Duality
Time to drag out the old Taoist symbol of pantheism:
Everything exists in two forms — physical & soulful — simultaneously. Further, as with the yin and the yang, they are inseparable. One cannot exist without the other...
... even when they coexist as a singularity.
Huh?
Yes, when "everything" collapses into a single point, a black hole of all black holes, if you will. All of the "unknowable supreme everything" and all of the physical universe — the whole kit and caboodle — crammed into one, and only one, thing with no further consolidation possible: a singularity.
And has that ever happened?
We only know of one instance and we can ever know of only one instance.
(But, first, a word to our creationist friends. Folks, no creditable evidence of any kind exists to suggest the world and man were created in final form 6014 earth years ago. All the evidence we do have suggests that it didn't happen like that. So go crawl back into your cave. There is no hope whatsoever for you even coming close to achieving nirvana.)
OK, that one instance was the Big Bang when, about 13 to 14 billion earth years ago, the "unknowable supreme everything" and the physical universe had collapsed into a singularity, and was subsequently recast outward at THE BIG BOOM in the duality of the "unknowable supreme everything" and the accompanying physical universe of which we are a (small, insignificant) part of the billions upon billions of parts they are today.
I cannot help but be reminded at this juncture of the Jim Morrison lyrics:
(And, contrary to our creationist friends, everything is constantly changing, evolving, if you will.)
BANG!
Everything exists in two forms — physical & soulful — simultaneously. Further, as with the yin and the yang, they are inseparable. One cannot exist without the other...
... even when they coexist as a singularity.
Huh?
Yes, when "everything" collapses into a single point, a black hole of all black holes, if you will. All of the "unknowable supreme everything" and all of the physical universe — the whole kit and caboodle — crammed into one, and only one, thing with no further consolidation possible: a singularity.
And has that ever happened?
We only know of one instance and we can ever know of only one instance.
(But, first, a word to our creationist friends. Folks, no creditable evidence of any kind exists to suggest the world and man were created in final form 6014 earth years ago. All the evidence we do have suggests that it didn't happen like that. So go crawl back into your cave. There is no hope whatsoever for you even coming close to achieving nirvana.)
OK, that one instance was the Big Bang when, about 13 to 14 billion earth years ago, the "unknowable supreme everything" and the physical universe had collapsed into a singularity, and was subsequently recast outward at THE BIG BOOM in the duality of the "unknowable supreme everything" and the accompanying physical universe of which we are a (small, insignificant) part of the billions upon billions of parts they are today.
I cannot help but be reminded at this juncture of the Jim Morrison lyrics:
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah
(And, contrary to our creationist friends, everything is constantly changing, evolving, if you will.)
BANG!
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