Puffing Sun Gives Birth To Reluctant Eruption
Original from NASA, digitally enhanced by Billyuptain
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How the universe first came into being is one of the most profound and intriguing questions humans can contemplate, and we become mesmerized over again at other beginnings— the beginning of our sun, our planet, life on earth, and life in general. Human pregnancies and births are microcosmic parts of this macrocosmic cycle of coming into being. Similar to the awe we may feel when realizing that the births of our children are connected to a long lineage of births across human history, so we may feel an extraordinary fascination when thinking about the birth of our universe as a whole.

Our pregnancies and the births of our children are forever woven with coming into being and to the beginning of our universe, and that realization can help us feel interconnected to all life, lessening any sense we might have that we are on our own as we prepare to give birth ourselves.

*This is an excerpt from my new book, Visualizing Birth. For similar content, check out the publisher’s page. Book is available in softcover and hardcover.