Space-Out With Cosmic Consciousness
You’ve focused on self-love, drank detox teas, stretched to the best yoga, and found new ways to connect with loved ones. But, there’s always something more to get to the tippy top of enlightenment. Right? Well, try cosmic consciousness.
The most powerful step in transcendence is self-awareness. But figuring out who you really are—away from social media and identities—is tricky.
So, here are 3 ways to try cosmic consciousness:
1) You’re Stardust
We’ve talked about your connection with the stars before, but this time it’s personal. Really intimate. It turns out that all the carbon we experience on Earth came from binary stars and dying stars (supernovas). And that same carbon lives in your DNA.
You are made up of universal stuff. To put it in even simpler terms, the reason we’re able to move, talk, laugh, and even blink came from outside this planet. So, your connection with the stars was granted to you at birth, and you aim to continue that relationship by acknowledging the cosmos and identifying with it.
So, next time someone asks you to talk about yourself, you can say, “Well, it all started 13.8 billion years ago when the universe was born and…”
2) You Got The Power
Concerts have energy. That hum that pulses the ground like a drum and travels up your feet and into your chest is the sound vibrations. Those frequencies can make you grab a pair of earplugs or dance the night away. That same energy is in you as well.
The particles that make up your body have been around since the beginning of time (or spacetime) and they each have a vibration or energy signature that shows up as light. When particles interact with you, like photons in a light beam, you’re experiencing energy.
Even your body’s atoms have a hand in energy. It turns out that your mass is not based on particles, chemicals, or internal organs alone. Instead, inside every atom is a nucleus, and inside that tiny and tight ball are protons and neutrons. Even smaller are quarks, elementary particles, which live inside the proton.
Scientists think that 99% of our body’s weight is the kinetic energy of quarks and what’s holding them together—gluon.
3) There’s more than one Earth
When you were little, your science teacher might have said there was only one Earth in the entire universe. Maybe they never told you that our galaxy (the Milky Way), has over 100 billion planets. Or that there are 2 trillion other galaxies in the universe (that’s about as many grains of sand on a single beach or all the bees in the world).
So, it’s safe to say there might be another planet with similarities to our home planet.
Meet Kepler-1649c, our twin. It’s about 300 light-years away, which means it takes the light emitting from that planet 300 years to get to us. It’s at a safe distance from a host star (a sun) and might have water on it. Meaning it might be the same temperature as Earth, have some sort of life, and be about the same size as Earth.
So, the next time you want to get in touch with the universe, look no further than your mirror. You’ll see a star staring back at you.