Black Holes as Metaphors for God
It may be that Black Holes are essential to the Universe’s physical existence. Places where all the infinite power of galactic creation gets drawn back into the Void.
To us little humans, such an “event horizon” is mind-numbingly terrifying. Just as the appearance of God in all His Magnificence is overwhelming to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita. Just as the Christian theologian finds it, when contemplating the awesomeness of the Numinous.
Just because our physical selves are tiny in its presence, doesn’t mean that Power is antagonistic to us. Nor is it an indication of how we might blend with it as immortal souls.
Indeed, that very Power may be the foundation of our own being. So why would it desire to make us afraid? It simply is what it is. It does what it does.
Just as we must do what we do. As above, so below.
While westerners tend to focus on God’s more relatable side, Hindus have always acknowledged the horrifying aspects of Divinity. The Goddess Kali is destruction personified; and yet, to those who understand, she destroys the demons who threaten her children — us!
Logic dictates that the God of Creation must also be the God of Destruction — and everything else in-between. Otherwise, God would not be God.
Limitless power must be the power to do everything. Not just the stuff we like!
In contemplating Black Holes, we may come closer to understanding the Divine and our relationship to it.
