“We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.” — Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Suzanne and I watched the first episode of Cosmos together. I don’t know who wrote it, but there was a LOT of New Thought in the script — and they think it’s just science.
The host, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York (one of my very favorite places growing up), went through the long history of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the present day. It’s amazing how small a part of that time we’ve been around.
Some years ago, I read a book entitled The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World by Dr. Amit Goswami, one of the scientists featured in What the Bleep Do We Know? Dr. Goswami sys something similar to the Tyson quote from tonight’s episode that I cited above: “The Universe is self-aware through us.”
We are the eyes, ears, and senses of the Infinite. It deliberately, consciously, intentionally chose to express as you and me, as each of us, as that which came before, as that which comes after. So what kind of awareness are you expressing?
At this week’s service at Celebration Center, we were given the suggestion to “surrender your idea of who you think you are to the possibility of who you really are.” So who are you really? Dr. Tyson, Dr. Goswami, and others give us a suggestion of who we really are.
We know that our awareness defines our Universe. Our awareness does not define THE Universe — it’s way too big for that — but it defines ours. How are you defining your Universe? Step back and check it out.
Cosmos runs Sunday nights at 9 PM Eastern on Fox and Monday nights at 10 Eastern on National Geographic.
-Tim Phares, RScP