The creative nature of the universe

As with our physical death, the end of life on earth is certain. But the creativity of the universe will continue. For as with the origin of the universe, at the virtual level particles will continue to pop in and out of our known universe. This creative process does not depend on the energy from any star. It is the resonance of the universe from the Other Side of space and time, the virtual state that is timeless as well as “invisible and intangible but nevertheless real.” This virtual state cannot be observed and so cannot be measured from the side of our known universe.

Yet, its virtual activity involves something coming from “nothing” as virtual particles pop into the time and space reality we know. Physician Deepak Chopra and Physicist Menas Kafatos in their book You are the Universe suggest the best way to interpret this “virtual state” of possibilities is to consider our human waking state, when a word or idea simply pops into our mind. “Before you think or say the word,” they ask, “where is it? Words aren’t stored in a physical state in brain cells; instead, they exist invisibly but ready at hand—in a virtual state.”

How are we to understand this parallel between the way the universe is and how we are? Do human acts of consciousness confirm the fundamental creative nature of the universe? Perhaps our answers depend on how and why we find purpose and meaning in the universe.

From Robert Traer, Extraordinary Experiences: On Our Way Home (2021), 246. Quotes from Deepak Chopra and Menas C. Kafatos, You are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters (2017), 116.