For more than a century, science has been divided between two competing stories about reality. One story, the old one, imagines the universe as a timeless machine running on eternal laws, where nothing fundamentally changes. The other story, the newer one, insists that change isn’t the exception but the rule: the cosmos evolves, life evolves, consciousness evolves, and even the questions we ask evolve with us.
Rupert Sheldrake and Nassim Haramein sit at the crossroads of these two narratives, each pushing against the idea of a frozen, mechanical universe. What makes their work powerful when combined is that they both open the door to a living, dynamic cosmos, one that doesn’t just exist, but becomes if you follow my meaning.
The laws of nature have history
Sheldrake begins by asking a simple but radical question: if the universe has a history, why wouldn’t the “laws of nature” have a history too? In a cosmos that started small and grew into galaxies, stars, planets, and life, it seems strangely inconsistent to imagine that its governing principles were fixed, eternal, and immune to change. For Sheldrake, the patterns of nature behave more like habits than commandments. They stabilize through repetition. They strengthen over time. They carry memory.
Space-Time is not empty
Haramein arrives at a similar insight from a different direction. In his view, space-time is not empty; it’s a densely structured field of information. Matter, energy, and even consciousness arise from the geometry of this field. Everything is connected because everything participates in the same underlying fabric. Where Sheldrake speaks of habits, Haramein speaks of resonance: patterns strengthening through continuous feedback between the part and the whole.
The Universe is an organism
When you put the two perspectives together, the universe looks far less like a machine and far more like an organism, one that grows, remembers, and generates novelty. Evolution isn’t limited to biology; it’s woven into the fabric of existence. And interconnectedness isn’t a poetic metaphor; it’s a structural principle. The Big Bang becomes not an explosion but a germination. Space-time ceases to be a void and becomes a creative medium! Consciousness becomes not an accident but an expression of the same evolutionary process shaping everything else.
“We are born to create.”
– David Boullata
This synthesis restores something ancient that modern science had discarded: the idea that the cosmos is both intelligible and alive. It unifies physics and metaphysics without collapsing into mysticism or dogma.
In this view, the universe is not governed by fixed laws handed down at the beginning of time, it is guided by evolving patterns that deepen over time. A universe that learns. A universe that remembers. A universe that awakens through us.
In many ways, that is the underlying spirit of The Nous Age, not a return to superstition, but a recognition that intelligence, creativity, and connectedness may be fundamental features of reality itself.
PERSONAL NOTE: I’m back and am restarting my work on the book. I hope you’ll follow along with me on this journey!
The Nous Age 