In Its Image and Likeness?

(Originally posted here.)



Does nature with its terrestrial phenomena mirror a wider, cosmic (perhaps not necessarily physical) reality?

Or is it perhaps even the materialisation – a condensation, if you will – of the forces underlying the unceasing (re)creation of the world and their dynamics?

I have always, even as a child, detested the »animistic« view of the cosmos (our world included). I found nature »as is« (as IF we ever observed it »as is«... ;) interesting enough without men trying to read into »her«.

But even I – even then – had to wonder sometimes. I have noticed often enough that sometimes, rarely, there seem to be »signs in the skies« that for some reason cannot simply be dismissed as our »reading into« them. (It would take a long time and effort to describe some of them, so let me just mention the extraordinary aspect of the sky on January 25, 1938, and on August 23rd, 1939: the day of the signing of the Molotov-von Ribbentrop treaty.)

And now, I have come upon a website that claims the river Nile actually conforms to the shape of – the Milky Way.

TIME RIVERS

To be totally frank, I am not sure I subscribe to this theory.
But I got to give them - specifically, the author of the theory, Goro Adachi - credit for observation and »lateral« thinking.
Brainstorms seldom pass without yielding at least a single drop of valid and useful information.

And, after all, according to Sufi mystics, the entire world, with all its creatures, is nothing but a mirror created by God and observed by God's unblinking eye, to see the image of »Himself«.

»God created the world
because He wanted to see His image in the mirror.«

Here's looking at you, kid

What do you see in the mirror?

Do you like it?

Does your heart hum with joy when you look at yourself?


If it doesn't, it's safe to assume you aren't looking in the right mirror...



HERE is the right mirror:

Do you see?

No?

Look closer...

You don't see anything yet?

How about now?

Are you saying:

"Yes, it's very beautiful, but that's not me"?

Step back.

Step back as far as you can...


and have a look

at YOURSELF:

(click on the image!)

Amazing, huh?

(What is it?!)

Oh, so your science teacher thinks it's all hogwash...? 


Well, YOU think again.

You are God in oblivion.


You are God who's forgotten her own power -

you are God who is afraid of her own power.

(You think you've heard this one before?

Was it here, perhaps?
And HERE is the man who said it.)

It is not blasphemy.
Don't let anyone tell you that.



God is you.


Nothing happy, beautiful, magnificent you can think of is against God,

because it is God who is thinking it.

We'll be back soon.

Meanwhile...

take a look at this fabric for your new gown!

Spread it over your screen 

and have a good look at it.

(And then compare it with that science teacher's sense of fashion... :)

Or read this:

OR you can visit some more of your sisters and brothers in the glorious Hall of Mirrors.
(Who are the authors and/or copyright holders of all the telescope images on this page.)