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apt <strong>in</strong> <strong>awe</strong><br />
and <strong>in</strong>ertia coalesced the nebulous protostellar cloud composed<br />
of seventy percent hydrogen, twenty-‐eight percent helium, and<br />
the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g two percent be<strong>in</strong>g nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon<br />
distributed all distributed by an ancient supernovae. The proto-‐<br />
planetary disk began to separate <strong>in</strong>to orbital disks around the<br />
concentrated center mass due to collisions and density anomalies<br />
which then con-‐creased <strong>in</strong>to protoplanetary structures. In a<br />
process last<strong>in</strong>g a mere decade our Sun and the formative fore-‐<br />
bearers to the planets <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g our Earth were formed. Hydrogen<br />
fusion ignited <strong>in</strong> the center of the Sun and the solar system was<br />
born. Somewhere between 4.54 and 4.57 billion years ago the<br />
Earth formed – around about 9.13 to 9.16 billion year after the Big<br />
Bang. Novelty and confirmation, a formative flux, constantly<br />
created further structures of complexity. The advent of heavy<br />
elements supported novelty emerg<strong>in</strong>g as molecules, which <strong>in</strong> turn<br />
crystallized <strong>in</strong>to m<strong>in</strong>erals. This entire process of the crystallization<br />
of structure and function follows the expansion and subsequent<br />
cool<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the universe. Matter condensed from raw energy and<br />
can be seen as frozen energy.<br />
The salient <strong>in</strong>sight that emerges from this protracted view<br />
of the creation of form and function is that what we perceive as<br />
matter is merely frozen energy. What we experience as rigid and<br />
static is a suspended web of <strong>in</strong>terwoven energy <strong>in</strong> constant flux.<br />
The Standard Model of the Big Bang theory is highly confirmed<br />
scientific <strong>in</strong>terpretation of creation, amidst many other fields of<br />
view, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g those suggest<strong>in</strong>g div<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong>tervention. The risk of<br />
attachment to this model of the universe is that it does not leave<br />
room for further novel expressions or understand<strong>in</strong>gs. I simply<br />
encourage you to def<strong>in</strong>e an <strong>in</strong>terpretation that resonates with<br />
you. I personally f<strong>in</strong>d that I can better <strong>in</strong>tuit a sense of truth more<br />
easily than I can cognitively grasp one, let alone articulate it<br />
through the crude tool of words. The experience of liv<strong>in</strong>g has<br />
taught me that my heart holds more wise understand<strong>in</strong>g than the<br />
grasp<strong>in</strong>g of my m<strong>in</strong>d. Our ability to attune to this <strong>in</strong>tuitive pres-‐<br />
ence – this <strong>awe</strong> – def<strong>in</strong>es our capacity to simply be present and<br />
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