the Name of our universe is Cosmic Pool
to Name is to identify as unique. all Names begin with an uppercase letter, which reveals itself naturally upon invocation.
in the Cosmic Pool, there's four directions. they are between Pushing (producing) and Pulling (resourcing), and between Height (distance) and Depth (presence)
the Cosmic Pool is also, functionally, a cosmic egg. imagine an egg, if u will. now imagine the space around that egg.
the space around the egg is Height, as it distances itself from its opposite, Depth (inside the egg), as the enemy of far away is right here, right now; and the other side of creation is emptiness.
now, if u'll humor me, imagine u exist inside that cosmic egg of manifestation and presence that is the Cosmic Pool. what do you think would happen if you were able to look past the egg-shell-membrane-boundary that defines the Edge of the Pool? what do you think Nothing looks like?
well a bunch of wizards* sense fuck all past the Edge of their known universe and theyre like. hold on, wait- are we alone here?
and at first, the wizards are like: well maybe, past the Nothing, there's Something again? because, like, our universe's creation myth tells that the Beginning of Time Began with the Great Bird tearing open a hole in the universe's membrane. this is said to have allowed Height's perspective to mix with the embodied presence of Depth for the first time. two things became a new third thing, which brought about the sudden existence of Material (physical matter) in the Cosmic Pool, of which we are. if there's truly Nothing out there, where then did the Great Bird initially come from?
and some other wizards are like: yes, but the Great Bird only Became the Great Bird when she entered the Cosmic Pool, crossing the boundary line of the Edge and becoming. its most likely that she wasn't Anything beforehand, at least until she reached our universe.
and all the wizards thought very hard for a very long time about this, spending much time arguing, re-reading and re-writing old texts; many months of meals and many nights of dreaming pass before it comes to them quite suddenly, a bird through the open window:
"of course there are other universes like ours out there-- if we were alone, universe would be capitalized."
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*here wizard is synonymous with poet; artist; philosopher; scientist; archivist; and creator; plus many more such existences. a wizard is anyone who knowingly undertakes specific action with knowledge of its consequences, allowing the fire of present inspiration to interact with the material of past experience to create an entirely new third thing, one that is alive with meaning and vitality, an epitome of all that came before.
