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This essay has its origins in my half-year of meditation in 1977-1978 (see the essay “Meditative Origins of Dimensional Cosmology,” found in the Appendix of my book “Awakening Earth”). Here I describe a view of our universe as a profoundly interconnected, self-organizing system that continuously regenerates itself moment by moment. This essay challenges the prevailing mechanistic view of a dead and static cosmos by presenting a view of reality emerging as an active, ongoing process of creation whereby the entire fabric of matter-energy and space-time is dynamically woven together as a single whole at every moment. At the heart of this description is a seven-dimensional cosmology in which three material dimensions provide concrete expression while three mirroring dimensions enable self-referencing observation and instantaneous connection across the cosmos, all emerging from and returning to a hyper-universe of unlimited dimensionality and creative potential. A core theme is that the precise consistency of manifestation of reality at the cosmic scale produces the precise constancy of the speed of light at the local scale. In other words, nothing can go faster than the speed with which it is emerging. Nothing can get ahead of itself becoming itself, so trying to exceed the speed of its own arising will produce relativistic effects such as length contraction and time dilation, which occur because objects literally run into themselves in the process of becoming themselves. By grounding theoretical physics in direct meditative experience, this work demonstrates that the deepest truths about reality may be accessible not only through mathematical equations and laboratory experiments but also through the disciplined and direct exploration of reality itself. With this approach, we discover that we are not separate observers studying a mechanical universe from the outside, but rather expressions of the cosmos engaged in a process of self-discovery, with each moment a fresh creation in the universe’s ongoing adventure of awakening to its own infinite nature.