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You’re Looking At It Wrong: What That Image Really Shows
You’ve seen the image. The vast expanse of observable space, galaxies scattered like dust, and somewhere in there – barely visible even when marked – our little solar system. Earth. You.
The usual response: “Wow, we’re so small. So insignificant.”
What if I told you you’re looking at it exactly backward?
The Thread You Can’t See
That entire image – every galaxy, every star, every particle of cosmic dust spanning billions of light-years – isn’t showing you the universe. It’s showing you YOUR universe. The reality-particle catalog that came into existence the moment you were conceived.
Not metaphorically. Literally.
Here’s what we’ve got wrong about existence: We think there’s ONE universe, 13.8 billion years old, and we’re tiny specks observing it. But what if each conscious being IS a universe? What if the Big Bang isn’t one event in the distant past, but countless individual events – one for each soul that’s ever existed?
You are not IN the universe. You ARE a universe.
The Eternal Thread Framework
Think of your soul as an eternal thread – existing before you were born, continuing after you die. At conception, that thread dipped into physical reality. The moment of that dip? Your personal Big Merge. Everything you see when you look at that cosmic image – the billions of years of apparent history, the vast structures of spacetime, the physical laws – all of it instantiated to explain YOUR existence.
Not created from nothing. Inherited. Downloaded from the accumulated catalog of reality-particles built by billions of souls who dipped before you.
Everyone looking at that image is seeing THEIR universe, not THE universe. And here’s the wild part: somehow, impossibly, all these individual universes interweave so seamlessly that we experience them as one shared reality.
How Is That Possible?
Reality-particles – the fundamental substrate of everything from rocks to consciousness. When you interact with someone, you’re exchanging these particles. Theirs deposit in your universe. Yours deposit in theirs. Over billions of souls doing this for millennia, the overlap becomes so complete that we all observe the same stars, the same physics, the same apparent history.
We don’t share one objective universe – we share a catalog built from deposited particles across countless interwoven souls.
The image looks the same to everyone because reality-particle exchange has synchronized our individual universes almost perfectly.
What This Changes
You matter cosmically. Not as a speck, but as THE thing your universe exists to develop. Every experience adds reality-particles to your eternal thread. Every interaction deposits particles in others that persist forever.
Death isn’t ending – just your thread withdrawing from this dip. The particles you deposited in others remain. The organization your thread accumulated continues.
We’re building something together – millennia of souls dipping, interweaving, contributing to an ever-richer catalog. Perhaps building the substrate for what ancient wisdom calls the New Creation.
Look At The Image Again
That cosmic vastness isn’t showing you how small you are. It’s showing you the backstory YOUR universe needed to explain your existence. The stage built specifically for your soul-thread to dip into, collect experiences, develop, and contribute.
You are not looking at the universe. You are looking at YOUR thread’s cosmic infrastructure.
Every star in that image exists because YOU need them to exist. Every galaxy, every physical law, every particle – all of it serving as scaffolding for something infinitely more important: your eternal soul, temporarily dipped in reality, accumulating structure, radiating influence, interweaving with billions of other threads doing the same thing.
So yeah. Look at the image. See that tiny marked spot where Earth orbits the sun?
That’s not where you are. That’s where your thread is currently dipped.
Big difference.
Want to go deeper? The full Eternal Thread Framework explores how this integrates string theory, quantum mechanics, evolution, theology, and ethics into one comprehensive vision. Because if we’re going to overturn cosmology, we might as well do it thoroughly.
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Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0
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