Cosmos - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/cosmos/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:57:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 What Is Reality – and Can Our Senses Understand it? https://bahaiteachings.org/what-is-reality-can-senses-understand/ https://bahaiteachings.org/what-is-reality-can-senses-understand/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=65700 My friend is a materialist—that is to say, he accepts as reality only that which can be perceived by the senses. Are you a materialist, too? If so, along with...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/what-is-reality-can-senses-understand/feed/ 3 Meteor or Metaphor: Finding Meaning in Suffering https://bahaiteachings.org/meteor-or-metaphor-finding-meaning-in-suffering/ https://bahaiteachings.org/meteor-or-metaphor-finding-meaning-in-suffering/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=4915 Meteor or Metaphor: Finding Meaning in SufferingNight descended on Yosemite National Park, the beginning of a twilight adventure for our family. We groped in the backpack for a flashlight, quickly shined it on the paved path,...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/meteor-or-metaphor-finding-meaning-in-suffering/feed/ 5 Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong? https://bahaiteachings.org/is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong/ https://bahaiteachings.org/is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong/#comments Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84681 The Big Bang: Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong?For more than a century now, science has assured us that our universe began about 14 billion years ago with a Big Bang — but some of the newest science...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong/feed/ 4 Newtonian vs. Quantum Physics: How It Shapes Your Reality https://bahaiteachings.org/newtonian-vs-quantum-physics-how-it-shapes-your-reality/ https://bahaiteachings.org/newtonian-vs-quantum-physics-how-it-shapes-your-reality/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84706 The Baha’i writings say that humanity “is possessed of two realities, as it were: a reality connected with the senses which is shared in common with the animal, and another...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/newtonian-vs-quantum-physics-how-it-shapes-your-reality/feed/ 5 How Can an Expanding Universe Be Infinite? https://bahaiteachings.org/how-can-an-expanding-universe-be-infinite/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-can-an-expanding-universe-be-infinite/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84609 How Can an Expanding Universe Be Infinite?Since the dawn of the scientific age, humanity has learned a great deal about our universe — but our slim knowledge parades in front of massive ignorance. Most of the...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-can-an-expanding-universe-be-infinite/feed/ 1 Why Do We See UFOs as a Threat? https://bahaiteachings.org/why-do-we-see-ufos-threat/ https://bahaiteachings.org/why-do-we-see-ufos-threat/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=82128 In 1977 I didn’t know whether aliens were real or not, but I walked out of the very first Star Wars film when the movie aliens started blowing up planets...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/why-do-we-see-ufos-threat/feed/ 4 Human Beings: the Way the Cosmos Knows Itself https://bahaiteachings.org/human-beings-the-way-the-cosmos-knows-itself/ https://bahaiteachings.org/human-beings-the-way-the-cosmos-knows-itself/#respond Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:00:15 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81025 The Bab, the prophetic forerunner of Baha’u’llah, in a beautiful and profound passage provisionally translated by Nader Saiedi, presented an explanation of  the soul as product of divine self-description: Therefore...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/human-beings-the-way-the-cosmos-knows-itself/feed/ 0 The Pupil of the Eye: A Cosmic Hole to Unleash Black Girl Magic https://bahaiteachings.org/pupil-eye-cosmic-hole-black-girl-magic/ https://bahaiteachings.org/pupil-eye-cosmic-hole-black-girl-magic/#respond Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81139 Little Girl: And me, I imagine myself a giantess, so tall I rise above the canopy of any atmosphere like helium. I’m so light but have been trapped underground —...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/pupil-eye-cosmic-hole-black-girl-magic/feed/ 0 Big History: Vast Space, Eons of Time, and the Purpose of Creation https://bahaiteachings.org/big-history-vast-space-eons-of-time-and-the-purpose-of-creation/ https://bahaiteachings.org/big-history-vast-space-eons-of-time-and-the-purpose-of-creation/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:00:26 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=79909 I just finished a wonderful book about a subject I love: Big History. Unlike the history we learn in school, this type of history focuses on a much larger period:...

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