Albert Einstein was a genius in so many ways; however, his view of the universe was so small compared to what we know today. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, but he saw the universe as static, unchanging. His view was that the universe was a large cloud of stars. How many he didn’t speculate.
What we know today is that our solar system is a small part of the Milky Way galaxy which is just one of FIFTY BILLION galaxies: each one with one hundred billion stars or more. We also know that the universe is not static but alive and expanding. But here is the big one. Out planet, our galaxy, and our universe is ALIVE- conscious.
Giorgio de Santillana, in his great book, Hamlet’s Mill said, “Man is unable to fit himself into the concepts of today’s astrophysics short of schizophrenia. Modern man is facing the inconceivable. Archaic man, however, kept a firm grip on the conceivable by framing within his cosmos an order of time and an eschatology that made sense to him and reserved a fate for his soul. Yet it was a prodigiously vast theory, with no concessions to merely human sentiments. It, too, dilated the mind beyond the bearable, although without destroying man’s role in the cosmos.”
This isn’t new thinking, it’s just a growing consciousness. The Bible speaks of all creation groaning, and Plato described the universe as, “One whole of the wholes and a single living Creature which encompasses all of the living creatures which are within it. ” This makes little sense to the small thinking egoic self that each of us listen to and embrace.
The significance of this growing consciousness, that the earth-universe is alive, is being propelled by a combination of scientific and spiritual efforts. Once we can get the religious crowd to quit trashing the scientific community and vice-versa we will be able to make even faster progress.
We need for the events that the scientific community seeing coming in December of 2012, and the Biblical messages that can be easily attached to 2012, to unite us to save our world.
