Monday, 22 September 2025, 11:51 am
Opinion: Martin LeFevre – Meditations
The multiverse is one of the most pernicious scientific
deceptions ever perpetrated. It’s an idea without evidence
motivated by a belief in a totally random, materialistic and
mechanistic universe.
The multiverse concept is a
cunning way of getting around our finely tuned universe by
imagining an infinite number of universes, and maintaining
that we just happen to live in the one where the laws of
physics, chemistry and biology are such that they permit
complex life.
As a worldview and belief system, the
multiverse surpasses the necessity of refuting the belief in
a separate “Creator” of the universe, or “Designer”
in intelligent design. It’s a devious assertion of pure
chance, an insistence that there is only matter, and a claim
that everything in the universe boils down to the
interaction of the parts of a complex machine.
The
universe is considered “finely tuned” because “the
fundamental physical constants and conditions are precisely
calibrated to values that permit the existence of stars,
planets, complex chemistry, and life as we know it.” If
any of these basic constants and conditions were even
slightly different, life would be impossible. For example,
stars may not form and the elements essential for life would
not be produced.
Scientists haven’t been able to
account for how and why these constants and conditions of
the universe exist. The fact that they do points to an
ultimately creative, non-mechanistic universe.
That
doesn’t mean there is a separate God that set the universe
in motion, but it does mean there is an intrinsic
intelligence and order beyond chance and mechanism.
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It
doesn’t mean there are supernatural causes, forms or
qualities, but it does mean that there is something
unknowable and ineffable beyond the realm of knowledge,
however far it extends.
That possibility is deeply
unsettling to dogmatic materialists, and so someone came up
with the clever dodge of an infinite number of universes —
the multiverse — of which ours just happens to be the one
conducive to star formation and life.
Of course the
chances of that occurring through pure chance is so small as
to make the idea of the multiverse ridiculous.
There
is another unspoken driver of the multiverse idea, and
it’s the projection of the disorder, destructiveness and
meaninglessness of man, and the world humans have made, onto
nature and the universe. Unable or unwilling to look at
themselves and ask the right questions, most philosophers
and scientists keep asserting the wrong answers.
This
pertains to the question of our significance and/or
insignificance in the universe.
A friend sent me a
core quote from the movie, “Everything, everywhere all at
once”: “We’re all small and stupid.”
The quote
and passage makes reference to the multiverse, and is “a
reminder how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of
things…a moment in the passing of time…and how little we
know.”
Does the perpetual incompleteness of
knowledge mean that we have to remain small and
stupid?
The multiverse and “specks on a speck in
space” ideas produce a false humility, and the notion that
we’re innately “small and stupid.”
Our personal
lives are insignificant to be sure, but we can awaken and
grow into beings of insight rather than shrinking captives
of knowledge. In other words, we can be excellent human
beings rather than small and petty humans.
Also,
though our individual lives may seem to be “a moment in
the passing of time,” we don’t have to be slaves to
time, but have the capacity to experience, even dwell in
timelessness.
Besides, there is no time in the
universe, only the ongoing unfolding of creation.
Psychological time is a false and ultimately suffocating
thing. To understand and end it, we have to end busyness,
and question, understand and end the movement of thought.
For thought is time, and time is thought.
As separate,
conditioned and time-bound humans we are utterly
insignificant, but as whole human beings we are significant
to the degree we embody humanity as a whole.
Even more
to the point, the human brain is cosmically significant
because only this brain on this planet has the capacity for
communion with the immanent cosmic Mind.
The great
paradox is that the evolution of the adaptation that put the
human brain over the threshold for this spiritual capacity
– conscious, symbolic thought – has become the greatest
impediment to the realization of our spiritual
potential.
Despite all the knowledge we have
accumulated, humans have become even more petty and
insignificant because we haven’t awakened insight and
understanding. Indeed, our use of the intellect has made us
the most destructive force that ever evolved on
Earth.
Awareness is the fire of life, synonymous with
the inseparable source from which life has its wellspring.
Awareness preceded the formation of the Earth and the
evolution of the brain, and it is to awareness that the
attentive and silent brain returns in life, and in
death.
As the crisis of human consciousness increases
and intensifies, can the immeasurable energy of the universe
be within us, to the extent of our capacity?
It can
and must. For when the silent brain is suffused with the
awareness that infuses the universe, attention burns away
the cumulative dark matter that is destroying the Earth and
the human being.
Martin
LeFevre
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Martin LeFevre is a contemplative and philosopher.
His sui generis “Meditations” explore spiritual, philosophical and political questions relating to the polycrisis facing humanity.
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