Blog #142--The Illusion of the Big Bang

I had an explosion of awareness back in 1978 that led ultimately to my book “It’s a Secret, So Pass It On: a Toolbox For Life,” published September 3, 2014. In that book, I describe in great detail what I saw in my mind at the time of my revelatory experience and how I called it “the secret of life.” I drew a number of conclusions about ourselves and life in general that fit what I learned at that time. However, I just recently realized that I may not have clarified properly perhaps the most important conclusion one can draw from that experience. I hope to aid understanding at this time.

I describe in the book three ways of looking at my breakthrough. On an analytical left-brain level, I saw the beginnings of the so-called “Big Bang” many scientists believe began our universe. I describe this process in scientific terms. On a religious or right-brain level, I heard in my mind the story of Adam and Eve from the Holy Bible, which I was taught as a youngster in a Christian church. And thirdly, I realized my own conception was an individualized replication of the Big Bang and was part of a continuing chain reaction begun when the universe first formed. This inspiration was reached through a balanced, back-and-forth process whereby my left and right brain halves united to break down the door to an existence that preceded the Big Bang.

In the next to last chapter, I speculate on the possibility our universe is in reality an illusion we all agree to believe is real. I am still convinced my book adds to our overall body of knowledge, but I overlooked one huge conclusion that was hiding in plain sight.

Like we all tend to do, I described the world in which we believe we live as if it were real, assuming I had to clarify our mistaken assumptions and then adding the illusion concept as mere speculation. That is not exactly what I was taught during my explosion of awareness. The world we believe is real is finite; it has beginnings and endings. But I found myself going past our world of beginnings and endings into a “stillness and darkness before time began,” as C. S. Lewis so eloquently stated in his book “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

In other words, I learned the world that appeared to begin with the “Big Bang” was really an illusion, at least relative to where I found myself. I could look back upon it and see it form like watching a movie. I described in some detail what I witnessed, but I failed to clarify the fact I was outside that world, not within it. In other words, I described much of the complexity we assume is real without realizing that truth exists outside that limited, illusionary world.

If you don’t wish to believe me, then please consider what others are now saying about these possibilities. Two recent scientific articles share similar conclusions. The science is far too complicated for my medical background, but the conclusions are compatible with those I shared in my book.

According to a report entitled “No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning” by Lisa Zyga on the website phys.org, February 9, 2015, scientists Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das, working at universities in Egypt and Canada respectively, have concluded that the universe has no beginning and no ending. They say their new model unifies a number of inconsistencies that have caused doubts about the Big Bang theory.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, creator and host of the television program “Closer to Truth,” wrote an article published July 31, 2015 on the website space.com entitled “Is Our Universe a Fake?” He said he began to realize the world we accept as real is likely a computer-generated set of images like shown in the movie “The Matrix:”

“I began bemused. The notion that humanity might be living in an artificial reality—a simulated universe—seemed sophomoric, at best science fiction.

“But speaking with scientists and philosophers on “Closer to Truth,” I realized that the notion that everything humans see and know is a gigantic computer game of sorts, the creation of supersmart hackers existing somewhere else, is not a joke. Exploring a ‘whole-world simulation,’ I discovered, is a deep probe of reality.”

Of course, scientists on the cutting edge of quantum mechanics and theoretical physics who are now coming around to the concept of a computer-generated universe would like to believe they can find ways of creating their own universes, just as “The Matrix” and its sequels attempted. However, they are still caught in the same paradox as the rest of us. If we act as if our world is real, then we are within the illusion and not outside of it, and any effort we make will be as limited as the universe itself.

I suppose it is easiest to describe such “supersmart hackers” as being our creators, and maybe that is true. I certainly can’t disprove this theory because I don’t know who or what created the world that exists outside the limits of time and space. But a Chinese parable that talks about an emperor believing that he is a butterfly dreaming that he is an emperor might be closer to reality than we now suspect. An episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” likewise wondered if we were the dream, the dreamer or both.

If that makes our ego-driven minds go tilt, perhaps that is a good thing. After all, we must suspend our incorrect assumptions about our world if we ever hope to discover the real one. All I can say with certainty is that there is an existence that is outside the limits of our universe, and accessing it can transform our lives in ways far beyond our imagination. Maybe that is what is meant by the “Kingdom of Heaven.”

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