Seeing with New Eyes

Stephen Hawking said to "Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder what makes the universe exist. Be curious." From time immemorial we curious humans have gazed into the unknown depths of the sky and asked the question of who or what has created all of this wonderful world. At the pinnacle of human expression, Einstein wrote that “everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” Even an agnostic or an atheist must have their suspicions.

We are approaching a point at which we may have evidence that supports at least speculative answers to the question of the great Mystery, increasingly integrating with the faith-based perspective. The growing scientific perspective of that which we call physical reality shows it to be in-formational from its simplest to most complex forms. In other words, our world does not consist of arbitrarily accumulated data and accidental processes, but is clearly ordered and meaningful. From every perspective the world is in-formationally intelligible, exquisitely balanced, unimaginably co-creative, staggeringly powerful, and yet fundamentally simple.

From the beginning of space and time, 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe has evolved through ever greater levels of complexity. There continues to evolve this progression with some apparent self-aware, co-creative, non-local intelligence behind it. If it logically follows that there cannot be an in-formed universe without a designing in-former, we are left with the question of who or what this intelligence behind the generation of this perfect Universe is. Without anthropomorphizing the nature of this creative impetus, how do we address this age-old enigma? With our emerging understanding of the cosmic hologram we inhabit there is increasing evidence that ours is a finite Universe within an ultimately infinite cosmic plenum. Perhaps the time is appropriate to address the notions of a multiverse of other universes beyond our own.

The French philosopher Marcel Proust once said that "The real voyage of discovery consists of not seeking new landscapes but having new eyes.” Perhaps we have reached a point in the history of humanity where we need to expand our vision of the world and see it with new eyes. With new vision we may be able to gather information heretofore unseen and break the code of meaningful in-formation.

We are rediscovering what the ancient Vedic sages understood about the Universe three millennia ago - that the cosmos is an infinite hologram. This convergence of perspectives continues to strengthen with an acknowledgment of the intrinsic and all-pervasive intelligence that flows throughout, yet makes up everything that we call the physical world. Science is only just beginning to catch up with the wisdom of long past eras as it re encounters the presence of a grand, ultimately infinite and eternal intelligence of which we are but holographic microcosms. Emerging discoveries will almost certainly shake our perceptions, not just of the larger world beyond, but at personal levels we may not foresee.

As we discover our true nature and place in the universe in this ongoing revolution of understanding, the next challenge will be in perceiving just how the omnipresent/omnipotent cosmic mind constructs and real-izes the in-formational and holographically expressed nature of our world and the possibilities of other finite universes. Along the path of the pioneering scientific adventure of seeking to understand the cosmic hologram, the perceived separation between mind and matter will increasingly blur, and the illusory dualism that has been under increasing threat from scientific discoveries over the past century can finally be resolved into the emerging understanding of the all-pervasive unity and wholeness of all-encompassing mind.