Overview

Is everything, including Light itself, Eternal, Alive, and Evolving?

From the Preface to The Living Energy Universe

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust

"How would you feel if you knew scientifically that everything is eternal, alive, and evolving?

"Not just animals and plants, but rivers and clouds, planets and stars, electrons and protons, waves and particles, even light and energy itself. That every system, in some essential way, contains eternal, living, and evolving memories. That the whole universe is a living, remembering, self-revising process - a living energy universe. And therefore, in a deep sense, all things -- great and small, visible and invisible, material and spiritual, past and future -- are in a energetic state of creative "becoming," a universal revising process of dynamic perpetual bloom.

"Would you feel exhilarated, peaceful, terrified, amazed, incredulous, inspired -- all of the above? Would you smile?

"Ken Wilber suggested in a footnote in his 1996 book, A Brief History of Everything, that maybe the universe did not begin with the big "bang" but rather began with the big "bloom." Is this the off-handed suggestion of a brilliant mind run amok, or has Wilber grasped something truly fundamental about the nature of the universe and the source of it all?

"This book is about a story, a really big story, a story as big as the big bang or big bloom itself. If this story expresses a truth, it will forever change the way all of us envision both the visible and invisible aspects of nature. It will revise the way we view everything -- body, mind, spirit, energy -- everything."

Everything is Alive and Remembers

From the Inside Jacket Cover

"From the subatomic to the cosmic, from cells and ideas to souls and God, all dynamic systems have memory. Using the tools of science, University of Arizona scientists Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek demonstrate that everything in the universe is alive, eternal and evolving. Their new model of life, the Universal Living Memory theory, is reconfiguring the scientific landscape.

"Schwartz and Russek usher the reader through new doorways to profound discoveries. Here is stunning but sober emerging evidence that every idea ever thought and every awareness ever generated is even now contained in the universe as information or memory, that consciousness survives death, that God exists - and is evolving."