You Are The Universe And You Do Belong
- Brainz Magazine
- Aug 9, 2023
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 25, 2023
Written by: Thomas Janak, Executive Contributor
Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.
It is very easy to lose yourself in a world as busy as ours, and sometimes stepping back is the first step forward.
Native American creation lore tells us that we came here from the stars in a cloud shaped like a whale as mere specks of dust to evolve here and to learn all there is to learn, however long it takes because our souls are immortal. The whale is seen as ‘our first mother’ especially because of the whale's ability to feel extraordinarily deep. Whales have a ‘paralimbic lobe’ that connects feelings, emotions and thought and these feelings, emotions and thoughts are so complex in orcas that they have developed a specific lobe in the region of the forebrain to deal with their emotions. (from the DW documentary: ‘Do whales and humans speak the same language?’ (DW stands for ‘Deutsche Welle’ (German Wave), a German broadcasting entity). Ever since the beginning of time, men have looked at the stars, wondering what’s out there? Well, home is out there.
Not long after the Big Bang (which actually wasn’t an explosion at all), our galaxy, affectionately known as ‘the milky way’, started forming around 12 billion years ago. Life began to develop 9 billion years later.
The galaxy is a spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, dark matter and gases that orbit a centre and is bound together by the forces of gravity. In fact, we are a part of a group of approximately 50 galaxies known as The Local Group.
Our ‘little local group’ is part of a larger number of galaxies within the Virgo Supercluster.
The milky was in many ways resembles long arms and between the arms of the constellations of Sagittarius and Perseus lies the Orion arm and within this arm lies our beloved Sun.
The Sun is but one of about 200,000,000,000 (two hundred trillion) stars that make up our galaxy (well the milky way as a galaxy only has roughly 100 billion of the mentioned stars).
The Sun and all its planets are roughly 25.000 light years away from the centre and thus about 20 light-years above the galaxy’s plane. Earth and the other planets in our solar system don’t orbit within the plane of the galaxy but are tipped by about 63 degrees.
The entire solar system is so large that it takes the sun a staggering 250 million years to go around the centre of the milky way.
The milky way has grown by merging with other galaxies and the next galaxy to collide and merge with the milky way is believed to happen in 2.4 billion years and since everything is constantly moving, so is the sun and it travels through the solar system towards the star Vega near the constellation of Hercules. Because the sun is so magnificent and important, the 250 million years it takes the sun to complete one orbit of the milky way is now simply called ‘a galactic year’.
And somewhere in the midst of all of this are precious souls like you and me and all of those you encounter during your existence. Large stars and small stars are all integral parts of the whole and you are not small or insignificant – you do belong to something so vast that it is easy to feel overlooked and even lost.
Which is why we have these imprints that remind us of who we are and that affect us greatly because we are part of an incredible solar system.
Everything in the universe is connected – ‘if we could zoom out on the Universe, we’d see an interconnected web of galaxies and gases, called the cosmic web’ (‘How space works’ DK books, 2021, ISBN 978-0-2414-4632-4).
While we are all still evolving, we are nonetheless whole at any given moment.
Simon Barnes phrased it eloquently in his book ‘Ten Million Aliens’ (shortbooks.co.uk ISBN 978-1-142-4):
‘An ape is not a failed human: it is a perfectly valid and fully evolved creature in its own right’
– and so are you; you are the best and most whole and updated version of yourself with each second that passes. You just need to allow yourself to see it. As kiss frontman Paul Stanley sings on their song ‘Lick it up’:
‘It ain’t no crime to be good to yourself’ – be good to yourself, cherish yourself.
Thomas Janak, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
German-born Cannock/Staffordshire resident Thomas Janak is a psychic medium who works with native American guides and spirit animal guides. He is also a shamanic healer/practitioner (Ama Deus, Elven, Shamanic empowerment, Shamanic Energy healing), Sound Healing Therapist, Past life regression and soul retrieval practitioner, Reiki master and holistic animal healer and pet psychologist. He holds diplomas and certificates in many areas, both human and animal clients related such as Ancient Egyptian healing modalities, wolf studies, ornithology, snakes and spiders’ studies,
butterfly studies, primatology, dream interpretation, child psychology, metaphysics, crystal healing, colour therapy, numerology, astrology (Western and Vedic), Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, rune casting, Thai foot massage, seated massage, natural lift massage, palmistry, magnet therapy and tree studies.
