When the Universe becomes Conscious of Itself
Because of the gift of self-reflective consciousness, the human
being alone, of all forms of life, has the capacity to recognize
his or her own true identity as being not separate from the
whole event of creation. Not separate from the Ground of Being,
the void out of which the universe emerged, and simultaneously
not separate from the first cause, from the Big Bang itself.
When the individual has an experience of what is known as cosmic
consciousness, that's when this human vehicle becomes a vessel
through which the Universe is able to know
all of
itself. The human vehicle becomes capable of knowing the body of
the whole Universe as its own self, as its own limitless body.
So the awakening of the spiritual impulse in the human heart and
mind is the Universe becoming conscious of itself through its
own emerging creative process. That's quite profound. Especially
considering that it's taken fifteen billion years for evolution
to bring life to the point where this was possible.
Andrew Cohen
2002
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