Duane Elgin
Author, Visionary and Citizen-Voice Activist

 O MA!: Honoring the Mother Aliveness

Essays

We have to open our imagination and experience as far as we can to grasp what is happening at every moment of our seemingly “ordinary” lives. Science now views the universe emerged from “nothing” roughly 14 billion years ago and is being sustained, moment by moment, through time, as it grows from an incredibly small seed smaller than an atom, to now contain an estimated 2 trillion(!)n galaxies, each with an average 100-billion-star systems like our own sun and Earth. Our birth from nothing visible points to an unutterably powerful, generative ground. This infinitely dep and powerful source is called the “Meta-Universe” by science and the “Mother Universe” by many wisdom traditions. I speak of the “Mother Universe” as the “Mother Aliveness”’ but these words only point the infinitely deep and subtle reality in which we are fully immersed. The Mother Aliveness is so close to us and within us that she is easy to take for granted and overlook. Ito bring this vital “original wisdom” into my life, I have developed a simple practice that is described below.