The discovery that the universe had a beginning 14 billion years ago has dramatically changed how we see our place in the cosmos. We now know that we are all part of a vast unfolding cosmic process that had a beginning, and that is apparently going somewhere.
We know we are going somewhere because the mysterious beginning of this process began with a monumental, creative leap from primordial nothingness to the dramatic emergence of energy and matter; and, with that, the beginning of time itself.
Around 10 billion years later, the miracle of life emerged from seemingly dead matter. And then around four billion years after that, the biggest and most important leap forward occurred with the emergence of mind. The universe developed the capacity to think, to conceive, to imagine.
The universe became able to bear witness to itself. And, our brains have evolved a highly developed capacity for consciousness and deep interiority.
From both a spiritual and scientific perspective, we recognise this universal creative unfolding as a virtually infinite process of becoming, with no end in sight. We recognise this process is one unbroken, unfolding, interdependent, unimaginably complex happening that never ends and that perpetually reaches beyond itself.
Evolutionary nirvana is fully awakening to the extraordinary implications of this profound and liberating truth.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
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