The Purpose of the Universe Is to Understand Light
We can understand anything we wish merely be exploring its contrast
I realize the title of this post may sound grandiose — that you may be asking yourself, who is this guy to think he knows the purpose of the Universe. But seriously though, the Universe is a construct of fractals. The smallest observable particles emulate the largest of structures — electrons rotating around a nucleus like solar systems around the center of a galaxy.
And everywhere in between there are examples of fractals. So, you could say that to understand the Universe we can merely study the smallest structures (quantum physics), and the understandings revealed in those tiny structures will inform our understanding of the largest structures (astrophysics). We can even understand the Universe itself.
Simple, right? Except that the weirdness discovered on the quantum level seems to present more questions than answers, and one of the biggest conundrums of the field of physics is their inability to reconcile the quantum discoveries with the astro. But enough of the heady stuff. Let’s dig into the actual purpose of it all, which is to understand light.
In order to understand a thing, we need to explore its opposite. For example, light doesn’t propagate without solidity. In space it’s dark only because there is barely any matter for the light to reflect from. Or to put it another way, if there was only light in the Universe, we wouldn’t see it, because we’d be like fish swimming in water unable to perceive the water.
It’s about contrasts. When we perceive dark, we can contrast it to light. And remember the Universe is a giant fractal, which means that contrasts exist everywhere, and the way to understand literally anything is to explore its opposite.
To understand how to be a good friend, we can merely look at what being a bad friend looks like. To fully understand how to live a clean and sober life, we will likely need to descend to the depths of addiction to understand its opposite. To understand unconditional love, we need to experience conditional love. And on it goes.
So, why are we here anyway? Why is there a Universe in the first place?
I know, this is a very big question. But why shouldn’t we ask such a question? I’ve been asking it since childhood, and it seems the more I sit with the question the simpler the answer gets. It’s about contrasts that lead us to discovery, which leads us to understanding, which leads us to transcendence. So, the Universes exists for us to learn and transcend through contrasts. And the really big (and also really simple) thing for us to learn is about light.
What kind of light? The only light there is. It’s visible. It behaves as both a particle and a wave. When the frequency of light slows down it transforms into more detectable wave patterns such as radio waves, and even into matter itself. Einstein was the first to theorize that light could be slowed to a level of matter, and recent research has proven it. One could imagine that the electrons that swirl around the nucleus of atoms at the speed of light is the form that light has taken to create matter.
So, let’s think about this for a minute. If matter consists of light, or may even be a manifestation of light, then the Universe is light, and its slower frequency propagates as all sorts of things, even solidity. And solidity is the medium that gives light its luminescence. Or stated differently, solidity is what give us the contrast to light and therefore the ability to understand it.
Is your brain hurting yet? Okay, lets break it down more simply.
If contrasts enable, and even encourage, our discovery of things, whether they be in the physical realm or the spiritual, then we can understand anything we wish to understand merely be exploring its contrast.
If we want to understand love to a greater depth, then we observe hate in its many forms. If we want to be more compassionate, then we look to our intolerance. If we wish to become more confident, then we look to our insecurity. If we want to learn to be a better communicator, we look to those things that get in the way of effective communication.
Are you seeing the connecting thread yet?
Of course you are. It’s about journeying within. It’s always that. It’s the fractal within us. The wounded child that wounds others as an adult. It’s the broken hearted who breaks hearts. It’s hurt people who hurt people. And as soon as we give light to the dark, as soon as we illuminate those parts within us that we have either remained unconscious of, or we have been unwilling to look at, then we come to understand our dark parts so that we can understand the light parts. We dive into our shadow to understand it so that we can come to know our luminescence, our brilliance, our compassion and love.
And the Universe? It’s just that. It is the contrasts that allows our shadow to propagate the light by the mere act of our healing journey. We are not dark, we are light. The darkness within us is light slowed down. It is the light of our love slowed down by childhood trauma and broken hearts and disappointments and tragedies. And the trauma, heartbreaks, and tragedies are there to show us the way back to the light — back to our true selves. It’s the contrast that enables us to come to know who we truly are.
And why the conundrum of physicists struggling to reconcile the quantum realm with the astro? In part because it’s typically hard for scientists to imagine that consciousness is the true driver of the Universe. The observer effect is a widely proven principle that our observation of an experiment on the quantum level changes the results. In other words, our conscious observation changes a physical experiment. But if that were true on the much larger physical scale, that would mean we’d all be superheroes who can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
And yet there are countless examples of humans performing super-human abilities. There are plenty of examples of people curing themselves of stage-four cancer through prayer and visualization. The “miracles” are all around us all the time. I’ve seen my own fair share of them. Which suggests that our consciousness does indeed affect our physical realm more so than we may realize.
But we live the lives we live based on what we believe our reality to be. Which means that changing our beliefs changes our reality. And one huge step to change is to journey within, to explore our shadow as a contrast to the truth of who we are. When we see the truth, our beliefs will change and so will our reality.
So, there it is — the purpose of the Universe revealed in less than 1,200 words. Not so big and scary or overly complicated. Merely the journey within, the truth revealed, and the understanding of light.
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