Excellent work DASA - you have put a lot of big things very succinctly...
Yes it seems like science is slowly feeling its way back to the ancient philosophy of the universe being like a breathing being - expand, contract, expand, contract - presumably this breathing being has its own life / death / rebirth cycle and so on to eternity/infinity. I go with the ancients - everything is cyclical - there is no end and no beginning, it just loops round - this is the only fathomable explanation of eternity and infinity - if you go far enough you come back to where you are now - the future is the past (and vice versa) - hence the ancient symbols for these things of the circle and the figure eight, the serpent consuming its own tail, etc.
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All souls in this material world have their heritage in the spiritual sky, but only by re-awakening one's relationship with the Supreme Person can we return to the eternal abode. Once our original relationship is re-awakened then we actually enter into 'Vaikuntha', even while we are still linked to our physical body on the earth planet.
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absolutely spot on :) This to me is the destination of our spiritual journey here on Earth - the top of the mountain to which all spiritual paths lead.... We get there through re-awakening our relationship with the supreme.. it takes the power and purity of God to liberate us from our chains of bondage to matter, to strip way the veil of illusion we have learned to hide behind, to act as catalyst to enlighten us....
The experience of being a soul in the 'spiritual sky' is of being beyond time and space - on a different plane or dimension to the physical universe. So concepts of eternity and infinity are not relevant. Neither are death or birth, origin or destination. These things are only relevant in the physical universe.
I believe that the ancients were much more in tune with the true realities of time, space, matter, spirit, the universe, etc, than we are - but their understanding was intuitive - we have more 'knowledge' but are blinded by our own rationality which blocks our intuition.
Religion rejects materialism - "matter doesn't matter" - and science rejects spirituality because it cannot be proven using material instruments.... when science and spirituality learn to embrace each other there will be quantum leaps in scientific knowledge 8)