Watching the entire series of Cosmos was a beautiful
spiritual experience. I was mesmerized by the awesome nature of the cosmos. The
most telling reaction was that I was overwhelmed with information that I was
unable to process. Dealing with a Big Bang that over billions of years resulted
in what is still an expanding universe is beyond my comprehension. Yet, I was
able to sense the profound awareness that I was part of this process and, while
I may feel insignificant, I know that my presence in this process is a gift to
be treasured.
The God that I worshipped years ago is now transformed into
a more real, if unfathomable, loving reality that may be best grappled with by
the concept of Heidegger’s “Ground of Being” or Richard Rohr’s notion that we
“foundationally belong to God and the Universe”.
In spite of the sadness generated by the awareness that
mankind may be destroying the milieu that enables humans to live on this very
small portion of the cosmos, I am comforted to know that that I will remain a part
of the cosmos, even if this means something that I can only intuit, and, secondly,
thanks to David Suzuki’s insight that even though there may be no humans on
earth, earth itself will still be beautiful, continuing on its orbits within
the evolving universe.
