Each creature experiences itself as alive and perceives the abundant nature all around it. Existence has no implicit meaning and no explanation. (..) It is as originless and boundaryless as the universe; in fact, it is coterminous with the universe. The night sky is an irrevocable statement of this condition. It gathers infinity into a radiant field and envelops the Earth. It is at once the most blatant clue to the origin of all this and the shroud which negates any possible resolution and leads every trail into wilderness. The night sky expresses the order and cohesiveness of the creation, but also its chaos and arbitrariness. The constellations were one of our species' first attempts to impose its own order and meaning onto the impinging randomness of nature.

We are beings who require a context for each little thing we do but have no context for the whole big thing. This is the primary disturbance within human society and the force that drives us through structures and symbols in search of an impossible resolution. (..)

The modern universe may be random and disordered, but it seems s also exquisitely interrelated and connected down to the minutest layer. Astral mythology and magic reflected this symbolically and symphatetically; later astrophysics has shown that all matter obeys the same laws - that the stars appear where they do for the reason that the wind blows, the grasses sprout, and cells divide.(..)

Science unwittingly misleads us. We can certainly explore the stars and the planet's with instruments. (..) We know a great deal about what is around us, what we are, how we interact, and how we perceive, cognise, and express the nature of things. But for all this, we cannot know and express the creationary event. We can only manifest it.

//Richard Grossinger, 1981, The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets.