dark matter

You know that absence of everything that occurs when you first push your head under water? You can’t hear the normal things but you can hear bubbles and the swish of the current rushing by, even vibrations have a uniqueness under water. The world seems to stop revolving for a moment and nothing is as you believe it should be.

You open your eyes and notice how light moves almost the same but with an otherwordly glow. Each drop of water taming electromagnetic radiation in such a way that you don’t quite recognize it, yet it carries the familiarity of a dream. In water you find an entirely different world trapped on the same planet. Our ocean of mysteries that we’ve barely begun to explore, holding tight to it's secrets. All you have to do is open your other senses to know this truth.

The thing you have to understand is, we don’t know everything, Scientists don’t know everything. There are things still unexplained about our own universe. Like dark matter, thought to account for 85% of the matter in the universe yet somehow cannot be seen. It does not absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation. Primary evidence supports the theory that many galaxies would fly apart or not have formed nor move as they do if they did not contain a large amount of this unseen matter. Its mere existence is implied by lack of explanation based on what we believe we know. I mean, how else can we know about something we cannot even see?

Now think about that shadow you catch in the corner of your eye. You know the one. When you’re not paying attention and your mind alerts you to something you aren’t even certain happened. That feeling you can’t quite explain when the hair rises on the back of your neck regardless of the hot, humid summer air. The deja vu moments you've experienced, so strong that they must have significance. Those are the experiences that make me question everything. How are these things all that different from the mystery of dark matter?

If the fabric of our universe is mostly comprised of a matter that we cannot understand then how can we not entertain the idea of an afterlife? What makes that any more absurd than the fact that we can't even see the primary matter that makes up our very universe?

What if we all hold a bit of dark matter within us?

What if it’s the material that makes up our souls?

What if we become dark matter when our bodies end and we are the core fabric of the universe?

Or maybe dark matter is what some call heaven and we lack the ability to see it as we are.

Perhaps we need to jump in and open ourselves to new senses,

a new way of seeing...