chologists have been queried as to the meaning of this phenonenon and I was contacted earlier this week on the very same subject.

With a Ph.D in Spiritual Psychology, I was asked if I saw any spiritual significance to this discovery.

Here is my recent open letter to the Astrophysical Journal

To whom it may concern:

As the noted theoretical physicist Dr John Hagelin wrote in 1993 ~ If you scratch below the surface and get to the molecular atomic and sub-atomic worlds, you find that these world are not material worlds. They are worlds of intelligence and ultimately worlds of consciousness. "

As such, we are dealing with worlds of consciousness when we peer into space looking for answers that, quite honestly, can only be determined by our own depth of consciousness.

If we look at love and soul consciousness as the ultimate totalization of human energy ~ whose principle property is the propensity or urge to unite ~ then we must accept that at some point in time we will reach a place of common synthesis or connection where we will burst through to another level of consciousness ~ an opening to another world.

Teilhard de Chardin called it a cosmic point Omega of total synthesis ~ The world would not function if there did not exist, somewhere ahead in time and space, " a cosmic point Omega of total synthesis ' ( Human Energy )

Is it possible that the Universe ahead of us is revealing a transition point to another world of consciousness ~ an opening to another world of consciousness fueled by universal love ?

Is it possible that we have glimpsed that Omega point but will not fully see it until we ourselves fully surrender to love and the urge to unite ?

Teilhard thought as much ~ "But if the universe ahead of us assumes a face and a heart,and so to speak personifies itself, then in the atmosphere created by this focus the elemental attraction ( urge to unite ) will immediately blossom. Then, no doubt, under the heightened pressure of an infolding world ~ the formidable energies of attraction ( love ) , still dormant between human molecules, will burst forth. " ( Phenomenon of Man )

Science must begin to look at the universe through both eyes ~ the rational and the subjective versus one eye ~ the rational.

As such, a genuine Unified Field Theory ( A unifying theory of everything ) must combine the objective observations of the scientist and the subjective knowing, or soul consciousness of the mystic ~ for if we cannot find truth within ourselves, or trust the inner knowing that is the essence of the true self, we can never fashion a reliable science. For a science divorced from the heart will be misinterpreted by its own essential knowing.

In summary, that hole in space may well be Teilhard de Chardin's cosmic point Omega ~ an opening to another dimension of consciousness which can only be transitioned through universal love.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/08/26.html

Huge Hole Found in the Universe

By Robert Roy Britt

Senior Science Writer

The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.

The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.

Astronomers don't know why the hole is there.

"Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota.

Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding.

"What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.

The finding will be detailed in the Astrophysical Journal.

The universe is populated with visible stars, gas and dust, but most of the matter in the universe is invisible. Scientists know something is there, because they can measure the gravitational effects of the so-called dark matter. Voids exist, but they are typically relatively small.

The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.

There is a "remarkable drop in the number of galaxies" in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, Rudnick said.

The region had been previously been dubbed the "WMAP Cold Spot," because it stood out in a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation made by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotopy Probe (WMAP) satellite. The CMB is an imprint of radiation left from the Big Bang, the theoretical beginning of the universe.

"Although our surprising results need independent confirmation, the slightly colder temperature of the CMB in this region appears to be caused by a huge hole devoid of nearly all matter roughly 6 to 10 billion light-years from Earth," Rudnick said.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/08/26.html

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