The Multiverse, Human Insignificance, And The Brain

Monday, 22 September 2025, 11:51 am
Opinion: Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The multiverse is one of the most pernicious scientific deceptions ever perpetrated. It’s an idea without evidence motivated by a belief in a totally random, materialistic and mechanistic universe.

The multiverse concept is a cunning way of getting around our finely tuned universe by imagining an infinite number of universes, and maintaining that we just happen to live in the one where the laws of physics, chemistry and biology are such that they permit complex life.

As a worldview and belief system, the multiverse surpasses the necessity of refuting the belief in a separate “Creator” of the universe, or “Designer” in intelligent design. It’s a devious assertion of pure chance, an insistence that there is only matter, and a claim that everything in the universe boils down to the interaction of the parts of a complex machine.

The universe is considered “finely tuned” because “the fundamental physical constants and conditions are precisely calibrated to values that permit the existence of stars, planets, complex chemistry, and life as we know it.” If any of these basic constants and conditions were even slightly different, life would be impossible. For example, stars may not form and the elements essential for life would not be produced.

Scientists haven’t been able to account for how and why these constants and conditions of the universe exist. The fact that they do points to an ultimately creative, non-mechanistic universe.

That doesn’t mean there is a separate God that set the universe in motion, but it does mean there is an intrinsic intelligence and order beyond chance and mechanism.

It doesn’t mean there are supernatural causes, forms or qualities, but it does mean that there is something unknowable and ineffable beyond the realm of knowledge, however far it extends.

That possibility is deeply unsettling to dogmatic materialists, and so someone came up with the clever dodge of an infinite number of universes -- the multiverse -- of which ours just happens to be the one conducive to star formation and life.

Of course the chances of that occurring through pure chance is so small as to make the idea of the multiverse ridiculous.

There is another unspoken driver of the multiverse idea, and it’s the projection of the disorder, destructiveness and meaninglessness of man, and the world humans have made, onto nature and the universe. Unable or unwilling to look at themselves and ask the right questions, most philosophers and scientists keep asserting the wrong answers.

This pertains to the question of our significance and/or insignificance in the universe.

A friend sent me a core quote from the movie, “Everything, everywhere all at once”: “We’re all small and stupid.”

The quote and passage makes reference to the multiverse, and is “a reminder how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things…a moment in the passing of time…and how little we know.”

Does the perpetual incompleteness of knowledge mean that we have to remain small and stupid?

The multiverse and “specks on a speck in space” ideas produce a false humility, and the notion that we’re innately “small and stupid.”

Our personal lives are insignificant to be sure, but we can awaken and grow into beings of insight rather than shrinking captives of knowledge. In other words, we can be excellent human beings rather than small and petty humans.

Also, though our individual lives may seem to be “a moment in the passing of time,” we don’t have to be slaves to time, but have the capacity to experience, even dwell in timelessness.

Besides, there is no time in the universe, only the ongoing unfolding of creation. Psychological time is a false and ultimately suffocating thing. To understand and end it, we have to end busyness, and question, understand and end the movement of thought. For thought is time, and time is thought.

As separate, conditioned and time-bound humans we are utterly insignificant, but as whole human beings we are significant to the degree we embody humanity as a whole.

Even more to the point, the human brain is cosmically significant because only this brain on this planet has the capacity for communion with the immanent cosmic Mind.

The great paradox is that the evolution of the adaptation that put the human brain over the threshold for this spiritual capacity – conscious, symbolic thought – has become the greatest impediment to the realization of our spiritual potential.

Despite all the knowledge we have accumulated, humans have become even more petty and insignificant because we haven’t awakened insight and understanding. Indeed, our use of the intellect has made us the most destructive force that ever evolved on Earth.

Awareness is the fire of life, synonymous with the inseparable source from which life has its wellspring. Awareness preceded the formation of the Earth and the evolution of the brain, and it is to awareness that the attentive and silent brain returns in life, and in death.

As the crisis of human consciousness increases and intensifies, can the immeasurable energy of the universe be within us, to the extent of our capacity?

It can and must. For when the silent brain is suffused with the awareness that infuses the universe, attention burns away the cumulative dark matter that is destroying the Earth and the human being.

Martin LeFevre

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Martin LeFevre - Meditations

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Martin LeFevre is a contemplative and philosopher.

His sui generis “Meditations” explore spiritual, philosophical and political questions relating to the polycrisis facing humanity.

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