Universe: Origin

This post includes an original song-video that playfully reflects it.

Disclaimer: Zverce is not a physicist, mathematician, or astronomer, and knows very little about what modern science says about this matter, aside from some light Googling. Everything shared today is based on Zverce’s experience and understanding that have come through yoga and meditation, supported by intellectual inquiry and reasoning. This is a metaphysical interpretation, which is the only way to truly and fully understand Creation as a phenomenon.

With the disclaimer out of the way, let’s begin. But where do we begin, actually? What is the beginning, if there was any at all? That’s a good start – the end. Let’s do a little bit of reverse engineering and start with our last question: was there a beginning?

Modern science says yes. And Zverce agrees. Modern science says there was a Big Bang. And Zverce agrees – but adds that it wasn’t just one.

Okay, there was a beginning – but what was it? What is the beginning? (yells) Tell us! Haha. There has to be a little frustration; otherwise, we won’t aspire to look for the answer. :))

Do you know what the origin of the entire number system is? Zero. Everything starts with zero. Zero is the basis of everything and anything. Every coordinate system begins with (0,0).

Positive and negative arise from zero.

Zero defines: Center. Nothingness. Equilibrium. Origin.

And you know this very well yourself. When we were kids and played the most exciting game of all time – hide and seek – didn’t you always count down to zero? Five, four, three, two, one, zero… Here Zverce comes! At least that’s how we did it in Zverce’s country. Every game starts with zero, including the greatest meta‑game of all time: life itself – or what we can also refer to as creation.

So, everything begins and everything ends with zero. But what is in between? Is there anything in between? There’s infinity. Mathematically, the mirror of zero is infinity. They are really two sides of the same black coin. Zverce says black because neither can be touched, felt, or seen – just like you cannot touch darkness.

That is the (meta)mathematical representation. But what about its symbol – is it just a symbol? To answer that question, let’s go back to those who invented it: the Indians. Ancient India not only created zero, but also infinity. But they didn’t just make it up. Nor did they arrive at it through mathematical formulation or philosophical debate. They perceived it.

And then it was easy to draw it.

Yes, they observed it through ancient practices of yoga and meditation, and then it became clear to them how it worked – or at least how their energies worked.

See, Zverce knows we’re entering a field that doesn’t really go side by side with modern science, but let us assume that there are 114 chakras in the human body. Two of those chakras are outside the body. One of them is called Sahasrar, located approximately 30 cm (twelve inches) above the head. Many people pass away without ever touching the energy in this chakra, but in ancient India, they knew that with the consistent practice of yoga and meditation, they could not only experience this chakra but also perceive how energies move there. And it moved in the same way for everyone across decades, centuries and locations, across time and space. It was always in the horizontal shape of the number eight. This led to the insight that it is a gateway to infinity, also called Ananta – or Shakti in Tantra. Once you enter infinity, you are only one step away from zero, or nothingness, also known as Śūnya – or Shiva in Tantra.

Additionally, the number 8, like 0, is unique in that it has no true beginning or end. Any point on 8 or 0 can serve as the starting or ending point, so it’s impossible to pinpoint a single fixed start or finish. 

Either way, whether you believe in this or not, Indians did come up with the symbols for both zero and infinity, and the shapes of these symbols were not random at all. So, how is this important for the universe and its origin?

As previously explained, zero, or nothingness, is the basis of everything. In Zero, there is no energy, hence no entropy. Actually, it’s not that there is no energy, but that the energy is unmanifested. Zero itself – or nothingness – contains pure unmanifest potential. But since there is no energy in motion and no states to arrange, there cannot be any disorder to measure. It’s like a perfectly empty space.

When this pure order of Zero begins to remodel into Infinity, all this unmanifest potential enters into motion. The universe is a result of the transformation from: Zero → Infinity → Manifest. While Zero and Infinity remain in the domain of the unmanifest, there is a difference between them. Zero is Absolute Unmanifest with no entropy, while Infinity is Relative Unmanifest: zero entropy exists only to the point where manifestation begins.

For easier understanding, think of Zero as the ground of everything that cannot be experienced and is beyond existence, while Infinity is within that ground as the source of creation with latent potential. Unlike Zero’s pure and absolute potential, which cannot be experienced (and therefore exists without awareness of itself), Infinity’s latent potential can be sensed or experienced – but it is still unmanifest.

