Big Bang? - Forget it!

A philosophical speculation

An eternity he had slept. - Slept? - Only a homo sapiens would say so as he cannot imagine eternity, because eternity has no time. It does not last. It is not "long". In eternity there are no subsequent events. It does not move. It is static.

No, "to sleep" was not the right word for it. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was a state of perfect knowledge, a state of sublimity and ecstasy at the same time, but also a state of perfect leisure, a nascent state, his original state. He was sufficient unto himself and knew of no GOOD and EVIL. He knew he could know anything if he wanted to know it - HE who possessed an inexhaustible potential for every possible cause - a potential however, that remained completely unused.

But now he wanted to be active and make an impact in order to enjoy it and at the same time look away from himself. For this he had to assume an identity that matched the game he intended to play. First he created himself a point of view which he occupied. He now WAS the viewpoint. That made his first major, nameless identity. From this viewpoint he created space by demarcating the area with postulated points and thus gave it a definite dimension.

He chose a very ordinary three-dimensional space. Now he had already created something that he could look at, a large, perfectly shaped, spherical space. But now he realized he was alone. And that gave him no joy. He needed company, wanted to go into communication with other beings, wanted to make an impression, to be admired. That was the effect he wanted to achieve. And he thought of something very aesthetic others would certainly like. So he went to work.

First he created a spherical body which radiated a beautiful, bright yellow light, then, within a reasonable distance, a second one in the color blue, which now was shone by the first one on one side and thus lit up green there. Then he created a third one in the color red, which then was orange-blazed on one side. He looked at his creation and it was great - just perfect. He could make it appear and disappear at will and was now very happy that he had something to look at. But now he wanted to show his work to another being.

"Hello, is somebody there?" he thought, let it flow out as a pure question of expectations and was surprised that he immediately got a response.

"Clearly there is someone! What do you think it would be just you alone? "

"No, no, I'm glad that you exist! Look, I've made something very beautiful. Do you like it? "

"Well, yes .... seems to be all right ... It just looks to me .... a little too easy! Are you really such a simple creature or was it intentional? "

That was enough for him to be silenced. He withdrew and let his work disappear by simply no longer creating it. He felt slightly upset. "I'll show them though. I'm not simple," he thought, and immediately started with something new.

Now he expanded his space into the nearly immeasurable, put a sun in it, then a second, third one and so on, and let them circulate at proper distance to each other on different orbits around a common center. The center was empty. He himself was the center. He added a few satellites to each sun, which thus received their own centers. And he created an increasing number of such systems. In a frantic pace he doubled, multiplied them at a huge number until they, viewed from a different point of view, were hardly to recognize in detail or as only little more than points in a fog. The structure, considered now as a whole, assumed the form of a disk-like galaxy. Now he was highly pleased with himself and happy. No one should say anymore he was simple!

But now he had a problem. His work was not simply existing on its own. He had to re-create it at every moment, so that he could look at it. However he wanted that it remained there without having constantly to maintain control over it. He had to invent something that caused that his creation retained its shape and function.

Having thus equipped his universe with a galaxy, it was necessary to forget that HE HIMSELF had created it, and this in turn presupposed an abrupt abandonment of his omniscience. An at least partial ignorance was now essential that his universe remained existing, because if he now had taken over full responsibility for its creation, this would have been the end of it. He even had to imagine someone else had caused all this, because that was one of the possible conditions that could set the time and thus survival.

Had not the other being prompted him to create something that he could no longer control? Yes ... so it must have been! The other one had caused this and was therefore responsible for it.

And so the first big lie found its way into his world. For the absolute truth was quite simple: FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN CREATION, and that would turn a NOTHINGNESS - in other words: the total absence of matter, energy, space and time - and HE HIMSELF as an unlimited potential!

But he had made his decision. He wanted to HAVE something. And indeed, he had made it! Now he possessed something that seemed to exist for itself alone, without having to manage the process, a perpetual motion machine, a mechanism that automatically ran. But the price was ignorance. He had to pretend he did not know better. And so began his downfall.

An immense time span lay in between since then. - But this again is expressed quite wrong, because he owned his own universe. His concept of time was as individual as that of those beings with which he had contact. He himself had time absolutely under control. There were sometimes small changes in his universe, that took "half an eternity" if he wanted it that way, and on the other hand, big circulations which claimed hardly a moment. - His universe had assumed the form of a spiral galaxy in the meantime.

There was now a lively exchange between all the different viewpoints, or better said, the beings who revealed their own taste of creativity. He had borrowed from other universes interesting things and new ideas by simply duplicating them in his own world. There were huge clusters in bizarre shapes, binary star systems, gas giants and much more what makes up a universe. No one would now dare to call him "simple". In fact the complications became more and more complex and the malice now existed rather in the difficulty of keeping track.

