The universe has direction, we ourselves have direction. There is
meaning in the movement, intrinsic value in the embrace. As Emerson
put it, we lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which by any
other name is Spirit. There is a theme inscribed on the original
face of the Kosmos. There is a pattern written on the wall of
Nothingness. There is a meaning in its very gesture, a grace in it
s every glance. We-and all beings as such-are drenched in this
meaning, afloat in a current of care and profound value, intimate
significance, intrinsic awareness. We are part and parcel of this
immense intelligence, this Spirit-in-action, this
God-in-the-making. We don't have to think of God as some mystic
figure outside of the display, running the show. Nor must we
picture it as some merely immanent Goddess, lost in the forms of
her own production. Evolution is both God and Goddess, transcendent
and immanence. It is immanent in the process itself, woven into the
very fabric of the kosmos: but it everywhere transcends it own
productions, and brings forth anew in every moment. We are invited,
I believe, to awaken as this process. The very Spirit in us is
invited to become self-conscious, or even, as some would say,
superconscious. Depth increases from subconscious to self-conscious
to superconscious, on the way to it own shocking recognition,
utterly one with the radiant All, and we awaken as that oneness.
Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to
mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with
a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in
the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an
individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity-a total
embrace of the entire Kosmos-a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit
awakened to its own true nature. I think the sages are the growing
tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the
leading edge of the self-transcending drive that always goes beyond
what went before. I think they embody the very drive of the Kosmos
toward greater depth and expanding consciousness. I think they are
riding the edge of a light beam racing toward a rendezvous with
God. And I think they point to the same depth in you, and in me and
the all of us. I think they are plugged into the All, and the
Kosmos sings through their voices, and Spirit shines through their
eyes. And I think they disclose the face of tomorrow, they open us
to the heart of our own destiny, which is also already right now in
the timelessness of this very moment, and in that starling
recognition the voice of the sages becomes your voice, and eyes of
the sage becomes your eyes, your speak with tongues of angles and
are alight with fire of the realization that never dawns or ceases,
you recognize your one true face in the mirror of the kosmos
itself: your identity is indeed the All, and your are no longer
part of the that stream, your are that stream, with the All
unfolding not around you but in your. The stars no longer shine our
there, but in here. Supernovas come into being within your heart,
and the sun shines inside your awareness. Because you transcend
all, you embrace all. There is not final Whole here, only an
endless process, and you are the opening or the clearing or the
pure Emptiness in which the entire process unfolds-ceaselessly,
miraculously, everlastingly, lightly. The whole game is undone,
this nightmare of evolution, and you are exactly where you were
prior to the beginning of the whole show. With a sudden shock of
the utterly obvious, you recognize your own Original Face, the face
you had prior to the Big Bang, the face of utter Emptiness that
smiles as all creation and sings the entire Kosmos-and it is all
undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile,
and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal
clear night. (Ken Wilber, 1996. A Brief History of Everything, p.
42)
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