Mar 01, 2012, 17:02 IST

We are Spiritual Cosmic Stars !!!!!!!!

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Cosmologist Brian Swimme recounts the story of the universe and talks about why we should awaken to it.

Hydrogen turns human

What is the universe story? It's really simple, and here's the whole story in one line. This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: If you take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.

If Humans are spirutal so is Hydrogen

That's the short version. And what's amazing is that in the prejudice of our modern world, we tend to see hydrogen as just dead, material, odourless, colourless stuff. But from an evolutionary perspective, we realise that if you just take hydrogen, and you leave it alone, it eventually turns into a human. I think that's a pretty interesting bit of information. To me, it suggests that if humans are spiritual beings, then hydrogen is somehow spiritual too.


What happened after Big Bang?

This is the longer version: 13.

7 billion years ago, according to the most recent guess, the universe bursts forth as screaming hot elementary particles. It's not only trillions of degrees hot, it's also a million times denser than lead. So the universe doesn't begin as fire. It begins as something incredibly dense and hot that we can't even imagine. We just know it as mathematical equations. And then it begins to expand. After 300,000 years, it cools enough to form hydrogen atoms. As matter continues to cool and expand, it draws itself together into huge gaseous clouds.

When the universe is a billion years old, the galaxies flutter into existence, whoooosh, like snowflakes falling - one hundred billion galaxies. It's an incredible moment because that is the only time in the history of the universe when galaxies can form. Before that, it is far too dense and hot. After that, it becomes too thin and spread out.


How Humans come into being?

Eventually, in certain planetary systems around three and a half billion years ago, life begins to form - a huge transformation. Life emerges, and it begins to complexify around seven hundred million years ago. Later, advanced, more complex life-forms emerge, including us. There are various stages of humanity that we go through; our consciousness develops over hundreds of thousands of years. And finally, we arrive at this moment. We're now discovering ourselves in the midst of this great, cosmic story.

Here we are in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. There are two hundred billion stars. Lots of them have planets. Maybe a lot of them have intelligent life. It may be that a lot of planets will go through the same challenges that we're facing now. And if they don't make it, they'll die out. So the challenge before us is to see this bigger context. The very form of our consciousness has a cosmological significance that we didn't know about before. It may have immense implications for the galaxy as a whole.

We are a bunch of stars !!!!!

An evolutionary perspective like this gives us an incredible opportunity to escape the traditional dualism, in which spirit is "up there" and matter is "down here". Now, we can say that if matter exists at every stage of the evolutionary process, then spirit exists at every stage of the process, as well.

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