Ha, yeah if you wanted to get 100% materialistic about it, it would be forces, plural. Although sometimes I like thinking, like if you zoomed all the way out and watched the whole universe sped up it would look like just one big explosion starting from the big bang (we are still exploding outward just the expansion is more slow). So was it one force or multiple that started the big bang or does the word “force” lose meaning that far back. So I guess whatever that force was might not still be acting on us directly but the effects of it are throughout the whole equation. If that makes sense, might be a stretch haha.
Could be for sure. In Hinduism, from what I understand, before the big bang there was one being that was the whole universe in one place, called Brahman. Then Brahman split itself into the multiplicities of everything and we are all just pieces of that one being. Maybe, eventually, after all the stars die out, we will be whole again. It’s a cool idea I think.
I heard of the Brahman before, thanks for providing additional info. Time to read up!
And yeah, once there’s no relative light or darkness anymore, there just is. And that’s maybe where the “big bang” re-occurs. Or something.
I’ve had some… ahem… “visions” that showed me this cycle. Consciousness can’t say something is something without there being nothing. Light CAN’T exist without dark, and vice versa. So if there’s only “dark”, wtf is dark? The absence of light, right? But there’s no concept of light! So let there be light.
Ha, yeah if you wanted to get 100% materialistic about it, it would be forces, plural. Although sometimes I like thinking, like if you zoomed all the way out and watched the whole universe sped up it would look like just one big explosion starting from the big bang (we are still exploding outward just the expansion is more slow). So was it one force or multiple that started the big bang or does the word “force” lose meaning that far back. So I guess whatever that force was might not still be acting on us directly but the effects of it are throughout the whole equation. If that makes sense, might be a stretch haha.
The force? Consciousness (imo! :))
Could be for sure. In Hinduism, from what I understand, before the big bang there was one being that was the whole universe in one place, called Brahman. Then Brahman split itself into the multiplicities of everything and we are all just pieces of that one being. Maybe, eventually, after all the stars die out, we will be whole again. It’s a cool idea I think.
I heard of the Brahman before, thanks for providing additional info. Time to read up!
And yeah, once there’s no relative light or darkness anymore, there just is. And that’s maybe where the “big bang” re-occurs. Or something.
I’ve had some… ahem… “visions” that showed me this cycle. Consciousness can’t say something is something without there being nothing. Light CAN’T exist without dark, and vice versa. So if there’s only “dark”, wtf is dark? The absence of light, right? But there’s no concept of light! So let there be light.
Exactly, exactly. I’d recommend reading The Uppanishads translated by Eknath Easwaran for more about the Brahman idea. Thats how I learned about it.