Cycle Phases
realization came another one, one having much more
important implications, and this was:
There is no different intelligence out there than what is
found down here. In fact, we are, already, all of us, out
there—in space. We are as much a part of space, of the
solar system, the galaxy, and anything more we could
imagine out there, as anything else. We are ‘out there’
right now, sitting on earth, as it travels 67,000 miles an
hour through space. What could be more ‘out there’
than that?
This understanding helped me to overcome a feeling
and a fear I had had since childhood, namely, that man
was but a tiny warm speck in an endless, somewhat
alien and cold, universe. I understood— gradually, for
sure—that whatever I was or was not, I was an equal
part, not only of all creation, but of the entire universe.
In other words, I was (and we are) the intelligent life that
we look to find in outer space. I was the spaceman. Out
there and in here became the same for me. This
understanding has helped.