text: if you had a choice, would you have all of existence unite into one consciousness for eternity (pure being)... ...or would you allow the human drama to repeat itself within space/time indefinitely. please explain the reason for your answer :) i think that the universe is divine. that the expanding and contracting correspond to the hindu view of the great cycle of brahman breathing in and out. we begin at the starting point, evolve until we return to that same point. so what you've described above, that united existence, is pretty much the way it is regardless. (and before someone jumps on this and says they, aka scientists, no longer believe in a contracting universe ... that was before they discovered that each galaxy has a black hole at its center that draws everything in on itself. once the galaxies have folded in upon themselves they will begin to draw each other until ... contraction. funny how contractions always come before birth. lol )