A Brief Biography of Your Grand Genealogy
Sky’s No Limit. Heaven Shouldn’t Wait.
10-min read (Sorry, your life story is too interesting to be shortened.)
Tak C. Poon, MD, PharmD, ABIHM, FACC
It has taken the vastness of the Universe, yet with surgical precision, and billions of years, yet with split-second timing, to make YOU out of stardust, then another couple million years to fine-tune your DNA, and your lifetime so far to come up with the one and only you today.
But you won’t end up exactly like this. Now is your turn to make your version of yourself. Your other option is to leave it to random chance, like an asteroid.
You might need more data. The science in that, although interesting, isn’t nearly as fascinating as the meaning and implications of your making. But first, look at your whole picture.
1-Minute Summary of The Making of You
You are made of stardust, like everyone else.
You are unique, just like everyone else.You, too, are at the center of the Universe,
just like everything else.“On Earth, boundaries are everywhere and the center nowhere.
In Heaven, the center is everywhere and boundaries nowhere.”It’s not about being a superstar.
It’s that being stardust is already super.What you have been given is a gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift to your world.“You’re not just in the Universe,
the Universe is in you.”“As in the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.
As in the atom, so is the Universe.
As in the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.”“Why don't you go for Heaven on Earth,
just for the hell of it?”“You are the sky.
Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
And the fascinating blow-by-blow details for all that are as follows.
You Almost Didn’t Make It
You wouldn’t be here after the Big Bang went boom some 14 billion years ago if the timing had been off by a mere 10-43 seconds. (That’s less than one billionth, trillionth, trillionth, trillionth of a second, the shortest time possible in Physics.)
In the first second, all the stuff in existence—matter and anti-matter—were busy annihilating each other back into oblivion. You wouldn’t be here if matter hadn’t out-numbered anti-matter by a mere one-per-billion margin. That’s how close it came—no small matter.
Temperature then was flaring at a billion degrees. Thankfully, the Universe has been expanding nonstop. When space opens up, its heat content gets spread thin, so it cools off.
After “chilling out” for about 10 billion years, tempers simmered down enough for this hazy cloud of subatomic dust to congeal into gases, like hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and such—the starting materials for your life.
Later, down at only a few million degrees, these gases balled up into various heavenly bodies you see today. Stars stay hot as raging balls of fire and gas. Some aging stars slip into cranky late-life crises and blow up, literally.
These ultra-violent, super-nova explosions get scorching enough to weld gases together into more hefty minerals, like calcium, iron, carbon, and such. These get blown out all over the skies. Some landed on Earth to be your body’s basic building blocks—bones, blood, blubber, and all.
You wouldn’t be here without starbursts. And, yeah…
You are made of stardust, like everyone else.
Still, you wouldn’t be here without romance. An extraordinary DNA-loaded baby-maker cell, one out of millions from your dad, made it into an extraordinary baby-grower cell in your mom.
It happened fatefully at just the right time within your mom’s body’s 28-day moon-cycle, perhaps one starry night at the end of a lovely sunny day.
And 10 more moon-cycles after that, out came YOU—unlike anyone else in the Universe, now and ever.
You are unique, just like everyone else.
So, Your One-and-Only Highness of the Majestic Universe, how would you like the cosmos to serve your life further before it finishes its multi-billion-year job? It has infinite resources. All you have to do is summon them with the proper command.
Let’s hope you are not another victim of the “Hurry-Worry-Sorry Sickness” pandemic, saying, “Sorry, I’ve got to…I just don’t have the time…’cos…well, I’m way too busy. Uh, excuse me, I have to take this…”
Really? After all that you’ve been through for 14 billion years?
It’s Time…It’s Here
Maybe a star ought to be put in its place first.
Imagine, before the Big Bang, you’re inside this pre-boom “singularity”, infinitely smaller than the next punctuation mark. There’s no other space anywhere else except this tiny center, where you and everything else are cramped in.
BOOM! Now you can see the Universe expand all around you into newborn space, all the way to its outer limits, taking everything else previously cramped just right next to you in the center.
In this way, the 3D geometry is such that each point in this expanding Universe is right at its center; and there is no boundary because there is no space, nothing, outside of it to form a border with. It is the totality.
So, our galaxy is at the center of the Universe, just like all other galaxies. And, indeed…
You, too, are at the center of the Universe,
just like everything else.
Our solar system is one of over 100 billion such gatherings within our galaxy, the Milky Way. If it were a sandy beach, our Sun would be but a grain of sand among countless others on it. And each galaxy beyond is but a grain of sand on billions of sandy beaches in the Universe.
“On Earth, boundaries are everywhere and the center nowhere.
In Heaven, the center is everywhere and boundaries nowhere.”Many Sages and Astrophysicists
And why all that wasted empty space in space? Well, it’s not empty, and it’s not wasted. It’s all part of your linkage, your weave. It’s full of varieties of energetic entities popping in and out of existence, some in secret.
Subatomic Physics shows that any physical entity—as stuff or energy—can only exist by virtue of its ongoing interactive relationship with those around it. And all those around it, in turn, can only exist by…you get the picture.
Because of this universal, dynamic, interlocking weave, as one thing changes, everything else gets affected, even across the vast cosmic space. There is no missing link in this all-inclusive network.
