Breathed into being: the universe, Gaia and us

‘Along thin connecting filaments of gas like the silk of a spider’s web, the magnetic fields arrayed galaxies and galactic clusters like raindrops after a spring shower’. Jude Currivan

Readers of cosmologist and futurist Jude Currivan know she believes that the primacy and all-pervasiveness of mind and consciousness guides the meaningful existence of the universe. Cosmic mind and consciousness are not what we and other animals have but what we actually are.

This is the premise from which a review of her lyrical and heartfelt new book, The Story of Gaia: The Big Breath and the evolutionary journey of our conscious planet, must begin (Inner Traditions, November, 2022). As she states, in exploring our universe as ‘a great thought of cosmic mind’, The Story of Gaia takes up where her previous book, The Cosmic Hologram (2017), left off.

In the earlier work, Jude asserted that information is more fundamental than energy, matter, space or time, that information is physically real, and that consciousness connects us to many interlinked layers of universal ‘in-formation’, making us both manifestations and co-creators of the ‘cosmic hologram of reality’.

Thousands of years ago, Vedic sages maintained that universal mind and consciousness are primary to, and all-pervasive as, the intrinsic nature of…