To go from Zero to Infinity means to go from Absolute Unmanifest to Relative Unmanifest. And to go from Relative Unmanifest to Manifest is to go from Infinity to Entropy. That is what the whole existence we call the Cosmos represents:

Zero → Infinity → Entropy
Absolute Unmanifest → Relative Unmanifest → Manifest
Nothingness → Start of Manifestation → Universe

Zero is pure consciousness in potential, while Infinity is consciousness perceiving its latent potential. When that latent potential begins manifesting, consciousness witnesses the infinite play of forms. Meanwhile, Entropy measures disorder in Manifest, but consciousness itself remains unaffected, because it is the eternal witness, excluded from disorder.

(By the way, did you know that we just released the world’s first AI-generated feature film called Nothingness? Go check it out if you want to experience a cinematic perspective of Zero.)

Another way of looking at it:

• Zero = perfect order / no entropy
• Infinity = unstable perfect order, bound to be broken / the start of entropy
• Universe = ever-increasing entropy, eventually reaching maximum entropy

But what triggers this? It’s tricky to understand, yet paradoxically easy to explain. Just as you cannot know light without darkness, or hot without cold (and vice versa), this pure and absolute unmanifested consciousness has its opposite: the manifested expression of the same consciousness – or to be exact the self-awareness of consciousness. This duality exists simultaneously with the non-dual nature of unmanifested consciousness.

The pure stillness of Zero exists at the same time as Infinity and its Entropy, as pure dynamism. Just as there is an inhalation after every exhalation, they go hand in hand – until one day, breathing stops completely. Only to start again.

Or instead of thinking of them as two extremes of one continuum, you can think of them as complementary – like yin and yang, Shiva and Shakti, stillness and expression.

How does it actually happen?

When Absolute Unmanifest of Zero starts moving toward Relative Unmanifest, the absolute and pure potential in Zero slowly becomes evident to itself. These forces – unmanifest yet inexplicably strong – bend Zero into Infinity. In those “moments” of absolute potential becoming relative potential through self-awareness, Zero becomes Zero, and Infinity can emerge. These also destroying forces cause the energy in Relative Unmanifest to move backward into Absolute Unmanifest, straightening Infinity into Zero. These two processes – creation and destruction – are one and the same, occurring simultaneously beyond the constructs of time and space.

To put it simply: there was nothing, or Zero, and then there is the actualization of that Zero (self-awareness). This is not a physical act; it is a metaphysical moment in which awareness interacts with its potential. Just as with Mr. Schrödinger’s cat, until you open the box, you cannot know whether the cat is alive or dead. Similarly, until Zero becomes aware of itself, there is no actualized Zero, even though Zero has always existed and always will.

Once Zero exists, then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… infinite numbers can be added, and densification can unfold. This is the physical act that modern science describes as the Big Bang.

In other words, creation is a gradual densification of consciousness into matter, without consciousness itself being affected. In Tantra, the universe is the dance of energy within consciousness. Poetically, Infinity is Zero in motion, and “nothing” (Zero) is actually a pregnant emptiness (Infinity), containing the potential for all possible universes (Entropy).

How does the Universe begin, then?

When Zero twists into Infinity, this Relative Unmanifest – aware of its latent potential – can take the first step toward self-expression. This movement, called Spanda in Sanskrit, emerges from what science describes as a singularity. Zverce agrees, with one small difference: it was not a point, but a horizontal eight. Remember, the Infinity symbol was not chosen at random. In any case, it was a region of infinite density and temperature, existing for an infinitely short time, with an infinitesimal entropy.

Spanda is the first “yes” of consciousness to itself.
Not a motion in consciousness,
but consciousness knowing itself as alive.

That knowing has a pulse-like quality – hence the word Spanda (throb).

Stillness that is not dead,
Silence that is not empty,
Spanda is its name.

What Spanda is not:

• Not mechanical vibration
• Not oscillation in space
• Not frequency.

Spanda is the mother of Manifest, and it can be viewed on four different levels for clarity:

Level 1 – Spanda (subtlest)

• No location
• No speed
• No amplitude
• Recognized, not measured

Level 2 – Prāṇa

• Flow
• Direction
• Rhythm
• Can be influenced by breath

Level 3 – Mind

• Thought waves
• Emotion
• Attention shifts

Level 4 – Matter (grossest)

• Atomic / quantum oscillations
• Physical vibration.

Each level is condensed spanda.