Nothing can exist alone or be left alone, ever. You are never alone.
It’s not about being a superstar.
It’s that being stardust is already super.
Yes, YOU are responsible—but not only
In this universal network, the jiggle of any one piece in it jiggles all the rest. Each serves some consequential functions by virtue of its vital connection to everything else. Nobody can tell exactly how much or for how long.
This magnificent ensemble can be ripped if you disconnect any significant number of the pieces even far away, or just a few of them nearby, or merely one or two very close to you, or only yourself before the natural timeline.
That’s really no different from your life experience, is it? The COVID pandemic, for instance, brings that home for everyone on Earth, literally.
It’s not about how big—you’ve ranged in size from a subatomic particle to a star. It’s not about how lasting—you’ve ranged from 10-43 second to 14 billion years.
It’s about whether you want to make your stardust status starry or dusty.
How important are you? The dust in the hazy cloud just after the Big Bang didn’t know; but look at the products in the skies today. Your parents’ baby-making cells didn’t know; but look at the product in the mirror now.
What you have been given is a gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift to your world.Many People
Google or Guru?
So, how would you like to shine? If you weren’t prepared to have such star power—and responsibility—what’d you do? Google it?
Don’t let being a grain among grains and among more grains give you a migraine. You still have your starlight before it goes out. Full command is yours in the here and now. So, take it.
Oh, yes. There is a Universal Wisdom Guru, free of charge, with an open-door, 24/7/366 policy, as long as there is still a sky. For access, you only have to launch the right search engine.
Here’s how.
Only you can know what you want, what problems you have, all the strengths and weaknesses that you hold. That’s why you are uniquely and exclusively you. Nobody can Google it for you.
First, you look outward in the sky for a boundless perspective. Next, you look inward for a deeper introspective. Then, you’ll see how these two can get in sync, irrespective. You are both cut from the same cloth, after all.
Since you’re suspended in deep space, in the center of the Universe, there is no up or down. There’s only outward or inward. When you look in, look out. Look deep enough, both ways should look the same.
“You’re not just in the Universe,
the Universe is in you.”Gurus and Cosmologists
Next, like a beginner, empty your mind of all prior self-doubts, induced fears, and fed biases. You did begin at the Big Bang before any rules. Then, after many uninhibited trials and errors, you have ended up as this unique, stardust-studded you…so far.
The Guru requires that you do enough due diligence to learn all you can by online, offline, and sideline searches from all resources available. Then, think it through with a mind as calm and clear as deep space. The best option will pop up for you to try out.
Remember, you and the cosmos are all linked up and run by the same unwritten algorithms. Let them sync up. Just keep quiet and still for a while. Clear your head with a pause in thinking. Meditation can help that.
A Ctl-Alt-Dlt pause reliably reboots your hardware to make it run better, even if you can’t download anything. And you don’t have to know how it’s all programmed. Most mere mortals don’t. Breathing practice, meditation, and the like can do that reset.
If that doesn’t work once, repeat the process and try other pop-up options as many times as feasible. The cosmos never runs out of resources and is always open.
“As in the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.
As in the atom, so is the Universe.
As in the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.”Upanishads
If, At First, You Don’t Succeed…
Double-check that your objective aligns with the Universe, like being happy and well, and good for yourself and your network—the same purpose the Universe must have if you were running it.
You’ll know when it’s right because the right people and resources will drop from the skies at just the right time on your lap. You couldn’t turn them away. But you have to be ready to catch them.
Prophets get followed by disciples. The Googles get stampedes of talents. Writers get pinged by muses. Lotto players…well, their lot are on their own. Shine from within, and the wise bearing gifts will follow the star.
OK. Now, you are eligible to consult the Guru without even knocking. Surprise! The office is right in the “empty” space of your stillness. The answers have just filled your emptied cup. The Guru is your own mastermind.
You’ve seen the movies. All them Wizards behind the curtain are the same. You have to figure it out yourself along the Yellow Brick Road. It is an open secret told by many wisdom traditions worldwide for ages.
Sky’s no limit. Heaven shouldn’t wait.
You have experienced at least a few heavenly moments here and there, now and then. In your extensive screen time, you must also have witnessed enough hellish events around the globe.
You’ve gotten some tastes of heaven by your own doing before. Since you’re already at the center of the heavens, and your starlight is still on, why not keep sampling?
Here-and-now is guaranteed; there-and-then is only a maybe. So much of heaven and hell on Earth are human-engineered; Nature can’t salvage it all. You can’t control how the rest of the network gyrates; all you can command is how you jiggle and sparkle.
Do you want heavenly breezes to blow on you some more purely by chance? What if it is a dealer’s choice where you are the dealer, and you make the deal if you so choose? That option is yours only in the here and now.
“Why don't you go for heaven on Earth,
just for the hell of it?”Steve Bhaerman
All of existence here and in the heavens is like an embroidery of jewels wholly interlaced together as one singular masterpiece from the beginning of time.
As long as your light is still on, you are no missing link. You can jiggle the whole thing.
The cosmos out there has no choice. You do. If you leave it all to chance, you might crash like space debris into whatever happens to come up.
You can also choose to brighten and re-weave this embroidery in your own image, with your unique light, in your sky.
“You are the sky.
Everything else – it’s just the weather.”Pema Chodron
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