The Profound Significance of the “Exoplanets”

We are on the cusp of an entirely new cosmology that proves we must expand beyond religious dogma.

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Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 in Rome after being convicted of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. He believed that the universe was infinite and filled with many planets orbiting other stars, each potentially inhabited. This contradicted the Church's geocentric view that the Earth was the center of the cosmos.

Scientific American has an interesting article describing Bruno’s beliefs and the political and religious controversy he created then and which still exists today: Was Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake for Believing in Exoplanets?

Many identified with the Church’s focus on Bruno’s hermeticism and mysticism as his “blasphemy” but these are just labels – somehow he knew much more than established religion over 400 years ago, and his treatment by religious zealots was medieval.

It is a shame that so much of humanity is completely consumed with survival – which is one reason so many of us are hoping for a dramatic shift in consciousness to what Bruno believed – or to some other less violent paradigm.  Now that our enhanced senses through science have actually confirmed Bruno’s “heretical” belief and we have the Internet, perhaps a critical mass of humanity can get the message. 

Bruno Was Right and the Church Was Wrong

According to my AI friend:

”As of late 2022, over 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered with the help of space telescopes. The closest exoplanet is Proxima Centauri b, which orbits the star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun at 4.2 light years away. Discovered in 2016 using radial velocity measurements from ground-based telescopes, it has a minimum mass of about 1.17 times Earth and orbits within the habitable zone of its star.”  (the Goldilocks Zone)

Interestingly at least two known exoplanets are mainly or entirely covered with water according to NASA.

The two mentioned orbit a white dwarf 218 light years away but this discovery is interesting when one considers that many of the “origin myths” of cultures around the world, like the Dogon in West Africa and the Anunnaki in Mesopotamia talk about “Fish Gods” and amphibian deities who came from the sky and imparted knowledge.

Origin myths around the world point to three main actual “sources” or constellations from which their deities supposedly came:  the Pleiades, Orion and the Sirius system.  

Interestingly they have found HD 34445 b, an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type star HD 34445, located approximately 150.5 light years away in the constellation Orion.

“Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster”.

It seems that no exoplanets have yet been discovered near Sirius B, the white dwarf orbiting the brightest star in the sky but it is fascinating to remember that the Dogon tribe of West Africa knew of the existence of the companion star to Sirius from their origin story centuries before our telescopes found it.

As Our Awareness of the Universe Expands, So Might Our Consciousness?

Taking into account both the Church’s reaction to Bruno and that of modern viewers of the Cosmos show mentioned in the Scientific American article, one gets a sense of the enormous impact of the expansion of the knowledge we have of the universe – and the unquestionable effect of any actual proof of extra-terrestrial life “as we know it.”

We now also know that our Milky Way is one of billions if not trillions of galaxies. I am not a big fan of NASA because I still think they’re holding on to information that they’re not releasing, but they have at least helped prove Bruno’s theory and keep expanding the known size of the universe to inconceivable distances impossible for the human mind to intellectually grasp.

For example, each one of these dots is a galaxy with billions of stars according to the NASA-Hubble exploration group on Facebook. 

A New Cosmology Suggests a New Sense of Ourselves

So it would seem that we are on the cusp of an entirely new cosmology that proves the falsity of religious dogma and could open our minds to many different paradigms if it comes to pass.

Up until this point, I have avoided mention of the obvious paradigm shifts and disruptions that would occur if we got irrefutable proof of the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs (or UAPs), which I suspect is a foregone conclusion for many readers here.

But it is helpful to also take into account the many other currently emerging factors that would and could contribute to a complete disruption of almost everything comprising most religious dogma to which so many earthlings still cling.  Progress will require that the veil is finally lifted.

Those of you following the efforts to get disclosure about UFOs may be interested to know that Luis Elizondo, who quit the Pentagon inquiry in frustration, said that among those in control were officials who wanted the information kept secret specifically to protect the Vatican and their own religious dogma.

So it would seem that to move forward we may need to drop all religious zealotry and move ourselves gently back to our origin stories, and embrace the immense mystery those myths suggest.

We may also need to get past “life as we know it” – drop our hubris and admit there’s a lot more that we don’t know than we DO know.  Remember also that only a generation ago we knew NOTHING of any content in the nonmaterial world but we now have Wi-Fi that contains data and an entire theory of quantum dynamics that covers the unseen world.

When they saw the photo of the billions of galaxies above many people commented how there must “be life somewhere.”  An idea that may need to catch on is that Everything is Life.

A Last Thought

Bruno not only knew that the earth was not the center, but he also believed that the universe has no center. Ancients with the origin myths used their hearts and whole being to sense a bodily connection with the universe.  That’s what we need.