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I present regards the universe as a living system that is being continuously regenerated and that has been designed to support, in freedom, the evolutionary development of self-referencing and self-organizing systems at every scale. Instead of a deterministic universe, freedom is built into the quantum foundations of the universe. Nonetheless, because the universe is a whole system where everything interacts with and depends upon everything else, freedom has limits. Within the constraints of the universe as an integrated, interdependent system, we can act and create in freedom. Because our level of freedom grows as we become more conscious (of where we are, who we are, and the journey we are on), it means that our freedom is increasing as we awaken. Instead of being the product of an external designer, our universe appears to be an “inside job”—we are all co-creative participants in this learning and evolving system.

13. See: Duane Elgin, Awakening Earth, New York: Morrow, 1993, pp. 304-5.

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1. Albert Einstein, Banesh Hoffman, and Helen Dukas, Albert Einstein, The Human Side, Princeton University Press, 1979.

2. See: John Roach, “Alien Life May Be ‘Weirder’ Than Scientists Think,” National Geographic News, July 6, 2007. The article describes the report by the National Academy of Sciences on the search for extraterrestrial life. Also see: “From plasma crystals and helical structures towards inorganic living matter,” V. N. Tsytovich et al., 2007, New J Phys 9:263. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/9/8/263.

3. Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 252-53.

4. David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980, p. 175.

5. Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

6. John Wheeler, quoted in Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1975, p. 128.

7. Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, London: Cambridge University Press, 1931, p. 121.

8. Ibid., p. 191.

9. See, for example: http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/ZPE/index.html.

10. David Bohm, op. cit., pp. 190–91.

11. Sir James Jeans, op. cit., p. 259.

12. For a further discussion, see my article, “The Living Cosmos: A Theory of Continuous Creation,” Re Vision, Summer 1988. Also see my book Awakening Earth, Chapter 11, “Continuous Creation of the Cosmos.” A fundamental theme throughout this book is that the universe is continually arising anew at each moment. In turn, this raises the question: At what speed is the cosmos coming into existence? The speed of emergence, or the pace of arising of the overall cosmic system, cannot be determined objectively because we cannot stand outside the cosmos in its process of becoming itself and measure it coming into existence. Because we are inside and integral to this flow of continuous regeneration, we can only make inferences regarding the pace at which this flow is occurring. For insight, we turn to a fundamental attribute of the cosmos—the constancy of the speed of light. Continuous creation cosmology hypothesizes that the constancy of the speed of light is a result of the precise consistency with which the overall fabric of the universe is dynamically woven together. In other words, the constancy of the speed of light is produced by, and is a result of, the pervasive evenness with which the overall cosmos is being regenerated as a unified system. In turn, the precise consistency of continuous creation at the cosmic scale has been interpreted as the constancy of the speed of light at the local scale.

Continuous-creation theory suggests a straightforward reason for the physical compression, time dilation, and increase in mass predicted by relativity theory as an object approaches the speed of light. Assuming the overall cosmos is being woven together in a continuous flow whose pace is revealed by the constancy of the speed of light, then when an “object” (as a flow-through, standing wave) approaches the speed of light it will necessarily run into itself in the process of becoming