The History of The Universe And Your Purpose (sorta)

Sooo, you’re considering a career change.

• Maybe the economy got ya.
• Maybe just unfulfilled. Sick of selling your soul to tha man

Well, either way, you’re in a good place. I mean, not just the fact that you’re here listening to me, that too, but I mean you’re in a good place in your life.

I’ll try to help put things in perspective a bit:

In The Beginning…

About 14 billion years ago out of nothing, in a flash, the whole universe erupted into existence. I mean literally in a flash. For those of you who don’t watch discovery channel, it basically started with a big bang. We don’t know what caused it, we’re still workin on that one. But what we know fo sho, is that at one moment there was nothing, just pure potential, no minerals no rocks no nothing…but energy. And the next moment, BLAM! In like a nanosecond everything flew out of this one spot and just exploded into being. Pure craziness.

Stuff floated around and banged into each other for about the next 8 billion years. Literally, it banged into each other. And that banging into each other, due to the weirdness of gravity in space, caused stuff that banged together to partially stick together. And the leftover particles from the collisions just kind of floated around where the collision occured. Anyway, stuff turned into planets and moons and stars and such. Billions of them…

And in one little corner of the universe, about 6 billion years ago, Earth was formed by one such event. A star exploded (called a supernova). The left-overs scattered. At the site the leftover star was burning bright and hot. Its our sun. And some of the bigger chunks that hung around got pulled in by gravity and started rotating around the sun and our galaxy was formed. We call it the Milky Way. In actuality, it is one of millions of galaxies throughout the universe, which keeps growing…

Earth

So this third rock from the sun was Earth. Oh, and remember those chunks of aftermath from the supernova explosion (which made our sun) that hung around and became the planets in our galaxy? Yea, well, some of the small chunks that were near the planets got pulled into their gravitational pull and started rotating around those plants. Those are moons. So you got the big rocks, planets, rotating around the sun, and then you got some slightly smaller rocks rotating around the planets, and these are called moons.

Earth was originally a big ball of hotness. Meteors and stuff kept running into it, as they did all planets and moons and such. But strangely, those collisions brought minerals and elements of different kinds. Those shooting rocks blasting into Earth actually brought us the core building blocks that made life possible, like water… Earth was a big ball of hotness, but it got pelted by some meteors that were big frozen balls of ice. Ice running into hotness gives you…yep, water.

Earth eventually cooled down as a result. The vapor rising from the melted meteors sent condensation into the atmosphere and caused…rain. A lot of rain. And so oceans were born and continue to cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface today.

Meanwhile, the moon settled into a groove, just doing its thing rotating around the earth, and Earth settled into its thing rotating around the sun.

What Are The Odds?

So here’s something to consider. If this rock we’re on had ended up settling into an orbit just 1 degree closer to the sun, life would not be possible here. Our water would boil and evaporate and we’d look like mars…scorched, barren rock.

And if we were 1 degree further away, we’d be a frozen planet.

And then there’s the moon. Truth is, were as dependent on the moon for our existence as we are the sun. Its our proximity to the moon that gives us our own brand of gravity here on earth, gravity which allows certain physics to be possible which allow for life as we know it, including keeping us planted on the ground and not floating away…

And how about this: if just the right rocks, carrying the right minerals and stuff had not crashed into earth, life as we know it would not have been possible.

I mean people, what are the odds of this?? What are the odds of one rock ending up just close enough (and far enough away) from its sun, having a moon that is JUST close enough to create our gravity, that just the right rocks hit ours and brought the building blocks of life necessary for life to emerge and just the right rocks brought ice, and we just happen to have a HOT planet at that time so that ice evaporated and caused rain which made the water. I mean, those same types of meteors hit a lukewarm planet and its like, so what? But ours happen to be in just such a place in its existence where it could do something with that.

And on and on. I mean, really, I’m no bible thumper here, I’m no mystic guru, but when you look at just this part of the story of how we came to be, never mind how we all evolved from single celled organisms that started to grow in the water. I mean, that’s a whole nother mind blowing miracle of a story there. But just looking at the incredible 1 in a trillion chance that this went down the way it did. It’s really almost impossible. Certainly it’s EXTREMELY improbable. Yet, here we are…

I tell ya, for me, its just too perfect. And this is one thing that just reinforces my belief in a Universal Power that set all this in motion.

