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Matter's Career In The
Physical Universe
This
page deals with the career of matter in the physical universe. See
the pages about the Basic Split,
the Human Body, and the
Life Form page to read about
its role as the intimate partner of the spiritual being in living
life.
As
we have not seen any illustrations of creation that also included the end
of the universe by way of
Entropy, and its transition into a new
Grand Cycle, here is a very simple
diagram of how we imagine the whole story. Of course, about anything
outside of Earth or before Earth, we can only speculate, just like
the scientists do... Click on any item of interest to jump to the corresponding text.
The Stages Of A
Universe
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Light:
The first physical creation, according to
both physics and religion, is light, the finest and
energetically strongest form of energy. Physics cherishes
the
Big Bang theory, while religion sees the Supreme
Being bring it forth by will power. Maybe both are the same
thing? Our imagination, or is it a perception, tells us that
even before the light, in a gigantic storm of joy and
enthusiasm, the Great Spirit makes space - which will keep
growing for a long time, to hold all the phantastic works of
art that Spirit is now going to mould. |
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Stars:
After the first unimaginably hot and dense
moment of existence, the universe expands quickly. Clouds of
matter start to rotate and contract. After millions of
years, the gravity that is forming causes such a high
pressure that the matter particles heat up and start a
reaction of
nuclear fusion. This reaction produces heat,
light, and all sorts of other energy rays. It is this energy
that feeds all plants, and therefore all animals and human
people. Also, in this "furnace" where atoms repeatedly merge
and add up to bigger atoms, the
heavier elements like
carbon, silicon or iron are made that are later used to
build rocks and water and all the precious sculptures that
we call life. Have a look at our own dear home star
here - we have built an observatory watching it 24/7,
orbiting Sun exactly where its gravity balances that of
Earth: the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or
SOHO. |
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Planets:
Not all the matter in a center of gravity
contracts into the central sun. Following a mathematical
formula, other bodies form farther out. They cool down into
planets that from now on rotate around their central sun
in
predictable orbits.
Some of them have their own satellites, called moons. Some
develop tiny life forms, like ants, earthworms, and human
beings... |
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Magma:
Those planets who are lucky enough to have heavier
elements in their mix of matter, will now solidify. Others
stay gaseous. There might be liquid planets around as well -
but there is always a core of heavier materials in the
center of any planet. |
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Rock:
The
Lithosphere. After cooling down long enough, planets like Earth
or Mars now have a rocky surface. While they are form a
solid crust, their inside still consists of
Magma. If they are big enough to
have a good gravity, they will keep the gaseous parts of the
element mix from taking off into space, and form an
atmosphere. |
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Water:
The
Hydrosphere. If there is both hydrogen and oxygen in their
atmosphere, and the planet cools down enough, we'll have
liquid water. On Earth, all life has first developed in the
"primordial soup" in the oceans. Apparently this happened
because electric discharges "ignited" chemical reactions in
water with the molecules needed for the building blocks of
life - a student of chemistry and his friend demonstrated it
in the laboratory in 1953. |
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Wildlife:
The
Biosphere. Two big steps were necessary to see all the
life that we find in the forests, oceans and in the air
today: the step from one-celled to multi-celled organisms
(thought to be paralleled by the merging of individual
spiritual beings into a
group consciousness),
and the ability to use sunlight as energy source for cell
growth (photosynthesis). Only the plants have learned this, but they process
enough sunlight that all animals and human beings can live
on food made from solar energy. This is one of the big
miracles of creation, trivially called the
Food Chain. |
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Sentient Beings:
Human beings may not be as smart as the term
Homo Sapiens ("wise man",
ha ha) suggests, but like many other
intelligent species in the universe they are "aware to be
aware", so that they must be called sentient beings. Whether
their wisdom is substantial enough that they can live out
the whole lifespan that the unevitable end of the
biosphere
would allow them, is still an open question. As they are
endowed with divine essence, they can be quite good at
bringing order to chaos, but many of them do the opposite -
bring chaos to order - for instance to the beautiful order of
nature. Sentient beings typically form civilizations - ours
is one example. Human civilization, as we speak, may be
playing an interesting role in the
Screenplay of a
cosmic lesson? |
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Ice:
The end of the
Biosphere. That our Earth will freeze over one day is
pretty certain. Whether we will still be around to see it
happen, is a different question! Hopefully we will have made
our way to new planets by then, or maybe we will live in
spaceships. Or we went extinct, like the dinosaurs - thrown
into the dustbin of evolution as another failed experiment.
