Alright so first off, if you haven’t seen Avatar yet, you gotta go watch it!! Whether you choose to watch the movie in 2D or 3D, both offer an amazing experience.

For those of you unfamiliar with the plot, the movie takes place on a distant planet named Pandora that is home to these blue humanoid aliens called the Na’vi. They are very much like the Native Americans with bows and arrows and a deep appreciation and respect for life and an understanding of the interconnectedness of all life. The US military comes in to basically drive them out so they can mine for this mineral called unobtainium, killing off many of the natives in the process.

There are some beautiful spiritual messages in the movie and the way it’s all illustrated is absolutely amazing. Just… wow…

The forest and plantlife on the planet is phosphorescent and iridescent in a very heavenly way and even glows for a moment every time you step on the grass. The sky is full of gorgeous planets and moons. Standing on that planet and looking up into the heavens strangely feels like home…

Their diety is a benevolent goddess named Eywa who is basically the living energy that runs through all things. One particularly great passage from the movie took place when one of characters prays to Eywa to take their side and help during the invasion of the military. Another character responded that Eywa doesn’t take sides. She only helps preserve the balance of life.

Heck, even the credits of the movie were amazing. Make sure you stay past the end and watch them to see how many people were involved in the creation of this film. My jaw literally hung open watching them scroll by. It was so nice to see that many (thousands of) people join together in the name of creating such a conscious movie, helping reinforce the understanding that all this “oneness stuff” isn’t so alternative and out there, but is rapidly becoming integrated as a part of mainstream life.

So yeah, if you haven’t seen this movie, I highly highly recommend checking it out!

For those of you who have seen the movie, what was your experience? What did you like about it? How did the movie impact you?

This is a sort of universal disclaimer I usually like to mention after bringing up some of the more *flashy* aspects of the spiritual arena including the fracturing of time, crazy spiritual experiences, the ability to manifest powerfully, connecting with beings in other dimensions, out of body experiences, and so on…

All that stuff can be and often is lots of fun, very entertaining, and garner lots of attraction, but like everything else it comes and goes. Enjoy the journey, but don’t get caught up in the fleeting blips on the radar screen. In the end you’re only left with yourself. It just flat out doesn’t matter what experience you have or haven’t had. None of that defines you or your worthiness or level of advancement. It’s so easy for that shiny fun stuff to become a distraction and a detour which is how most people will experience it, especially at first when it’s all new and unfamiliar, yet the essence of the path is always YOU. Life will consistently show you that YOU are the point. Being yourself. That’s what it’s all about. Really. All these worldly and otherworldly things are simply more ways for you to experience yourself. They themselves are not the point. The sights along the path are all ultimately pointers that bring you back to you who appears to be walking the path. You ARE the path. You ARE the destination you seek. It’s where the real treasure lies. Within. It’s what virtually every master has said. This can’t be overemphasized.

All the flashy stuff is cool but frankly not at all necessary or relevant. Much of it will arise and blossom quite naturally the more you turn within, yes, but that inward focus is still key. There seems to be a healthy balance necessary between the discipline of abiding within and the freedom that comes with allowing all the outward manifestations to be. By placing these things in their proper context of recognizing that the comings and goings of various phenomena and experience are no more valuable or desirable than simple and ordinary being, we can acknowledge it and let it do what it will without overlaying any false sense of importance on seeking any particular experience, once again turning within as we consciously rest and live as what we are in this world. In fact, simply acknowledging them and sharing your experiences with others help us realize that we’re not going crazy. The sharings can help us in letting go of the fears, resistances, and places we get stuck. In this the sharings have lots of value.

There really is something to be said for being. For this pure silent everpresent BEING. It’s not a manifestation of the world, but almost prior to it, inseparably interwoven with it. It is so easily overlooked and forgotten, and it seems that disconnection of sorts is what gives rise to the experience of what is called a seeker. The reunion with being AS being (becoming one with God or whatever you wanna call it) is what all the experiences are really striving for but never quite succeed at, for they are seeking to accomplish something they never can. The disconnect never really happened. What we seek is always within, never lost, and already present. It’s been said thousands of times and will likely be said a thousand more.

Time. I don’t wanna get into the discussion about time, eternity, the illusion of past and future, and all that jazz. I’m just not feelin’ it right now. Instead I wanna address some direct and distinct shifts that are occurring, namely that time (among other things) is quite literally starting to break apart and fracture right before my very eyes.

It’s not just about the experience of timelessness or events seeming to either fly by or take forever, not just those internal personal experiences, but I’m also now beginning to see these internal things be reflected back to me in the world. Digital clocks are now sometimes literally beginning to skip, as in several minutes or hours at a time simply won’t exist for me even though there is still the continuing experience of life. Analog clocks (the ones with minute hands and hour hands) around me are slowing down and getting off sync with other sources of time, and it’s not just old clocks and dying batteries…

It’s quite literally as if certain parts of life literally do not exist for me.

To be honest, there’s a number of things I’ve held myself back from talking about here, either because I wanted to keep this blog focused specifically on awakening or because some of the topics are a little too *out there*… But you know what? Let’s roll with it and see where this takes us, especially now that a bunch of you are reporting to have similar experiences anyways…

Telepathy and Empathy

My latent telepathic abilities have started awakening and I’ve noticed that my inner guidance is often operating in harmony with other people wanting to tell me something. As mentioned yesterday, it’s like being part of a flock of birds, both individual and simultaneously unified, where multiple people are cooperative components to a greater whole. We can call it co-creating the experience of intuitive communication. It’s as if two of us are somehow on the same frequency and can pick up on one another’s thoughts, feelings, intentions, and desires.

This seems to be correlating to a sudden increase in empathy (and actually sympathy at times) and intuitive strength that has occurred within the last two weeks. I now feel people much more strongly and even cry and laugh quite often for no logical reason, both in meditation when releasing my own inner stuff as well as when feeling other people’s emotions. Heck, I’ve been crying when watching American Idol auditions these past few weeks, much to my surprise! It seems to occur particularly often when I observe people who really really really want to make it to Hollywood. It’s like I can connect to them and suddenly feel all their emotion come pouring through me.

Again, developing the ability to surrender and maintain a sense of transparency so that the energy flows through me without me absorbing it personally, this is a really important skill. I often prefer this to simply closing down my heart and blocking out other people’s energies, though that certainly has its place in terms of learning to moderate the flow of energy and not take in more than you can handle.

As an aside, long distance wireless communication has always fascinated me. When I was younger I built WiFi antennas, spent time with friends who were amateur radio operators, studied electromagnetics and lasers in college where I learned about RF communication (like radio and TV) as well as optical communication through fiber optic cables, spent time ogling satellites and satellite dishes, and studied up on the basics of quantum teleportation-based communication. This blossoming of interest in telepathic communication is not about the desire for siddhis and supernatural abilities, but a natural progression of and development of an lifelong passion of mine.

Beyond Earth

I’ve also started getting flashes of not only past lives on earth, but past lives elsewhere in the cosmos. Ever since I was a little kid, looking up into the stars feels somehow like being home. Recognizing this and seeing my own galactic history makes it much easier to accept freely for myself many of the extraterrestrial beings who are channeling down to earth at this time. (The Essassani, Arcturians, and Pleiadians are among my favorites that I have come across thus far.) Being able to accept this and release so much internal resistance and denail has been a HUGE relief for me, like a tremendous weight lifted off my shoulders.

One quick point about past lives: When I look back I find that they’re not really past lives. They’re more like multiple simultaneously occurring incarnations. Since I’m now finding my consciousness starting to periodically disconnect from the apparent stream of linear earth time (or more accurately consciousness ceasing to create the experience of time within itself), there have been some discontinuous breaks that have been experienced as mentioned previously. It’s not under my deliberate conscious control. It’s like something that just seems to happen as I fully surrender to the moment. It almost feels like I’m gradually entering the world of time travel and have yet to find the steering wheel or the panel that allows me to pick a time and place to jump to. Either way, looks like I’ve got both a flux capacitor and 1.21 gigawatts at my disposal.

There have also been some conscious connections strengthening with archangels, in particular Archangel Michael. I don’t have a two-way verbal dialog happening with him yet, but his presence is quite clear and visceral to me. His energy I can actually feel quite distinctly, as if he’s standing behind me like the picture above illustrates. (My head even has developed a natural tendency to lean back, again just like that picture above, ironically enough…) Every being, whether collective or individual, seems to have uniquely different energies. This applies whether we’re talking about spirit guides, angels or archangels, extraterrestrials, or even your very own light within. Each has a unique vibrational feeling signature, much like different notes in a song.

This universe is far more expansive than we’ve been taught in school. As nontraditional and even woowoo as some of this may seem, right or wrong it’s something I just have to let go and allow to arise through me. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction…

Have you noticed how ideas and thoughts just kinda *pop* into our minds? Where do our thoughts come from? What’s going on here?

Well the typical way of thinking about our minds is as if it is its own independent thinking entity, doing its thinking thing. Basically it’s the idea of being a separate being who has the ability to operate while disconnected from everything else.

Now, instead of thinking of ourselves as separate independent thinkers, let’s change our perspective for a moment. Let’s imagine that there’s an infinite pool of thoughts that everyone in the universe can tap into. Every thought, idea, and concept is part of this single collective energetic thought bubble that we all have access to.

From this perspective, you and I are not exactly thinkers who come up our very own thoughts. More accurately we would be like vibrational tuners. We’re like radios that have the ability to vibrationally attune ourselves to different frequencies of thought. Whatever station you tune your energy radio towards determines what thoughts are received.

You have the ability to say “Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello” in your head, but what you’re really doing is tuning yourself to whatever radio station is playing those words and you’re sitting back as those thoughts pass through you. You are not your thoughts. Thoughts pass through you, this empty spaciousness of awareness that is eternally here.

Let’s examine a number of different examples that demonstrate the interconnectedness and non-separateness of thought.

Finishing Each Others’ Sentences

When two people are in love, often they have the ability to complete each others’ thoughts. We may say they’re on the same wavelength, they vibe together, they resonate well with one another, they have chemistry… all basically ways of saying that they’re tuned to the same energy of love and have access to the same subset of thoughts within this infinite pool of thoughts and thus it seems like they’re completing each others’ sentences whereas in reality it’d be more accurate to say they’re simply harmonizing together in frequency, having the same thought radio station passing through their consciousness simultaneously. It’s like they’re both channeling from the same frequency.

Psychics

Have you noticed how psychics can “read” people’s energies simply by knowing their name or seeing their picture? All they’re basically doing is tuning their personal frequencies to match those of someone else and thus it seems like they suddenly have the ability to know what the other person is thinking or feeling. Again, they’re just tuning themselves to whatever frequency someone else is at and ta-da! they can “read people’s minds” or whatever.

Thoughts Are Public Knowledge

Sensitive empaths know this first hand. Many people think their thoughts, feelings, and emotions are theirs and theirs alone, and that their thoughts are private. “No one can hear my thoughts but me!” In reality, all of our energies actually transmit across the entire universe. That is, they basically leak out and anyone can pick up on them. Our thoughts are far less private than we think. With our thoughts we can pollute the collective consciousness or we can enhance it.

Picking Up Others People’s Thoughts

How many times have people felt down or depressed, thinking that there’s something wrong with them, when in reality they’ve simply picked up someone else’s energy? They’re not doing anything wrong per se. They’re simply being weighed down by carrying someone else’s emotional baggage. There’s nothing the person needs to fix or improve in themselves. They just need to quit carrying other people’s stuff! Again, we can pick up on the thought energy of others.

Telepathy

My telepathic abilities have been waking up the past few weeks. It’s amazing how natural and effortless this is. It’s a much more efficient form of communication. Telepathically, it seems like thoughts are communicated wordlessly. It’s more of a feeling, a transmission of knowingness. For those of you familiar with Bashar, he actually uses the word telempathy rather than telepathy. We’re not telepathic. We’re telempathic. What does this mean? Well, empathy has to do with emotion. You know, energy in motion. Telempathy is basically nothing more than waking up a deeper communicative ability, much like your intuition, that works on a vibrational level that is higher than conventional intellectual thought, at least the way I perceive it so far. It seems to be more pure. If you have experience here, I’d love to hear what you have to say. Leave a message in the comments area or just let me know telepathically.

Channeling

Are you familiar with the idea of channeling? Esther Hicks channels Abraham. Darryl Anka channels Bashar. Jane Roberts channels Seth. The way channeling works, mechanically, is that you have two different beings/energies who vibrate at two different frequencies. The being at a lower frequency learns to go into a meditative state and raise their vibration. The being at a higher frequency deliberately steps down their frequency. The two meet somewhere in the middle, creating a third vibratory reality where the two beings essentially lock together. It’s like when you have two equally tuned tuning forks side by side. Ding one and the other one will start to vibrate as well. When this connection is made, there’s a telepathic link that’s created and the thoughts from one being bridges to that of another, like the tuning forks. Thoughts are translated back and forth in a universal vibrational way so that it doesn’t matter if the being on one side speaks the same language as the being on the other… the channel acts as a translator to translate the information into the language in which they were trained. So channeling, too, is yet another way to take advantage of the fact that thoughts are just vibrational signals that different beings can align with.

Creative Insights

Have you noticed how creative ideas can just pop into mind when your mind is quiet? Say you’re in the shower or sitting on the toilet or driving your car.. you’re not actively thinking about your project then and in that gap, when your awareness isn’t overwhelmed by the distracting energy of the intellectual mind, *pop!* an idea that lives on a different frequency shows up. It’s not that you *created* that new thought, but that you relaxed yourself enough to be open to receiving thoughts on a different frequency, thoughts that can enter only through the doorway of surrender.

Where Is the Thinker?

In the Advaita tradition, Self-inquiry is a popular “technique” for Self-realization. It’s basically Ramana Maharshi’s suggested strategy of repeatedly asking yourself “Who am I?” Thoughts arise, sure, but to whom? Whose thoughts are these? Who is the thinker? When we get past the notion that “I am my thoughts,” seeing that thoughts can come and go and even cease altogether in meditation, and yet you remain, the next level of identity to peel away may be the thought, “I am the thinker of these thoughts.” The interesting thing is that if you take the time to investigate for yourself (don’t just agree or disagree with me here, but LOOK for yourself) WHO thinks, you will discover that there isn’t a thinker. At all. There is no separate independent entity called “thinker.” There is no thing here. Nothing is here and no one is thinking. Thoughts simply arise. Again, there is no thought-creating entity here called “the thinker.” What is “the thinker” besides just a thought? Outside of thought, is there such a thing? Take a look and see for yourself.

Where Are Thoughts?

So this infinite pool of thoughts, where is it? Does it exist somewhere in this universe of time and space? Can we hop on a spaceship or some sort of interdimensional portal and travel to this pool of thought, wherever it is? Well, all thoughts are already right here, right now! You can think up anything! If the thoughts weren’t already right here, you literally wouldn’t be able to access them. It’s that simple. So thoughts don’t really exist anywhere. They’re just here, in this eternal placeless place. This pool of thought doesn’t exist in time and space. It exists nowhere. An equally valid perspective, to acknowledge the paradoxical nature of this, is that all thoughts exist everywhere. They are available to all beings at all time in all of space.

Accessing Infinite Thought

Every idea that the world’s greatest composers, thinkers, writers, and sages ever thought are available to you now. You have the ability to access all ideas and knowledge of the universe. It’s simply a matter of gently letting go of the self-imposed blocks and limitations that we, ourselves, place upon ourselves when we project ourselves into this physical reality.

I’m still very much experimenting with this idea and learning to get a handle on it. In my experience thus far, when I let go of the idea that I intellectually know or don’t know something (duality), then I just know what I need to know when I need to know it. If I don’t know it, then I don’t need to know it. Rather than memory and the intellect, there’s a deeper knowingness that we begin to access.

It’s not like we need to think every thought in existence simultaneously, but we do have access to whatever thoughts and ideas that we need, when we need them. Not a moment before, but also not a moment after. As tese physicalized mind/body things, we’re kinda like thought buckets, able to hold a finite number of thoughts at any one time, but capable of filling ourselves from our connection to the infinite thought stream, the source and home of all thoughts.

No Ownership of Thought

So these thoughts are definitely not you. Your thoughts are not you. Here you are, unmoving, unchanging, and everpresent. Hello awareness! … and here’s the stream of thought. It keeps coming and going, and you keep watching it.

Not only are thoughts not you, they are also not yours, any more than a song coming through a radio literally belongs to the radio or any more than the air that’s currently in your lungs is literally yours. The air that’s currently in your lungs you may certainly be using, sure, but that doesn’t make it somehow yours.

What is “my thought” other than just another thought that passes through awareness?

It’s funny to see people get so protective over “my” thoughts, “my” ideas, “my” creative insights, and so on, and then proceed to patent and copyright these ideas as if they themselves literally own them. This is the old way of thinking. This is out of alignment with how thoughts actually work. We’re growing out of that way of thinking now. It’s based out of fear, as if the separate self that I am will be diminished and have less if I fully share with the separate self that you are. It’s a valid perspective based upon the illusory sense of separation, yes, but separation itself is totally an illusion in the first place.

Choosing Thoughts

Let’s say someone were to ask you how you raise your arm up in the air. What would you tell them? “I dunno… I just do it.” I learned to wiggle my ears first time yesterday. I’ve always wanted to know how to do it, but how could anyone teach me?

We could talk about the thought arising, which does something in the brain, which fires electrochemical impulses through the body, which contracts certain muscles, which makes the arm raise or the ears wiggle. Sure, we could go there, but how is a thought chosen? This free will thing, how does that work? What chooses?

I have no idea.

Do you?

I feel like I can literally extend my consciousness into a higher dimension.. consciously and deliberately. It’s a cool feeling, like stepping into more of myself without really going anywhere.

Moving in a Higher Dimension

Imagine you were a 2-dimensional flat person for a moment, spending your whole life moving forwards and backwards and side to side in a totally flat world. Suddenly one day you discovered this ability to turn your arm “upwards” and reach up and out into the third dimension. Reaching up into the 3rd dimension would feel very much like reaching into one of the 2 dimensions you’re familiar with, wouldn’t it? It’s not really a wildly new technique to develop, just a new direction to reach into.

An interesting point to note is that you don’t have to move in 2D space at all when reaching farther out into 3D space. You could be bouncing up and down in the 3rd dimension and as long as you didn’t move front to back or side to side, you’d look perfectly still in the 2nd dimension. Movement in each dimension is independent, though not separate.

Reaching out into 4D is a lot like this. This 3D physical being doesn’t actually move when accessing the 4th dimension. It is consciousness itself that accesses higher dimensions, not the physicalized being.

Bollocks?

Is the 4th dimension real or am I totally making all this up? Well what I can tell you is that, with respect to imagination, the 4th dimension is just as real or unreal as the basic 3 dimensions.

Is the 3D world of form an illusion? Yes? No? Well so is this just as much.

Is the 3D world of form a valid experience within consciousness? Well so is this.

It’s like there’s this depth, this presence, that’s literally all right here. It doesn’t exist anywhere in time and space. I can’t explain this, but it feels just like reaching out with a non-physical hand, for lack of a better word, the hand of consciousness.

Simultaneously Physical and Non-physical

It’s actually a lot like living in two worlds at once. You can consciously experience yourself simultaneously playing with the 3D world of form, as well as resting in the 4D world of formlessness. Which one is more real? I have no idea. The intensity of presence in either world fluctuates, but they both feel equally real. You can experience yourself somewhere or nowhere, or both, or everywhere. It’s all just a shift in consciousness, not unlike how awareness can concentrate on one object or expand to encompass many objects.. all without actually going anywhere at all.

This opens up an entirely new depth to infinity. In 3D, you know how space extends in an infinite direction up and down, left to right, and front to back? Well there’s also a 4th dimension of infinity that can be accessed that is literally just as real as the 3 physical dimensions.

The 4th dimension doesn’t exist in time and space. It exists entirely within consciousness.

…So What?

What practical value does this have? Though I’ve previous touched on how to take advantage of higher dimensions, I honestly am not entirely sure yet the full extent to which this shift makes.

That said, there do seem to be some notable differences that now arise.

All Is Well

First of all, there is a sense of deep safety in this.

You know how if a bullet is flying straight towards you, you could simply step to the side and dodge it? Effectively what you’re doing here is moving from one parallel universe to another. One “universe” contains you standing directly in the path of the bullet. There is another “universe” basically standing “right next to you.” You can step to the side, moving from one experiential universe to another, and seemingly “dodge” the bullet. Being able to move in this direction gives you a greater degree of safety, you see?

Well being able to move in the 4th dimension is a LOT like this. You can totally alter what arises in the world of 3D by simply “stepping to the side” in 4D. In this way it allows you an increased degree of safety. No matter what danger you seem to find yourself in in 3D, you can always just “step to the side” and experience a “parallel universe” where you are safe. The wonderful thing is that that parallel universe is right here.

Am I claiming to be Neo with the ability to stop bullets? No, not at all. What I am saying is that it feels like the possibility to do such a thing is starting to arise in consciousness. