New Consciousness Review Summer 2016 | Page 14

INSPIRATION HEALTH ARTICLE Light Excerpt from What’s In the Way IS the Way by Mary O’Malley As you reconnect with space and flow, you can know the third aspect of the meadow: light. In the Creation story at the very beginning of the Bible, it says, “And God said, let there be light!” And according to the Book of Genesis, this statement comes before the creation of the sun and stars. W e think of light as coming from the sun, but the leading edge of science is now saying that everything is made out of light. David Bohm, the grandfather of quantum physics, once said that matter is just frozen light. In his book The Planetary Mind, Arne Wyller reports, “Almost all particles in the Universe are those of light.” He goes on to say, “Light is a vital ingredient in all atoms.” Since everything is made of atoms, it follows that everything — a cat, a tree, a rock, the human body — is made of light. We have all met people whose eyes twinkle and whose presence radiates a sense of warmth. We often say they glow. That is what you begin to see when you rediscover the meadow of well- being within you and all around you. Everything shines from within, radiating the energy of its presence. You may not see this, but when you get quiet enough, you can feel it. Most of the time, you dim the radiance of your being by only pay-ing attention to the clouds in your 14 | New Consciousness Review