Sponge Bob: Nothing but Silly
I must make a confession. I enjoy ‘Sponge Bob’ cartoons on TV. For those who may not know, ‘Sponge Bob’ is cartoon sponge character who lives under the sea in ‘Bikini Bottom.” I confess because many adults would consider this show silly, worthless and a waste of time. I even know some parents who do not allow their children to watch this cartoon series. I must admit it is a silly, childlike satire of life but that is what it makes it so endearing to so many children and some adults like me. It is a show about innocence and makes fun of the everyday adult world where everything, like driving a car or eating a sandwich strives to be meaningful. It is about ‘nothing’ as best as you can do and still communicate.
Yesterday I brought you an article about how growing your own food in a garden has a double meaning: the visible one of eating the healthy food you grow and the invisible one of how messing with the soil has natural mental and physical health benefits.
The invisible world, the world beyond our physical senses is real. The nothingness of Silence allows us to communicate with this world beyond; messing with the soil extends us mental and physical benefits beyond our senses; ‘Sponge Bob’ touches on the funny bone in our imagination.
As scientist, like gardeners, dig deeper in the real world the world beyond gets clearer. As spiritual persons, like Thomas Merton, dig deeper into the world beyond this world becomes clearer.
I am now reading a book by Jim Douglas, a spiritual writer turned investigator, called “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters.” Here this spiritual writer of such books as the “Nonviolent Cross” very meticulously covers every detail of the assassination of President Kennedy. He details every fact and like lifting a major rock from the soil, uncovers a very powerful “unspeakable” force that killed Kennedy and is alive today. It is fascinating that in this very detailed, factual account of the assassination, Douglass used Thomas Merton as his inspiration. Merton is someone who came at this same event from the world beyond and coined the word “unspeakable” referring to the dark powers that killed JFK.
How did we go from Sponge Bob to this book on the assassination of JFK? The connection between Sponge Bob and JFK is nothing and yet, we know, is real.
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