Thanks for this response @iloveyoga, I really like it and I'm glad you liked the article :-) I'm not well versed in all things Buddhism or Yoga, but more and more modern science seems to point in the direction that this is right:

... Shiva representing consciousness, and Shakti representing creation. One cannot exist without the other.

Because some scientists don't stop here and hypothesize that truth lies even deeper; this is the basis of "simulation theory", or the assumption that the basic building blocks aren't "things", but mere "information". Once you submit that information lies at the root of all creation, you admit the necessity of a consciousness, because information needs consciousness to be interpreted. I am going to write about this hypothesis that basically says that the universe is a self-creating consciousness. I hope you'll be back then too.