THE SPACE WITHIN

Pankaj Gupta
6 min readMay 3, 2020

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When you look up towards the sky, the seemingly blue-ish colored vast canvas could use your imaginary watery palette. You could paint your own reality. We as humans love to fill-up empty spaces, don’t we? Even the clouds get creative forming white enormous creatures in pause mode. Similarly, the nights are more like a dream — vast, endless, shiny, Black-ish space. Something like this quote;

The night sky is a dignified black princess freckled with the stars. Get lost in her beauty to find it in your darkness.

As a species, we humans beings long to seek the unknown. To look up and not get mesmerized by its enormity and boundlessness is rare. Not just me there are many who look up for answers. “To each his own”.

The vast space makes you wonder if your own existence was merely a coincidence or a grand design by some conscious entity. We all have fiddled with this question our entire lives. All of us (or most of us) want to know; what is the true nature of our present reality. And questions like — Why are we here? to what more is out there? Are we alone? what is the purpose of our existence? — which has given us immense possibilities to seek further and know more?. To know more or to expand our horizons have been the greatest treasure of the abilities of our sensory called the INTELLECTand the mystic “CONSCIOUSNESS”.

1. The Sky (COSMOS) above is the “SPACE” within.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan

If we were made of stary-dust, then we do carry the memory from the beginning of the universe. What if there is no beginning and end?. What if — this is a never-ending space, an illusion; that could arise from sheer nothingness?. In the vastness and grandeur of cosmic space, if you look at yourself in perspective, you are less than a speck of dust. Science realizes it through quantum mechanics, Theory of relativity, genetic codes, and technology. Whereas, Spirituality through looking within consciously — What we term as the space within us “Consciousness”.

What is consciousness? Consciousness is the awareness of your own experience, the awareness that you are having them, the awareness that you are having your own thoughts makes up what we call consciousness. In cohesiveness with modern science, both could unravel unlimited information from the space around us. And answer many fundamental questions of our existence.

We could pose some relative questions such as, we are because of the cosmos, or the cosmos could be because of us. To unravel such immense space, pure logic would seem foolish, but including our state of consciousness could be the way forward.

2. THE “GIFT”. (CONSCIOUSNESS)

Take it this way, I believe in the possibility of we or us — all living creatures on this blue planet are alone. We are alone. No, you don’t want to believe it Right?. Ok. so let’s assume that we are alone and let us widen our creative ( The so-called the intellect ) horizons to believe it, it was to be true.? Then we should be the starting point of living existence across this universe. In the near future, we could be colonizing space. But that is not we are going to ponder upon. The objective is to make some conscious sense of this.

The real question is, objectively we have developed many theories through quantum mechanics to solve questions related to the cosmos, and major forces working together to hold our existence. But what about our conscious reality and the act of free-will. What if our consciousness is building dimensional reality within another reality.? We have more complex questions to answer than the cosmos i.e is our very state of Consciousness.

Consciousness is more than a state. It is a being, the functional equivalent of an avatar acting on behalf of embodied brain with agency and thus the potential for instantiating freely willed thoughts, choices, and behavior. — William R. Klemm Ph.D. Memory Medic

Each human being on this planet is capable of bending his or her own reality the way he or she wants to. We have the power to transcend our own dimension, build a new one, create new realities as an individual, and together evolve further to understand more complex realities of our understanding of this universe. In totality, we forget we are a Gift from the universe with a “Conscious intellect”, But we are yet to realize this. When the self emerges consciously, it operates as a reality check and aid for unconscious thinking. Conscious sense of self has a unique degree of autonomy and opportunity for flexibility and choice- and decision-making.

The hard problem of consciousness must be approached through the ontological lens of 20th century physics. Through careful deduction, it becomes clear that information cannot exist without consciousness — the awareness of things. And to be aware is to hold the meaning of relationships of objects within consciousness — perceiving abstract objects while enjoying degrees of freedom within the structuring of those relationships. — Quantum Gravity Research, Los Angeles.

If through inclusive consciousness and physics we are able to unveil the deepest secrets of nature at the smallest scale, it’s like having found keys to the real treasure. Imagine if we discover the very fabric of reality in explicit details, to find the very workings of the universal reality to the minute’s details that should open up treasure stores of new technology and perhaps new philosophies leading to profound unity of consciousness and inclusiveness — Which in itself will solve most third world problems.

3. THE “CURSE”. (THE INTELLECT)

This intellect in us makes us Supreme, but if not handled consciously in the right way, we can turn the tides disastrous and go wrong in every understanding of our truths. You see, the intellect has no boundaries to be logical on every aspect— its endlessly creating new thoughts, and constantly dissecting everything to know its true nature. It's doing it through memory. What we call as intelligence. But, it is through consciousness we can determine who we really are. Intellect can dissect the physical body to know its workings and organs but it cannot dissect the true nature of a human being. That’s why consciousness is another way to measure the way we give meaning to everything distancing from the database of our minds. Intellect is good for survival, to live no doubt about it, but to expand further to know more or seek more we need something more than just pure intelligence — whether we want to expand to know more of the cosmos /space or space within.

Is consciousness the truth of universal reality called the universal consciousness?. If yes, then we can inclusively act consciously to all world problems. If not, we could be hijacked by technology leaving us miserable and self imprisoned. We would be building walls of self-imprisonment unless we become free from the identification of our own physical form.

CONCLUSION

Quantum mechanics is the best theory we have for describing the world at the nuts-and-bolts level of atoms and subatomic particles. No matter how much knowledge we have, how much we think we know, there’s always some frontier beyond. Can it happen excluding information based on consciousness from the picture.? Absolutely not. It has been a futile attempt. Are we the outcome from sheer nothingness. We don’t know. Every new mystery pops up another greater dimensional challenge. We will get stuck in this endless loop. It’s a never-ending path. Intellect can become a curse whereas adding consciousness dimension to it can open new channels of information. When you make the distance from your Intellect, you unfold immense possibilities and have more clarity.

What if everything we know is just one dimension in another dimension reality?. What if, all the theories, force, mechanics, and energy creating our reality are not the same in some other universal reality?. What if the minuscule fraction of what we know of consciousness is information from another conscious entity.

We humans certainly choose or create our states of consciousness by choosing what to observe and how to interpret it even though our choices are highly influenced by the environment — the freewill of everything else. Is our conscious nature driven by information from another conscious entity. Time will tell. — Quantum Gravity Research.

To solve complex problems one has to rhyme with space within us.

Have a lovely day/night.

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