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Beyond the Veil:
If the Cosmos is conscious, it begs the question, for what purpose?
One night in bed, before turning out the light, I broadcast to God:
‘Whatever you are, I love you.’
And then enquired:
‘Why is there so much darkness in the world?’
During my sleep came a reply:
‘I just shaded it in.’
We have a tendency in the so called ’developed world’, to set ourselves apart from the natural world, by vainly declaring the inferiority of other life forms and fooling ourselves that we are in some way detached - us here, nature over there.
But whether we like it or not, we are as natural as the wind and the rain, the sun and the moon. You and I are no less, and no more meant to be, than anything or anyone else.
As such, who we are, what we are, our thoughts, our actions, are articulated through the prism of the natural Universe: kindness/cruelty - joy/sorrow - humility/arrogance - courage/cowardice - triumph/despair - dignity/shame - serenity/rage - love/hate - loyalty/betrayal - honesty/deceit - acceptance/denial - justice/injustice -dedication/indifference - wisdom/ignorance - sanity/madness - pleasure/pain - strength/weakness - optimism/pessimism - hope/fear ... all manifest by the Cosmos.
Could it be that we are a microcosm of the Universe? That the Universe too, must experience and assimilate a panacea of emotion in order to release and fulfil its potential, to feel, learn, become self-aware. Is life, with its myriad of possibilities and frightful extremities, vital to the Universe; enabling it to acquire deep insight, to grow, evolve? Maybe the expanding Universe is literally the expansion of the Universal Mind? God’s consciousness, increasing and accelerating towards what? Big Bang? Infinite self-knowing? Eternal reawakening? Cosmic enlightenment? Rebirth? Genesis? … God only knows!
For what it’s worth, I sense that there is rhyme and reason, that we are not only part of a conscious Universe, but also a compassionate one; a Universe that seeks to understand itself through us, as we seek to understand ourselves through it, for beyond question, ultimately, its destiny is our destiny.
If the Cosmos is conscious, it begs the question, for what purpose?
One night in bed, before turning out the light, I broadcast to God:
‘Whatever you are, I love you.’
And then enquired:
‘Why is there so much darkness in the world?’
During my sleep came a reply:
‘I just shaded it in.’
We have a tendency in the so called ’developed world’, to set ourselves apart from the natural world, by vainly declaring the inferiority of other life forms and fooling ourselves that we are in some way detached - us here, nature over there.
But whether we like it or not, we are as natural as the wind and the rain, the sun and the moon. You and I are no less, and no more meant to be, than anything or anyone else.
As such, who we are, what we are, our thoughts, our actions, are articulated through the prism of the natural Universe: kindness/cruelty - joy/sorrow - humility/arrogance - courage/cowardice - triumph/despair - dignity/shame - serenity/rage - love/hate - loyalty/betrayal - honesty/deceit - acceptance/denial - justice/injustice -dedication/indifference - wisdom/ignorance - sanity/madness - pleasure/pain - strength/weakness - optimism/pessimism - hope/fear ... all manifest by the Cosmos.
Could it be that we are a microcosm of the Universe? That the Universe too, must experience and assimilate a panacea of emotion in order to release and fulfil its potential, to feel, learn, become self-aware. Is life, with its myriad of possibilities and frightful extremities, vital to the Universe; enabling it to acquire deep insight, to grow, evolve? Maybe the expanding Universe is literally the expansion of the Universal Mind? God’s consciousness, increasing and accelerating towards what? Big Bang? Infinite self-knowing? Eternal reawakening? Cosmic enlightenment? Rebirth? Genesis? … God only knows!
For what it’s worth, I sense that there is rhyme and reason, that we are not only part of a conscious Universe, but also a compassionate one; a Universe that seeks to understand itself through us, as we seek to understand ourselves through it, for beyond question, ultimately, its destiny is our destiny.