Dark Matter and the Light of Love

Copyright 2016 Don Ray

Human society is a chaos of suffering and misery and injustice and violence.  This is in direct analogy to the violent universe around us.

In the universe darkness and violent collisions and explosions and chaos have led to the ignition of fusion in stars.  The dark universe became filled with light and eventually, out of collisions and catastrophe, on at least one planet the violence led to ignition of life.

So too in the ongoing evolution of life and humanity, violence – collisions – catastrophe – and cruelty provide the chaos analogous to the chaos of the universe.  Just as fusion can ignite in individual stars and life ignite on the fetid surface of a young planet, out of social and societal chaos and disaster, individual Love can ignite. 

Why should it be so? …..that the chaotic structure of this spiritual universe is the only way to ignite meaningful Love and true eternal Unity? 

Colliding planets and asteroid bombardments seem an improbable way to ignite conscious individual Life.  Wars and dictatorships seem an unlikely way to ignite Love.  But that Love, born not of obligation or edict, born in spite of circumstance and conflict, born of profoundly free individual Choice, is a Love higher and more powerful than the love of any angel.

In all the social and anthropological forces driving human behavior, Love is the weakest.  In this regard it is analogous to gravity.  The gravity of the entire earth cannot even win a contest with the magnetic force of a refrigerator magnet. Yet the entire universe, its curvature, its expansion rate, the existence of galaxies, the existence of stars that light those galaxies, all arise because of the weakest force, gravity. 

So too, in spite of the struggle for survival, in spite of the hunger, in spite of the selfishness, in spite of the pain and anger and fear, Love in its selfless form – though often locally and individually indiscernible and undetectable – provides the subtle, compelling influence that has allowed compassion, gentleness, and forgiveness to weave their influence through the daily clash, competition, and combat.

The gravity that holds galaxies together arises in large part from dark matter, interacting with our world of visible matter only through gravity, leaving the dark matter invisible and locally undetectable.  Every galaxy is surrounded by dark matter or the galaxy would not exist.

So too Love is not limited to the paucity of our human expressions and experience, but surrounds us and envelopes us.  Often locally undetectable, as indefinable and ineffable as dark matter, none the less it shapes the great flow of Life through the ages. 

Dark matter provided the opportunity for matter to accrete and assemble until stars ignited and light shone, and then under that warming light life could ignite. 

The process continues as from this ignited life, consciousness incarnate – humanity - has the opportunity to choose to ignite Love and Unity……. Love and Unity not alone and surrounded by cold and darkness, though to our eyes it may appear so.  Just as the glowing stars are surrounded by and embedded in the invisible dark matter that served as their nursery, our individual Love and Unity that we allow to ignite are surrounded and sustained by the Love - the Christos – in which and through which all Creation has unfolded from before the beginning. 

Copyright 2016 Don Ray
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