And then, shifting gears to the universe OUT THERE, I’m blown wider open. How do we embrace the enormity of the gigantuan? Science offers facts so beyond our mental comprehension that we can embrace them only with the help of spirit, meaning reverence, wonder, awe, love, creative expression.
Joseph Campbell speaks to this in his book: The Inner Reaches of Outer Space:
. . . it occurred to me that outer space is within us inasmuch as the laws of space are within us: outer and inner space are the same. We know…that we have actually been born from space, since it was out of primordial space that the galaxy took form, of which our life-giving sun is a member. And this earth, of whose material we are made, is a flying satellite of that sun. We are, in fact productions of this earth. We are, as it were, its organs. Our eyes are the eyes of the earth; our knowledge is the earth’s knowledge…
This is a call for response-ability from all of us!