What modern physics tries to explain today is the fourth level: matter. And this is why they’re in the knowledge gutter – because they’re attempting to explain subtle forms of consciousness using the grossest level of existence. It’s like tasting a banana peel and thinking you know how the banana itself tastes. Even if the flavors were similar, you wouldn’t truly know until you bite into its soft, sweet core. (And trust Zverce – they don’t taste the same. Don’t ask how Zverce knows.)

In other words:

❌ Consciousness does not vibrate
❌ Spanda is not energy
❌ Prāṇa is not awareness

✅ Spanda is consciousness appearing as liveliness
✅ Prāṇa is liveliness functioning as life-force
✅ Vibration in matter is the final expression

What vibrates is the expressive aspect of consciousness – Spanda – which appears as prāṇa in life and as energy in matter, while consciousness itself remains still.

What vibrates is Infinity, the expressive aspect of Zero, which appears as Spanda manifesting itself as Entropy.

As Zero became Infinity (aware of its latent potential), and Infinity became Manifest, it was compressed into an infinitely dense, hot state without any size. To go from nothing into something takes a whole lot of everything, right? Just imagine the force required to compress 0 into ∞ – it’s unimaginable. Yet all that potential was there, ready to be released into the phenomena we call life.

At that moment, Relative Unmanifest started producing Manifest. Again, this is what modern science describes as the Big Bang. Indeed, it was a bang. All that physical energy, beyond human comprehension, was released simultaneously in every possible direction and variation. After the first bang, there was another, and another – each one nothing but a non-physical vibration traveling as a physical wave across Relative Unmanifest. With each oscillating expansion, the latent potential of Relative Unmanifest became Manifest.

With the first vibration, TimeSpace began, though Time itself remained there. As that vibration started spreading as a wave, TimeSpace began, while Space has continued expanding ever since. With every new wave – each the same as the previous – Manifest became less dense. Not because the vibration was weaker (it has always been the same – remember, it is not physical in nature, so it does not have qualities like strength; we are speaking of its effects), but because with every new vibration, the wave moved through a different environment – an environment carrying residues from previous Manifests.

You can think of these waves as an alarm bell waking all the sleeping particles that have always been there, unaware of their own existence. Once touched by a wave, a particle awakens from Relative Unmanifest into Manifest. At the same time, the environment shifts from zero entropy to the lowest possible entropy state.

Due to its nature, the entropy in the environment increases, which is why a point of maximum entropy is inevitable. But unlike the beginning, which we can describe as a single point (or a lemniscate), maximum entropy will eventually encompass the entire universe. At that stage, once temperature has evened out and density has dropped to near zero, the universe is effectively that same point stretched out. This is already happening locally, which only confirms that the entire universe (as a single point and a complete whole at the same time) will reach maximum entropy in its entirety. Or rather, since black holes behave like the beginning single point of expansion – but reversed in their nature – it means that the single singularity that was the beginning will eventually become a reversed singularity as a whole, which will mark the end of Manifest. This means that singularity is a phenomenon or a state of behavior, not a one-time event.

To briefly clarify the distinction between singularity and reversed singularity. A singularity normally means:

• Infinite density
• Zero volume
• Laws of physics break down.

A “reversed” singularity flips this idea:

• Instead of everything collapsing into one point, everything is spread out to the maximum
• Density → near zero
• Temperature → uniform
• No structure remains

In this sense, the heat death of the universe can be described as a reversed singularity:

• Not infinite concentration, but infinite dilution
• Not information compressed, but information smeared out.

But this will not happen all at once. Again, black holes prove that these events occur sporadically across the universe at different times, as certain regions reach maximum entropy and certain celestial objects reach near-infinite density. So, it is already happening. Manifest is “cleaning” itself of its grossest layer (matter) by undoing density. You can think of black holes as little robotic cleaning devices, “vacuuming” leftover matter. When Zverce says “maximum entropy” and “near-infinite density,” it is meant in a relative sense: although two black holes can have very different absolute entropy and density values, each reaches the maximum entropy allowed for its mass and size, which is what makes it a black hole.

This process of unfolding/undoing Manifest continues until every nook and corner of the universe reaches maximum entropy and near-zero density. Once the entire Manifest collectively becomes a reversed singularity, it is in a state completely opposite to where it began. What started as a single vibration (Spanda), expanding as a wave of indefinite density and minimal entropy, is now a state of no vibration, near-zero density, and maximum entropy. Because these two qualities exist simultaneously, the universe reaches a state closest to perfect disorder. From Zero and Perfect Order, through Creation and gradual Disorder, into Perfect Disorder also known as Quiet Equilibrium. 

