I don't know very much about Billy Meier's philosophy concerning the formation of the universe, but this description in itself doesn't make it materialistic. Buddha also says that the universe expands and then it contracts. And that he has seen many kalpas of expansion and contraction. For example in Aggañña sutta and the sutra concerning his enlightenment at Bodhgaya. And we don't accuse him of materialism.Nadereme wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:08 pmThis all assumes a mind-independent view not based on emptiness. It’s also a materialist and linear view.Aemilius wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:36 am There is an answer to the question into what does the universe expand, it is in the much detested ufo-lore, and it goes:
"The energies from this explosion initially shoot outward and then expanded for fractions of a second at 10exp7000 times the speed of light, as they displace other universes in an effort to create Its own space among the uncounted other universes, or Creations, already in existence. The seven Creational belts, or Universe belts, form simultaneously, of which one is the coarse-matter belt, the visible-matter-universe. In this belt originate coarse matters and gases and dust particles from which derive meteors, suns, comets, planets, nebulae, galaxies and other things when coarse matter gathers and condenses. In this way our Earth was born. This means our universe's birth and that of our Earth, along with foreign worlds, stars and galaxies and so forth, is a Creational-physical energy process and has nothing to do with a Creator God. These happenings are the result of purely spiritual-physical and material-physical laws and processes based upon physics and chemistry in every way and are, indeed, explainable through them."
In Billy Meier's view the other dimensions of existence beside the material one form in the expansion at the same time, he says above:
"The seven Creational belts, or Universe belts, form simultaneously, of which one is the coarse-matter belt, the visible-matter-universe."
The Buddhist Abhidharma teaching about the formation of the universe also says that the worlds of devas form (and are destroyed) together with the material world or the Kamaloka.
Meier also says above: "These happenings are the result of purely spiritual-physical and material-physical laws. " How about that?
Emptiness means that things and phenomena arise dependent on causes and conditions. (For example in MMK of Nagarjuna)