The Universe, Consciousness, and the Limits of Our Understanding

Astrophysicists try to describe the size of the universe — or perhaps not its “size” at all.

So far, they estimate there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, each with around 400 billion stars. The sheer scale is beyond imagination. And the more they study it, the more they begin to suspect:
the universe may not be what we think it is.

If we try to understand it purely in physical terms, we quickly hit a wall. Many scientists are starting to say the same thing: our world is not just matter — it is consciousness. The entire universe might be the single awareness of some unimaginable singularity.

I’ve thought about this for years. Even ancient texts seemed to hint at it. In the Bible, truths were given to people in simple words, because the full concept would have been incomprehensible. Even now, it’s almost impossible to explain.

Think about it: everything we see, hear, and touch is not “out there” — it is processed and created in one place: the brain. If someone loses a limb, future technology might still allow them to “feel” it through brain stimulation. Dreams work the same way — you aren’t really flying or touching anything, but your brain generates the entire experience.

This is consciousness.

The Bible says, “God spoke, and dry land appeared.” Could this be a poetic way of saying the Creator imagined reality into being? Like a massive computer game, existing in memory as ones and zeros — except here, the “code” is pure consciousness.

From that perspective, matter is just an interactive image, and physics is the rule set of the game. We can’t usually change the rules — but perhaps some beings could. Stories of miracles may be accounts of people so deeply connected to this singular consciousness that they could shape reality directly.

Christ, for example, could walk on water, heal the sick, and even transcend death. Perhaps he wasn’t just “connected” to the Creator — he was the consciousness itself, experiencing our world through a human brain.

The Bible’s deeper message might be this: we are made “in the image of God,” meaning we are microcopies of this vast consciousness. Our brains are limited carriers of that power. Most of us are locked out of its full potential — but some, through spiritual discipline or divine purpose, may have glimpsed it.

In the end, we may never truly “understand” this. The Creator seems to have built a limit into our perception. But we can feel it — through the heart, through the soul, through the spirit. This connection doesn’t happen in the language of logic, but in the timeless space where zero and infinity are the same.