See Sky Nelson-Isaacs At Books Inc. Berkeley On June 6th
How do you get something out of nothing?
This question is fundamental to our worldview in both science and religion. It led to the theory of the Big Bang, in which the whole of the physical universe, including space and time themselves, erupted into being.
The same view is present in the Creation story of the Old Testament, where God created the universe out of the Void.
How do you get something out of nothing?
I wonder if this question is sticky in our minds because it reflects our basic fears. We go to work each day because, if we don’t, we would likely run out of money and lose our home. We buy a house for ourselves because, if we don’t, we may not have a safe location to sleep at night. We fight for our constitution because, if we don’t, our rights may be taken away.
Is your mental picture of the world that of an empty stage on which is placed the scenery of life? That’s certainly what I’ve absorbed from my culture, and it seems like the essence of the Big Bang and the Biblical Creation story.
But is this the only question we could ask? Although the answers to how the Big Bang occurred or how God created the world are quite different, in both traditions the question itself seems agreed upon: “How do we get something out of nothing?”
Granted, there are other cosmological theories in physics that do not involve creating something out of nothing. For instance, the “steady-state” theory, in which the universe expands in size but matter is continually created in the empty space, leading to an eternal universe, was considered before the Big Bang theory gained popularity. The Big Bang is a theory based on significant evidence. It is not my interest to question the theory. It is my interest to question the question.
Could the Big Bang be a great answer to the wrong question?
“How do we get something from everything?”
This excerpt above is from the beginning of my 2021 book Leap to Wholeness: How the World is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt.
The book was released during the pandemic, so we never had any LIVE IN-PERSON EVENTS for this book. We’re gonna change that…I am SO excited to circle back and have a LIVE event!
If you don't live in the SF Bay Area, we'll soon send out information on video streaming for this event.
Free author event with Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Leap to Wholeness by Sky Nelson-Isaacs at
Books Inc,
1491 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA, 94710
(510) 525-7777
Thursday, June 6, at 7 PM
Welcome to a Leap to Wholeness
We are starting a new series of social media posts around my second book, Leap to Wholeness, How the World is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt. One of the big themes in the book is identifying the filters that color the way we look at the world and ourselves. When we can identify a filter or belief we have, without trying to change it, we naturally start to see it better and it's easier to see beyond it. I offer this as a way of healing our old patterns of behavior.