Is the true meaning of the universe beyond comprehension?

Question

I beileve there is meaning and truth to the universe...but it is a million times beyond anything are brains can comprehend or even imagine. Science and organized religion havnt really explained much that makes real sense.

Answer 1

Our human brains are not equipped to deal with the true nature of reality, and we come here with certain safeguards to keep us from being completely overwhelmed by the real deal. If we were able to perceive the entire reality, we would disintergrate, for the reason that we would no longer be able to hold on to a third dimension idea of "reality", and would not be able to hold a third dimensional self together anymore, after being overwhelmed by the eternal now....As our species evolves, so do our spirits, and as our spirits evolve, we return with a new set of abilities and safeguards which permit us to perceive more of the all, or go on to a new set of circumstances on some other planet or dimension to perceive more of the all. Our physical selves and capabilities adapt to the evolution of the spirit. We only use 10 percent of our physical brains here as a rule, the other 90 percent is either protective mechanisms, or extra room on the hard drive, so to speak, for when one has evolved to a point of being able to make use of it....

Answer 2

Obviously we are bound by the limits within which only we can explore. Even when we can generally comprehend the universe in the form of galaxies and milky ways, we can not go beyond our space unless we get our lives enhanced to live longer by billions of years. May be we should wait for that day!

Organised religions mostly practice ritualism and not spiritualism. That is because, we want to do the easier thing while fooling others into believing, that we are the ones on the right track. And that is again because our goal is actually to be materially superior to others and talking and discussing spiritualism is a mere pass time for us. It is in vogue these days.

Spiritualism needs all the seriousness that can be given to it. The same universe which is beyond our comprehension will be known by us once we are in the spiritual path.

We need a spiritual guide though, who we also call Guru.

Answer 3

The Universe has no one explantation, In essence the two main scientific theories of Einstien(extremely large) and Quantum mechanics(extremely small) which contradict each other. Then we have religion which does not give enough of a good argument aside from faight (that some one some where has all the answers). If God created us who created him, If God is omnipatent then the universe is not real but only his thought. Now having said that the Universe can be what ever it wants to be, its not a stable entity its in a general state of confusion a contridiction inside an enigma. We are mearly grains of sand on a beach in some ones imagination

Answer 4

for there to be a meaning to something, then there would have to be order to it. The universe, though, is a chaotic ramble of energy and matter. Mostly dark energy for that matter, so we really cant see it anyway. By asking for a meaning, or even trying to think about it, we have personified that which is unliving. That would be like calling fire a living thing that has movements independant of other factors. Therefor, there is no true meaning of the universe because chaos cannot have a set truth. (That is not to say that one cannot interprate things that he sees and draw conclusions about how the way things work, I am just saying that you will never know if you are right.)

Answer 5

Hhhmm... The universe is not beyond comprehension. Its just going to take us a while to comprehend it. Think about it like this fire was once beyond comprehinsion as so was going to the moon along with many other things in time the universe will be in our reach and comprehension.

Answer 6

"Comprehension" occurs on a sliding scale.

For instance, a child of three may comprehend that Zoe is an orange monster. In grade 7, that child may know that orange paint is a colour made up of the two primary colours, red and yellow. In grade 11 physics class, the child learns that colours are actually white light, split into parts... and that the primary colours are red, blue and green, and that orange light results from a mixture of red and green lights, with a lesser balance of blue light.

In every case, the child comprehended what the colour orange was, but the depth of the child's understanding grew as the child gained in experience, and continued to learn.

If that child had learned that Zoe is the colour of orange, and had then decided that he/she knew enough about everything, and never wanted to learn anything other than what he/she had learned on Sesame Street, it is quite likely that the child would grow into an adult of very limited comprehension.

The meaning of the universe begins to expand to our view, and as we continue to be willing to learn, our comprehension of it grows and grows.

I think it would be accurate for you to say "Science and organised religion haven't really explained much that makes real sense TO ME, yet." The answers are there, as long as you are willing to keep looking for them.

Good luck. :-)

Answer 7

There is one thing that I find beyond comprehension, that so many people seem to be so adamant that the underlying meaning of the physical 'Universe' is beyond our capacity of understanding.

