There is one experience that every human shares of every language and culture: The experience of birth. Our recollections of birth are hazy at best. They have the feel and aura not so much of memories as of mystical transfigurations. It would be astonishing if this profound early experience did not influence our myths and religions our philosophy and our science.
How did the universe arise? Might there have been no beginning? Could the universe be infinitely old? Are there boundaries to the cosmos?
The psychedelic…
The current scientific story of the origin of the universe begins with an explosion which made space itself expand. About 15 billion years ago all the matter and energy that make up the observable universe were concentrated.
We can visualize this process with a three-dimensional grid attached to the expanding fabric of space.
The birth of a child evokes the mystery of other origins the beginnings and ends of worlds infinity and eternity.
