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Exploring #ExistentialPerspectives: A Journey into Shared Human Experience

This site is dedicated to reflecting on the #ExistentialPerspectives that all human beings encounter at various moments in their everyday conscious experience. It delves into the profound sense of being unique, yet confined to one’s individual physical existence—seeing, sensing, and acting from a deeply personal perspective. Often, this awareness evokes feelings of being all alone or imprisoned within one’s body, alongside the paradoxical realization that such experiences are universal, shared by others in their own moments of introspection.

At its core, this is a deeply human journey—a search for connection, meaning, and understanding in relation to the world around us. It reflects our collective struggle to reconcile individuality with the shared essence of existence.

Through this blog, I share personal reflections, thoughts, and ruminations on my own existential experiences, which I believe mirror those of others. These posts also draw from my interests in philosophy, clinical psychology, and related disciplines, along with readings in popular science—exploring how they intersect with and illuminate our human existence.

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🌞 Midday Reflections on the Universe and Life

“In midday, I would sit down at the picnic table and immerse myself in the latest article on cosmology in Scientific American, pondering the bursts of innumerable bubbles of matter within the space balloon—a cosmic tapestry beyond the singular Big Bang. These bubbles, scattered across the balloon’s surface, trace the origins of our expanding Universe some 15 billion years ago.

How fascinating that this expansion accelerates due to the mysterious forces of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, which together constitute about 96% of everything we know—or rather, don’t know—about the Universe.

I’d marvel at how the Big Bang set in motion the formation of stars, galaxies, and black holes, including our own Milky Way, where Earth orbits the Sun and planets dance around their stars. Even our Sun revolves around the galactic center—harboring a massive black hole formed from the remnants of ancient stars long gone.

From galaxies merging and colliding in the cosmic dance, I see parallels with life on Earth: the big devouring the small, the strong dominating the weak—a rule that seems to transcend human history as well as the behavior of all living beings, reflecting patterns mirrored in the cosmic realm.

As I breathe in and out, I become aware of the rhythm of life—this inhaling and exhaling, expanding and contracting, mirrors the Sun’s expansion and contraction as it converts energy (from hydrogen to helium) to sustain all life. The Sun’s cycle of hydrogen fusion echoes the Universe’s own eternal rhythm of expansion and contraction, of creation and return, related to the possible Big Bang and Big Crunch—a stage in the Eternal Cycle of the Universe.

Then I’d pause to reflect on the trees, the rivers, the sky, and the Sun—on our interconnected existence. This awareness of breathing, an affirmation of my conscious living existence, gives me a sense of connection to everything within me and everything I perceive beyond myself.

It’s in this awareness that I sense the presence of an Ever-Present, Mysterious Creative Force—a force billions recognize by many names, yet which remains the same underlying essence in all things: living and non-living, visible and invisible, within us and beyond us.”

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