Are we seeing the beginnings of Inflation?
  Phantom Cosmology provides an unique opportunity to "connect" the phantom
driven (low en- ergy meV scale) dark energy phase to the (high energy GUT
scale) inflationary era. This is possible because the energy density increases
in phantom cosmology. We present a concrete model where the energy density, but
not the scale factor, cycles through phases of standard radiation/matter domi-
nation followed by dark energy/inflationary phases, and the pattern repeating
itself. An interesting feature of the model is that once we include
interactions between the "phantom fluid" and ordinary matter, the Big rip
singularity is avoided with the phantom phase naturally giving way to a near
exponential inflationary expansion.
