Wk 2: Is the Universe Weird?

I think, like with most things, our experience of something is a reflection of our individual perspective; hence “Believing is Seeing”…

To me, the universe is beautiful and magical, limitless and profound.  It defies our description and limitations…just when I think I think I have things figured out, some other rare or unfathomable experience, being, expression sweeps me off my feet and turns my current paradigm on it’s head… and expands my consciousness and horizons in the process.

Oh, the universe can also be disturbing and terrifying…especially the natural elements of the weather…violent storms that spring up from nowhere without warning and do huge damage to flora and fauna.   Or life forms that defy understanding; here I’m thinking of the ‘pink dolphins’ we experienced in  the Amazon, which were neither pink nor dolphins…but, rather some huge, prehistoric sturgeon looking fish that the locals say are actually shamans (and our experiences after encountering them would support that supposition)!

And then there are the black and white holes, the nebula –or- star nurseries and the countless galaxies with their suns, planets and multitudinous life forms we may never know.

The breadth and depth of the universe is at once breathtaking, inspiring and disturbing in it’s scope.   It our challenge is to meaningfully hold this paradoxical information in some way that purposely informs our experience while we are here living, learning and loving what is.