The essence of  the book “Self-Designed Universe”, the way I have interpreted it and its connection to the labyrinth.

When we are born, we start from Oneness.

Oneness with All That Is.

From this Oneness we are gently pushed forward with little steps.

We learn from the moment we are born, first unconsciously and more focussed on the material body. Later we become more conscious through experience and education.

But, the more facts we consume, the more we become separated from this Oneness.

Then we arrive in the phase of becoming conscious of the fact THAT we exist and this is at the same time an awakening towards responsibility.

When I realize that I exist, how can I deal with that in a suitable way?

With this knowledge gained and the question that arises from it, we start to divide ourselves (our Oneness) into two entities:

The one that exists and

The one that thinks about the fact that one exists.

All sorts of questions arise and all sorts of answers are possible, that will lead to other questions and other answers and so on.

In this way we  are driving around in a vicious circle, before we know it.

We can study science

We can study philosophy

We can study religion

And by doing so, we further and further move away from the original Oneness.

This is the strong power of the Ego or the Strong Town, as mentioned in the parable at the end of Chapter 4 of the book.

It is the investigator who wants answers to all its questions and does not realize yet the vicious circle of question and answer it finds itself in.

Science believes the more questions we ask, the more answers we will find and in this way we will certainly arrive at the one and only Truth.

But, somewhere, hidden deep, one still has the remembrance of  Oneness and with it, the knowing that one has all the answers already inside.

But before one realizes that, one is already halfway with ones life.

So it takes a long time to learn everything that is to learn in Strong Town, before That what one already knows deep inside oneself, gets the chance to come out. And it is Time (in other words: growing older) that finally takes care that one starts to see it all in a different light.

And it is reflection that will do the trick. Through reflection one comes to know that the Oneness undertakes a journey into four different towns:

Gravitown,

Electrotown,

Strongtown

and

Weaktown.

And it is in the last town one recognizes that the Oneness travels from that Oneness through these four towns and will always find itself back in that middle of Oneness again.

And here one finds the true connection to the labyrinth: the Hero’s or Heroine’s journey on the Path of Life, which does not have dead ends but always leads one back to the middle of Ones own Oneness.

The path that walks itself……