Gregory Bateson wrestled the last ten years of his life with this most pressing question: "What is the pattern that connects?" What connects the crab nebula in the sky with the genes of a crawfish on earth or the genes in our body? The spiritual tradition proposes that the Cosmic Christ is "the pattern that connects". The ancient hymn of the letter to the Colossians states:

He is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible... Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity (Col. 1:15-17; emphasis mine). Does it matter that our spiritual tradition has a name for the Cosmic Christ and a grounding in a particular historical person who incarnates that Christlikeness? How would a scientist respond to this naming of "the pattern that connects"? The Cosmic Christ, seen as "the pattern that connects," affirms the scientific quest for such a pattern. It offers hope by insisting on the interconnectivity of all things and on the power if the human mind and spirit to experience personally this common glue among things.

The Cosmic Christ - Connector of Microcosm and Macrocosm

Another connection that the Cosmic Christ makes is that between the tiny and the magnificent, between the microcosm and the macrocosm. The Cosmic Christ is a "pattern that connects" proton and galaxy, human and neutron, human and supernovas. The Cosmic Christ assures us that nothing is trivial, for nothing is unconnected to the whole. Author: Matthew Fox

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