Thursday, January 22, 2026
The preoccupation with finding the ultimate truth in the physical world will drive you mad. Let science do that. They’ll build powerful telescopes and as they do, the universe will expand further. They’ll develop instruments that can detect the tiniest particle, and the physical universe will continue to break down. A more powerful look into the microcosm, the more minutia there will be.
The so-called physical world is like the proverbial carrot dangling in front of the donkey. The bigger you go, the further it gets. The smaller you go, the more it breaks down. The so-called spiritual world has this same polarity – at one end is God and the other is his arch-nemesis. Or at one end, God is good and at the other, the human is bad.
The universe is a process which unfolds on its own and the only way to know the future is to see how things play out. Not even God knows how it will play out. God is biting his nails too, and you’re fooling yourself if you’ve created an image of a boss seated on a throne.
And that image of an authority figure “upstairs” is wreaking havoc with our sensibility. Why could it not just be nature? A natural, organic process where people are peopling, trees are tree-ing, and the fish are fishing. Why must there be an author or creator doing anything? There isn’t a person typing these words no more than there is a God “out there” sitting at the wheel or “on the throne.”
The universe is being itself and feeling like “not it.” As kids, when we were to play hide and seek, you’d yell, “not it,” if you didn’t want to be the seeker.
You’re the seeker and that which is being sought – “not it!” You are it. If you don’t think so, you’re full of it.