On rereading I see that part of the issue is ‘identifying with’ the objectified star-dust, which is a form of projection, whereas it is direct to say “I am this human body, composed of the same matter which composes the rest of the universe, grown on earth.”
I can see how looking out & identifying with something distant & grand becomes self-aggrandizement (which is where the mystique and power of the Moby song comes from).
Regardless of where I came from, I am now this flesh & blood body experiencing life here and now.
I’m interested in how this relates to the lack of centre upon actual freedom:
"…it is ‘I’ who, being a central figure in ‘my’ scheme of things, proposes that there is an outside to this material universe. There is not. This universe has no edges … which means that there is no centre either. With no centre to existence we are nowhere in particular.
Being here, as an actuality, is to be anywhere at all, for infinity is everywhere all at once.
The star-dust, nebulae, etc. is not really ‘out there,’ as there is no separation without identity… something for me to ponder.