Inflating consciousness ?

Since my previous blog entries my consciousness has been inflating, along with the universe. A Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoche friend recently, in my presence, denied the expansion of the universe, exclaiming "Where can it expand ? - there is nothing out there, " which is precisely the point. The most advanced speculation of the physical theorists is that the material universe came into existence out of nothing, which is also the nothing into which it is expanding, or inflating. This nothing is absolute, infinite and eternal, in a word, spiritual, while the physical universe is relative, finite and temporal, in a word, material. The universe cannot expand forever since it had a beginning and must see an end. But the nothingness of spirit, absolute being, which shows forth within the physical universe as consciousness and life, is eternal and has no beginning and consequently no end