyzes it, and makes choices based on probabilities. Results, of course, are guided by the parameters set at the start.

Now. Suppose the parameter set for DNA is to improve the container. Wow! Now everything fits. The process of evolution is explained. More food in the sea than on land? Start developing a sea creature. Blind mouse? Start developing a sonar system. Beak too big to get enough food? Make it smaller and more pointed. With plants and animals, it’s automatic.

Of course, with homo sapiens the process is radically changed by our ability to process data and desire – even demand – change. No, we don’t have control of our DNA, but we can influence its choices with our conscious and unconscious minds.

The truth is, we are actually living, breathing computers, and our DNA is our programming. And how do computers get in touch with a higher power? Their operator connects them with a larger, faster, computer – one with immensely more data. The operator tells this larger computer what their smaller computer needs, and the larger computer finds the solution in its data and downloads it. How is that connection made? With an Ethernet cable, or through wifi, or with an unwired, un-wifi connection known as Bluetooth, which only requires a two-way connector in each computer: one for data going in and one for data going out.

In order to make this connection, the operator turns on his (or, obviously, her) computer’s Bluetooth, and tells it to seek other devices it can connect, or “pair” with, which Bluetooth does, and lists the number of accessible devices.

I assume you’re getting the idea. You, as a living, breathing, computer can connect your DNA to a higher power in the same way. Turn on your own Bluetooth, see what other “devices” are out there, and connect to the one that can provide what you’re looking for. Simple.

This is true no matter what your religious or non-religious beliefs are. You can believe that God is your higher power; you can believe there is no “God.” What you must believe is that the universe makes sense, that the DNA of every species is programmed to improve, and that improvement begins with individuals. That’s the first step.

The second step is belief there is a higher “power” that helps each individual member of a species improve. Not necessarily a god, or a prime creator, or anything else you can put a name to, but a positive direction for the universe inherent in its creation. Perhaps this power is available in infants and as we become more and more worldly we lose touch with it. The challenge is to regain contact.

We do that by consciously connecting. In order to do that, you must turn your Bluetooth on. You can, for example, pray all you want, but if your Bluetooth isn’t working, neither will your prayers. Same with meditation and medication. If you aren’t connected, nothing happens.

Plants and animals connect automatically; they have nothing to distract them. Ergo the process of evolution. Some people are, or have been, connected automatically. When that happens, they’re usually connected with just one or two data sources in the “great computer in the sky,” and lack full access. That explains savants. It may also explain off-the-chart geniuses.

How do you connect? We’ll explain that in our next post.