Out to the stars and planets

‘I recall as a young child lying on my back in a field behind my house. I could see my body lying there, almost from above – but also from within. And I would see it with a question: why, of all things, this? Then the pondering would move through everything I knew – outward, from my family, the field itself, to the crows flying overhead, to the town, the state, the country. Why this? Out to the stars and planets, the whole galaxy. And I would reach a point where I knew nothing and became nothing’