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Overview
A disturbing truth is dawning all around us: The present-day universe based on outdated views has not worked out the way it was supposed to. Too many unsolved riddles have piled up. Some are so baffling that even imagining how to answer them is in doubt. There's an opening for a totally new approach, or what some have called a paradigm shift.
You Are the Universe explores your relationship to reality.A huge number of things must come together perfectly to construct reality, and yet they do so completely out of ordinary sight. Without your experience, the entire world-and the vast universe extending in all directions-can't exist.
In ancient India the Vedic sages declared Aham Brahmasmi, which can be translated as "I am the Absolute" or "I am everything there is." Today we explore reality through science, and there cannot be two realities. If "I am the universe" is true, modern science must offer evidence to support it-and it does.
Even though mainstream science is about external measurements, data, and experiments, which build a model of the physical world rather than the inner world, there are a host of mysteries that measurements, data, and experiments cannot fathom.
At the far frontier of time and space, science must adopt new methods in order to answer some very basic questions, such as "What came before the Big Bang?" and "What is the universe made of?"
At this moment there's a growing body of cosmologists and quantum physicists-the scientists who explain the origin and nature of the very large and the very small-developing theories of a completely new universe, one that is living, conscious, and evolving. Such a universe fits no standard model, yet it is implied by the most advanced theories we have. It's not the cosmos of classical physics or the Creation described as the work of almighty God in the Book of Genesis.
A conscious universe responds to how we think and feel, how we experience reality. It gains its shape, color, sound, and texture from us. Therefore, we feel the best name for it is the human universe. This is probably the greatest surprise of all, that the control room for creating reality exists in the experiences everyone is having every day.
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