IN THE BEGINNING
IS
THE DREAMER ……
AND THE DREAMER
IS GOD…….
…..AND GOD IS
THE DREAMER
And the Dreamer
Dreams
a Dream…
….WHICH SPARKS
THE KINDLING
OF TIME
AND
SPACE
A Universe
Flares
Forth
13.7 BILLION YEARS
AGO…..
…the protons formed here are in the cells of your body;
the potential for everything that would ever be
including you, was present then
FROM DANCING ATOMS
AFLAME WITH LOVE
A BILLION GALAXIES
TWIRL IN SPACE……
...Including
the
Milky Way
Galaxy….
...our home
in the
Universe
STARS
IGNITE
TO FILL
THE
DARKNESS
WITH
THEIR
LIGHT ….
12.5 BILLION YEARS AGO….
The elements in your body and in everything
are formed here in the stars….iron, calcium, sulphur…..
….. ..you are STARDUST!
A star explodes
4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO……
…from its dust
Our Solar System
Unfolds…..
Sun, moon and planets
emerge, including Earth our
privileged and fragile home
The love
and attraction you feel
were born here
when the Earth
formed an atmosphere
and gravity 4.1 Billion yrs ago.
You are held in the
loving embrace
of gravity from this time.
The rains fall for a million
years
and form oceans
Heat and light stir the sea and
animate its chemistry
Behold a miracle!
Earth awakens in a first born cell
4 billion years ago
The bacteria in your body which you can’t
live without was formed in the
ancient seas 4 Billion years ago.
Cells unite ---alive with creativity
1 billion years ago
Earth learned to take nourishment from
the sun through plants…photosynthesis
was born
c. 3.9 B. yrs ago
We have been nourished by the abundance of the Earth
from this time onwards
Fish of every colour, shape and size emerge.
Life learns to swim ……
Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans
510 Million years ago
Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans.
The concentration of salt in your blood and tears is the same
as that of the ancient seas. You have come out of the sea!
Ocean waves leave sea
plants on hot rocks---unable
to crawl home they invent
the wood cell---395 million
years ago.
30% of DNA in our bodies is
identical with plants
Earth in all beauty births forth
a million species
Insects emerge from the ancient oceans…..
395 Million years ago….
An astonishing 60% of the DNA in your body is the
same as insects
Amphibians and Reptiles emerge
from fish…
Amazingly parts of your brain were formed at the
time of the early reptiles and mammals
Out of the Reptiles emerged
the Dinosaurs
Out of the
dinosaurs....
birds emerge
and Earth
bursts into
song
150million years ago
120 million years ago
Flowers emerge to carpet earth
with colour and fill our world
with fragrance
The DNA IN YOUR BODY IS UP TO 30% SIMILAR TO
FLOWERS AND PLANTS
Mammals in a thousand different
shapes and sizes emerge
110 million years ago
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70-30M YEARS AGO PRIMATES EMERGE
Your rotating
shoulder
was formed in our
primate ancestors
swinging in the trees.
You have evolved
out of the chimps in
the ancient forests!
Astonishingly their
DNA is 98.4% similar
to your’s
FROM
PRIMATES
EARLIEST
HUMANOID
TYPES
DEVELOP
2.6 MILLION
YEARS AGO
40,000 YEARS AGO THE
MODERN HUMAN EMERGES
EARTH COMES TO BIRTH IN THE
SELF-CONSCIOUS HUMAN
Humans
develop
language
and
culture
40,000
years ago
20,000 years ago…
People experienced the creative energy of God……
pulsating through everything
Humans, on a journey to colonise the
moon,……
C 35 years
ago….
…..turned
around and saw Earth, as a
whole, for the first time !
…one earth community …all made of the same
building blocks …all related whether star,
mountain, earthworm, tree, cloud, human or polar
bear…in the total community of life
GIFT OF SEEING THE WHOLE
WE DID NOT COME INTO THIS WORLD:
WE GREW OUT OF IT
Genetically related to everything in the natural
world…. we share this planet with millions of
other beings in the Divine Mystery of the
awesome Web of Life.
We come from the
energy that
fashioned
the galaxies
we come out of the fire that
gives birth
to the
universe:
it is our
beginning
We are made from elements
fashioned
in
the stars
We are stardust!
WE ARE ONE WITH ALL CREATION
WE LIVE IN A COMPLEX
WEB OF LIFE
Love unfolds
a universe
which is
a communion
of diverse beings,
each of whom
is sacred,
each of whom
is
beloved.
The Story of the Universe is your story….
…..it is inside you waiting to be born