a singularity

Where did you and me and the entirety of everything come from?

God made it is an easy out but doesn’t really explain anything. Where did God come from? Well, God is an eternal infinite being that was never created. Just believe. We’re not really getting anywhere.

According to the ‘scientists’, those consigned with the duties of figuring everything out in a rational knowable way, it all came from a very small, infinitely small and infinitely dense point called a singularity.

The idea of a singularity is fascinating to me because in our world there is no such thing. Everything has its opposite. Every coin has 2 sides. Nothing can be that has not come from somewhere. We’re back to the God idea, just expressed in physics terms.

One theory holds that the singularity came from a previous collapsed universe, that they inflate and deflate rhythmically like the great god Brahma breathing: exhaling and inhaling. God again.

If that model is true then we breathe too and maybe we create a universe. I mean it wouldn’t be there if we weren’t breathing. Not for us. That would mean we are God in some sense of it. I mean look at all the gods that have been created by human beings: Zeus and Thor and Brahma Vishnu Shiva and God the Father and . . . hey they all look like humans.

The 15th Century Indian poet, Kabir, says “ . . . what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.” That might be a clue.

I started off on this track while reading Bill Bryson’s ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’. He begins with a discussion of the creation of the universe. Good place to start. The Big Bang and the singularity and how it expanded to a hundred billion light years across in one million million million millionth of a second with a temperature of 10 billion degrees. That’s some heavy breathing. These are, of course, approximations.

At any rate, we are here. And breathing. Two very compelling mysteries. Miracles even. I don’t pretend to understand it, I just like to be romanced by the thoughts of it. Until I take my last breath I can be mesmerized by the reality of existence. Mine and yours. And then we can connect. Another miracle.

This music is a miracle. Something felt that has no other way of existing. I used 20:33 - 26:28 El desierto for the podcast. Thank you Hermanos Gutierrez! They’re playing at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio on May 13!

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