And time arrived when these created forms became more and more solid, due to the constant communication between the beings involved. The first clashes of worlds happened and a great confusion arose over the question of who owned what. An increasing number of collisions took place and at a precise sorting out of responibilities was little more thought. An erasing of single individual worlds seemed to be no longer possible. For all beings this became now a big problem because they were barely able to change their own creations without the consent of the other creatures. The interdependence gave them a very bad puzzle to solve. And finally they were struck with this all-important question: What shall we do with this universe?

The only plausible answer to this question was now obvious: a common universe had to be defined and upheld. This included agreement on laws and function, and a collective understanding of time. Gradually it became clear that the most common opinions and postulates about how a universe should behave prevailed. Newton's laws of gravity, the inertia of mass, conservation of energy, etc. were born and stabilized, i.e. agreed upon.

The common understanding of time was determined by the average vibration of atoms of matter in this now called the physical universe. That vibration was felt throughout the universe and became a sing-song or "hit" for all the beings who were involved. Thus a common time was enforced that would be representative of all times. The individual time then was assessed by the changes of position of particles, i.e. stars, planets etc. The universe grew to an ever-expanding universe because it contained the law of conservation of energy.

Now there were quite a few beings - although a minority - who did not agree. They were of the opinion that the laws of this universe were extremely restrictive, stupid and materialistic and would sooner or later lead to the fact that the physical universe turned into a maze and thus would become a dangerous trap for all beings, who identified themselves with it. They were the nonconformists of creation. They revolted against it, split off and joined forces to form a group to create a separate universe they also could use together, but which left them at the same time full liberty to retain their own individual points of view.

Thus a parallel universe developed – or more accurately, one that was lying outside the physical universe – which was similar to it in some respects, but was defined differently in terms of function and structure. Particularly lacking in this separate world was that fatal law which resulted in an expanding universe, namely the conservation of energy. But all other laws could also be amended or repealed. This superior world should later in the course of time become the very ground for all major philosophies and religions in the physical universe, because the beings trapped in there lost their natural abilities, became weaker and weaker and needed the longer the more urgent help.

And indeed, in the ensuing eons the physical universe went through a fatal development. The more beings were entangled in it and the bigger it got, the more solid was its matter. The laws of physics were fully applied and worked out to be chaotic. Galaxies collided, huge suns exploded and created giant solar nebulas and new planets, which in turn formed new systems. The physical universe developed a life of its own, a self-running system that was out of control. It was a vast labyrinth of masses and energies, in which the spiritual beings were less and less able to orient themselves. They lost their spiritual orientation points and were becoming increasingly dependent on shapes and objects in order to align themselves accordingly.

The greater this dependency became, the more they tended to see themselves as a part of masses and energies. In other words, a spiritual being was overwhelmed to the degree by the physical universe as he agreed with it and considered it as the true reality and truth. And with that his intellectual potential and consciousness became more and more restricted.

Over the millions of years, some planets cooled off enough so that they were ready to receive life in the form of primitive organisms. This rudimentary organic life was first created by the spiritual beings who were trapped in this universe. They sacrificed, so to speak, a part of themselves to endow matter with life energy. This life energy, to some extent mixed with a suitable material, was the start of the protoplasm lines, which first consisted only of very primitive single-celled organisms. The protoplasm followed a certain cycle, namely conception, birth, procreation and thus developed through millions of years of evolution to ever higher – i.e. larger and more complex – organisms which in turn continued, completed and perfected their genetic lines.

The beings in the physical universe had no other choice than to start a large-scale life-cycle that would allow them in the distant future to be able to take over adequate and appropriate bodies and by the help of them - and that was their only hope - once again be able to be cause over matter, energy, space and time.

They had to ensure from now on that the stream of life did not dry up. And thus the two factors GOOD and EVIL came into play. Good was everything that helped life in general to go on, evil was everthing that destroyed life or disabled its progress. A duality was created. The smallest unit of anything that concerned the organic life was TWO: good and evil, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly, etc.

But there were many beings who did not want to wait that long until appropriate bodies were available. They wanted to play the game of life, no matter what the cost, and adopted without considering the consequences animal bodies. The other ones, not yet that degenerated and still capable of being cause over matter, energy, space and time up to a certain degree, better waited until the evolution had proceeded far enough to produce human-like bodies. They were the ones who promoted the evolution and made sure that a diversity of species came into being and that the development followed a certain direction. They created the different races according to their own special taste.

LIFE ITSELF, though trapped in this universe, but provided with its inherent, inextinguishable longing for immortality, had no choice but to accept the challenge in one way or another. The game of life had been given a new name and a supposedly new function. The reconquest of the physical universe had begun and was in full swing. To survive was now the order of the day.