I've mentioned elsewhere about The Hollow. It is a pattern found throughout the universe. Here are a few examples: the unfertilised egg, the hollow lungs that fill and empty, the stems of plants, the hollow bones of birds, whirlpools and eddies, wind instruments like flutes and trumpets, also drums and acoustic guitars that use the hollow of the guitar body for resonance and projecting the sound. The hollow is found in the ear canal, in the moo of a cow and the howl of the wolf, in carved out caves, twisters and hurricanes, and the 'black hole' of a singularity.

 

Apart from that, what's so special about the hollow? Well, the commonplace expression of the hollow points to an understanding of the nature of reality. The heart of the universe is a hollow. Before space and time began there was a complete emptiness. It was full and empty. It was everything and nothing. Nothing new and nothing old. Timeless and formless. It is the Hallowed Hollow from where all life emerged. 

 

The word 'hallowed' stems from ancient words meaning holy or sacred, with likely links to 'whole' and 'healthy'. That fits in nicely. We can call the singular nature of reality, the Singularity, the Hollow Whole. It is all and nothing. The sum total of everything equals nothing.

 

Why should we consider the Hollow to be holy? Because it is the sacred nature of all that is. It is the sacred nature of the Singularity. Where is this Singularity, this Hollow Whole? It is always timelessly right here. The Singularity never dissolved. It is timeless. It is the Heart and Whole of the universe. From the perspective of the universe, the Singularity is at its heart. But in the Heart of the Singularity there is no inside or outside. The Heart is the Whole.

 

The Hallowed Hollow is the sacred nature of reality that is present wherever the universe seems to go. It is the Singularity that unites and pervades all seemingly separate life. It is the Holiness that pervades all and is all. It isn't this thing or that thing. It is the Whole. The Hallowed Hollow is the Whole, you could say.

 

It is the sacredness of all life. When the human mind turns inward to find its source it leads to the Sacred Heart of all existence, the Hallowed Hollow. Life dances with the expression of the Hollow, forming galaxies and planets, wherein further expressions dance to the heart beat of the sacred drum, the Hallowed Hollow.

 

It points us to recognise the sacredness of all life. We are not this or that. We are one with all life. In the Heart we are the Whole, and in the Whole we are the Heart.