A Conscious Universe

As a word, “universe” seems quite small to be something that describes everything. With our eyes we can see the planets in our local system and a countless mass of stars in the sky. This view exhibits a wonderful example of the vastness and grandeur of creation even though it is but a tiny part of the whole universe.

New technology has made it possible to examine and record what appears to be the very edges of our reality behind the countless galaxies sprinkled throughout the immensity of space. Quantum physicians have begun to unravel the phenomena of cosmic strings to glimpse other dimensions separated from us only by a vibrational rate. New telescopic spectrum analysis has detected traces spread throughout space of the very elements and complex compounds that are essential to all life we are aware of.

It should not come as a great surprise that the potential for life exists everywhere within this universe. By allowing oneself to become open to the idea of life spread throughout all of reality we can come to a major question. With proof that the potential for life is universal, could not the universe itself be alive and the stars and galaxies we see but parts of its physical body? Is the observed dynamic nature of the life and death of stars possibly the equivalent to cellular birth and destruction on a cosmically biological scale?

Contemplating the vast physical body of the universe, it becomes easier to investigate this massive unit on a more comprehensible spiritual level. There are certain dynamics that would seem to mimic life as we understand it. The universe is still expanding. Living things grow bigger from birth. Stars are born, burn themselves out, and often explode in a shower of elements that will eventually gather with other elements to create some other star, planet, or space rock. Living entities as we know them, create new cells and eliminate the old in a cyclic pattern of continuation and growth.

Looking Through the Eyes of God

Self-awareness is not limited to humans. Most of the life we are aware of also has a sense of self-preservation, which indicates awareness. While we have yet to discover other worlds full of self aware life, statistically, there is more than enough room in this universe for life similar enough to recognize to have occurred a thousand times over.

A sense of awe at the immensity of the universe tends to create the concept of a super-consciousness, a “god” if you will, that infuses this great space. It has been scientifically established that life had the chance to emerge in the universe long before our planet was even formed. Could not the self-aware beings throughout the great body of this universe be there as a means for that entity to see inside itself and recognize its own existence?

Spiritually, we believe we are a part of “god.” On the physical level we are a part of the universe. Is it not possible that we are both at the same time?