But it gets better…

The Nature Of Things

So check this out. Take a piece of the seat you are sitting on, then take a piece of the table near bye, then a piece of your skin, then a piece of glass, then a piece of one of those rocks from outer space and put all these pieces side by side under the most powerful microscope available and guess what you’ll find…it all looks the same!

Everything in the universe, it turns out, observed under the most powerful microscopes we have available so far all looks exactly the same. And what does it look like? Energy!!
Its all vibrating particles of energy. It turns out that the speed and frequency at which the energy is vibrating determines what type of thing it is.

And here is where it gets even weirder. Quantum Physics has now shown us that at a level below that, through some invisible force, everything is “entangled”. Let me say that again. It turns out, everything is connected through some invisible web of entanglement. Not just everyone, that is true as well, but EVERYTHING! Through some invisible web of energy, we are connected to everyone and everything. Don’t believe me? Good, go check it out for yourself. Rent “What the Bleep Do We Know” on DVD and/or check out this special done by NOVA on PBS about it http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/. Its free to watch online (I did).

So one of the things we now know for sure is that none of this, our reality, is real in the way we think it is. A major discovery that has come out of the last decade has been the observer/object relationship.

We now know that we are basically living a big pool of energy potential. That energy potential is turned into stuff as we put our minds on it. Yep, I’m not even kidding. Check it out for yourself. (Elaborated on in the videos above as well).

We now know with scientific certainty that what we think about and how we think about is THE single biggest component to what shows up in our reality. We are LITERALLY creating our reality, and we are doing it with our minds and our belief (our faith in what we choose to believe is true).

Religion

I know, its strange stuff. But, actually, some of our more enlightened minds along the way have figured this out. Among them, Jesus of Nazareth. This guy got it. Buddha, Tao, and some others have as well, but Jesus was clickin on whole nother level. And he was trying to explain it, that we get to create our own reality, and he tried to teach us how to do it, then he tried to show us, “look man, you do it like this” and then he healed a blind dude or made a bunch of bread out of single loaf or some such thing. And the followers were like, “whoa, holy cow, you must be God”. And he was like “yea, I’m God, and so are you”. “We’re all swimming in a big pool of God.” “You can do all these things AND MORE, now chill with the God stuff, you’re gonna get me killed…”. But they didn’t get it. He wound up being misquoted and misinterpreted all over the place. A guy who was trying to point out that religion was not necessary, and was in no way for making one around himself, wound up being the center of religion and worshiped as God.

The Bottom Line

What Jesus was pointing to, and all the ancient sage’s have been trying to say, is this same conclusion that science is now finally catching up with:

1.    There is a Universal Intelligence
2.    It set this whole thing in motion
3.    We are always connected to it, each other, and every thing
4.    We are here for a reason
a.    It wants us to wake up the fact that we are one with it (awakening)
b.    It wants us to know that we are one with everything in the universe
c.    It wants to find its expression through each us, in our own unique way
5.    It wants us to experience goodness, that it might experience goodness with us
6.    There are certain laws to the universe which govern it, and one is Spirit
7.    The Law of Spirit is basically that we create our reality, our lives, primarily through our thought life, and our faith (that which we believe to be).

This last part is the bulk of what I enjoy learning and teaching about. That relationship between our thoughts and what shows up in our life. The way our thoughts move out across this invisible web of entanglement and affect what we put our mind on. Every self help, positive thinking “Personal Development” guru out there teaches about this stuff. But what few ever do, is actually talk about the fact that this is actually a spiritual conversation. In order to create a life we love to live, I believe we have to get lined up with our “unique contribution”, with that thing that wants to come through us into this world. To do that, I believe, is a spiritual task. And positive thinking itself I believe to be the nuts and bolts of faith.

Having the proper perspective, getting lined up with one’s purpose, coupled with the know how of using your thought life to get connected, get present, and then how to effectively plant seeds in your mind of what you want to create and nurture those seeds through the science of faith; I believe this is the combination for creating an amazing existence, a fulfilled life.

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