Or we developed Bodies of Light, as the Bible suggests, and
don't need physical bodies anymore? In any
event, the frozen Earth will then be swallowed by our
exploding Sun when it turns into a
Red Giant, millions of years before this sun will
finally burn out. |
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Dead Matter:
The end of stars and planets. The law of
Entropy dictates
that all matter moves inevitably toward a state of no motion
- that would mean it all goes cold and dark. All planets and
suns would turn to ashes, and forever float around at an
absolute zero point in a completely dark universe, unless
there were something like the
Big Crunch that some scientists imagine could happen
- the opposite of the Big Bang. They see all the dead matter
disappear in a black hole... which could have a white hole
on its other side in a neighbouring universe, thereby forming a
Schwarzschild Wormhole? |
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Matter Melting:
With some intuition, and a bit of empathy with our
Divine Parent, we could also imagine that after holding so
much space open for such a long time, he really wants to
rest now, and not only stops making new fireworks, he also
stops holding open the space (just think how much your arms
ache after holding them up for only a minute, even without
supporting a whole firmament!) As space
contracts more and more, countless gigatons of dead matter
are compressed so much that they heat up again and start to
melt... |
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Matter Vaporizing:
With space more and more contracting,
matter is no longer just melting, it vaporizes and then
moves into even higher
states of
aggregation. We can now speculate: does it get
pumped into a neighbouring universe through a
Schwarzschild Wormhole? Or is its
rate of vibration
cranked all the way up into the range of subtle
energy, so that the Supreme Being finally can absorb
it again into a zero point, similar to the one from where he
first blew out the big soap bubble of a universe? Or after
an infinite time of resting, does he get fascinated again by
his old toy of highly concentrated matter, which stays
boiling hot and
fresh like on its first day in its thermos flask of a
minimally small space? Does he finally start to play again,
and initiate a new
Grand Cycle? Oh, what a
movie! |
Concepts Used On This
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Creation:
One of the two basic urges of the Supreme
Being, All-That-Is, or God. The urge to act. Or to
bring order into chaos. Or to play! For
human beings there is plenty of stuff around that they can
use for playing, but God has to create from the void, or
there would be nothing, not even empty space. His instincts
are quite similar to the creative
instincts of an artist. If we feel our way into the energy
that motivates the creation of a galaxy, there is an immense
ambition to self-express, a sparkling playfulness, a childlike
joy to juggle very peculiar details, but also a gentle
patience to give it all the time in the world to slowly,
slowly unfold. In the beginning of creation,
the urge to act is very dominating. Then over a long time it
is dancing a ballet with
Entropy, the second
basic urge. Finally entropy gains momentum and creation
ceases. |
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Entropy:
The second basic urge of the Supreme Being,
All-That-Is, or God. The
urge to rest - balancing the outbursts of
creation. Physics sees it more pragmatically as the tendency of energy
to equalize toward a final state of equilibrium or
no-motion. As soon as creation (bringing order into chaos)
ceases, order de-evolves back into chaos. |
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 Expansion:
Physics believes that after a
Big Bang, where a universe comes suddenly into
existence after there has been none before, this universe's
space keeps expanding at a steady rate. They have dug up
sophisticated evidence for that, like
Doppler Images that show that galaxies
all around us keep
moving away. Theoretically, if we remember what we have
learned at school, the expansion of a space means that the
matter contained in it cools down, because its molecules
move apart from each other. Now we could not really say that
our Sun is overly cool, so obviously the Great Spirit has
found a way to maintain centers of heat in this more and
more chilly
universe: he concentrates so much matter in one spot that it
develops an attraction (gravity) that pulls its particles
together. So in this area of the universe the particles of
matter are tricked into believing that space has actually
contracted, and they move very closely together and heat up.
After a while they are hot enough to start a
nuclear fusion.
In this way, the
heavy elements are made that are later used
to build rocks and water and all the various forms that we
call life. |
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Contraction:
Some scientists believe that at the end of
the universe, there is a
Big Crunch - space starts to contract until it
disappears - the opposite of the
Big Bang, the explosion of space which starts a universe. We cannot really
understand why they believe that all the burned out suns and
frozen planets and moons will stay black and dead as they
move closer and closer together and finally disappear in a
black hole (might well be a
Schwarzschild Wormhole). In our understanding,
matter that gets compressed more and more would have to heat
up again, like described in the Matter
Melting paragraph and the next one following, with its
molecules breaking up into atoms, and its heavier atoms
breaking up into smaller ones, probably going even beyond
that to a state where there is only pure energy left. So we
would arrive at a pristine state of matter again that is
exactly the same as at the start of the universe. Matter
would then have gone full circle. It would have turned back
from a huge museum full of dusty old paintings and sculptures to
a small cabinet full of soft fresh clay, clean canvas and sparkly
new colors - just waiting for the artist to come up with new
inspirations - ready to go into the next
Grand Cycle! |
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Zero Point:
This is the point where nothing exists, not
even empty space - but all could come about. The true home
of the Supreme Being, where he is not split up into many
individuals, but one concentrated whole, which is not
looking, because there is nothing to look at. If you sense
your way into this zero point by moving into the viewpoint
of the Supreme Being, the feeling in it is that of a
boundless suspense. He is not present and not absent, not
eager to act and not longing for rest, not wide and not
narrow, not powerful and not weak - he is all of that and
none of it at the same time. But he is deeply saturated with
the certainty that from this point of ultimate balance, he
could lean outward into any direction he wants to explore in
the next instant.
