First Light: Seeking Cosmic Life

By Don C. Nix

We are evolving rapidly. However, it is anyones guess whether we can grow up fast enough to avoid destroying ourselves. Everywhere we look there is massive change, but the amount of change required to save ourselves is monumental. We must literally change the worldview of billions of people. We must have a leap in evolution that takes us to another way of viewing reality. We must move beyond our separateness and isolation. And we must do it quickly.

Quantum physics has thrown open a doorway that might give us a way out. In characterizing the universe as a singularity without parts, a Unified Field, it has perhaps laid the foundation for a new worldview that is beyond separateness. If we can grow ourselves into a new awareness that we are an integral part of the Field of Being, and that the entire Field is alive, conscious, intelligent, creative and unfolding, then perhaps our separateness can yield to being subsumed in Something sacred and miraculous. Life and reality would look quite different through this lens. It is appearing now. It is coming. The question is whether we have enough time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Feb 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781450291538

Don C. Nix

Don C. Nix was a lawyer, a university professor and a professional artist for 25 years before turning to consciousness work. He has been a serious student of Sufism for the past 25 years. He founded the Re-Enchantment Project in 1996, and currently sees clients, teaches classes and leads workshops in Northern California and the Western United States. He lives in Sonoma, California with his wife of 45 years, Ann Fursman Nix, and can be reached at [e-mail]. His work is on the web at www.don-nix.com.

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Dedication

To Benjamin Honey, my Welsh grandson, a bundle of fierce energy who just turned five. I think that we will have little opportunity to get to know each other, but you have my blessings and my love as you go forward through the arc of your life into a future that I cannot imagine, even in my dreams. I won’t be there to see you in that future life, but I can imagine you there now as a powerful, compassionate and highly developed man. You are the heir of two Texas families, cattle-ranchers and frontier preachers, whose ancestors came across the U.S. after the Civil War, and carved out new lives in a land that was still frontier-rough. You are from good stock, as we say in Texas about our cattle and ourselves.

Your grandfather,

Far

Sonoma, California

January, 2011

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Introduction

We are evolving rapidly. However, it is anyone’s guess whether we can grow up fast enough to avoid destroying ourselves. Everywhere we look there is massive change, but the amount of change required to save ourselves