Creation

Atoms, particles, space, time, memory...ahahh.  All the ideas that I tend to wonder.  The idea that there was a 'beginning' and will be an end I always tended to think was man's ego.....and still do.  It seems to me that if I just happened to be apart of the pretty neat thing called life, which started and will not last forever than I must be quite special.  However, I tend to lean towards the idea that atoms, energy, whatever you want to insert, was always here in some form or another and slowly or quickly morphing into other forms.  What is neat is that this is happening right now, parts of me are leaving me become other forms while particles all around me around interacting with me!  So really what are we, do we really exist? (Just kidding :)Kind of mind blowing though.

Martin Rees, in his article "Just Six Numbers", talks about how vastness of the universe tends to make people feel insignificant yet it is quite the contrary since if it wasn't for all the happenings coming together exactly how it did then we would not be here.  Although I have not always agreed with this idea I definitely has evolved to believing in it.   It isn't chaos, there is a contrived order of operations that is happening based on electrons and protons which is quite magnificent.

It does seem quite easy to think of how vast the world is and to feel so small in comparison.  But when did looking at a whole and comparing it to one of its part become fair?!  Obviously, we are a piece of it all-- but how amazing that it is so.

The idea that Atkins talks about in his article, "Creation Revisited", that the deep structure of change is decay beautiful.  The whole death-rebirth-death-rebirth cycle, or as Maynard puts it "life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life"...you get the point.  More so that change happens because of the quality of energy not the quantity is deeper than I have accounted for yet.

I have thought solely as change simply being a dispersal of energy that happens based on it's quantity changing.

"We, however, can see that achieving being there should not be confused with choosing to go there." (Atkins)  As the observer (of life) I often wonder how things came to be.  I want to understand why the atoms or created matter chose to come together, by recognizing that achieving and choosing are separate (which many sessions of yoga has been trying to teach me) it allows a different idea and acceptance to surface.