Out of Chaos: The Primordial Void - Softcover

Mishra, Anand Kumar

9798264670916: Out of Chaos: The Primordial Void

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Publisher: Independently published, 2025

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Why Chaos? Why the Void?
Every culture that has ever tried to explain the origin of existence has started not with perfection, but with chaos. From the dark waters of the Babylonian Enuma Elish, to the yawning gap of the Norse Ginnungagap, to the hymns of the Rigveda that describe a time when there was “neither being nor non-being,” the story always begins with nothing—or something so close to nothing that we can only call it the void.
But chaos is not simply destruction. It is also potential. The void is not merely empty—it is full of possibilities waiting to take form. When ancient people looked at the stars and asked, “Where did all of this come from?”, their answer was often: It emerged out of chaos.
This book was born from my fascination with that beginning. Why do humans imagine the universe as rising from disorder? Why do myths, philosophies, and sciences, despite their differences, circle back to the same mystery—that everything came from nothing?
For me, chaos and the void are not just cosmological ideas. They are also deeply human. We experience chaos in our lives, in our societies, in our personal struggles. We fear it, but we also rely on it. Out of the most confusing times often come the greatest changes. Creation myths are more than stories of gods and worlds; they are mirrors of our own journey from uncertainty to meaning.
In writing Out of Chaos – The Primordial Void, I hope to weave together the mythological, the philosophical, and the scientific voices that have tried to answer the same question: What happens when nothing becomes something? This is not a scholarly textbook, nor a final word. It is a guided exploration—an invitation to step into the abyss, to confront the chaos, and to see what emerges.
Because in the end, chaos is not the enemy of order. It is the birthplace of it.
Anand Kumar Mishra
Why Chaos? Why the Void?
Every culture that has ever tried to explain the origin of existence has started not with perfection, but with chaos. From the dark waters of the Babylonian Enuma Elish, to the yawning gap of the Norse Ginnungagap, to the hymns of the Rigveda that describe a time when there was “neither being nor non-being,” the story always begins with nothing—or something so close to nothing that we can only call it the void.
But chaos is not simply destruction. It is also potential. The void is not merely empty—it is full of possibilities waiting to take form. When ancient people looked at the stars and asked, “Where did all of this come from?”, their answer was often: It emerged out of chaos.
This book was born from my fascination with that beginning. Why do humans imagine the universe as rising from disorder? Why do myths, philosophies, and sciences, despite their differences, circle back to the same mystery—that everything came from nothing?
For me, chaos and the void are not just cosmological ideas. They are also deeply human. We experience chaos in our lives, in our societies, in our personal struggles. We fear it, but we also rely on it. Out of the most confusing times often come the greatest changes. Creation myths are more than stories of gods and worlds; they are mirrors of our own journey from uncertainty to meaning.
In writing Out of Chaos – The Primordial Void, I hope to weave together the mythological, the philosophical, and the scientific voices that have tried to answer the same question: What happens when nothing becomes something? This is not a scholarly textbook, nor a final word. It is a guided exploration—an invitation to step into the abyss, to confront the chaos, and to see what emerges.
Because in the end, chaos is not the enemy of order. It is the birthplace of it.
Anand Kumar Mishra