Roy Abraham Varghese

Everything that exists - atoms and cells, energy fields and ecosystems - is constantly processing information. Everything - photons and planets, microbes and mammals - is constantly moving to a goal, advancing from one state to another. Everything - from particles to butterflies - is constantly causing effects in its environment. Everything is mind. Mind, like life, has its own domains and kingdoms - from the mind-cloud that is matter to mind-bots, mind-pods, et al. We live in a metaverse of mind. This is the message of modern science. Reviews of Varghese's previous books on the Metaverse of Mind"Varghese explores the basic and critical questions we face concerning this remarkable and wonderful universe. It is written with a deep understanding of philosophy, spirituality, and the complex science involved, yet expressed in a way which is interesting and very understandable to the non-specialist." - Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the laser. "Though I found myself arguing (...), the issues raised and the] lucid outline of modern science's framework of understanding, helped me to challenge and refine my own answers to the ultimate questions that each one of us must ask." - Arno Penzias, Nobel Prize winner who established the Big Bang Theory with his co-discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation."The year's most intriguing book about God" - Time magazine (on a book co-edited by Varghese with contributions from 24 Nobel Prize-winning scientists)."Towering and courageous." - Francis S. Collins, Former Director of the National Institutes of Health (on a book co-authored by Varghese and Antony Flew)

Everything that exists - atoms and cells, energy fields and ecosystems - is constantly processing information. Everything - photons and planets, microbes and mammals - is constantly moving to a goal, advancing from one state to another. Everything - from particles to butterflies - is constantly causing effects in its environment. Everything is mind. Mind, like life, has its own domains and kingdoms - from the mind-cloud that is matter to mind-bots, mind-pods, et al. We live in a metaverse of mind. This is the message of modern science. Reviews of Varghese's previous books on the Metaverse of Mind"Varghese explores the basic and critical questions we face concerning this remarkable and wonderful universe. It is written with a deep understanding of philosophy, spirituality, and the complex science involved, yet expressed in a way which is interesting and very understandable to the non-specialist." - Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the laser. "Though I found myself arguing (...), the issues raised and the] lucid outline of modern science's framework of understanding, helped me to challenge and refine my own answers to the ultimate questions that each one of us must ask." - Arno Penzias, Nobel Prize winner who established the Big Bang Theory with his co-discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation."The year's most intriguing book about God" - Time magazine (on a book co-edited by Varghese with contributions from 24 Nobel Prize-winning scientists)."Towering and courageous." - Francis S. Collins, Former Director of the National Institutes of Health (on a book co-authored by Varghese and Antony Flew)

Eternity's time has come."When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and begin to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. ... Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, ... "This is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 'It will come to pass in the last days, ' God says, 'that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh." (Acts 2:1,4, 14, 16-7)It was the mysterium tremendum et fascinans - the Mystery tremendous and fascinating: An explosion of endless energy.Signs and wonders.Power and Glory.The birthing of the WAY that is TRUTH and LIFE.It was a never-ending Event: The descent of a divine Force. A Personal Force. A Person present as a "force."The God-Force.Those who were "touched" by the Forcespoke in "tongues,"prophesied, journeyed to distant lands and certain deaths, proclaimed a New World born in our midst.These carriers "downloaded" the Force across societies and geographies and centuries.The Force assumed myriad forms and flowed through diverse channels.The Force unified history with its own Livestream platform.The Force was with God.And the Force was God.And the Force made its dwelling in humankind as the Holy Spirit.

