WMAP
mission data of the Cosmic Microwave
Background birth of the
Universe. Credit: NASA
I have always dared to think the seemingly
impossible and many times I have been right but I have always sensed that our
universe has been continually cycling through a pattern of plurality, union and
a resultant burst of energy into something far more complex and conscious ~ and
always fueled by love and the universal propensity to unite: Allen L Roland
With the world economies mired in depression and debt and the American military
machine cranking up for Syria and Iran ~ I look to nature as well as deep space
for reminders that we are innately part of something far greater than ourselves
or as William Blake said “We
are put on earth a little space to bear the beams of love.”
In July,
2009 , NASA released what it called the most vivid snapshot of the infant
universe ever taken, captured with such
stunning detail that it may be one of the most significant scientific
achievements of recent years.
It appears to answer long-standing questions
about the age, composition and evolution of the universe as gathered by scientists using NASA's Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth,
during a 12-month observation of the entire sky.
Now it appears that scientists have seen
evidence of a time before the Big Bang, and perhaps a
verification of the idea of the cyclical universe.
One of the great physicists of our time, Roger Penrose from the University of Oxford,
published a new paper saying “ that the circular patterns seen in the WMAP
mission data on the Cosmic Microwave Background suggest that space and time perhaps
did not originate at the Big Bang but that our universe continually cycles
through a series of “aeons,” and we have an eternal, cyclical cosmos….and
that each “Big Bang” marked the start of a new aeon, and our universe is
just one of many in a cyclical Universe, starting a new universe in place of
the one before.” See article ~ http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2143/907/Eternal,_Cyclical_Universe_-_Evidence_of_Activity_Before_Big_Bang.html
But note how similar this is to Teilhard de Chardin’s Law of
Complexity Consciousness except on a much grander scale ~
Whereas Einstein was concerned with the without of things, Teilhard was concerned
with the within of things. Teilhard used the
term "within"
to denote the psychic face or consciousness of matter ~ since the beginning of
time ~ which reveals
itself in its innate urge to unite.
Teilhard defines this
innate urge to unite as an energy force in his famous Law Of Complexity -
Consciousness. The law states two principles:
1. Throughout all
time there has been an evolutionary tendency for all matter to unite and become
increasingly complex in nature.
2. With each increase
in material complexity, there is a related rise in the consciousness of matter and
an even greater urge to unite.
Teilhard divided this
fundamental energy into two distinct components ~ a Tangential energy which
linked the element with all others of the same order and a Radial energy
which represented the innate urge toward union and greater complexity as well
as a leap in consciousness.
It is this Radial energy
in matter, this deep urge towards union and completion, which eventually
manifests itself as LOVE.
As such, Teilhard's Radial
energy is one in the same with what I call a state of Soul Consciousness and
The Unified Field. A state of love and
soul consciousness that exists not only beyond time and space but also deepest
within ourselves ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to
unite.
If we compare this with Darwin's evolutionary theory, Darwin's only error was to
substitute matter for spirit as the motivating force of the Universe.
For it becomes increasingly clear, in light of this innate urge to unite, that
man is the product of an evolution of love. From the pre-atomic stage in the
depths of the primordial sea to his present ' hominized ' state ~ man is the
product of a seemingly endless evolution within a loving plan of plurality,
union and a resultant energy transformation into something more complex, more
conscious and more loving.
So why wouldn’t the
same thing be happening on a galactic and universal level?
Guess what ~
it is! Even on the molecular level !
The Initial
findings of the Large Hadron
Collider near Geneva, Switzerland unexpectedly revealed
last year that the emerging collision particles seem to fly in the same
direction which indicates an internal structure or consciousness, which, I
would claim, is a Unified Field of love and connectedness whose principle
property is the universal urge to unite. See article ~ http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/hadron-collider-reveals-universal-urge.html
Only our individual and collective state of ego
consciousness (the need to control and dominate others) stands in the
way of our awareness of not only a
loving plan in action but each of our individual
parts in that loving plan ~ which becomes obvious
when seen from outer space.
