"The universe is alive through our lives . . ."

Physician Deepak Chopra and physicist Menas Kafatos write in You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters: “We have seen that mind-like behavior isn’t a property of matter. Quite the reverse. When it wants to, the cosmic mind can take on the properties of matter. At the quantum level it can decide to behave like a wave or a particle. When such a choice is made, it’s a mental choice, which shouldn’t shock us. By definition, choices are mental.”

 

“The conscious universe embraces change, nonchange, and the state of potential change. This is another reason, and one of the most important, why the cosmos feels completely humanized once, you open up to the possibility.” We can live in a human universe, if we can see “beyond our current abilities, where we feel trapped by the physical world and hemmed in by its rules.” 

 

In short, “Cosmic mind isn’t done with us. A powerful evolutionary force has propelled the human cortex to unparalleled heights at unbelievable speed.” Isn’t our mind personal? Yes, our “mind feels personal” but at the same time it is cosmic. Imagine that you are a single electron flickering in and out of the quantum vacuum. As a single particle you feel like ‘me,’ an individual.” In reality, however, “you are an activity of the quantum field, and in your guise as a wave instead of a particle, you exist everywhere.”

 

Consciousness is the one reality, continuous and present in all that is. The universe is alive through our lives and all life. This is its meaning. Our purpose is to align ourselves with the creative consciousness of the universe.

 

Robert Traer, Extraordinary Experiences: On Our Way Home (2021), 247-248. Quotes from Deepak Chopra and Menas C. Kafatos, You are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters (2017), 207, 217, 218, 221-222.