Family Organism

With the recent changes in my immediate and extended family, I've been musing on how life mirrors itself on different levels.



On the microscopic level, organisms such as amoeba and cells meet, merge, and create a new single unit. - Men and women meet, marry, and form the nucleus of a family.

Microorganisms grow and stretch, altering in appearance as they do. - Children are conceived and the family unit grows and changes in appearance.

Cells grow in size until they subdivide. The new, smaller life forms moving on to merge with other cells and the cycle begins anew. - The family unit reaches critical mass as children grow older, eventually split off, meet a prospective mate and the cycle begins anew.

I cannot imagine that the mirroring stops there. The universe is simply too large.

So now I turn my musings in a new direction.

If a cell or amoeba were to look outwards at a human body, it would appear the body went on and on infinitely.

When we look up into the sky at night, it appears to go on and on infinitely.

Which makes me wonder. - When we look into the sky, are we actually looking at an entity as much larger than us as we are larger than an amoeba?

And does that larger or supreme entity represent the enlightenment we all search for? And do we have so much trouble finding enlightenment because we are looking elsewhere for something we are already part of?