A Very Real and True Sense

A very real and true sense: 

recently I've developed a deep interest in cosmology, the science of the origin of the universe as well as its structure and how it has evolved. More so, there's a fascination of cultural views of this origin, how the universe came to be as told by religion and indigenous beliefs. It's interesting to note the diversity of these stories, how they reflect each unique culture, and just as amazing is to see the connections shared across such a wide spectrum of history and landscape, how similar some of these stories are in their recount of the origin of the universe and their personal world. In a very real and true sense - we all have our own unique cosmology, the beginning of our cosmic story, a Big Bang of consciousness and the vital realization that we exist...and are aware that this is so. 

in a very real and true sense - it's the universe awakening as ourselves.

each moment is a Big Bang of significance for us, an entire universe is shifted to our view, never quite seen this way again, always in motion, and even as this world is briefly noted it is already in the process of both destruction and becoming, a Shiva moment that bears our witness. Cosmology is an active story, it tells how the universe is expanding, awakening to itself, and it includes our individual stories as well, how we're part of the great awakening, aspects of consciousness by design and function. 

for me, this negates the hard problem of consciousness, if it's innate in the fabric and structure of the universe, or some happy accident of evolution, a chemical and biological function found in the arrangement of only certain points of matter. Either way, I'm alive, a universe of cells, molecules, atoms, and particles vibrating an urgency of existence, life, awake to itself and able to discern such vital information. 

in a very real and true sense - each moment is my origin story, a cosmology of deep importance. It's the universe awakening to itself, and in the very same instance being expressed uniquely as my potential, an ongoing story of this aliveness, aware, vital in my presence here. 

no less than the universe itself...

awakening. 

~

Peace, Eric