question its motive or purpose. Indeed, we have no say in the matter. For that reason, trying to determine whether life has a purpose or not is an exercise in futility. We cannot influence the outcome either way. None of us has decided on his or her own to be born, conversely, it will not be up to any of us to end it all. We can only exist, physically or spiritually, as a reflection if not an extension of this active process called the continuous creation. Like it or not, life be it spiritual or biological, in fact everything that exist physically or abstractly, is completely intertwined and inseparable from the process of creation. This is a law that everything in existence must obey - including us. Not only do we keep changing and reinventing ourselves through learning and discovering, but also we evolved to be creators on our own. With our numerous interests and limitless imagination we keep creating universes of our own. Every individual is a galaxy and every race is a universe. The abstract and intellectual universe is our creation. This universe is eternal, and by creating it, we in turn have become immortal. A new universe is born every time someone invents a new art form or a scientist makes a new discovery. Where does our thinking, imagination, creativity end … we shall never know. The greatest paradox of all times manifests itself in how an individual may amount to nothing, yet he or she could rise to be compared to the infinite universe once imagination and creativity are included in the equation, for they are also boundless. After death there is a world that is beyond our comprehension, just like ours is out of reach to any substance in contact with us. As living beings we depend on the symbiotic process of matter to survive. We rely on the sun for light and warmth whereas plants need it to grow. We breathe the air, drink the water, nourish our bodies from what the land produces and what the sea provides. All these elements support our biological life and are part of our existence - which makes us, part of them. Even the lifeless rock we stand upon is part of the mother earth that is the source of life for an endless number of things living. Everything on and around it happens to be made of matters which has been in existence forever. A substance might transmute every second or fuse or disintegrate but the matter itself never goes away. Even when a star blows itself to pieces, even if our entire universe self-destructs, the matter never dies. Perhaps this is how the matter is given a chance to morph into new wonders we call galaxies and new forms of life we call plants and animals. Perhaps this is how the matter renews itself - just as we do through death. Perhaps the whole purpose of our existence and that of any matter or living thing is to keep death and void from taking over. In a way one might say that the Continuous Creation is the antithesis of void, death and nothingness. Think of it: if the matter does not transmute, it would be much similar to something that does not exist at all, for the only way we can differentiate between a total nothingness and existence is by the way the thing that does exist renews itself. With regard to the matter, this renewal takes place in the form of transmutation. In our case the renewal happens to ensue after what is conventionally known as death. In any event, and regardless of our beliefs and convictions, and regardless of whether what I have said makes any logical sense, life and death will always remain a mystery to us. Just think of death as a completely different world that’s part of the Continuous Creation. It’s a world we are incapable of fathoming. Just as we cannot figure out what kind of world or worlds lie beyond our universe. According to science, the universe we are part of, stretches beyond our imagination and possibly contains trillions of stars and planets which spawn a myriad of forces and phenomena. Still, as humongous as it may be, some scientists tell us it does not stretch to infinity. In this case one would be tempted to wonder what lies beyond it. Whatever it is, it cannot be void and nothingness. For our universe to be contained in an empty hole is a possibility that defies logic and the law of physics. Yes, chaos may reign supreme in our universe, but think of it this way: a world of cosmos without forces, without chaos would be akin to a void, for this reason it would be impossible to imagine our universe to be hanging amidst nothing. A simple observation has convinced me of the existence of other universes: all galaxies are shaped like huge disks - in relative terms that is. Yes, occasionally they may slam into each other, but in general, they are always floating in this huge space we call the universe. Had this universe being of finite size or had there not been an infinite number of universes surrounding it, no galaxies would be able to form, for they would all clump together or disappear in this infinite void zone. It is obvious that there is a gravitational force pulling in the opposite direction and preventing them from collapsing, while on the other hand, the gravity of our own universe keeps them from disintegrating into another zone or universe. This balancing act can be observed by looking at the galaxies of our universe. One may speculate, that on a larger scale, this is how universes behave as well, the only difference is that we have a clear idea how galaxies are shaped, yet, we have no clue how a complete universe may look like. This knowledge will elude us until one day we successfully acquire the technology which would enable us to observe other universes. Actually, helped by data gathered by the telescope Hubble, some scientists believe that the dark energy is probably responsible for causing the universe to expand or the border galaxies to pull away from it, while the dark matter tries to bring galaxies closer to each other or hold them together.
Amazingly, not only do we have billions of galaxies, but except the odd anomaly, they all look like flat disks as well. This is the conclusion to be drawn here: this sort of formation can only exist in an infinite universe, for only an infinite universe would have an infinite gravitational center which would allow so many galaxies to be flat and maintain such a huge distance from all others. Although, no one knows for sure what lies beyond our known universe, there must be something out there, a different world we are unable to decipher. Nevertheless, it is part of the Continuous Creation that has always existed and which is not a subject to time. Time only makes sense to us at this stage of our existence- it means nothing for the matter that knows no life or death, nor does it mean anything to us in our perpetual existence. Scientists have been telling us that our universe was created by a big explosion they call the big bang. But even if we were to agree with them, the big bang itself does not explain to us where and how the matter that forms this universe had come from or how many times such a similar phenomenon has taken place before or might take place in the future. The big bang theory is not absolute science, it is fluid and murky. To my thinking if the universe has exploded once, nothing can stop it from imploding and once it implodes nothing can stop it from exploding again and this can go on to infinity, without us knowing about it - much less keeping track of it. We may never figure out how the Continuous Creation may look, but we can definitely be sure it exists everywhere and beyond everywhere. This should not come as a surprise to us. This situation already exists here on earth. For instance what is the highest or the lowest number? Just because no one knows does not mean that such numbers do not exist. Another puzzle: how do we measure knowledge and imagination? The same thing can be repeated here as well, just because no one can provide an answer is no reason to assume that it is impossible to one day define the boundaries of dreams and creativity.
Death, what it represents and what goes beyond it, is another world which is locked to us. We will never be able to understand what goes beyond our universe until we get there. Similarly, we may only know about the mystery of life and death after we complete the cycle. Yet even then, there is no guarantee that the mystery will be revealed. After all, life itself is full of mysteries and surprises. In this case why worry about something we have no control over? Let’s focus on living. At least in that respect, the more we discover about ourselves, the more understandable, fascinated, and respectful of life we would become. The first thing to realize is that we should not be embarrassed about our selfishness and desire to live and enjoy life. This is something which was said earlier and the same can be said about our desire for a longer life and our obsession with immortality. This is what every species longs for and strives to accomplish. In a way, as long as we survive as a race we can consider ourselves to be immortal. We may die as individuals but our genes and our spirit can live forever through others. To appreciate this concept, one must think of the human race as an ecosystem that depends on all members to survive. Although this perpetuity is more distinct with lower single cell life form such as bacteria where they simply reproduce by copying themselves through splitting or other means, in our case our genes and our thoughts are carried through new generations. This is why it makes sense to be living in a peaceful and pleasant world since we are the ones who will be alive through the upcoming generations. In a way we are all copies of the first human being who had started it all. Even when we are childless, all human genes have the same source, besides,
