Epiphany. I learned this word from someone years ago in a very dark period of my life. It meant, it has always meant something but I never truly felt it until now. A few days ago I was paddling at evening at the calm seas in tranquil silence and I looked in front of me.
There was Jupiter, shining bright through the night sky. And that evening, that very moment, it hit differently for reasons I can’t yet understand. It felt like The Missing Piece of the puzzle. I started to feel connected and knew, not believed or thought, but knew everything was at exactly where they should be.
It was all coming back to me after a rollercoaster of a ride, and the last time I feel so deeply connected to the universe was five years ago. Everything that happens, every “good” and “bad” event, all the people, every single quark and quantum fluctuation of the universe always, but always, happened for the best, and everything was meant to be exactly as they were. At the right place, at the right time, in the way they should be.
I knew that the book of life had many plot twists, but as I turned the page, I just knew that the next page was unfolding towards a series of events, all connected, transcending space and time, were leading to the greatest chapter of my life yet.
Everything is connected; it’s a force that science can’t explain, and yes I’m saying this as a hardcore science person. I tapped into something that I can’t wrap my head around that evening, after so many years. It’s like remembering The Big Bang not only scattered all the energy of the same being, creating the universe, but also scattered what we call consciousness. The consciousness is not an individual organism’s electrical brain activity (and I know many documented events that support this idea) yet part of being One: everything; all the humans, animals, or even inanimate objects; all the people you love, all the people you hate, every being that have born and died, every person in the future not yet born, are all part of the same consciousness scattered through the universe. Feeling apart, far away, yet all connected.
And maybe, just maybe, synchronicities are universe’s way of talking to all of us, only if we tuned in. Maybe our brains are just naturally evolved structures that tap into the ever-connected cosmic consciousness that act as an antenna, utilizing physical phenomena like quantum fluctuations of “empty space” and to communicate this physical world with our true self of eternal cosmic web of a single deity that is us.
Always.
One.
It’s all coming back to me, fitting the pieces together, and finally making sense now.
After so many years. Finally.