One of the reasons I subscribe to the theory we are alone in the universe, that ours is a privileged planet in a unique solar system is that each of us as unique individuals are alone. And it is that peculiar singularity that catches my attention and draws me into a deep and profound meditation of life and death, how each of these is such a profound mystery beyond anything our science has been able to define or explain. But since we are each as individuals captive to a body that carries about this lone and unique to the individual fire of life that no one else can see burning, cannot possibly see things as the individual does through the fire of their own minds this is sufficient for me to believe we are equally alone in the universe. We are social beings, we crave society, but at no time does another find access to that personal fire burning within each individual that so often leaves some feeling alone in a crowd. The universe does appear a crowd, but only to our physical senses.

However, the far greater part of the universe is not available to our physical senses anymore than you can “see” my mind and imagination at work within me, and what we see of each other’s bodies is not what we consist of; our bodies are not what we “are.” And too many times does an attempt to share this that we really are falls into the hands of one that may betray; making us cautious about sharing some of the deeper thoughts and feelings of what we really are. Even a writer like me finds the occasional red flag of warning before putting some of my innermost thoughts on display; but this is only prudent of most people.

Obviously if we are not alone and intelligent life exists elsewhere that would provide intellectual fire beyond imagination and I applaud the science like SETI directed toward the search. But to be alone in the universe as an intelligent species; that would be fire beyond any intellectual comprehension and one reason the majority in the intellectual fraternity are loath to admit of such a thing even as a possibility.

But Michio Kaku whom I greatly admire advanced the possibility one reason we have not been contacted by other civilizations in the universe is they may have reached our nuclear capability and destroyed themselves, an acknowledged real threat to our own species. More of late it has been posited by some few scientists they may have built a Large Hadron Collider that went as infernally awry as some fear the one we have just might. But I speculate to the other side, that we are actually alone in the universe as an intelligent physical species, yet a species endowed by divinity in some few, endowed by the diabolical in some others, while the greater mass of our species never develop a soul that comes into full flower, the illustration of the profligacy of Nature casting a hundred or more seeds of which some will be sterile without the germ of life while the greater number with that germ of life will surely die that one alone might survive and come to fruition to carry on the cycle of life peculiar to its kind.

Since I believe in God and a spiritual realm unseen by human eyes but more real than our physical universe which scientists estimate is only 4% of the sum total, the greater part being unseen, unknown, and possibly unknowable there is a lot of room for God and Satan, angels, and demons, a spiritual universe in which physical matter as we know it is only a minor speck. Our own personal “universe” is what makes us spiritual beings, and each such person knows they are truly alone in that universe. “You can kill the body but you can’t kill the soul” is a well know phrase, and one I believe is true. I believe life, the soul, returns to God the Creator of these. It will be how we cultivated our souls through our minds leading to actions of which we will be judged in the hereafter.

“Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.” Some do, the great majority do not. Whether we are in for a deep and devastating global depression and America succumbs to printing tons of fiat paper in lieu of value based currency is really of little moment to me. In respect to wisdom I have chosen to live simply and free of debt, as I believe wise people do. But it is in the keeping of the heart in the universe of the mind with its solitary inhabited planet that is uniquely you as a person where the real issues of import make themselves known and the decisions are made of eternal significance. I have the great advantage of not being accountable to any earthly monarch, but to my Father and God in heaven. And believing this, in the words of Scripture “what have I to fear that men can do to me.” Men’s hearts may begin to fail for fear of what seems to be approaching in the ways of the world; but I believe there is a better path, the royal path that credits being individually responsible and accountable before both God and men for our actions, yet a path if we are to take Jesus at his word few choose to take, which goes a long way toward explaining why evil men and evil times are in the ascendancy.