Written a day or two after reflecting (while on a low dose of shrooms, at a Kim Mitchell show at the Kee to Bala, Muskoka) upon my "bad" acid trip experience, and the meaning of "One", which seemed so very important -- the "answer" to everything. I suspect this was written around the end of September, 1996.

For Millions of years, man has questioned his existence.

"Why am I here?"

"Where did I come from?"

"Where am I going?"

For just about as long as we've been asking these questions, we've been trying to come up with good answers for them.

I believe the answer is simple. Something we all know deep inside, but overlook due to its simplicity. Many people believe that they know the right answer. They believe it so strongly that they are not willing to listen to anyone else's opinion.

The oldest, and still likely the strongest belief is that some extremely powerful and advanced being completely beyond our comprehension created life as we know it -- God.

A somewhat more recent belief is that we have been evolving for millions and millions of years from lower life forms. This belief has been becoming more and more accepted. Even by those that believe very strongly in God.

Philosophers have their own opinions, not committing to believe fully in God or evolution, instead speculating about the possibilities of either.

What if they're all right? What if what science believes about the evolution of the universe an all the religious people believe about God are true?

Take the "Big Bang" theory for example. That at one time all of the matter in the universe as we know it, was together in one big ball -- One big ball of fire -- One big star. How do we know that this big huge mass was not what we consider to be God?

We humans tend to often be quite ignorant to what we do not have concrete proof for. For eons we've believed ourselves to be the centre of everything -- the most important. Religious people rarely believe that their God could be the same as someone else's God, let alone the same God as everything's God -- On Earth or not.

Everything in the universe as we know it follows similar patterns. We can find surprising similarities between a hydrogen atom and a solar system. Are they so different?

We refuse to believe that everything could be so simple. We tend to overcomplicate things. We know that all matter is energy vibrating at different rates. Everything can be broken down into small, yet similar parts. The smaller the pieces, the more similar they are -- Similar, yet not identical.

It seems that the smaller the part, the faster it moves and the shorter it lives. Why not say that a hydrogen atom lives? If fact we do. Science has long used terms like "lives", "life" and "dies" when describing atoms and molecules. They are the building blocks of everything, including life as we know it. Could they not be the simplest life forms?

If a hydrogen atom is one of the simplest life forms, (or even electrons, or quarks), then why couldn't a star be an extremely advanced life form, completely beyond our comprehension? Put it this way, a star lives for billions and billions of years. If it was an advanced life form, our lifetime would go by so quick compared to its relative timeframe, that we'd be gone before it would even have a chance to think about communicating with us, and that's considering it would even bother to try.

Would we bother to talk to single celled organisms? They barely live long enough for us to consider establishing an even remotely advanced form of communication. To them, we are God. That's even if they believe we exist, if they could.

So what's life all about? I believe it is very simple. To do our little part to contribute to help each other and ourselves grow and develop, and enjoy ourselves while doing it -- To live and let live. To try and make our planet support as much mutually beneficially coexisting life as possible, and when we reach that goal, to seek out new life and make more planets inhabitable. To help them reach their full potential. I believe this is the goal of the entire universe -- To seek to better oneself and to also do so by forming mutually beneficial relationships with other life.

If at one time the universe was this enormous star that was an entity far beyond our comprehension, maybe it "saw" another light -- it "saw the light" -- and felt the need to contact it, knowing that if it did, it could better itself. It could have sacrificed itself by exploding; knowing that eventually it would reach those other lights, and combine with them to become something better.

To understand life, we need only look at ourselves. We are composed of millions and millions of cells. We may consider ourselves to be one person, but in fact we are millions of life forms, together as one. Each cell is made up of many tiny parts. Each tiny part is made up of many even smaller parts. We don't know for certain how small the tiniest part is, but that does not mean tinier parts do not exist.

We are just a tiny part of the world -- The world a tiny part of our solar system -- Our solar system a tiny part of our galaxy. Our galaxy a tiny part of the universe, and for all we know, the universe could easily be a tiny part of something bigger. What are the limits? Maybe there are none.

No matter the huge numbers science tosses around, we're always finding small pieces, and more to the seemingly infinite universe. Whenever we believe we've found the smallest piece, we always find something smaller.

There is only one constant we can hold true -- We are all One.