One may contemplate the personal and collective primordial relationship with the Sun: 

How five billion years ago the hydrogen atoms, created at the birth of the universe, came together to form our great Sun that now pours out this same primordial energy and has done so since the beginning of time. How some of this sunlight is gathered up by the Earth to swim in the oceans and to sing in the forest. And how some of this has been drawn into the human venture, so that human beings themselves are able to stand there, … are able to think only because coursing through their blood lines are molecules energized by the Sun.^[i]

One may contemplate the generous nature of this energy that fills all humans and beings: 

Human generosity is possible only because at the center of the solar system a magnificent stellar generosity pours forth free energy every day and night without stop and without complaint and without the slightest hesitation. This is the way of the universe. This is the way of life. And this is the way in which each of us joins this cosmological lineage when we accept the Sun’s gift of energy and transform it into creative action that will enable the community to flourish.^[ii]

One may contemplate the Birthplace of the Universe:

The idea that the universe began in one place is certainly an ancient one in human history. The image of a birthplace of the universe occurs in the mythical and classical forms of consciousness, and possibly even earlier. Such images as ‘the cosmic egg’ that cracks open and gives birth to all phenomena are found in Neolithic cultures around the planet.^[iii]

Thus one may contemplate the Western scientific theory that the universe began in an event of cataclysmic energy, an initial singularity of space-time, based on the observation that the clusters of galaxies are rushing away from each other, the universe is expanding, and has a “dual nature of being both old and new simultaneously.”^[iv] In the 1960’s two Western scientists, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected the background radiation from the eruption of the universe: that is, they “discovered”/perceived the photons – the light particles – that originated in the primeval fireball itself, “the cosmic center, the world’s navel, the sacred origin point of being. That is the place endowed with the stupendous fecundity necessary to give birth to the cosmos.”^[v]

Yet together with this is the realization that is implied in the scientific observation: that the superclusters of galaxies are all expanding away from where we the “observers” are, the place of observation, and thus also the apparent center of the birth of space and time. In brief, the implication is that we live in an omnicentric universe: that “in this universe of ours to be in existence is to be at the cosmic center of the complexifying whole.”^[vi]

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NOTES:

^[i] Swimme, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, 43.

^[ii] Ibid., 44.

^[iii] Ibid., 76. 

^[iv] Ibid.

^[v] Ibid., 78.

^[vi] Ibid., 85-86. For more on the omnicentric nature of the universe see the whole chapter 80-89, and also this video excerpt “The BirthPlace of the Universe”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB1D2jZ5gjg.

REFERENCES:

Livingstone, Glenys. A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony. Bergen, Norway: Girl God Books, 2023.

Swimme, Brian. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. New York: Orbis, 1996.