You created the universe!

"Why did God create the universe?" a bright young man asked me as I was presenting the exciting, cutting edge path of Evolutionary Enlightenment to a small audience in Arnhem, Holland, as if I would know. In the silence that followed his face changed and as he was looking me in the eye he said: "I am actually talking to myself am I not?" "That is true", I responded unpremeditatedly, "This is the only way for God to get to know him, her or itself."

We discussed how Life seems to be creating higher and higher expressions of itself and we recognized our conversation was part of that process, part of the evolutionary process recognizing itself.

I could see that, at least for a moment, that realisation was real to him, which made the evening worth it. What would happen if we all would have no doubt that we are the process, that we created the universe. What if we emotionally could bear the implications of the fact that our desire to be free and evolve, is the evolutionary impulse, the same impulse that created the whole universe?

This seems an inspiring metaphor, but when you start to see through the ego, through our stubborn insistence that the individual we seem to be, has it's own separate self existence, and realize that that impulse to be free and evolve is actually who we are on the deepest, most real level. Then you can't help realizing, whether we like it or not, that we did initiate this whole process and that we are responsible for it. It is almost too much to write, but that doesn't make it untrue. And what I love about it is the unbridled, undivided enthusiasm for life itself that this realisation can catalyze in us.

This is what Andrew Cohen calls the ‘Universe Project', your project and my project that we started about 14 billion years ago and that we are responsible for today...