And in a flash, a cloud of glittering stars burned the night. The whole canopy, horizon to horizon, casting a pall of silver across the quiet world below. But I didn’t just see it. I felt the void above me. I felt it reach beyond my tiny person, beyond my miniscule planet, exploding out to infinity, a silent wonder that had no end. And I felt the mind, the pulse, and the motion inside it. All those worlds and lights, billions of places that a person can see and stand on with their feet, feeling the solid ground beneath. And look up into the firmament, out across the celestial mass that bore them like a womb, and wonder about this immense thing, this unlikely, uncanny universe, replete with light and dark and everything…