Reading this brings me a kind of quiet joy. The multiverse is more marvellous than we can ever know, and every new revelation expands our hearts and minds.
I don’t know why people feel the need to fight “religion” in these instances — but when they do they reveal they know only a tiny slice of the philosophies and practices called religion.
Thousands of years ago the Hindus wrote their own stories of the cosmos, of many worlds coming into being and passing away and forming again over countless ages.
Pantheists think sacredness abides in the whole world — there is no “sky daddy” to fight, and why would you?
Neopagans reach back for words and concepts to make sense of the world as we experience it, and bring back the names of old gods and goddesses. Nearly all of them are self-aware of what they are co-creating, and live grounded in this century.
Everywhere I look I see beliefs in the divine by many names, and only a few, a very few, would feel in any way threatened by this wonderful scientific window into creation.
For myself — a kind of quiet joy that fills my heart. Life goes on in endless song.
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