COSMIC REALITY
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THE COSMIC PRINCIPLE OF EVOLVING OPPOSITES Paradox Though reveling in our perfect flaw, time endlessly better and worse, whatever we so arrange, the immutable law of the universe is change. A perfect poetic expression yet falls short of the reality that surrounds and involves everyone. The further truth is that everything in existence has an opposite. There is heat and cold, creation and destruction, but up and down are better expressed as outwards forever and inwards forever. If Einstein's famous "unified field" theory is correct, then atoms are suns and electrons their orbiting planets, while our Sun is an atom and Earth one of its orbiting electrons within a great cosmic body. Meanwhile, we struggle to know the difference between a sequence of emotions and a sequence of numbers. Thus, if all existence is an ever-changing balance of extremes, this entire realm of physical being must also have its opposite, a non-physical spirit essence. Many people who had near-death experiences from accidents or heart attacks attest to the reality of the "other world" or the "afterlife", having floated out of their bodies, some passing through a dark tunnel to the "being of light" who presents their "life review" in a quick replay of all the events in their lives, good, bad and neutral, and then sends them back to physical life to try to do something more positive and nurturing. Therefore, this planet we live on exists between the two extremes of blazing solar heat and deep space cold and the evolving balance between such opposites from which we are born to grow and learn, our own two conflicted opposites being peaceful and friendly cooperation, struggling with predatory hunting and war. But there are still questions geological scientists appear unwilling to ask, let alone answer, like how did the Earth produce millions of gallons of oil and megatons of coal? It's called fossil fuel because it came from multi-trillions of plants that somehow got buried and pressed under rock. How did that happen and how could the Earth have grown such enormous amounts of plant life required to compress into such huge amounts of oil and coal? The answer lies in the fact that the Earth was created from the Sun as a huge, swirling mass of hot gasses slowly shrinking as it continues to cool. That means it was once many times larger than it is now. So, when the time came for plants to grow, the Earth was not only huge, but extremely unstable and violent. Gigantic earthquakes swallowed massive amounts of vegetation, pulling it underground and compressing it into the oil and coal that today fuels our civilization. But why didn't the buried plants, that were slowly turning into oil and coal, burn instead when the Earth's crust was so much thinner near the molten rock of the Earth's Mantle? Perhaps some did and some didn't. That's how planet Earth evolves: endless variations from which change inevitably produces the next stage of development. Millions of tons of plants did burn, and millions of tons did not, so under the massive pressure of warm rock it slowly cooked into the oil and coal that our modern economy cannot manage without, even as they destroy the environment and ruin our health. From Earthly trials this truth derive, though life devours life to live, it cooperates to survive. John Talbot Ross |
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