Posted September 13, 2013


Leaves are energy transformers. Just as leaves in our world---a major element of most "plants"---transform solar light energy into useable food for animals and humans---which in turn fuels thought as we know it---so too does divine energy need transformation into star-fusion energy. And just as life on this planet absorbs less than 1% of solar energy, so too all the energy of all the stars in all the galaxies absorbs less than 1% of divine energy.

The structure of the leaf is complex, and the cells in the leaf have structures even more complex, all of this going into the task of harvesting light and warmth and converting into food for the plant to build further leaves, and stems, and, incidentally, to co-evolve with animals. It is at least as complex and varied and integrated as the picture below:

There has been a faint hint recently discovered of the greater mysteries of our cosmos. "Dark matter" is estimated to consist of five times as much whatever as all the radiant matter that we know about---all the stuff of stars and galaxies and even energized gas between the stars! And "dark energy" is a mystery that accounts for an apparent expansion of a universe that according to the laws of gravity should be if not collapsing, then at least not speeding up in its expansion. Converting energy into matter, that accounts for again five times the amount of "dark matter." All of that is just the "shadow" of what's really going on.

We didn't know about electricity until the last few hundred years, but humans recognized something about static electricity and lightning for at least 70,000 years---like, "what is that anyway?" and resolved it with "the gods." Only recently have we de-mystified these and other phenomena, not that this de-mystification has extended to whole bunches of other mysteries, like love, or consciousness.

So mythically speaking, one way to play with this is to imagine that as esoteric thinkers were right in reasoning (if that's the right word), "as above, so below." Or changing it around, what we find in our realm is a hint to what goes on in the transcendental realm. The picture above suggests the way the cosmos is reaching out to us, transforming divine energy into the multitudinous variety of forms that we enjoy in our world. Mind forms, all types of humor and fiction, all the arts, all hobbies and politics and so forth---all those are part of the expressions of divine energy.

The inner circles are like the essential chemical reactions in the cell, the atomic transformations that store and release energy; the next circles out is the life that comes from this at cellular to organismic levels. The outer circle represents the sheer variety of the noosphere, the types of consciousness and their relationships. Only recently have we been able to glimpse this pattern, to consider within collective human consciousness that it's all a process. There are fabulous realms of subtlety and unfolding here.