By virtue of exist­ing, we share a sto­ry with every­thing else that has ever existed.

Our thoughts, moods, and iden­ti­ties are as wild­ly diverse as can be imag­ined. And yet, in terms of our DNA, all humans are near­ly identical.

As the Smith­son­ian states on its web­site for the Nation­al Muse­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry, “The DNA of all human beings liv­ing today is 99.9% alike.” Over 200,000 years since humans first emerged and then migrat­ed out of Africa, humans con­tin­ue to add to the sto­ry of evo­lu­tion. The gen­er­a­tional chap­ters of that sto­ry are writ­ten on our genes and expressed through the cells in our bod­ies.²⁶

Even nature’s most seem­ing­ly chaot­ic com­po­si­tions, such as an erod­ing coast­line, can reveal an intri­cate order of under­ly­ing con­di­tions. Sci­ence and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty can eas­i­ly over­lap in the inter­pre­ta­tions of com­plex nat­ur­al phe­nom­e­na. Frac­tal pat­terns, like snowflakes

or galaxy for­ma­tions, are geo­met­ric fig­ures in which each of the pattern’s many parts shares sim­i­lar sta­tis­ti­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics with the whole. Sacred geome­tries describe math­e­mat­i­cal shapes believed to have a sacred or divine mean­ing, as seen in Bud­dhist and Hin­du man­dalas, the archi­tec­ture of cathe­drals, the form of a nau­tilus, or the mod­els of cos­mo­log­i­cal spac­ing by the 17th cen­tu­ry astronomer Johannes Kepler.²⁷ Human Design is the name for a sys­tem of self-knowl­edge cal­cu­lat­ed with an individual’s birth date, time, and place, to form a Human Design Chart or Body­Graph, which can help indi­vid­u­als access con­scious­ness for per­son­al deci­sion-mak­ing.^{28, 29} Each of these exam­ples of an under­ly­ing design, to life and the uni­verse, can be explored to dis­cov­er an even greater mys­tery: how every­thing has a struc­ture which repeats, varies, and res­onates with a sig­na­ture vibration.

Because we are beings of vibra­tion, we exist with­in a field of vibra­tional intel­li­gence. The term applied to this field is VQ, which stands for a Vibra­tional Intel­li­gence Quo­tient, and was coined by lead­er­ship coach Eve Kon­stan­tin in 2004.³⁰ Our VQ allows us to rec­og­nize that we are each con­nect­ed to an intense­ly ener­getic field spi­ral­ing with cre­ativ­i­ty. With this in mind, let us become open to our abil­i­ty to receive, expe­ri­ence, and trans­mit super­nat­ur­al phenomena.

“We are mul­ti­di­men­sion­al beings. Con­scious­ness is not local­ized sim­ply with­in our body, but extends through­out the uni­verse. We are part of a uni­ver­sal mind.” — J.J. Hurtak

Think of the role humans play out, not only on our plan­et, but in the con­text of a much larg­er cos­mic com­mu­ni­ty. Accord­ing to inves­ti­ga­tions into var­i­ous dimen­sions of intel­li­gence by the social sci­en­tist, lin­guist, and futur­ist, J.J. Hur­tak, and his wife, social sci­en­tist and envi­ron­men­tal­ist, Desiree Hur­tak (who co-found­ed the non­prof­it Acad­e­my for Future Sci­ence), a fun­da­men­tal human abil­i­ty is to exist through mul­ti­ple dimen­sions. This means that mul­ti­ple lev­els and dimen­sions of intel­li­gence are pos­si­ble through evo­lu­tion,³¹ which can be accessed and expressed through the inter­con­nect­ed capac­i­ty of con­scious­ness. Through res­o­nant states of vibra­tion and exis­tence, we can con­nect to the supreme source of co-creation.

There is a tidi­ness to the fact that all humans are so sim­i­lar in terms of DNA. There is also much to be under­stood and cel­e­brat­ed about what makes us each unique vari­a­tions on a com­plex evo­lu­tion­ary track. As we learn to rec­og­nize the pat­terns in our sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences, we will begin to receive the kind of wis­dom that is sym­bol­i­cal­ly rep­re­sent­ed by com­plex math­e­mat­i­cal equa­tions. No mat­ter how life is arranged or where it is going, we believe that we all belong to every­thing that has ever exist­ed, exists now, and will exist in the future.

We some­times get so caught up in our small selves that we fail to rec­og­nize how tru­ly immea­sur­able we are.

Rid­ing the ham­ster-wheel, going over and replay­ing every­thing we did, didn’t do, failed or suc­ceed­ed at, can be exhaust­ing. We tuck­er our­selves out with over­think­ing and overex­er­tion and have to rest. Then we get up and do it all over again. Why? Because our ego is extreme­ly occu­pied with telling us it needs our atten­tion and to busy our­selves in its service.

Yet, ego is a bar­ri­er to our true con­nect­ed uni­ver­sal self. We get occa­sion­al glimpses of this self when we dis­tance our­selves from our egos. Some for­tu­nate indi­vid­u­als have even devot­ed their entire focus to this one self that is greater than any indi­vid­ual can be. One can find great peace in prac­tic­ing a life that hon­ors such a res­o­nant con­nec­tion between one­self and the uni­verse beyond.

Con­nec­tion to a spir­i­tu­al self, and con­nec­tion to our envi­ron­ment, can be one and the same. As Bud­dhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says, “The solu­tion is to learn how to touch eter­ni­ty in the present moment. We have been talk­ing about the envi­ron­ment as if it is some­thing dif­fer­ent from us, but we are the envi­ron­ment.” Indeed, by deal­ing with the most extreme moments of life: birth, death, love, tragedy, we can bet­ter come to under­stand that we are all one in being part of a con­tin­u­ous­ly-evolv­ing cycle.

We all deserve space to access the insights and enlight­en­ment found by chan­nel­ing the con­nec­tion between one’s own exis­tence and the exis­tence of everything.