Thoughts From Jon ~

The Universe is in us, or, Even the Sun must die

The awakening is spreading so fast!

  I recently caught a video on Huffpost in which the celebrity astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked, “What do you think is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?”  The video is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/most-astounding-fact-unive... His answer is one which should delight and empower metaphysicians for a long time, and I encourage you to watch the video.

  In it, he talks about the molecular connection we share with the universe.  As I understand it (which is to say, imperfectly), besides Helium, all of the elements in the periodic table have been ejected from dying stars.  So, at the atomic level, we are made of the same stuff as stars.

  It’s the kind of thing you just “know” when you hear it but that you may have not put into words so clearly yourself.  And it is so juicy!  From his answer you can derive so much of what esotericists, arcanists, and metaphysicians have pondered for millenia. 

  At the humanitarian level, his statement is an ultimate rebuttal to any sense of racial or religious separation.  We are all composed of matter from the same supernovae.  No matter what looks or sounds different about us, our origins are ultimately the same.

  At an energetic level, it says a lot about the interaction between humans and energy.  If you are able to visualize a galaxy, if you can imagine the swirling and spinning components of the solar system, then you are close to imagining the way human consciousness operates within the field. 

  I predict that we will find a consciousness, similar to our own, at the center of every “galaxy” there is – the galaxy of a single atom must be formed by a singularity of some kind, some thing that “needs” to have unity.  (What is a black hole but ultimate Need?).  Similarly, any identifiable collection of atoms must be pulled together or given identity by the Need which forms it. 

  So, there is a need for you.  There is a need for the solar system we live in.  For each galaxy and ultimately for the universe itself.  Science will really be getting somewhere when it finds that singular need which gives the universe its identity, within which all known identities exist. 

  Did I just say that consciousness is need?  Oh my. 

  Another really interesting thing I thought of after watching that video is that it gives a beautiful example of the regenerative, life-giving truth about death.  These massive stars “died,” and from them we have been born. 

  For me, this is really significant.  The most egregious sin we humans can commit is to seek not to die.  Nothing separates us more from the Creator, from nature, from life itself than our fear of death.  And yet stars much greater than our own Sun have died so that we may be born.  What will arise from the ashes of your death?  Can you empower it with gratitude for your life? 

  Whoops, sorry!  My crown in 26 Libra just goes there so fast….

  If we are going to save ourselves from extinction, we are going to have to let many aspects of our current ways of life die.  Which has something to do with personal deaths.  And our society isn’t geared towards letting anything go.  For instance, because of factors such as the acidification of the oceans, we’ll most likely have to give up flying so much.  I’m pretty sure that in 10 years’ time, we won’t be flying over to Hawaii every time we get tired of the grayness.   Which is going to change how we think of vacations, which is going to force us to let certain vacation dreams go – there is a death there. 

  But what do we gain?  What if we actually learned how to love where we are instead of wishing we could be somewhere else?  Would that be worth the death of the urge to escape?

  The truth is, our “patriarchal” society has negated death in so many ways there is no way I could effectively discuss them in anything less than a book.  We have done everything we can to deny things as basic as the menstrual cycle simply because it is something men can’t relate to or control.  There is a cycle of letting go in that.  Our society wants us to stay in the egg phase, maximally extroverted, sensation-oriented and forever young. 

  But stars have died so that we can be born.  Maybe the only thing unique or individual about us is the energy vortex, the need, which constellates as our individuality.  And in that we are just like all forms of life within the universe – from the atom to the whole shebang.  Let it go.  Everything else does.

  Perhaps the ideal model for a future society could be based on a forest.  Everything in the forest contributes, with its very life, to a better world for its progeny to live in.  In the next couple of months, we are going to be experiencing an astrology of letting go which is rare in its intensity, in what it asks us to let go.   May you, like the forest, understand that growth and harmony includes many kinds of dying.

  I ask you, how have you bettered the world you live in today?  When it is time for you to go, will you not be glad for what you have done, what you have tasted and known?  Or will you resent your passing?

  There is love, there is need.  What do you gain when you give up the rest?  It is not for me to judge, for I do not know what kind of tears stars shed. 

 

May you give life with your deaths.

 

Jon