Sankalpa, Cosmology & the Worlds
Kalpa refers to imaginings in time.  This implies all beings imagining an infinite host of worlds.  Even the life heavens are the imaginings of the ancestors and celestial beings.  All this is calledl sankalpa. Cosmic and collective sankalpa generates the lokas (worlds).

Everything from the Trinity on down is engaged in conceptualization.

Studying the atomic particle is not going inwards; you are only seeing a further externalized version of what is outward.  Meditation, however, is true inwardness – back to the source that produced everything from cosmic mind on out to the atomic particle.

If the Seer becomes the seen, then what follows is Maya.  Suffering follows close after.  But if the seen is known to have sprung from the Seer's mental processes, then comes Lila (sport of consciousness in freedom), with bliss following close after.

Some teachers of late have been using the Vedantic/Buddhist teaching which goes something like: "The bottle is in my hand, my hand is on my arm.  My arm is on my body, my body is in this room.  The room is in a house, which is in a city, which is in a country, and all are in this world.  This world is in space.  Where is space?  Everywhere!"   But more to the point is that physical space (bhutakasha) is within the space of energy (pranakasha); and that space of energy is in the space of thought (chitakasha), which is in the space of intelligence (jnanakasha), and that is in the space of Bliss (chidakasha).  If you are going to teach, teach deeply; don't be vague.

Is space just a stretch of infinity moving outward?  No, there is an inner space that goes beyond the atomic particle in terms of subtlety.

When it is said, "In the beginning was the Word" that means that everything that has a beginning has its source in Om.  If one keeps water in the dark, nothing grows in it.  But if one opens the water to sunlight, things start to grow.  Thus, when the Light of Aum/Intelligence shines forth, the worlds effloresce.