The Centre of the Universe ...

Just in case you, dear reader(s), ever wondered where the Centre of the universe(s) is, was and maybe will be, here's a Revelation for you!

You may indeed have had the same or similar Revelation yourself ... since in a sense each and every human being, endowed with Soul (whatever and wherever that may be found), is the Centre.

For clarity, albeit in a vague way, space ships from this planet in this era of recorded history have not found the actual edge of this Universe and therefore an actual single centre common to all of us cannot be found. Any cosmologists reading please share the latest on this question, though more information may be found from philosophers of a mystical kind. Jude Currivan maybe? Her book 'The Cosmic Hologram' offers hypotheses to consider ... Jeff Foster wandered in the same territory, having studied cosmology scientifically for a while before diving inside his own mind in search of some answers, or better questions perhaps ...

So, for this particular individual, real or not, the Centre was revealed as himself ... imagine that! Luckily for his humility, at the same time (since time is relative and revelation is always beyond it); nothing, nada, forget such self importance ... apart from anything else one conclusion to muse upon was permission to hold two contradictory views as true simultaneously, which was liberating ...

Where does this point then? Well, for a start, in case you wondered, you, dear reader(s), are also at the Centre of the Universe, or your own one anyway ... just don't forget the other part or you fall (or Fall like Adam in the Eden story) into the sin, or error (which is really just a mistake laden with judgement from some religions) of imagining humans to be separate from Nature, less than an imaginary all powerful creator God, but given dominion over all the rest, animal, vegetable and mineral (plus fungii) to do as we will ... the results of which mistake are now perceived as problematical, not least since the imaginary Creator was thrown out along with all the blood stained dirty water some time ago as the latest illusion landed, Scientism, with a new caste of priests, with new certainties ... certainly lethal now armed with the means to wreak destruction on the Earth on industrial scale ... as described elsewhere on this rambling blog ...

Bringing us to Consciousness ...
                           ...and the question of whether that is separate, group or Universal ...

Meanwhile a pre-dawn start meant dawn arrived in the woods, and sunrise up on the fell ... which was wonderful ... though impossible to describe and even the greatest photo couldn't capture it ...
As usual key meetings on the Fell add context to the stories, and in the village, on the street and in the shops, more teaching and learning goes on ... listening intently always pays off, and any words of wisdom very carefully chosen, not to evade the issues, but neither to trigger a friend not wanting to hear ... anyway, the other is always the Centre of their own story, so what's the point?

The point at this critical time, when baby boomer hopes and fears intensify as they (we) approach the end of this Scene, or Act of the never-ending story as Shakespeare is said to have written in one of his mystical phrases, sentences, observation, insights maybe: All the World's a Stage. .. perhaps the apostrophe is misplaced ... hmmm

That's nearly enough for now, time is short and attention spans shorter, please feel free to disagree and share your version, if nothing else it will draw you into my story, leaving the small, needy ego at the Centre, where it likes to be ...

Next up: pronoia, which AI needs to learn ... it offers paranoia, which is its shadow side!