Eternity saved

 The major theory about the universe today is that there was a Big Bang that made up everything from a very tiny spot. 

And then we have the boring story about the forever expanding universe that will be colder and colder and fade away. 

But still we have no proof of that

Anna Ijje is a researcher that is looking at another possibility - an infinite universe.


Í use to meditate on the whole universe and when I do it I feel well and are always smiling. As if the universe in some way is connected to us and wants us to go on. This is of course feelings but very deep ones. 

When i meditate on the Earth and our solarsystem I don't feel the same. 

Anna Ijje shows us a picture of an universe that is expanding but that has an end and after that it is contracting until i will be very small (but not as small as in a Big Bang). According to Ilje the universe will now expand again and form a new and more complex one. And probably with life in some way. 

(Even Roger Penrose is into ideas of cyclic universes- but in a slightly different way)

So it may not be not be indifferently what mankind can do in this universe, maybe some can be planted in the new one. 

This is anyway a promising story. Here Ijje talks about it with for instance Brian Green. 



Why not try to imagining the whole universe when you meditate you too.... It is anyway our mother and father.






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