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By ROSS FREAKE

"The most important thing is to clear your mind so you don't expect anything in particular. You really have to be ready to see absolutely anything."

Who would say something like that: A psychologist, a preacher, or a physicist?

And does it make a difference because the rift separating the three is becoming increasingly narrow and each could be the high priest in the other's "religion".

They use different methods and a different language, but they all delve into the Big Reality beneath the apparent to find a larger Truth.

In this case, the speaker is Hulya Guler, a postdoctoral fellow at the universities of Montreal and McGill who is working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

He's part of a Canadian team working on a project to find the Higgs boson, called the God Particle, which is believed to give everything mass, allowing the universe to exist.

Scientists hope the largest machine in the world will let them peer into nature, to see a reality that existed during the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, to see the platform on which reality is constructed.

The Higgs boson, named after British physicist Peter Higgs who concocted the theory 40 years ago, is hypothetical, but scientists believe it exists because it helps explain the universe we see, which is five per cent of the universe that is.

Like scientists seeking the truth, we can delve into the depths of self. While most of us don't have a spare $9 billion to build a collider, we can perform our own experiment and observe the collisions happenings within us, and why we act the way we do. We can learn to act consciously and choose to walk the mystic path "to the One, with the One, in the One."

Anyone who peers into nature or the nature of self, asking why, is just as much a mystic as Plotinus, St. Francis or Rumi.

We only "see" part of who we are because most of us are below the line of our consciousness. But just as the stuff we can't see, the dark energy and dark matter that make up 95 per cent of the universe, influences what we can see, so the stuff below the line of awareness affects what's above.

Science looks for facts, while religion attempts to clothe them in wisdom, wonder and awe. Religion is the glue of life for billions of people, while science investigates the gluons - the force that holds the quarks in the atomic nucleus together and allows us to have life.

We need to emulate the scientists and the sages mesmerized by the wonder and awe as they search for the really Real, and not be dazzled by the apparently real, the trinkets and beads of a society more concerned with the outward than the inward.

We need to marry the sensual and the spiritual.

Labels: God, God particle, Higgs particle, Large Hadron Collider, Ross Freake