I'm not a big fan of any imposed limitations, but to tell others what they may, or may not, understand, seems to me to be a far greater arrogance.

The meaning of this realm of existence is entirely within our capacity of comprehension, it just requires a slight re-adjustment of the basic systemic values. One answerer mentioned gravity and time, I would say that 'space', 'time', and 'gravity' are all 'constructs, within which all that we have created in this level of manifestation fit necessarily, but viewed from outside those parameters, these concepts take on a whole other 'character'.

At the beginning, should one try, trying to imagine how an enfolding 'reality' in which 'time' does not exist seems lucidrous, here we are linear, mostly visually oriented, observers of what seems clearly an objective field of existence. Out there one can 'see' that linear time is just like a roll of movie film, encapsulated, packaged, solid-seeming, and apparently immutable. Well, most of us have seen movies where the director films two or more different endings, right ? In our case observable 'event chains' have infinite 'endings', which are not even endings, they are just the sum of possible outcomes of all possible decisions.

The trick is in the manner of observation. We are trained to observe, and we are very well trained, so well that, to me, this is actually conditioning, and this conditioning is very hard to break, if we have spend several decades 'seeing' things in one, singular way, then it is virtually ( more than one meaning there ) impossible to expand one's 'vision' to encompass other possibilities, or, should one say, potentialities.

One answerer said that maybe the answer is very simple, even too simple to see, I believe that, in essence, this is true, but again, it's difficult to explain this to others heavily enbgrained in how 'complex' it all must be, why, if great minds like Einstein, and Bohr and so on couldn't grasp it how could mere dolts like us 'get it' ???

Sunman blessed us with another of his wonderful perspectives, and, to an extent I agree, it is very hard to express using verbal communication, because language was developed with more intent to obfusticate that enlighten. But ultimately I am sure that if one unblocks the limitations expressed from without, and looks within, then one can find the answers that we have all sought throughout countless manifestations.

To Eric M,

I would just like to say that I agree that it appears that one, and one only, explanation would seem trite and simplistic, but again, only if one is convinced that something so apparently 'BIG' could have a simple underlying cause, but this falls under the heading of the little dog's line from Men in Black I, "Humans, always obsessed with size". We are indeed, overly 'sizist', intricacy, as is now being unraveled by quantum mechanics has no need of 'scale', that's just our old human obsession with measuring everything.

You wrote :
"If God is omnipatent then the universe is not real but only his thought."

You are so close to what I believe to be the truth it almost hurts ! And the spelling slip ( typo, or whatever ) is definitely in the 'Freudian zone', if 'God' were to both exist, in the way people seem to think, and also be literally 'omnipatent', then we clearly would have no chance to explain it all, he would have cornered the 'rights' !

To Acid Zeb....

I suspect that old Occam's Razor is a bit of a busted flush, verging on oxymoron status.

To Mumof4,

That's quite an answer, thanks.

To CD,

:-)))

Answer 8

There is a true meaning of the Universe, and it is beyond words, but not beyond comprehension, however it takes more than our brains to grasp it.


-----“The nature of All-That-Is can only be sensed directly through the inner senses, or, in a weaker communication, through inspiration or intuition. The miraculous complexity of such reality cannot be translated verbally.” ~ Seth Speaks, session 565.

Answer 9

Back in the late 60's and early 70's, my Friends and I were also searching for some "answers" to the un-fathomable." We read the works of Carlos Castaneda and found some truths to what he experienced and wrote about. i.e. "A Seperate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan"...etc. would be good reading for you, if your mind is strong, and you are open to things beyond normal conscience.
Thanks for arousing my gray matter to a much lighter and Innocent time in my life.
Check it out. It's tough reading, at first, but once you catch on, it's very enlightening!

Answer 10

At present, yes, i think it is. but here's an interesting twist to think about: what if the true meaning of the universe is much more simple than we think it is, but we can't find that meaning because we're all warped into the mindset of thinking it's so complexed. maybe we can't find the answer because we're looking too far beyond it.