On Growth, Regression, and Why Our Lives Cosmically Matter

In my previous posts, NEXA Post 1 and NEXA Post 2, I've shared how I think about awareness as foundational, conserved, and expressed through distinct individual souls.

What follows for me next is that if awareness is not finished, then growth is real. And if growth is real, then regression is also possible. What happens in our lives and between us, therefore, matters not only within a single lifetime, or even only for our own individual soul, but for the shaping of our collective awareness.

This is not a battle between good and evil, as such. It is a tension between integration and fragmentation. Growth expands capacity. Regression narrows it.

You can feel this difference in lived experience. In whether an experience is integrated or avoided. In the difference between reacting and responding. In whether attention widens under pressure or collapses.

Each of us is a site where awareness is being shaped. Individual growth contributes to the expansion of collective awareness; individual regression contributes to its narrowing. Growth does not involve acquiring more awareness, but expanding its capacity: clearer perception, greater integration, and deeper relational depth. Some aspects of growth may lie beyond what we can presently perceive, becoming visible only as our collective capacity continues to expand.

If awareness is conserved but shaped through experience, then each life participates in its development. What we face, what we integrate, and what we avoid leaves an imprint beyond the individual. In that sense, our lives matter cosmically. Not because they are extraordinary, but because they are formative.

From this perspective, responsibility is not imposed from outside. It arises naturally. How we live shapes the orientation through which our shared, singular awareness develops. We are collectively creating the expansion or contraction of the future capacity of awareness itself.

This is part of the worldview I am continuing to explore through NEXA. Not as NEXA’s view, but as my personal reflections. The only position NEXA holds is that these questions matter, and that they deserve to be explored with openness, care, and respect. This blog is one expression of that ongoing exploration, offered as an invitation to conversation rather than a set of conclusions.