The answer to the question "Who is Jesus?" affects everything about our lives. This is the case because what Jesus' followers through the centuries have claimed about him is that Jesus is God and man, that: Jesus is the human locus of the divine, the human face of Godthe incarnation of the "Second Person" of the Tri-personal Godthe Eternal Word made flesh.And BECAUSE Jesus is God and man, He is the Redeemer of the human race who negated a primordial cursethe Savior who delivers us from our enslavement to evil and the danger of final damnationthe transmitter of the very Life of God.If Jesus is indeed whom he and his followers say he is, then he is nothing less than the fulcrum of human history and human destiny.In this work we will try to show that Jesus is the Incarnation of Infinity. God and man and therefore our Savior.We will do this in three phases: WHAT, WHO and WHYIn the first phase, the WHAT, we consider what is known, what is virtually indisputable, about Jesus. We review the top ten data-sets that point to Jesus' identity.In the second phase we move from the WHAT to the WHO. From what we know about Jesus, we turn to what is claimed about Jesus and why - and how we can make sense of it all.In phase three, we turn to the WHY question. Why did Jesus come? If he is whom he and his followers claimed him to be, why is that relevant to us? And, if it is relevant, how do we apply this truth to our lives?Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most influential philosopher of the last 100 years, speaking as a modern Jewish witness to the Resurrection, said, "What inclines even me to believe in Christ's resurrection? ... If he did not rise from the dead ... We are in a sort of hell ... cut off from heaven. But if I am to be REALLY saved, - what I need is CERTAINTY - not wisdom, dreams or speculations - and this certainty is faith. And faith is what is needed by my HEART, my SOUL, not my speculative intelligence."Likewise, Marshall McLuhan, the prophet of the Internet, said, "If I hadn't believed it, I wouldn't have seen it."

The revelation that God is Trinity, Three Infinite Persons subsisting in the unity of One Infinite Mind and Will, is the great Theory of Everything that makes sense of everything in our experience of the world. In this book we will see how it is the Trinity that explains the undeniable but unfathomable facts of everyday life encountered by the human race: -The phenomenon of knowing, our capacity for understanding-The power of willing, of choosing, loving and giving of ourselves-Our existence as selfs/persons that know, love and find fulfillment in relationship-The emergence of a new person, a new "I" from the loving union of two other "I"s -The creativity, rationality, and energy that constitute the world -The belief of three "centers" within God found in the greatest pre-Christian religious traditions which represent the three main human approaches to God: cyclic-mystical (India); unity-in-multiplicity/harmony (China); historical-linear (Israel). -Jesus' revelation of the Father, of his own Sonship and of the Spirit of the Father and the Son We know because God is Knowing, we love because Loving is the Life of God, we are selfs/persons with minds and wills who commune and reproduce because the infinite Mind and Will is a communion of interacting Selfs/Persons. The Trinity is the Big Picture that connects all the disjointed dots of our experience of the world and ourselves. At the center of being, we now know, there is meaning and communion, knowing and loving, agent-hood and activity. And the entire dynamic of the universe is driven by the endless creativity, rationality and energy of the Triune Life.Since God is infinite love, there has to be love within God. Since God is infinite, this loving, its object and its fruit must likewise be infinite: Three inseparable "centers" that ARE the One. And in what would such love consist? In a giving, receiving and sharing in full of the divine nature, of all that it means to be God. A child receives its human nature with all its powers from its parents as a manifestation and fruit of their love. Likewise, the love within God is a giving, receiving and sharing in full of the divine nature with all its infinite power and glory. It is a love without beginning or end, a LOVE that IS. "Trinity" is not God's proper name. It is simply a way of saying that God is infinite love. To say that God is Trinity is simply to say that God is LOVE.

