YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE

The accepted view of reality holds that human beings exist in the context of a vast physical universe "out there". The most distant galaxies billions of light years away, have no reality without you, because everything that makes any galaxy real- with the multitude of stars with their heat, emitted light and masses, the positions of the distant galaxies in space and the velocity that carries each galaxy away at enormous speed- requires a human observer with a human nervous system. If no one existed to experience heat, light, mass and so on, nothing could be real as we know it. If the qualities of Nature are a human construct arising from human experiences, the existence of the physical universe "out there" must be seriously questioned- and along with it, our participation in such a universe. At present no one can explain how invisible photons being converted to chemical reactions and faint electrical impulses in the brain creates the three-dimensional reality we all take for granted. The actual nature of sight itself is mysterious. One thing is known however, the creation of sight is done by you. Without you, the entire world- and the vast universe extending in all directions- can't exist. You are one with the universe because you experience Nature in your awareness, and there is no other source of reality as we know it. If anything is real that cannot enter human consciousness, we will never know it. The universe we live in is a human construct, including everything in it. All activity takes place in consiousness. To understand our true participation in the universe, we must learn much more about awareness and how it turns mind into matter and vice versa. Once you realize that you and the universe are one, the whole journey of being human shifts radically.