This is why we have said that in this
eternal moment of no space, no time and no existence, the
Supreme Being is fully awake. Only there he is not unaware
of something. As soon as he decides to leave that point, he
starts to experience states of not being some things by
being some other things. Where he is light, he is no longer
dark. Where he is mass, he is no longer empty space. Where
he is hot, he is no longer cold. He experiences "not
resting" by acting, and "not acting" by resting. He
experiences "not being weak" by being strong, and "not being
strong" by being weak... and so on, countless polarities
like that. The only moment where he is truly complete, is
when he is nothing at all.
The greatest "not" experience is that
of not being
Others by being a
Self. Here we
have an endless reservoir of potential pain that people
cause when they hurt each other because they have forgotten
that the other person is part of themselves. Also here we
have the endless reservoir of joy that people bring to each
other in the many possible expressions of love, be it words
like letters or poetry, gentle touching, passionate
embraces, inventive and playful or spontaneous and wild sex,
going to work every day to make money, taking care of a
household, raising children, protecting the environment so
that there will still be a planet, a stage for all these
many movies in the
incarnations to come... things so fascinating, so
captivating that we forget that ultimately it is always the
same thing, always the same thing: God playing hide and seek
with himself.
Lyssa Royal,
the famous channel who explains humanity’s galactic history in
her book
The Prism of Lyra, suggests that we are heading for a
major amalgamation of separated threads of consciousness
(individual spiritual
beings - in other words, you and me and our kids and
great grandparents) into
group consciousness identities.
Probably a Creator who could make a perfectly structured
organism like an elephant only a few million years after
having one-celled organisms first assemble themselves from
primitive molecules in the primordeal soup, can manage that
too... better than new life forms that mark their territory
with terrible odors... skunks are tame in comparison, they
spray only when they are attacked... |
Science
And Religion - Two Half Wisdoms
One
very peculiar thing jumps into view immediately when we think about
our universe and its Creator: both traditional natural science and
traditional religion miss half of the picture.
Tradtitional natural science has no concept of creation (newer
schools like
Quantum
Physics are slowly getting there). Traditional religions on
the other hand see God as the Creator of everything that exists and
lives, but see death and de-evolution (Entropy)
as a force opposed to God. Entropy, however, is a central concept of
traditional physics, so we see it mirroring religion in the other
direction:
Science does not know how creation starts, religion does not understand how it ends!
We
are hopeful though that science is going to find out sooner rather
than later, staying on a level, or better catching up with
visionaries, intuitive people and channeling folks - another very
encouraging development that has already been mentioned ages ago in
the Bible: "God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit
searches all things, even the deep things of God." (1 Corinthians
2:10).
The
really ultimate Creator would have to include both of these forces,
creation and its counterpart, as there can be nothing outside him -
there goes the myth of a Devil! Also we have learned nothing about
the flip from the end of one universe to the beginning of the next in our school years.
Physics has come up with a really charming idea here, the idea of a
Schwarzschild Wormhole.
The Schwarzschild wormhole - a pump of
energy
between two neighbouring universes.
The
Schwarzschild Wormhole
The
Schwarzschild wormhole idea works with the model of several
universes, as pictured on our page about the
human world. Two of
them are
connected by a black/white hole - black in the universe from where
it pumps the energy out into the other one, where the same point of
connection would appear as a
white hole, a powerful source of fresh
[light] energy (not the same as a star,
which forms from clouds of hydrogen and produces light by nuclear
fusion).
Now,
how many such universes the Supreme Being has in operation at any
given moment is of course not visible to a resident of one of these
universes. If there are really more than one, the question is
whether there is ever a moment where all of them are contracted - or
is it a principle of existence that some of them always expand,
while others always contract, and the energy is pumped around
between them? Then God would never rest, and the
Grand Cycle
described by the ancient scriptures illustrates only one of these
universes, and the agonizing riddle of the
perpetuum
mobile has been solved.
Our
diagram of the physical universe at the top of this page deals only with one universe.