This is a book about the greatest love story ever told. It is a story that plays out in three places: in God, in human history and in our lives. And we explore each in turn.God is Three Persons in infinite-eternal Love. For God is a beginning less, endless Act of Love of the Lover (the Father), the Beloved (the Son) and the Co-Beloved (the Spirit). The Three are One Heart. For to be Heart is to give all of one's being to the Other: to give totally, unconditionally, forever: to love. They are Three "centers" in a single Ultimate Reality of Love. One Heart. This is the first "level" of the Love Story.The Father loved us into being through his Son and his Spirit. We were created so that we too might be drawn into the infinite-eternal Love of the Three Persons, our hearts embedded in the Heart of God.But, as the hunter-gatherers and every ancient culture tells us, we chose not to respond in kind. Our hearts were hardened and we said No to the divine invitation of Love. The result was the ultimate heart attack of death and destruction. Nevertheless, our heart-broken Lover pursued us. On the human side, the religions of Africa, Mesoamerica, India, China, Persia, Israel and the Mediterranean societies recognized their Creator and sought forgiveness through the universal practice of sacrifice. But all recognized the breach could not be healed without a perfect sacrifice made by the sinless One. This understanding of God, God 1.0, culminated in the revelation received by the people of Israel. The next stage of the Love Story in human history was the incarnation of the Son in Jesus of Nazareth. It was Jesus who revealed God 2.0.He proclaimed a revolution: "The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth." The whole identity and mission of Jesus of Nazareth centered on the Father. Jesus addressed God only as Father. The Father revealed by Jesus was: - prodigal in his limitless love, all Heart - more intimate than any earthly parent and therefore called Abba (the affectionate Aramaic expression for one's own father) and, above all, - "our" Father meeting all our needs, all the time, and drawing us into God Space, the protection and provision of his Providence. Henceforth, we cannot see God except as the infinitely, unconditionally loving Father who makes us his children through his Son and in his Holy Spirit. God 2.0. God as Heart. By his death and resurrection, Jesus made the perfect sacrifice and removed the barrier to our union with God. Through the waters of baptism, we are invited to be re-invented as a new race: redeemed by the Son and filled with the Spirit and thereby children of the Father in the fullest sense who will live "happily ever after". This is level two of the Love Story.The third and final level of the Love Story is our own life. We are each love letters written by the Father. If we accept his offer of eternal union, we become his Love Story.

Man of the Millennium is about the most dramatic theological "sighting" of the millennium. In our present day, Heaven has drawn us to the recognition of Joseph, the virginal father of Jesus and chaste husband of Mary. Here we will briefly review the "equations" and "experiments," the "signs and wonders," that led to our "finding" the Father of Jesus. Just as the Christian world recognized Jesus' identity in all its fullness in the first millennium and that of Mary his mother in the second millennium, we are now positioned to understand the Joseph we never knew in this third Christian millennium. This is why 2020-2021 was proclaimed the Year of St. Joseph. The recognition of Joseph led to yet another major affiliated finding, much as the Theory of Relativity began with Special Relativity and culminated in General Relativity. This is the theme of The Once and Future Family. The pilgrimage to Joseph of Nazareth came to yet another climax with the finding of the immediate family of God-become-man as a reality in its own right. The finding of the Holy Family of Nazareth could only come after the finding that it was a family. And this required the recovery of the biblical revelation that Joseph was the true husband of Mary and the true yet virginal father of Jesus. What was involved here was, of course, a process of theological and not scientific understanding. But the two-fold finding was and is dramatic because of its inevitable impact on human society, human history and our very understanding of God.

Collecting the 34 known and accredited apparitions of the Virgin Mary, this study applies an intellectual clarity, precise scholarship, and overall rigor so often absent from Marian studies. Offering detailed evidence, supported by thorough theological and scientific investigation--including the circumstances of each apparition and their legacy--this entertaining and provocative resource gives validation to each event, while connecting their significance to civilizations past, present, and future. Marveling at each phenomenon deemed most holy--often calling on to humanity to pray, do penance, or predicting cataclysmic events--mainstream Catholics and seasoned Theologians alike will find reassurance and guidance in each account of real life miracles. Also included are a chronology of the officially sanctioned apparitions and the exact text of the words spoken by the Virgin to the mystic or seer who bore witness.

This innovative and challenging book presents cogent answers from some of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to fifteen of the most enduring questions posed by humanity. For questioning minds who seek alternative philosophical viewpoints, this is a unique and accessible assessment of humankind's common experience that offers a new vision for the next millenium.

A wave of modern atheists have taken center stage and brought the long-standing debate about the existence of God back into the headlines. Spearheaded by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, this 'new atheism' has found a powerful place in today's culture wars. Although this movement has been billed as 'new,' the foundation of its argument is indebted to philosopher Antony Flew and his groundbreaking paper "Theology and Falsification," the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last five decades. Flew built his highly acclaimed academic career publicly debunking the existence of God. But, now the renowned philosopher has arrived at the opposite conclusion and officially joined the other side.With refreshing openness to argument and an absence of the anger and hostility that have been hallmarks of the 'new atheism,' Flew shows how his commitment to following the argument wherever it leads resulted, to his own astonishment, in his conversion to belief in a creator God. Certain to be read and discussed for years to come, "There Is a God" will forever change the debate about the existence of God.