A good analogy would be a kid going down a slide – this is how it starts: Absolute Unmanifest changes into Relative Unmanifest, and the Universe is born. But then the kid does not use the stairs to climb back up; instead, it is sucked up the slide to the starting point. However, the slide remains – only the kid is gone. (To the police: no kid is missing; this was just a not-so-well-thought-out example.)

This slide represents the environment at its final stage, with maximum entropy and near-zero density, while the child represents a black hole, with maximum entropy and near-infinite density. In the universe, entropy always tends to increase, and when the environment reaches its maximum, the system remains in this state of (near) Perfect Disorder.

How it started:

Absolute Unmanifest → Relative Unmanifest → Vibration / Zero Density / Zero Entropy → start of Manifest / near Indefinite Density/ near Zero Entropy → Universe

How it ends:

Universe → near Zero Density / near Maximum Entropy → absence of Vibration / Zero Density / Maximum Entropy → New Cycle begins

Whenever there is density, there is a physical state. Whenever there is a physical state, there is its shape. And the shape of Manifest is spherical/round/curved because waves spread in all directions, while the Universe as ordinary matter, in the lap of Manifest, sporadically materializes.

Even Occam’s razor explains this in the simplest way. When you look up at the sky, you will find that most celestial objects are round (or at worst potato-shaped). Go the other way, and you will also find that atoms, with their electron clouds, are likewise spherical in shape. From the micro to the macro, from the smallest possible set of elements to the largest possible set of elements, and even to the original set itself, Manifest is spherical-ish. Such a Manifest gives rise to TimeSpace.

Just as Time and Space are one and the same quality – changing only from the point of view – dark energy and dark matter are also one and the same quality, changing their proportions with each rendition of the Universe. They are the same in essence, yet opposite in function: complementary forces that allow a process not only to begin, but also to end. Without this balance, what began could neither be stopped nor meaningfully begin in the first place.

Like a lighter in complete darkness: when you light the flame for a moment, the point of ignition becomes the first point of light. When the flame is extinguished, that point becomes the first point of darkness, while the light already emitted continues to spread across the darkness (again, a note to the police – no fire was started, no pyromaniacs here. Zverce is just trying to shed some light, figuratively speaking). The outer edges of the flame flare and die quickly, but the central point remains brighter for longer. This, then, will be the destiny of our Universe, while we are, hopefully, somewhere near the middle of it. 

Let’s take a piece of cloth, for example, and squeeze it into a small ball. Now imagine that we were able to compress it into an infinitely small ball. That would be the starting point of Manifest. From there, it begins stretching, and once the cloth has fully stretched, its fabric starts to rupture here and there. These localized tears we call black holes, while the cloth’s fabric continues thinning into what we call dark energy. Once it is stretched to its maximum capacity, the cloth loses its integrity, but some remnants remain – again dark energy.

In this way, dark energy is the driving force that paves the way for entropy to increase, while dark matter is the driving force that allows density to arrange itself into matter. This is why dark energy and dark matter are not separate from one another; rather, they oppose and complement each other. Because of this relationship, density and entropy also go hand in hand in a similarly contradictory, yet supportive manner.

You can think of dark matter as a pulling force and dark energy as an expanding force (not actual forces, though). Both follow each other – pull after expansion, pull after expansion – creating non-physical throbs or vibrations. What started as a massive pull from dark matter will end in the all-pervading expansion of dark energy. From the Big Bang to the Silent Disappearance.

Just as there are localized black holes, there is localized matter, which manifests as planets, stars, and other forms of structure. Whenever matter localizes, it increases local order by increasing local density, and in doing so, it reduces chaos. Since density was at its maximum at the beginning, it has only decreased from that point onward as the Universe stretched, resulting in an ever-increasing level of chaos. Whenever dark energy accelerates, it increases disorder by increasing local entropy, and in doing so, it creates chaos. But this chaos is not an active one; on the contrary, it reflects a quiet, uniform stillness. 

