Blink in the eye of Brahma

I had a realization the other night about phrase I'd heard along the lines of "it's all a blink in the eye of Brahma," referring to the time line of our entire universe being a relatively contained and perhaps even controlled event from the perspective of the "God" that created it. Whatever you may think about what ancient astronomer/astrologers had figured out about the time lines of our universe, I believe the concept that I arrived at has inherent appeal. Sure, I tend to think that The Mayans and "Hindu" writers of the Upanishads tended to have a good grasp on the time-patterns our our universe but such blind faith is not required to understand or appreciate the concepts below.

What led to the realization was a conversation with a friend in which i was trying to explain what an evolution within consciousness would be like. I explained that our universe had already had evolutions within consciousness like the development of life-consciousness, parent-offspring consciousness, family identity, national identity, understanding power and dominion, and interaction with technology, etc. The point is that while not everything is alive, has a familial identity, has a national identity, or has become aware in other ways, the result of these evolutions within consciousness are all around us. These evolutions are occurring and will continue to occur.

I was putting forth the idea that we are approaching an evolution within consciousness that will take us to the level of the God-consciousness that created this world. That is when I had the realization...

Think about a blink. A blink is the closing off of the eye from the light of the outside world. Surely even those of you who couldn't follow the first part of this post can understand light as the perfect metaphor (reality?) for (of) truth and the absence of hidden truth. And so, Imagine that our whole universe is what occurs when the creator God, call it Brahma, consciously or perhaps even unconsciously, closes itself off from... well the truth about itself?... and plunges into darkness. The darkness tries to figure itself out, it is made of God but it has forgotten that.

I would imagine being made of God is a good start but certain leaps must take longer than others. Imagine how science tells us that our world has evolved. Matter turns to more complex matter, suns then planets form, organic materials and then life, and then of course evolution (only then, OF COURSE!). All of this time has been a period of remembering and trial and error and intuition.

I personally believe that everything has some form of consciousness and some form of intuition. Such a belief is not necessary, though, to understand what follows. Think of it as an allegory. If the only type of consciousness around is matter, who is going to figure out the need for organic matter? Inorganic material has no need for organic material, you see? There make have been some intuition (or call it what you will) to become more complex and so matter got together and the massive pressure and fiery oven of stars surely fulfilled some of that intuition. Anyway, I think you get the point, that it would take a while to get from point A to point B if all you had was a bunch of A.

As you can imagine, these evolutions get quicker as they go. This is why things have been speeding up. Having human beings with our complex brains and creative tendencies has allowed for these intuitive steps (the same steps that the first atom "wanted" to make but couldn't figure out) to occur more rapidly. Humans realized that communication is important--> the internet.

So, in closing, I don't mean to just berate you with cumulative arguments but I realized that we are in the moment in history right before the lid separates and Brahma's eye is open once more. This universe will rejoin the God-consciousness that created it by shutting itself off from the truth about itself. So far, though I have not decided the fastidiousness of the blink metaphor, I prefer to think of it as a conscious blink, similar to the Toltec god Quetzalcoatl jumping into the fire, that God knew or had faith it would emerge from. Perhaps God has done this before.