There is a universality over the ages in mankind’s seemingly innate urge to view the night skies as worshipful and thereby indicative of a greater power than anyone’s mere mortal understanding. Thus we mapped meticulously those very same arrangements of stars, planets and their movements in time. There did not need to be a rationale as to the why and wherefore of this ancient practice because it’s purpose was unquestionably embedded in our very collective psyches.
Now as we stand at the brink of becoming a space faring society, we need no longer puzzle about this ineluctable passion and idee fixe of civilizations as far back say as the astronomically arranged megaliths of at least ten thousands years BCE recently excavated in Turkiye.
Our destiny is proven by advancements in technology that make possible our leaving this tiny orb in order to dwell among and populate the stars we so perfervidly embrace as heaven. The faith in turning our attention to that which embraces our mortality with an ongoing quest at attaining an harmonic conformal unity with those heavenly bodies was always the inner subject of what we designate as the beautiful whatever form it takes.
Thus humanity finds its true higher self in a home in the heavens as we begin to take the first tiny yet enormous steps to build new cities on the moon and Mars.
Artist conception of a nuclear rocket. Credit: NASA
