As a young boy I learned there are more worlds than the one we live in…seeking…waiting…to be known. I learned how we are all connected to the cosmos and to each other as we travel on this journey together called life – a journey of self discovery and the discovery of others.

I would not be the man I am today traveling on this grand journey it was not for you mum. You gave me the greatest gift a son can ever ask for. You gave me the heavens to explore and wonder. You gave me the freedom to create and choose my own path. You let me grow and make my own mistakes to learn from…and become a better person because of it. You let me find my own way.

A son’s love for their mother spans across all of time and space, to the very corners of reality itself. I cannot imagine this universe or any other where I did not have you as my mum. This is my gift to you, a reminder, a map of the observable universe inside a sphere where every dot is a galaxy, a universe of it own. A reminder of your son’s journey on Earth from baby to adulthood in a cosmic playground of never ending awe, joy and beauty.

I love you mum to the stars and beyond. Thank you for letting me be the little boy I use to be, for letting my imagination and curiosity run wild. More importantly thank you for bringing me into this world, this tiny little pale blue dot among the immensity of the heavens.

Happy Birthday to the best mum in the multiverse!

Your one and only son,

Imran

-X-

Exactly one year ago today I created this little experiment..this blog. The experiment continues…

Part 1

Cue The X-Files theme music.  Today on this Friday the 13th in October is a very special day in The X-Files fandom. I have been a huge fan since the show first came out in 1994 in England so today is better than any other day to blog. It’s been a while since I have written anything. I have been busy living in the moments from living in New Mexico for 6 months to being back in New York city and very soon I will be going to the homeland, England.

I was 13 years old when I first heard and saw The X-Files. Prior to the show I was already obsessed with the paranormal, aliens, anything extraordinary and unexplained, etc. I read all the different books. Joined all the clubs including MUFON. I did my own investigations into ghost hauntings and UFO sightings. I attended various events.

The X-Files only fueled my imagination with more belief. When I was 15 years old I made a special trip from England to Roswell, NM and other known UFO/Alien abduction sites around the U.S. I even spent a night at Lake Champlain in Vermont, watching the waters all night, hoping to catch a glimpse of the sea monster Champ.

I also went to Vancouver in Canada where The X-Files was shot at the time and visited several locations from the episodes. In addition to that I was a huge collector of X-Files stuff, from comics to trading cards to action figures to books to special editions of all kinds. It was my all time favourite show right before Star Trek The Next Generation.

I believed in everything and anything. As a believer I wrote articles about the paranormal under an alias of course. Being born into religion I was always trying to reconcile religion with paranormal phenomena. Entertaining various theories of the supernatural.

I loved theology. I still do. As a wee teenager I read the Quran (in English instead of Arabic so I can actually understand it), the Bible (from alpha to omega – took me a while) and various gnostic texts. Religion played an important part growing up alongside my ultimate passion, my first love…the universe.

My interests in theology and the paranormal was secondary to science and the cosmos. A passion that began soon after I was born. This went beyond ancient astronauts, conspiracy theories, scripture and new age beliefs. I started questioning everything I believed in by learning how to think critically.

By the age of 17-18 I became the opposite to everything I was. I became a non-religious freethinking secular humanist. I did not want to believe. I wanted to understand. I wanted to know.

In this demon haunted world I began my journey of self discovery to seek and know the cosmos. I began a personal journey to know the minds of the many gods beyond the so called truths we told ourselves. One might call this existentialism. I call it evolution.

How did gods play a role in my journey? How did I make the journey from belief to non-belief? How I reconciled with over 90% of the world’s population that believe in some form of a supreme being? How I became the human I am today? And why?

To be continued in Part 2

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE ?

The greatest adventure on Earth is your adventure.

The universe is a very big place. It is bigger than all of the imaginations put together of everyone who lived, lives and will live. Nothing on Earth created by humans can touch that. From beliefs to stories to technology. Nothing. 

Just look at this pale blue dot, the only home we know orbiting among the stars. We are all floating in an ocean of endless wonder. Our time on Earth is precious. Time only matters if we make it count. For every second we breath this air there is something incredible happening in some part of our expanding universe. 

Look to the stars! Learn astronomy! Learn the science behind the cosmos! We are all explorers on a journey to discover the universe for ourselves…not for what we wish or pray or believe the universe to be but for what it really is. There is nothing more real or beautiful or spectacular than that. 

To make that discovery is to discover our true humanity. Time and space lives within our reach. Time and space define everything that makes our lives matter to ourselves…and to each other. We must make every moment beneath the stars count. We must make our lives on Earth a life like no other. 

Keep looking up. Always. ❤️✨??