Hello everyone! I hope that you have all had a good weekend, or week, or whatever this day means to you. Today I want to talk about our connection to everything. And by this I mean, EVERYTHING. Other humans, animals, plants, the cosmos: we are all connected. In fact, as I will highlight later we are not just connected to everything and one another. But we are one another. We are everything in the universe. This may sound a little New Age, and that is ok, I get that. As always, take what you would like from this. Some of it may resonate and some may not and that is perfectly grand!

So, what do I mean by “we are connected to everything?” Well we can look at the universe in which we live (and where we came from) as a web in which multiple systems within other systems are all working together. We could not be where we are/who we are today without other species that came before us. We could not be who we are at this exact moment if the story of the universe did not unfold how it did. Pretty wild! If anything was different (even by a very minuscule amount) about the history of it all and everything that came after that, then everything would be different! Because we all depend on each other and we are all constantly relating to one another in ways that we may not even know. We sum this up in the term interrelatedness. This translates to wholeness; as well as describing the way other beings depend upon each other in the universe.

We are all related to each other. We all came from one point before space and time even existed! Around 14 billion years ago, when the Big Bang happened. From this came hydrogen, helium, more elements, stars, star clusters, galaxies, our galaxy the Milky Way, our home the Earth, and then came all of the organisms that we would evolve from. Some scientists say that our lungs were even designed in similar ways as trees. Neat! Nature learns and continues to emerge in ongoing creativity. In the Newtonian era, our culture used to see the universe as a machine and us (humans) as cogs in the machine. When this happened, we saw and continue to see that nothing has life, wisdom, or anything to add or learn from. Because of this, we think that what we do to the Earth and all of our brothers and sisters (animals and plants) is justified because they are somehow less than us or not as alive as us. But this is simply not true. The universe is intelligent in it’s ways of constantly emerging and in its cataclysmic behaviors of destructing. But it is important to look around us as well as within ourselves to see the effects of our actions. Because what we do to others will be done to us. The law of karma! Science has also proven some of these similar notions in quantum mechanics. For example, in the term entanglement. In entanglement there are small particles that possess properties that are connected beyond time and place. This means that what happens to one particle happens to the other, instantaneously! We are all made of particles, this can be the case with us as well. Quantum mechanics has also started to explain some of the phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, etc. Very cool stuff! It is not yet widely accepted, but society never accepts anything new right away.

I just watched a really good documentary on Netflix as well about the Earth and what we have done to it over the years. It is called David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet on Netflix. If you are also looking for more information on Quantum Mechanics I highly recommend the scientist David Bohm. He is rad. This topic and all that encompasses it is a lot to take in, sometimes it makes my head spin as we are all so used to other ways of thinking. But I also think it is important if we are ever to emerge as a species that can save ourselves. After all, the Earth will be fine without us.

Peace,

Rylee Hedberg

Also if you are interested in the origins of the universe (aka us) check out: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home