Here is a photo
of our planet from
Voyager I on February 14, 1990 as
it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance, having completed its primary mission ~ but not
before Carl Sagan signaled the space vehicle
to turn its camera and take one last photo of that pale blue dot we all live
on, called earth. Our planet was caught
in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the
image so close to the Sun. Voyager 1 is the last spacecraft to have departed
our solar system with a functional camera.
Our
Sun, which is
4.7 billion years old, is located 26,000 light-years away from the galactic
center on one of the spiral arms of our galaxy ~ the Milky Way. It is a location considered more
suitable than others for harboring life, in part because the central region
is too chaotic, and in part because the concentration of metals there is too
heavy, and it’s too light in the galaxy’s outer fringes.
The
Sun makes one complete orbit around the galaxy about once every 225 million
years. In
contrast, stars near the galactic center complete a lap in a few million years
or less. These stars as a group tend to be younger than the galactic average,
most ranging in age from 1 billion to 10 billion years old
Most of our
galaxy is relatively uncrowded ~ the nearest star to our Sun, for example,
is 4.2 light-years away. But roughly 10 million stars are known to orbit within
a light-year of the galaxy's center.
As Sagan said ~ “The Earth is a very small stage in a
vast cosmic arena, a lonely spec in the cosmic darkness “ but I maintain
we are an integral part of something far greater than ourselves and love is the
door we must open to experience this universal state of soul consciousness.
In other words, to fully blossom we must fully love: “ The sun knows
itself insofar as it knows other stars, as we know and become ourselves through
other humans. Our realization of the stars in the galaxy is a function of the
galaxies’ consciousness. How can we posit a dead universe when we ourselves are
alive? There is no bloom on a dead stem!” Rowena Pattee ( Our
living Earth: A vision of our Relationship with Nature )
Science
will surely remain one-eyed and lacking in depth-perception until it
acknowledges the equal validity of subjective, sensory and spiritual
experience. And it will continue to record the letter of mere mechanics, and
miss the true spirit that brings it all to life, until it comes to
recognize the universal urge to unite, even within the molecule itself, as being the universal attractive force of love.
No one
describes this scientific impasse more tellingly than Lincoln Barnett, author
of The Universe and Dr. Einstein:
"A
theoretical concept is emptied of content to the degree that it is divorced from sensory
experience ~ for the only world man can truly know is the world created for him
by his senses. Beyond that point he stares into the void.”
We are
rapidly reaching the point where psychology, science and religion are all
becoming aware of the growing need for a radical
empiricism.
One
of the biggest surprises revealed in the data of the first cosmic portrait of
the birth of the universe is that the first generation of stars to shine in the
Universe ignited only 200 million years after the Big Bang, which is much
earlier than many scientists had expected.
In addition,
the new portrait precisely pegs the age of the Universe at 13.7 billion years
old, with a remarkably small one percent margin of error.
When we observe
the red shift of galaxies outside our local group, every galaxy appears to be
moving away from us. We are therefore led to the conclusion that our
Universe is expanding. This is called Hubble
expansion, after Edwin Hubble, who discovered the
phenomenon in 1929.
But as the Universe
expands is it, in reality, feeling an increasing innate urge to unite?
Yes,
all those Galaxies in our expanding universe are awaiting
their innate call to union ~ as the millions of people on our
expanded crowded planet are also awaiting our
innate call to union.
Then, what is
the call?
The call, quite
simply, is love or the innate universal urge to unite.
Let me use
the findings of the recent Nobel Prize
winning researchers, Politzer, Gross and Wilczek, to prove my point.
They won
the 2004 Nobel prize in physics for their studies of the “strong Force “~ the powerful and mysterious energy that
holds the nuclei of atoms together.
They
explained the mystifying qualities of the strong
force, which holds together the fundamental building blocks of nature, called
QUARKS, to form protons and neutrons
~ two of the basic components of atoms.
Now,
this is when it gets interesting.
