Jonathan McCormack
8 min readMar 20, 2023

Could the Cosmos be a Person ?

Reality itself is personal, and only discloses its true nature to those that approach it as such, intending a loving relationship.

Rather than personhood being something attained at a certain level of evolution or development in the cosmos, Norris Clarke claims that existence itself is personal, and all things that are not persons — rocks, dirt, your old car — are not persons because they are constricted in their being.

It is as if some constraining…