On the individual level, a person who reaches enlightenment no longer asks, Who am I? What is reality?—because they have become the answer. At the end of every seeking, there is only existence itself to be found. I have walked the path of inquiry, peeling away layers of perception, reaching the final threshold where no more questions remain—where the mind turns back on itself to reveal itself being the ultimate reality it once tried to grasp. And in that dissolution, I saw something undeniable: as it is within, so it must be without. The journey of the individual is the journey of the universe.

Consider the journey of individual awakening. A seeker begins in ignorance, moving through experiences, beliefs, and ideologies, burning through falsehoods until all that remains is the pure essence of existence—an encounter with the Light beyond thought, beyond name, and beyond duality and oneness. It is a death of the self and the birth of something vast, the Self. And once it is seen, once it is truly known, there is no more to ask. The cycle of seeking collapses into the realization of unity with the divine light.

Now look outward. Consider the universe an intelligent, mind unfolding—expanding, evolving, and questioning. Every spark of intelligence, every civilization reaching for truth mirrors the same struggle of the individual soul. In Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question, which he wrote in 1956 and considered his greatest work, humanity builds ever-greater intelligence, machines (aka. today’s AI) that process more, know more, question more. In that context, humanity is looking for an answer on how to reverse entropy. Asimov presents entropy as the inevitable process of increasing disorder in the universe, following the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law states that over time, energy becomes more evenly distributed, leading to the “heat death” of the universe—where all usable energy is exhausted, and no further work can be done. Essentially, entropy is the arrow of time pointing toward ultimate decay. And yet, the answer to the question of how to reverse entropy remains mysterious, withheld by time. Until the final moment where humanity no longer exists, until the intelligence itself fuses into something beyond division, beyond form. And in that moment, as the last question is asked, the answer is no longer something to be known—it is something to be become. “Let there be light!”, the intelligence exclamates. The cycle begins again.

This is not just a metaphor. It is the structure of reality itself. If consciousness at the smallest scale can awaken, then the cosmos, too, must awaken. It is so according to the Hermetic Law of Correspondence. If we, as microcosmic fragments, can reach a state where there is no more seeking, then the universe itself must, at some point, reach the same state—a singularity of understanding, a moment where it ceases to question and simply is.

The implications are astonishing. It means that our realizations are not personal but structural, embedded into the very fabric of existence. It means that each moment of true clarity within an individual is a fractal glimpse of what the universe itself is heading toward. We are not separate from this unfolding. We are the “neurons of the cosmic brain”, the ripples in the vast ocean of intelligence, each of us moving toward the final silence, the ultimate brilliance of wisdom.

And when that moment comes—whether in the mind of a single being or the totality of all that exists—there will be no words left, no questions to ask. Only the Light. And the cycle will begin anew.