Platform for the Quest

Astrophysics would seem to be approaching the ancient view, that of the constant coming into being and disappearance into rest of numberless universes within the field of the infinite. This field is pervaded by consciousness so that, as the philosophers of all time have said, Divinity is like an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere. This implies that every minuscule particle and the most gigantic conglomeration of heavenly bodies are equally permeated with a divine quality, with consciousness. From such a source comes the vitalism, the dynamic drive to growth, the constant emergence out of the unfathomable potential resources of Space, of new qualities, refinement after refinement of spirit and matter.

Here is where we must search out the reason for existence, the meaning of life and its manifold productivity. The urge is toward ever more unfoldment from some center within each entity, of the limitless latent possibilities awaiting the conditions and the opportunities for expression. There is nothing haphazard when the sequence of cause and effect is inescapable. The encouraging feature is that the growth and unfoldment of finer and yet finer faculties are constant and unending.
--I M. Oderberg, Mind and Spacetime