From near-zero entropy at the beginning, dark energy continued expanding endlessly, causing a consistent increase in entropy. Once entropy reaches its maximum locally, dark energy becomes predominant, while dark matter and density approach near zero. At this point, the undoing of Manifest is finished. But the undoing is the unfolding itself, it’s not a separate process. It’s like when you look at life. The moment you are born you are alive and then you live. Another way to look at it, is that the moment you are born you begin to move towards your death. In that sense, life and death are not separate, just as undoing and unfolding of Manifest are not separate. 

This process is more like a silent, non-violent recession, where dark energy, symbolically, consumes space to deliver more dark energy until it reaches maximum entropy – a perfectly stable state. In contrast to less perfectly stable, regularly stable, or low-(un)stable states, here Manifest simply remains in recession. Perhaps stagnation is a better term than recession, because it more accurately describes the state of Manifest after unfolding/undoing itself.

This stagnation is dominated by dark energy as a motionless, slowly fading, uniform background. Yet because of these stagnating remnants, we are able to detect the last few – or last several – Manifests. The same is true of the remaining black holes, those that persist within an almost zero-density Universe. Because of these leftovers, every new Manifest emerges into a slightly (or not-so-slightly) different environment, causing structural changes in how Manifest unfolds with each new Spanda/vibration.

This implies a self-learning process of Consciousness – learning how to become less and less physical until it reaches the state of a completely unmanifest Manifest. And it is getting very close. The 84 Lakh Yonis – most commonly explained as 8.4 million life forms in Hinduism – describe the vast cycle of reincarnation (samsara) that a soul undergoes through innumerable embodiments before achieving liberation (moksha). Zverce sees this somewhat differently. Here, Lakh does not stand for 100,000; rather, when combined with the word Yoni (meaning “womb”), it represents the complete emergence of life – what we call a Cosmos. In other words, the 84 Lakh Yonis refer to the number of Manifests that have come into existence, including this one.

Even though the unfolding of Manifest starts the same way every time, its progress differs due to the different environments in which it takes place. You can think of each Universe as a soup of three main ingredients: matter, dark matter, and dark energy. While the ingredients are the same, their proportions differ. From the 1st to the 84th version of the Universe, the ratios change like this:

• Physical or Ordinary Matter & Dark Matter – keeps reducing until it stops manifesting altogether
• Dark Energy – keeps increasing until only it remains (in the penultimate Manifest, dark matter will be near zero and dark energy near maximum from the start)
• (Psst – there’s an Easter egg in this text about the total number of Manifests.)

This will lead to what modern physics calls a vacuum field, which can be seen as an echo of Relative Unmanifest – holding latent potential that may manifest. Put differently, a vacuum field can be understood as a physical reflection of Relative Unmanifest.

The final Manifest will be Relative Unmanifest in a perpetual state of Spanda (throbbing), allowing perpetual Manifest as Relative Unmanifest while simultaneously being in the state of Absolute Unmanifest – a state called Turiya in Yoga.

Turiya literally means “the fourth” (from Sanskrit turiya, “fourth”). It is the fourth state of consciousness, beyond the three common states:

• Waking (Jagrat) – the normal conscious experience
  Dreaming (Svapna) – the mental or subtle state during dreams
  Deep sleep (Sushupti) – a state of unmanifested rest, where individual consciousness is dormant.

Turiya is beyond all three – it is pure awareness itself, non-dual and unchanging.

• Waking, dreaming, deep sleep → different manifestations of consciousness (Manifest vibrations)
• Turiya → Absolute and Relative Unmanifest in unison; pure consciousness, free of Manifest vibrations, entropy, or density, both aware and unaware of itself.

In other words, Turiya is the background state that exists beyond all expressed phenomena, just like Absolute Unmanifest and Relative Unmanifest underlie all of Manifest.

• • Vacuum Field = the lowest-energy state of a quantum field, seething with activity, energy, and fluctuations. This means it is a quantum field holding latent potential manifested through its activity, energy and fluctuations. 
  • This is analogous to Relative Unmanifest = Absolute Unmanifest holding latent potential without yet manifesting. 
  • Fluctuations in the Vacuum Field = sparks of latent activity, hints of Spanda, potential Manifest = the physical moment Relative Unmanifest “stirs.”
  • Ultimate goal = unison of Absolute Unmanifest & Relative Unmanifest = Turiya = the awareness that contains both potential stillness and unlimited spaciousness.

Thus, Turiya is often symbolically placed between zero and infinity – it is the “space” in which both ideas make sense. As long as Zverce makes sense. 🙂

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