What Universe Do You Harbor?

The other day I was thinking about this presence of space that makes up most of the world in which we appear to live. The new technologies, that allow for some new vision and new speculation. We look into the vast reaches of the cosmos and see unfathomable  light years of blank emptiness,  interspersed by the dots and poofs of things, like stars and gases and electric landscapes.

Deep inside the most inner, in there, regions of the quirky quark is space as tremendously vast as the vastness of the ‘out there’  universe.  It is the inverse universe that is a continuation of the other and here at this moment, somewhere on the way from that to there and back we appear to be – watching. Looking out from the spec of time on the physical wave we call us.

I thought, I wondered, if it wasn’t all the same thing.  The vast out there and the inner reaches. Infinite in all directions, going from outer to those in there reaches, and further inward from outside of that. Simply a different view dependent on the perspective of each one’s position when looking. I thought, when put into scale, or the absence of any, I could house an entire universe. That a space inside the inner perspective might house another cosmos where people live to gaze out and wonder, “How far does it go…”.

This morning I was looking for some Alan Watts stuff and I ran across this video from http://deoxy.org/watts.htm. Alan is one of the people I ran across and never let go of. I’ve been going to sleep each night of late to his book “Still The Mind”. I guess it’s about the sixth time I’ve read it. It doesn’t get old because I change in between readings. The person I am now gets something different from the book than the person I was when reading it the last time.

Alan Watts (1915-1973) who held both a master’s degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He authored more than 20 excellent books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, and lectured extensively, leaving behind a vast audio archive. With characteristic lucidity and humor Watts unravels the most obscure ontological and epistemological knots with the greatest of ease.