ARE THERE OTHER UNIVERSES?
The hope for or wonder about other universes stems from an inherent dissatisfaction with being bounded. It also is rooted in not knowing the most basic question the life puts to us: Who am I?
If we play with the possibility that there are other selves in us. To think I am many selves, it stands to reason that I would think there are many universes, or many Gods or many more than whatever number of dimensions than quantum physicists say there are.
It is, I’ll wager, common to want to be someone else — the freedom that’s possible, the alternate persona, the extension of experience through (our) other eyes. This is the stuff of theatre.
This is also the stuff of drugs.
Alternate realities — they’re alternate to the extent that we don’t know the reality that we are.
The same with alternate universes. Just a figment of 1) dissatisfaction with what we have and where we are, and 2) ignorance of why we’re here and who we are.
We create alternatives because the alternative gets us out of a kind of boredom with what we don’t appreciate, with what we don’t want to explore, with what we fear and avoid. Rather than explore the known universe, we create other other universes that we know we’ll never explore, just as we won’t explore this universe (until we make the commitment to do so). We create the possibility of other universes to represent God (that is, our notion of God) and our need for life to be big enough for the soul (that is, our notion of the soul) in an attempt to solve the angst of things ending. Something in us wants to make life an enormity beyond all imagination, where we can be truly hope that we will be beyond all confinement. And, via this urge, life grows beyond mind, beyond boundaries.
Almost.
But life is never lived in theory or in mere hope.
And, sorry to say for those who wager or hope or assume that there are other universes, but there are not other universes. The universe is the unity of all diversity.
Yet, if there were, there would be a unity to these however-many other universes, which is to say there would be a unity that would organize, embrace and suffuse all sub-universes.
If we look at groups of anything, there is always a category that encompasses them all. The 10,000 expressions of joy have Joy, be it a Platonic Ideal or a Divine Quality or a fullness that cannot be exceeded, as the a priori firstness out of which all forms and experiences that can be called ‘joy’ arise and are possible. The collection of all coins would be inherently united by the notion of wealth or worth or value. The assembly of all film stars is held in ‘cinema’. All moments and hours and centuries and aeons are contained in ‘time.’ No assemblage or grouping can exist without a unifying reality or concept.
We must consider that another aspect, perhaps the deepest, of why we want there to be other universes is so that we can avoid the Grand Unity. You know, the oneness to which every ego is automatically opposed, despite our sentiments and idealism. Yes, unless we are in touch with the Soul, our one true self, we must go on feeling that we are not only separate from other souls but also that we are many persons, many people within us (the butch/bitch, the wise one, the judge, the child, the king/queen, the observer, etc). And so we will keep dividing unities, like the universe, into pieces, like other universes that constitute what is being referred to as a multi-verse, or many multi-verses. Yet however many are the pieces, they are part of a whole, and any possible multi-verse(s) would necessarily constitute an upscaled universe, a term that deserves to be capitalized when referring to the entirety of Creation.
Thank goodness, you and I are surrounded by we, by an us. And if there are multi-verses, they are all just the Universe we already live in, only so far lack the ability to perceive such a vastness — just as all beings are held beyond all perception in God/Consciousness/Reality.
Let’s just say that we, when wondering who we are, wonder what everything is — and we create it (whatever it is) intuitively as big and diverse as we are, as we really and actually are in truth. For we are vast, are endless, are never not, are ever all that can be imagined and of all that can be.