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November 2006
Editorial
IAL News
2007 Conference to Take Place in Austin
by Clarice Dankers
Major Article
An Interview with Don Campbell
by Bonnie Tsai
Musica Poetica
by David Kettlewell
Short Articles
The Learning Journey in the Accelerated Learning Cycle
by Chris Brewer
Review
Celebrate Your Divinity by Orest Bedrij
Reviewed by Chuck Bubar
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Review
Celebrate Your Divinity
By Orest Bedrij
Bruce Murray, former director at NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that we are desperately in need of a new worldview consistent with the facts of science, but one that is much broader and more encompassing. Einstein said that we must liberate ourselves from the delusion that we are separate from all of creation. We can do this, he maintained, by freeing ourselves from our mental prison and widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
In his highly acclaimed book, Celebrate Your Divinity (published in 2005 by Xlibris.com), Orest Bedrij has laid the framework for this transformation by revealing the profound interconnectedness of science and spirituality. After forty years of research into the fundamental nature of our physical and spiritual universe, Bedrij has identified the mathematical relationship of the physical quantities and defined a new theory of physical and spiritual reality.
Using quotes from scientists and prophets throughout history, Bedrij reveals to us who we truly are and our interconnectedness with all of creation and the Creator. He includes insights from Heinz Pagels, who proposes that the architecture of the universe (i.e., the ordering principal or universal software) is indeed built according to universal rules.
Reviews of Bedrij’s book have been positive. For example, Prof. Stephen Modell, University of Michigan, says that Bedrij has shown a mathematical unity behind physics that relates to our deepest sensibilities about God. Dr. Glenn A. Olds, former president of Kent State University, suggests that Bedrij has provided a manual for raising the human dimension and struggle to its cosmic significance and thereby created a summons to know what it is to be fully human. Dr. Tibor Horvath, University of Toronto, believes that by integrating spiritual validations with scientific evidence, Bedrij has arrived at an amalgam of a single, fundamental concept.
Although few of us have yet freed ourselves completely from the illusion that each of us is separate from the other, I believe that striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. The primary intellectual event of the next several hundred years will be the development of this new worldview. It forms the basis of a new theology—one whose effects may be even more enduring than those of the previous great religions.
Celebrate Your Divinity provides the foundation we need for knowing what it is to be truly human. It shows us how to liberate ourselves from the delusion that we are separate from all of creation, and it provides an integrated scientific and spiritual worldview. I highly recommend it to all who seek a deeper understanding of spiritual and physical truth.
About the Reviewer
Chuck Bubar is President of The International Institute for Educational Excellence and Director of Renaissance Learning, a nonprofit foundation. For more information on this profound book and its author, contact Chuck at Cbubar@aol.com .
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