Independently,
they developed the theory and the mathematical equations to show that
Quarks are held together by the strong
force which, unlike any other force in the
universe, gets stronger as the
quarks get farther apart ~ a concept now known as “Asymptotic Freedom “.
The
simplest analogy is to a rubber band encircling two objects.
When the
objects are close together, the rubber band fits loosely. But as they are
drawn apart, the rubber band stretches, eventually trying to pull them back together.
Now, here is
my take on these findings as applied to my Unified Field of Love and Soul
Consciousness.
The strong force in the atom is the urge to unite which is
the principle property of my Unified Field.
It is the
same urge to unite that Bose and Einstein
found when they discovered that photons (light particles) have a
tendency to travel together versus act randomly ~ which eventually led to the
discovery of the laser.
It is also
the same urge to unite that Teilhard de Chardin speaks of when he wrote ~ If there were no real propensity to unite , even at a
prodigiously rudimentary level, indeed, in the molecule itself ~ it would be
physically impossible for love to appear higher up in the ' hominized ' or
human form .
It is also
the same urge to unite that loved ones feel when they are separated from each
other ~ and the further apart the stronger
the pull to be back together.
This would
also seemingly explain how the urge to unite would increase as the
Universe continues to expand.
As
such, it is a force that is stronger
than Gravity !
Thus, the
one constant of the universe would no longer be light at 186,000 miles per
second for even light particles ( photons ) are subject to this force field of
love ~ this driving urge to unite which exists not only beyond time and
space but also deepest within all matter.
And
this would also explain why mankind is in the process of uniting while we
seemingly are dividing and pulling away from each other.
And
finally, on an individual level, it would explain the evolutionary power of
love, altruism and social cooperation and how we can no longer
resist our innate pull and urge to unite versus separate,
isolate and dominate.
"Physicists call it entanglement, and it
describes the state of two or more particles once they have interacted with one
another. From then on, irrespective of time and space, a correlation will
always exist between them. What happens to one will affect the other
- even if they are now at opposite ends of the universe ...For if matter
emerged from energy in the singularity of the big bang, it would seem to follow
that all the particles of which it consists are in that state of correlation. They
have not become entangled, but at the fundamental level they have never been -
and can never be - separated. "
To further evolve we must love as Teilhard
reminds us (The Future Of Man) “Love has always been
carefully eliminated from realist and positivist concepts of the world; but
sooner or later we shall have to acknowledge that it is the fundamental impulse
of life. Or, if you prefer, the one natural medium in which the rising
course of evolution can proceed……It is through love and within love that we
must look for the deepening of our deepest self, in the life-giving coming
together of humankind. “
In a 2008 interview by TIME magazine, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse
Tyson was asked what he thought the “most astounding fact” about the
Universe was. Never at a loss for words, the famed scientist gave his equally
astounding answer. His response is in the video below, set to images and music
by Max
Schlickenmeyer.
In
summary
~ the great
dawning and, I would add, inevitable realization of psychology, science
and religion is that our separateness is an illusion measured by the state of
our consciousness and that our ultimate reality, once again measured by the
state of our consciousness, is the realization that we are all united and
part of an evolving, loving and indivisible
whole (The Unified Field) ~ and we resist it at our peril.
Very young
children are aware, as I was, of this universal truth and consciousness which
would explain Teilhard's quote ~ "
Till the very end of time matter will always remain young, exuberant,
sparkling, and new-born for those who are willing to love "
As
such, those who we love deeply become part of us forever.
Starting
with my twin and beloved grandfather ~ every person
I
have deeply loved in this lifetime, as well as in past lifetimes, still
lives in my heart. A thread of love
that exists beyond time and space.
Or, as
Longfellow so eloquently writes, "
The thread of all sustaining beauty that runs through all and doth all
unite.”
TO TRULY SEE, YOU MUST FIRST TRULY
OPEN YOUR HEART
Allen L Roland
Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist
and psychotherapist Allen L Roland
is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements
and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )
Allen L Roland is a practicing
psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and
social commentary on his weblog
and website allenroland.com
He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
