In the beginning there was nothing. No thing existed. Not even space. In fact, to call it nothing gives rise to something, but this is the limitation that we face with language. This nothing is also inconceivable because to think of nothing also gives rise to something. Nonetheless, from out of the nothingness came the simplest of forms. Ethereal gas spread across vast distances in what can now be called space. This gas, began to coalesce in clusters, swirling and dancing until more and more dense fields formed. The gas became so dense that it started to fuse with itself creating tremendous amounts of energy and also forming new gases. These stars went on consuming themselves until they could not. In it’s last breath, a star would blow out all that fusion had created during the star’s lifetime. These remnants were rich with new elements that sowed fresh stars. This process went on creating more complex patterns of which included solid matter. This matter consolidated to form planets.

On one particular planet, tumultuous geological activity raged onward shifting solid matter and creating vast oceans of temperate water as well as an atmosphere that cradled this now fertile nursery. With the conditions perfect for life, a single-celled biological organism appeared. It soon created more single-celled organisms. Eventually, these organisms gave way to multi-cellular organisms until microscopic organisms were prolific throughout the ocean. This life became increasingly more complex and diverse as mutations in genetic codes occurred. The planet was soon teeming with an abundance of plant and animal life. Species would die off and new ones would take their place. All the while, they would become more and more complex and specialized. Eventually, the most intricate being emerged and it enjoyed a keen sense of self-awareness.

These humans possessed intelligence unlike any other being on this planet and they had bodies that illustrated perfection in form. These traits allowed humans to adapt and evolve exponentially. They learned to communicate with each other at first through primitive means but gradually with more and more complexity. They formed groups and created villages, towns, and city states to maximize their efficiency and survival. These communities gave way to complex networks that eventually formed countries and nations. These humans or people, soon colonized the entire planet they called Earth.

As the distances between groups of people increased, these beings developed new means of communicating with each other. One of the systems widely used was an arrangement of  markings called alphabets that they used to transcribe their oral language. These languages were complex and varied respective to the region where it was developed. This method, they called writing, soon became a means to communicate across the entire planet. Since this took an exceptional amount of time by human standards, they developed more and more complex methods of connecting. They created telegraphs, radio waves, telephones, and televisions. All of these were much faster ways of transmitting information and thereby connecting people from different countries.

The age of the computer gave way to even more improvement for these humans. Computers allowed people to collect and process information at an incredible rate; in conjunction with this technology they called satellites that orbited Earth, they created a network that spanned the entire planet. They called this network the internet or the web. Computers all over Earth communicated with each other through code developed by people. They also had small hand-held devices that could link with this wireless network at the touch of their finger. This technology allowed people from all parts of the world to share their unique perspective with everyone else. This complex web of information brought people closer together by bridging cultural and ideological gaps.

The arbitrary boundaries that humans had once drawn between countries and nations collapsed in the wake of this global communication. Eventually humans identified simply as Earthlings rather than a specific country. By this time, people had traveled to another planet they called Mars and populated it the way they did Earth. Since the journey from Earth to Mars took roughly six to ten months of human time, they needed to develop a better means of communicating with each other. Once again, humans developed a new technology to solve their problem. They created an intricate system of relaying information using light. It only took about three minutes of human time to transmit light from Earth to Mars so it seemed the most plausible means.

Humans began augmenting their organic bodies with electronic components for the purpose of enhancing connectivity with the web. They also learned to harness more of their brain potential through the use of computing and modifying their genetic code.  This increased their human processing ability and also led to new means of communicating with each other through thought. This gave rise to a new species referred to by their purely organic counterparts as humanoids. Humanoids were far more connected to one another than humans and this afforded them richer and more impactful experiences.

Before long, humanoids had explored the furthest reaches of their solar system using fusion-based starships and propulsion technology that allowed them to travel magnitudes faster than before. It wasn’t safe for humans to travel long distances in space due to certain physical limitations that the humanoids didn’t possess; this along with their lack of connectivity led to an eventual extinction of the human population. Humanoids learned to harness the power of the sun at the center of their solar system allowing them to populate the system and be completely connected to one another.

The inherent nature of consciousness is to expand further and further, never settling for any limitations. Humanoids began to understand this more and more as their time went on. They faced the novel challenge of accessing new solar systems where the distance from one another was greater than they could feasibly travel. This predicament ushered a change in the culture. Humanoids learned to access deeper states of consciousness which opened the fourth dimension. This dimension allowed for near instantaneous travel as it bent the field humanoids called space time.

The story goes on. Humanoids  were replaced by a new species far more adept at accessing deeper and more complex states of consciousness and multitudes of dimensions. They populated and colonized the star system once called The Milky Way Galaxy by humans and humanoids. They learned to harness the potential of the black hole at the center of the galaxy. This process went on and on creating more complex social structures and new species. All the while, the known universe never seemed to stop. As long as a species had means, there appeared to be an unexplored piece of the puzzle.

A black hole is what humans and humanoids referred to when describing the all consuming nothingness that occurred when very large stars exhausted themselves. The very thing that gives life also takes it away. These voids where nothing escapes, including light, serve one purpose. They complete the cycle of life. Everything was born from nothing and thus must return to nothing. These black holes consume all form, including each other, until there is nothing left but the nothingness from the beginning of this story.

Consciousness will always seek to expand because it is trying to complete the circle of its origin. Life, all form is essentially a strange loop. Its origin is also its conclusion and vice versa. Consciousness is exploring itself and coming to know itself. It is the fabric of all form in varying states of awareness. It is the ant frantically scouting for food for the colony. It is the volcano that blows its lid showering the land with ash. It is the domestic cat sleeping twenty hours a day. It is the sun using fusion to create energy. Consciousness is lion that chases down the gazelle because it must eat. It is the black hole that will eventually consume and be consumed. It is the newborn human being cradled in its mother’s arms. Everything creates a network through which consciousness experiences itself in form. Humans are just another piece of this network. We only think we are separate because consciousness has folded in on itself and created the idea of a separate self. Its all part of the exploration game. When beings populate the galaxies and eventually the universe, that is consciousness knowing and experiencing itself across immeasurable distances. Consciousness is actually infinite. This means there are no limitations on it. It has no boundaries; it does not stop. The universe will go on infinitely as long as form conceives of more and more reality or until the laws of the universe, that it created, pull all form back into nothingness so the whole game can begin again. Consciousness cannot be conceived of because of its infinite nature. Any form it takes will be less than the whole and thus not the totality. Your true Self is consciousness expressing itself through the person you believe yourself to be. You are perfect just the way you are. You are a Buddha.