Episode 4: Towards a New Cosmology

How did we get here?

The Big Bang - Image by WikiImages from Pixabay

In the previous episode, I briefly described the story about how the world came to be, and how we came to be in it. All of us know this explanation to varying degrees of detail and accuracy. It’s the story about the world, and our presence in it, that we inherited from our culture. I call it our ‘default cosmology’.

Essentially, this narrative is a mechanistic explanation of how things got to be the way we observe them to be. Start with an unimaginably hot, small, dense energy point, have it explode (thus, the “big bang”), and then let things evolve according to the laws of physics, eventually chemistry, and finally biology and evolution. This explanation is graphically illustrated in the figure above.

In this work, I’m arguing for the consideration of a different cosmology. It’ll take me the rest of this work to explain it and then examine its consequences for us. This other narrative, this other story we could tell ourselves, is a completely different explanation of what we observe. It’s a very different take on how we got here, what we are, why we are here, and the purpose of our lives. I call it the seer’s explanation.