Antoun,

There is that first line, "the widening gyre."

The vortex.

The black hole at the center.

It does seem consciousness carries through the physics in ways it must. That we, on the personal scale are no more able to comprehend, than cells in our body might understand how our lives function, but like those cells, are very much part of the process.

While Israel might be the locus, it is the entire west being sucked into that vortex.

The banks, the military, the zombification of the governments, as they seize up under the massive greed and looting sucking everything dry.

"The center cannot hold," because without the larger network, everything does fall into the vortex.

What if the Angles and the Saxons both had messianic religious cores, that prevented them from ironing out their differences, like the Zealots couldn't accept the Roman Empire? Where would European civilization be?

The guy who originally came up with the Big Bang Theory, Georges LeMaitre, was a Catholic priest and imagined the universe as a cosmic egg. Basically an origin story, like all religions tend to imagine some Genesis story. Framing reality as one life cycle, rather than as lives being fluctuations in eternity. Node over the network.

The best lack all conviction, because they try looking at both sides of the issues. The worst are those rushing down their various rabbit holes.

It's not so much we need a messiah to save us, but an anti messiah to smack us across the ears and tell us to wake up.

The world is round, not flat. What goes round, comes round. Karma.

God is the raw desire driving life.

Wisdom is that old bitch with the stick.

Trial and error.

"Karma is a bitch."