One of the most important aspects of a rational sense of spirituality will be a strong correlation with known scientific data.  Systems of rational understanding about the world we all share must be in agreement with instead of at odds with each other.  This page discusses theories that try to fit physics, philosophy, and spirituality together.

If an "infinite" omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnitemporal being exists, the question must be how could such a being exist relative to our reality of space and time, matter and energy?  Some thoughts I've had on this topic follow.

• How could a singularity exist relative to our space and time?  A singularity has no dimensions, ours has at least three, and some argue more.  Pondering this led me to the idea that the two could be connected and maybe even without breaking the physical evidence nor several of the mathematical models we have found that describe our reality fairly well.  If "the creator" is in essence a dimensionless "singularity" and our space-time is somehow a product of this singularity, then maybe the interface between space-time and this singularity are exactly what we see: infinite spatial and temporal boundaries!
• "Out side" of the space-time construction all things may be dimensionless and timeless.  A consciousness here would be everywhere and everywhen.  But here all things would be known and no choice would be possible because there is no space in which the choices can exist, no time within which to make a choice and take action, and indeed no actual need for choice.  Here, learning would both be impossible and unnecessary.
• To create an environment where choice becomes possible imagine a "pulling apart the heavens" to establish a space with linear and temporal dimensions.  The temporal dimension allows for actions, cause and effect, and the linear dimensions allow for distinctions between objects so we can all experience different things in different contexts.
• If space-time was created out of nothing, all systems within space-time would have to start and remain in balance.  All matter and energy would at every time sum to nothing.  Thermodynamic laws as we know them would hold.
• Philosophical duality could then form if the creator's presence is felt within space-time as one possible direction for choice within the system.  The system may then provide a mirror opposite of this "energy", similar to magnetism where a north pole cannot exist without an equal south pole, and thus motivations and energy of a creative direction would likely balanced with motivations and energy for a destructive direction.  The result could be an environment supporting choice with two apparently competing ideologies.

The above picture provides a necessarily naïve understanding of a juxtaposed timed and timeless reality.  The real challenge however is to map all energies and motivations found in temporal reality to the timeless reality.  Naturally the bulk of our language describes temporal reality and very few language constructs are timeless.  For example the words motivation, purpose, and creation all imply events which must occur within a temporal system.  What is difficult is to imagine how an omnitemporal or timeless being exists without these concepts.

For example, what would be the "actions" of a perfect timeless creator?  To exist in timelessness means no decisions can be made and no actions can be taken.  This makes sense if we consider that a perfect creator could create nothing but a perfect system.  Nothing in the system must be changed, and thus we have a creator that does not need to take action.

More difficult however is imagining a creator with out purpose.  Here a paradox is beginning to form and it is partly because I have chosen the word "creator" to name a timeless being.  Creation is itself a temporal construct.  A more appropriate name would include the other half of the picture, the concept of destruction, as well.  A perfect and timeless entity would of course be on hand for both the creation of and destruction of space-time.

The same "increase in awareness", via the inclusion of the opposites, can be applied to the other questions.  Infinite distance fundamentally makes no sense to us.  However if opposite endpoints of infinite space meet at some "place" there begins to be an awareness beyond space.  Since time and space are so closely interwoven, the endpoints of time and perhaps all energies contained within would "meet" at this same "place-moment".

An observation at this meeting point of opposites is that the opposites appear to become one and the same.  Here dimensional qualities appear to become insignificant and unimportant.  One might be led to ask, what is there that transcends space and time?

(continued philosphical discussion...)

Also on the subject of universal balance is the question of how will it all end?  Astronomers continue to gather evidence that appears to support the Big Bang origin theory, but this leaves a big whole at the "end of time".  The second thermodynamic law recognizes the tendency for all energy to disperse toward maximum randomness, but if this is true then what is to become of all of us?  Do we simply die out when the last sun disappears?  This doesn't fit the seeming balance of everything else about the universe.

But annoying also is the absence of the human factor from all these scientific musings.  Apparently, in our relative insignificance, theorists are quick to ignore the affect of conscious beings on the grand formulae.  (It could also be that in order for science to have made any headway what so ever, it had to first completely remove the human element.)

Interesting however is that we humans, mere infants on the universal scale, have already managed to convert matter to energy on a significant planetary scale (thermonuclear weapons) and energy to matter albeit on a minuscule scale (particle colliders).

To extrapolate both our growth in knowledge and our presence in the universe (which must surely happen provided we survive our immediate planet), the cumulative effect of all consciousness in the universe on the universal entropy could potentially have an effect some untold billions of years in the future.  And given what we have seen locally, is it not possible that consciousness itself could be the universal force which ultimately balances entropy?

Theories elsewhere suggest that consciousness might actually have a building-block nature, that each human consciousness is actually a critical mass of fundamental elements of conscious building blocks which exist naturally in the universe.  The existence of such bits of elemental conscious could both help explain the sudden appearance of consciousness in primates (the gaping hole in the evolutionary theory of our origins), as well as over time balance the second law of thermodynamics creating an eternal cycle of universal construction and destruction and thus giving temporal balance to the Big Bang theory.