The "zero point" through which the energy is injected into the
universe at its start, and drawn back out of it at its end, could
well be a Schwarzschild wormhole. On the other hand, the Supreme
Being - being unhappy with the fact that his canny tricks
were found out by us today - could think up a completely new and much less pleasant model tomorrow,
like a universe where everybody has to wear high heels, or a
universe where every swear word is punished with chewing gum growing
in our hair - so we
will not insist on this theory too loudly.
The
Consciousness of Matter
Natural science does not consider anorganic compounds to have
consciousness, and in the organic world consciousness is seen as a
product of brain function. The experiences reported by people who
have remained conscious, or regained consciousness after physical
death ("Near Death Experiences", NDE's) seem to
change this
picture...
Actually to play its role in the big movie of
creation,
matter has to be perceptive
in its own very small range, at the
zoom
level of atoms and molecules. Very spiritually able people can zoom
in to that level and "look through the eyes" of an atom or
molecule. They can "see", or rather feel, how their inner design
urges them to associate with other individuals of the same kind by strong
forces of attraction. They can feel the exact right distance these
atoms or molecules need and want to have from each other, and the
exact right arrangement in space, where they feel comfortable and at
peace - the others are not too near and not too far, and everybody
is in their perfect position. To the human eye, such a construct
looks like a crystal. To an atom or molecule, it is a community - like a village
or city. Wouldn't it be great if humans would listen to their
feelings so well, and have so perfectly structured communities?
Community (crystal) of SiO2
molecules (quartz) - what an awesome architecture! |
As if holding hands, SiO2
individuals (quartz) have found their perfect distance and
position in space... if only humans could feel these things with
such a natural and comfortable certainty! |
Humans have mostly lost
their feeling for the perfect comfortable distance between
individuals, as it is programmed by nature. They not only do
this to chickens - also to themselves and each other... if
tiny molecules, who don't have any brain, can feel these
things so very well, what keeps humans from listening to
such feelings, and even more important, trusting them? |
Consciousness
in Chemistry and Biology
Other communities of matter involve "people"
(molecules) of
different kinds. They are roughly grouped into the anorganic and
organic categories. Anorganic would be the various forms of rock
that geology covers, the chemicals that are contained in these
rocks, then the dissolved chemicals when rock is met by rain, the
interaction of chemicals in rivers and lakes, and finally ocean
and air chemistry. Organic would be the whole chemistry based on
carbon - carbon based molecules both natural and synthetic -, which
over many steps leads to the evolution of first one-celled and then
multi-celled organisms. More about the human organism on our page
about the Human Body.
The exact point where organisms can be called
life forms is not
really determined. Certainly sentient (intelligent) life forms are
not the only life that has some kind of consciousness. Is a cat or a
dog animated by spirit? Pet spirits have been seen in the astral
planes (the non-physical world where we live between incarnations)
by out-of-body explorers.
Why pets, not vultures or earth worms? The
theory is around that pets are
ensouled by interacting with loving
owners. So, are wild aggressive stray dogs ensouled or not? How
about cows, do they wait for us in the afterlife to blame us for
slaughtering them? Do we really have to do as some Buddhist monks do
- sweep the floor in front of our feet, so we don't squish an ant or
bug as we walk?
Ecology
And The Food Chain
Debates about this can go on forever. There was
a discussion on a mailing list whether the use of deodorants is a
murderous crime - after all, we kill so many microbes with it! One
thing is certain: without the
Food Chain there would be no
ecology -
the planet would tilt into disaster in a very short time - its
ecological balance is very delicately built on plants and animals eating
each other - that's right, plants eat animals - they feed on their
excrement and also on the chemicals they release when they decompose
after dying.
The death of individuals is accepted as a
natural part of this pattern. Organisms apparently at the top of the
food chain - predators and the human being - are eaten by the
smallest organisms - microbes - when they die, so we have a full
circle going from the top right to the very bottom. Toppling the food chain
by taking the
carnivore and
omnivore members out of it would destroy the whole balance of
ecology.
So, a person who cannot agree with eating
(vegetarians have no excuse - plants are "people" too!) better does
not incarnate at all. It seems that animals are more at peace with
being eaten though than human beings. Maybe they are still in touch with the innate
construction plan of creation, while we have stopped listening to
it?
In any event, we mainly trust biological
organisms to take care of themselves - unless we want them to work
for us for the time of an
incarnation. But
before that can happen, we need to understand ourselves. As
spiritual beings, we are on the other side of the
basic split into spirit and matter.
Continue our theory tour with the
Entropy page (how things
end in the material world - includes an important chapter about
Healthy Old Age),
or jump directly to how
Spirit splits
into individuals. This page also gives you an overview of the main
concepts used in Life Lesson Processing (LLP).
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