In The Beginning

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS THE UNIVERSE!
The Universe, that is to say, all that exists, comprises the living, expanding, ever-evolving ORGANISM UNIVERSE. It is hard for us to comprehend, but it is true. The Universe, Itself, is the supreme Organism. We humans are just a very minute part of the living whole organism, just as those microscopic mites that live on our skin are a very minute part of the human organism. And as the mite has no conception of its living host, so the human has been, and still is, for the most part, incapable of comprehending the truth of our own existence. This is not really such a difficult concept to grasp, it is just a different way of looking at things; the same things we’ve always inwardly known. These truths are still valid but now must begin to be understood from a different point of view. It may be hard to conceive of the Universe as a living entity, and maybe even harder to conceive of this Living Universe as the Supreme Intellect, but if we try, we might learn how to Change our minds.
Writing in the introduction to Stephen Hawking’s ‘A Brief History Of Time’, Carl Sagan tells us that, "We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Except for children - - few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way ikt is; where the cosmos came from, or whether it was always here; if time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or whether there are ultimate limits to what humans can know. There are children - - who want to know what a black hole looks like; what is the smallest piece of matter - - how it is, if there was chaos early, that there is, apparently, order today; and why there is a universe.In our society it is still customary for parents and teachers to answer most of these questions with a shrug, or with an appeal to vaguely recalled religious precepts. Some are uncomfortable with issues like these, because they so vividly expose the limitation of human understanding.But much of philosophy and science has been driven by such inquiries. An increasing number of adults are willing to ask questions of this sort, and occasionally they get some astonishing answers. Equidistant from the atoms and the stars, we are expanding our exploratory horizons to embrace both the very small and the very large"
It appears that as the human race continues the exploration if its universe, we become capable of seeing both smaller and smaller, and at the same time, larger and larger, with all that we see a part of the same Universe. We just have to open our eyes and accept what we see.....