As an avid fisherman and one that for years enjoyed the incomparable delights of pristine wilderness trout streams, it was more than whimsy on my part when I once wrote that while camping beside such a stream and looking at a canopy of the myriad stars overhead, those magnificent brilliant points of light shining like diamonds against soft black velvet and thinking perhaps I could cast a line from my soul upward into the heavens above and catch some celestial thought from the gods. My, what fine sport that would be to go a-fishing among the stars, the dwelling place of the gods and angels! And just perhaps, those stars might not be so far away as we have been told.

Just how old is the universe? Astronomers don’t really know because the calculations they use may need considerable revision if some of their basic assumptions prove to be wrong. For example, just how far away that star you are looking at if the light from it is is contained within a bubble that throws off your calculation? The best of SciFi is often ahead of the curve when it comes to what is actually taking place in science. In Men In Black a galaxy is contained in a small sphere like a marble, and in the last scenes it is shown as only one of many such marbles; but perhaps the more probable might be bubble spheres and here is something that brings crystal balls to mind:

Earth May Exist in Giant Cosmic Bubble. Wednesday, October 01, 2008. By Clara Moskowitz: If the notion of dark energy sounds improbable, get ready for an even more outlandish suggestion. Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly devoid of matter… If we were in an unusually sparse area of the universe, then things could look farther away than they really are and there would be no need to rely on dark energy as an explanation for certain astronomical observations. "If we lived in a very large under-density, then the space-time itself wouldn't be accelerating," said researcher Timothy Clifton of Oxford University in England. "It would just be that the observations, if interpreted in the usual way, would look like they were…"

Whether the medium is a crystal ball or a bowl of water, scrying is dependent on being able to “see” things otherwise not open to view. But while smoke and mirrors are the stuff of charlatans, who can say we do not suffer from our inability to see things beyond our physical field of vision; we do know it is extremely limited compared to what might be seen if we had vision that could distinguish the entire spectrum of light.

As though there were not problems enough with Einstein’s famous equation being incomplete because it does not account for life now we must consider, as I have long believed, whether ours is indeed a unique planet in a unique solar system in a unique bubble that may mean the stars are not nearly as far away as scientists have thought. From our place in the cosmic bubble we may not be seeing things as they actually are, but like dolphins see only the ocean in which they swim while perhaps only having the dimmest perception of a world beyond the one in which they swim and live.

There is speculation about ours being a bubble universe, and perhaps only one of many such bubbles. And if it should prove our own solar system is in a very large under-density it could be quite stable and readily brings to mind the beginning chapters of Genesis together with how God intends to deal with new heavens and a new earth when the old has passed away.

America may be in the hands of Satan and his servants whose only purpose is to reward the wealthy while intent on our destruction as a nation, but there is nothing I can do about that. Maybe Steve Fossett disabled that location transmitter and bailed out so he could disappear. It will be interesting to hear what the NTSB says about the crash, especially if his body isn’t found. There is nothing I can do about that either.

But I can do something about that personal world in which I live, the world of my mind, a world you possess as well that Emerson, Thoreau, and others have correctly pointed out is greater than any earthly domain, the kingdom of God within us as Jesus pointed out. It is here in this kingdom, this world of my mind I can cast my line upward and do some celestial fishing. Who knows; the stars as well as God and the angels, departed loved ones and friends may really be much closer than some think and it is worth my while to keep casting my line upward in hope of catching thoughts worth keeping remembering all the while that neither this body nor this world is my home, I’m only passing through.