Can anything come out of nothing?
- Alberto Terrer
- Aug 28, 2023
- 3 min read
One of the principles on which metaphysical and spiritual theories are based, is that from Nothingness nothing can emerge.
It is a very logical principle, which I believe to be true.
It is as difficult to imagine that there was nothing at the beginning of everything, as it is to think that there was something.
That is, we can think that there has always been Something (or Someone), as much as to think that in the origin everything was darkness and Nothingness in the Infinite.
But, if there was nothing, how did Something arise?
Think about it... Is it possible?
Where does this Something come from?
If Nothing existed, there will be no matter, no antimatter, no nothing at all... Zero particles of any kind.
Neither of the big ones, nor of the smallest.
So, can something come out of nothing?
I don't think so. And logic also thinks no.
But, if we start from the assumption that there was Something... Let's try to unravel what there was.
If there was matter, as it could be the matter that formed the sphere prior to the Big Bang... Where did it come from?
Did it always exist? Is that possible?
Look, I believe one more thing. Another very basic principle. And it's this:
From Something cannot emerge Someone.
The emergence of Consciousness is an exception in the Universe.
Physics applies to all structures of matter in the Universe, but not to a living Being.
Consciousness cannot be explained by physical laws.
Because physical laws apply to everything that is Something.
But, to be Someone... That is quite another thing.
Do you really believe that life, that Consciousness, could arise by chemical and physical reactions? By probability?
Consciousness is much more than that.
And, now I tell you, imagine another possibility.
Imagine if, from Someone, Something could arise.
Well, imagine that at the origin there was only what I call Presence.
That, nothing more.
In eternity, there was only Presence.
No matter, no forms, no space, no time, no thoughts.
Just a Presence.
Is it harder to imagine that there was Someone, rather than Something?
If I tell you that there was a tiny, incredibly dense sphere, which housed the entire Universe and exploded with the Big Bang.
If I tell you that that was the beginning... Don't you ask Who created it?
But if it turns out that the First Cause, that which was before everything else, was Someone... Is it less credible to you, or more?
No one can say what the origin is.
If they tell you otherwise, they are lying. Because we don't even know what Consciousness is.
We don't even understand what life is.
Much less can we travel back in time to see how it all began.
Yet, just for an instant, imagine that the origin of everything was the Presence.
And that, from that Presence, the Mind and, therefore, thoughts developed.
Imagine that the Universe were a dream of that thinking Mind.
Do you think it is absurd?
Analyze what one of your dreams is like.
You create your own scenario, a Universe with your own rules.
You have created it out of nothing, simply with thoughts.
There is matter, forms, subject to physical laws.
Try to fly in a dream and you will see that, with a few exceptions, you cannot do it.
You are on a stage.
You interact with it, you experience it, believing at all times that it is Real.
And, you experience it in the first person, because you are Presence.
It is a subjective experience.
Life is the same.
The Universe is like a dream.
A scenario that you experience in first person, that you believe to be Real, but that you do not know how to differentiate it from the other Reality that you call a dream.
It seems very reasonable that from Nothing something cannot emerge, and that from Something cannot emerge Someone.
Does it seem reasonable to you that from Someone Something can arise Something?
If it seems so to you, then it will not be difficult for you to think that the Universe can only be the thought of that Presence.
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