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Before the Big Bang, our best evidence-based scientific theories now tell us, there was “nothing.” Or at least nothing intelligible; whatever “existed” had no dimensions or features. At the moment of the Big Bang, it is believed that all matter existed within a “singularity,” a “black hole” of infinite density, without any dimensions in space or time; neither space nor time had yet come into existence.

“In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down,” (Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time). Elsewhere, Hawking wrote, “The actual point of creation lies outside the scope of presently known laws of physics.” Or as Alan Guth, the MIT cosmologist, said, “The instant of creation remains unexplained.”

An ostensible proof based on modern physics: Close, but “sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar”
Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist, wrote that, by definition,

Time is that dimension in which cause and effect phenomena take place . . . If time’s beginning is concurrent with the beginning of the universe, as the space-time theorem says, then the cause of the universe must be some entity operating in a time dimension completely independent of and pre-existent to the time dimension of the cosmos. This conclusion is powerfully important to our understanding of who God is and who or what God isn’t. It tells us that the creator is transcendent, operating beyond the dimensional limits of the universe. It tells us that God is not the universe itself, nor is God contained within the universe.
If these implications of the Big Bang theory are true, then it would seem that a Creator God cannot be the same as the universe, as is the God of Baruch Spinoza’s pantheism (that Einstein ultimately adopted as coming closest to his religious sentiment). And if there is a God who was the creator or cause of the universe, such a God cannot be contained within the universe. The current theories of our best empirical scientists are now purported to show that there must be a God/Creator. Yet, if we examine what the evidence shows us, we will see that this still requires a leap of faith.

You may be like many Yoans who became uncomfortable when they first heard such words. If so, this type of “religious talk” may make you feel that we are trying to recruit you for some kind of “cult.” Indeed, we believe it is appropriate to be highly skeptical when a new world view is presented with the implication that you should consider it for yourself.
Well, if you don’t want to be bamboozled, led down the primrose path, conned or duped; if you don’t want to have the wool pulled over your eyes, hoodwinked, taken for a ride, or railroaded, then welcome to The Way of Yo. If for you, “seeing is believing,” then maybe you are one of us. If you don’t believe because someone said to; if you don’t just believe because it sounds good or because you’d like to; if you base your beliefs on the evidence you yourself can come to know, then The Way of Yo may just be for you.
In coming to understand The Way of Yo, it is important that folks who are uncomfortable with religion do not assume that the word “Yo” refers to what most of us have been taught to think of when we hear the word “God.” The common patriarchal, divisive illusions structured around the word-concept “God”—which is what the majority of Christians and Muslims think of as religion—have (in addition to whatever good they may have brought into the world) proven to be dangerous and, at times, terribly destructive. Note that this danger is acknowledged by virtually all religious believers; they just claim that it is the religious ideas and actions of others that cause such problems.
So, if you are one of those made uncomfortable by religion and want to learn about Yoism, it appears necessary that you suspend judgment until you understand what we mean by “Yo.” You will then see that there is no contradiction between enlightened, rational thought and Yoism. If then, you still find yourself feeling that Yoism would be more interesting to you without Yo, keep in mind that you are not alone; there are more than a few Yoans for whom Yo is irrelevant. For those Yoans who have a mystical sense of Yo, it is not a problem that others do not believe. The “God” we believe in would rather have you not believe in Yo, if you are happier that way, and—like those Yoans for whom Yo is irrelevant—you choose to join us and follow The Way of Yo without being a “believer.” Indeed, some folks just refer to “The Way of Yo” as “The Way,” or “The Heaven on Earth Movement.”

It should also be clear that we are not
trying to sell you Sky Cake (or pie).