The Back & Forth Motion of Creation
Ken Drummond October 27, 2005

Perhaps one of the most basic universal motions is a back and forth motion. If we assume that everything starts from a unity, a oneness, a single point -- there are two possible things that can occur. One of them is a non-occurrence -- nothing happens, there is no motion, everything stays the same. The other possibility (the only other one) is an expansion or outwardness. Once this expansion or outwardness has happened, even to a miniscule degree, we then have three possibilities: There can be no change; there can be a shrinking or inward return; or there can be further expansion or outwardness.
If the case is a return to or toward the original unity, oneness, or single pointedness -- we have completed one cycle, more or less. There may be further cycles which include a repetition of previous cycles or cycles of a different degree, or there may be non-action.
As soon as there is an outward and/or inward motion, there is obviously an establishment of time. Time does not occur or cannot be detected if there is no action, but it is integral to motion. Progression of time favors repetition. That is, as time goes by (there are more inward and/or outward movements of various degrees) it becomes more and more likely that there will be repetitions, either exact repetitions of some previous cycles, or cycles that are closer and closer to previous ones. We can look at these repeating cycles on a grand scale or on a miniscule scale. How we view them  is both relative and arbitrary.
Creation or universal manifestation, from both cosmological and metaphysical viewpoints, both seem to default to this back and forth representation of everything. The difference, in the big picture, is apparently irrelevant, since in both cases it is for us an exercise in imagination or visualization. Cosmologically we can think of all matter as beginning or ending as an infinitely miniscule point. Where it came from or how it manifested we do not know. Metaphysically we can understand creation as a manifestation or concretization of thought, which projected, vibrated, or cycled out from an origin in unity or oneness.
The source of our own conceptualization of these ideas emanates from our mind or consciousness, which seems to be tied up with our outward perceptions or input of information from the universe. The act of visualizing the underlying structure or mechanism of everything, either in a material or a mental form, would seem to be the same process. We might say that the universe we perceive through our senses is either a construct of thought, or that our thought is a phenomenon of the seemingly complex workings of the universe. The two views are apparently inextricably intertwined. Thus approaching our understanding of everything from an analysis of what we perceive through the physical senses or of what we fathom though our intuition or inner certitude will bring us to a single sense of knowing.
It is time for the battle between inward and outward sources of knowledge to end. The only thing that seems to variegate those sources of knowledge is that we cling to our pet ideas of how things have to be. It is an insecurity based on lack of imagination. We have found the inner and outer resources or answers to our questions up to now and we will continue to do so, in whatever direction we turn our inward or outward gaze. Truth is not limited to certain corners of the universe or of thought. Truth is inherent everywhere in all manifestations of mind and matter. It is there for the discovery, the infinite adventure of discovery.