Do You Believe in Signs? What Is the Voice of the Universe, and How Can You Hear It?
When we think about the future, plan for it, or dream about it, we naturally assume that it hasn’t happened yet. That’s what we were taught in school, and later at university: past, present, future — one after another, in that order. It seems the most natural thing in the world. But what if time works a little differently? Or, to be quite honest, not like that at all?
Recall Albert Einstein’s well-known words: “The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” The great physicist suggests that events are not laid out on a timeline as we picture them — but arranged in some other order. And the most interesting conclusion from this: it may well be that everything has already happened. Including what we now call the future.
If we allow this for even a second, an intriguing question arises: can we, here, in our so-called present, somehow know or sense what will happen to us or to those close to us — there, in the so-called future?
It’s curious that, willingly or not, we are forever trying to pick up some signal, some sign — as if someone were deliberately sending them to nudge us into action or, on the contrary, to hold us back.
Often we don’t even wonder why we suddenly changed our mind — or our route, or an answer we were already about to give, or our plans for the day. Or why we took the wrong turn, thought better of making a call, never sent a message we’d already written, chose something else entirely at the last moment — and only later remember: we were nudged by some utterly random event that seemed to have nothing to do with any of it.
Do signs really exist? And if they do — who sends them? Here it’s worth recalling a familiar phrase: “the voice of the Universe.” And what, in essence, is that voice? How do we hear it? Perhaps those very signs are the voice of the Universe — its quiet, unnoticed answer, trying to tell us something.
I won’t bring up any dramatic stories — but even ordinary ones are familiar to everyone. You didn’t make it somewhere in time — something delayed you, got in the way — and it turned out you didn’t need to be there after all. You can recall plenty of examples like that. And the most interesting part: in that moment we usually don’t realize at all that we’d been given a sign. And above all — we don’t realize that we responded to it.
Many people don’t look for signs at all and would probably deny they even exist. Trying to convince such people is pointless, and that’s not what this article is about. But for those who are at least willing to entertain the idea that the Universe speaks to us — the ability to notice signs may turn out to be an important skill. What kind of signs? Well, pretty much anything. A red light at just the wrong moment. A letter that went missing. A ticket that vanished. The list could go on for a long time.
And what if we’re not so sure we’re able to notice these signs at all? The app “Answer from the Universe” was made for cases like these. It’s not an oracle, and it doesn’t foretell your fate — it can only give you that very sign at the moment when you simply can’t decide. And it’s not the app that decides, but you: it merely gives you a quiet hint.
It’s funny that both those who believe in omens and those who don’t still listen to them every now and then. It brings to mind the semi-anecdotal story about Niels Bohr. The physicist was asked whether he really believed that a horseshoe over the door brings luck. Bohr, they say, replied with a smile: a horseshoe brings luck even to those who don’t believe in it.
So it is with us: when we just can’t decide — when we’re worn out weighing every pro and con, when the same thought keeps going round and round and won’t let go, when today we lean one way and tomorrow the exact opposite way, when we keep putting it off again and again — sooner or later we try to find an answer somewhere beyond the rational, though we won’t admit it even to ourselves.
More often than not, what comes to mind is something like a coin, or whatever omens happen to fit the occasion. And after all, when we toss a coin, we surrender ourselves to chance — and yet, so often, it’s that very chance we end up heeding.
But is that chance really by chance at all?
The app “Answer from the Universe” can be thought of as just such a coin. Only it turns the question of choice into a beautiful ritual — one that lets you experience the full irrationality of the moment.
Most of us are used to relying on precise calculation. But what to do if there simply isn’t enough data for a precise calculation, and yet a decision has to be made? What to do if every reasonable argument has been considered — and they all balance out exactly? What to do if you’re too close to your own situation to see it from the outside? What to do if going on like this is unbearable, and the decision still won’t come? What to do, finally, if somewhere very deep down you don’t want to make this decision yourself, and secretly wish to shift it onto something else?
There’s no shortage of such situations. What they all have in common is one thing: in the end, we’re looking for something to lean on, so we can finally get unstuck. And the app “Answer from the Universe” is exactly for cases like these. No more, no less.
There’s no point in going into detail about the app itself here — this article isn’t about it. How it works and why you can ask only a single question a day — all of that you can read in the “About” section. I’ll say just two words about it: it’s beautiful and free, and trying it costs you nothing.
And is it any use? That, as they say, is a matter of faith — though remember the horseshoe over Niels Bohr’s door. And in the end, it’s simply a chance to smile and laugh at yourself. Why not?