We are living, breathing, thinking, sensing, feeling collection of bone, tissue, and cells , supported by organic processes of energy transformation and waste excretion, which themselves rely on atomic and molecular movements honed by billions of years of evolution on a planet forged from the detritus of supernova explosions scattered throughout a realm of space emerging from the big bang.

But we are not alone. All living things that sense are sentient - including plants. And the material that constitutes us pervades the entire cosmos.

We pass from this particular planet at some stage after "death" -which is only a change in energy state. The energy may not be sentient at all points in time and space,  but it is always everywhere at once and in union.

As humans we tell and retell stories in which our place in a vast universe migrates to center stage. We craft works in painting, sculpture, movement, and music in which we wrest control of creation and invest ourselves with the power to triumph over all things finite. We develop science, providing insights into the workings of reality that we transform into powers earlier generations would have reserved for gods.

We are "god". We are it. We are now.