Empty Churches this Easter--Fractals of the Empty Tomb

The Simple Explanation has long spoken of fractals. Fractals are all around us, and they are not simply physical fractals. The Archetypal fractals identified by Jung play out in the stories that make up our lives--the "young lovers," the "woman scorned," the "mother and child," the "warrior," the "King," and other familiar characters enacting countless versions of the same stories, repeated over and over and over again. 

We are currently experiencing a worldwide pandemic. This is another familiar fractal that is playing out all all levels. The world is the patient and it is sick. Each country is a patient, and it is sick. At the animal level of fractal iteration, many humans, many bats, some dogs and cats, and a tiger in a zoo, are sick. At the cellular level, many cells are sick--invaded by covid-19. 

cross-section of covid-19

At every fractal level of this plague, entities are closing their borders to invaders. At the national level, borders close to prevent invasion of covid-19. At the institutional level, business close their doors to prevent invasion of covid-19. At the human level, we practice social distancing. We wash our hands and doorknobs to prevent invasion of covid-19. At the cellular level, our cells do whatever they can do to prevent covid-19 from entering their cell walls to implant their cargo of chaos.

The Easter fractal is playing out this year in a spectacular way. The churches are empty, as the tomb of Jesus was empty. This is not a sad story. Easter is about the triumph of eternal life over worldly death. The tomb is empty because the life-force cannot be quashed by the death. Our spirits, our Units of Consciousness in Simple Explanation terms, are more powerful than the physical constraints of material suffering and death.

The resurrection of the Christ is the fractal that tells the story of the triumph over death. Jesus showed us how it is done--the fractal of suffering, the fractal of being buried, the fractal of resurrection, the fractal of ascending back into the Universal Unit of Consciousness--these speak to all of our lives.

The empty churches are fractals of the empty tomb. This is good news! There is life on the other side of this pandemic, both for those of us who survive, and those of us who pass over. 

Happy Easter!