Energy - Creation or Evolution?

Here's a thought for those of us who might wonder where the energy that became the material universe actually came from.

Was it created out of nothing or has it always been there?

Firstly we have to consider that as 'we' are 'something' that clearly exists (We think, therefore we are) then there is obviously no such thing as a state of eternal nothing. Otherwise we wouldn't be here at all. In fact we might say that nothing is an illusion.

The idea of no-thing is simply a consequential concept created by the fact that there is 'some-thing'.

Nothing is just an antithesis if you like. But an abstract all the same and unreal.

So we might safely say, with confidence that nothing doesn't exist!

(There's the answer to a Zen Koan if I ever heard one)

Seeker of truth: "Oh Zen master what is the meaning of life?

Zen Master: "Answer this question and you will know in a moment. What is Nothing?"

Seeker of truth: "The opposite of something?"

Zen Master: "Clear off you fool!"


Therefore 'The Universe' was not created from nothing. It always was, is and will be 'something' that exists.

However, at one point before time as we experience it, it was a small ball of potential energy.

13.8 billion years ago it simply began to expand and become a material manifestation of the 'will to be'. Hence the explosion and emergence of hydrogen and helium and then eventually our solar system around 14 million years ago.

It was always there. It was just a small universe that became a HUGE one.

It expanded from within itself because that is it's/ and our fundamental nature and necessary quality, or characteristic if you like. We are compelled to act by our energy!

Why?

Maybe the time was right to create TIME as it were.

Or maybe it was because it/we was clearly in a condition that was neither permanent nor stable. Which suggests that there has never been a total, perfect or permanent state of being in the known universe or even throughout all infinity . Otherwise we'd be in that condition now, surely?

So it follows that there is no template or set of reliable rules to follow.

The whole process is an act of creation in the purest sense.

Creating and evolving in an eternal process of self realisation. Just making it up as we go along.

Thoughts Create Reality! Really?

Quantum physics suggests that the first particles of condensed energy were probably photons (Light). Photons are the very things that created protons and electrons at the early stages. Photons are the smallest, irreducible packets of energy or quanta and yet they have none of the properties of matter, no mass nor speed etc. In fact they are closer to an experience than a thing. They could be thought of as a sort of proto - consciousness.

In fact the mechanics of thought in our brains involve photons in the creation, exchange and storage of information.

So photons, or proto-consciousness creates the material world at the quantum or micro level and awareness and consciousness creates the world at the macro level!

Here's a quote from a brilliant mind. The man who invented the first commercial helicopter then devoted the rest of his life to science and the study of consciousness and the universe.

"The earlier concept of a universe made up of physical particles interacting according to fixed laws is no longer tenable. It is implicit in present findings that action rather than matter is basic. . . This is good news, for it is no longer appropriate to think of the universe as a gradually subsiding agitation of billiard balls or atoms. The universe, far from being a desert of inert particles, is a theatre of increasingly complex organization, a stage for development in which man has a definite place, without any upper limit to his evolution."
--Arthur M. Young
The Reflexive Universe

So we might glean from this idea that an energised attitude, positive thoughts and focussed attention, supported by creative intentions are all that are required for personal and professional success.

Whatever that might look, sound and feel like to you.