IN THE BEGINNING

IS

THE DREAMER ……

AND THE DREAMER

IS GOD…….

…..AND GOD IS

THE DREAMER

And the DreamerDreams

a Dream…

….WHICH SPARKS

THE KINDLING

OF TIME

AND

SPACE

A Universe Flares Forth

13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO…..

…the protons formed here are in the cells of your body; the potential for everything that would ever be including you, was present then

FROM DANCING ATOMS

AFLAME WITH LOVE

A BILLION GALAXIES

TWIRL IN SPACE……

...our home

in the

Universe

...Including the Milky Way

Galaxy….

STARS

IGNITE

TO FILL

THE DARKNESS

WITH

THEIR

LIGHT ….

The elements in your body and in everything

are formed here in the stars….iron, calcium, sulphur….. ….. ..you are STARDUST!

12.5 BILLION YEARS AGO….

A star explodes

4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO……

Sun, moon and planets Sun, moon and planets emerge, including Earth emerge, including Earth our privileged and fragile our privileged and fragile homehome

…from its dust Our Solar System Unfolds…..

The loveand attraction you feelwere born here when the Earth formed an atmosphereand gravity 4.1 Billion yrs ago.You are held in theloving embraceof gravity from this time.

The rains fall for a million years

and form oceans

Heat and light stir the sea and animate its chemistry

Behold a miracle!Earth awakens in a first born cell4 billion years ago

The bacteria in your body which you can’t live without was formed in the ancient seas 4 Billion years ago.

Cells unite ---alive with creativity 1 billion years ago

c. 3.9 B. yrs agoc. 3.9 B. yrs ago

Earth learned to take nourishment Earth learned to take nourishment from the sun through plants…from the sun through plants…

photosynthesis was bornphotosynthesis was born

We have been nourished by the abundance of the Earth from this time onwards

Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans 510 Million years ago

Fish of every colour, shape and size emerge. Life learns to swim ……

Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans.

The concentration of salt in your blood and tears is the same as that of the ancient seas. You have come out of the sea!

Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans.

Ocean waves leave sea plants on hot rocks---unable

to crawl home they invent the wood cell---395 million

years ago.

30% of DNA in our bodies is identical with plants

Earth in all beauty births forth a million species

Insects emerge from the ancient oceans…..

395 Million years ago….An astonishing 60% of the DNA in your body is the

same as insects

Amphibians and Reptiles emerge from fish…

Amazingly parts of your brain were formed at the time of the early reptiles and mammals

Out of the Reptiles emerged the Dinosaurs

Out of the dinosaurs....birds emerge and Earth bursts into song

150million years ago

Flowers emerge to carpet earth with colour and fill our world

with fragrance

120 million years ago

The DNA IN YOUR BODY IS UP TO 30% SIMILAR TO FLOWERS AND PLANTS

Mammals in a thousand different shapes and sizes emerge

110 million years ago

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70-30M YEARS AGO PRIMATES EMERGE

Your rotating Your rotating shouldershoulder was formed in our was formed in our primate ancestors primate ancestors swinging in the trees. swinging in the trees. You have evolved You have evolved out of the chimps in out of the chimps in the ancient forests!the ancient forests! Astonishingly their Astonishingly their DNA is 98.4% similar DNA is 98.4% similar to your’sto your’s

FROM PRIMATES EARLIEST HUMANOID

TYPES DEVELOP

2.6 MILLION

YEARS AGO

EARTH COMES TO BIRTH IN THE SELF-CONSCIOUS HUMAN

40,000 YEARS AGO THE MODERN HUMAN EMERGES

Humans develop

language and

culture

40,000years ago

20,000 years ago…

People experienced the creative energy of God…… pulsating through everything

Humans, on a journey to colonise the moon,……

C 35 years ago….

…..turned around and saw Earth, as a whole, for the first time !

…one earth community …all made of the same building blocks …all related whether star, mountain, earthworm, tree, cloud, human or polar bear…in the total community of life

GIFT OF SEEING THE WHOLE

WE DID NOT COME INTO THIS WORLD:WE GREW OUT OF IT

Genetically related to everything in the natural world…. we share this planet with millions of other beings in the Divine Mystery of the awesome Web of Life.

We come from the energy that fashioned

the galaxies

we come out of the fire that gives birth

to the universe:it is our

beginning

We are made from elements fashioned

in the stars

We are stardust!

WE ARE ONE WITH ALL CREATION WE LIVE IN A COMPLEX

WEB OF LIFE

Love unfolds a universe which is

a communion of diverse beings,

each of whom is sacred,

each of whom is

beloved.

The Story of the Universe is your story….

…..it is inside you waiting to be born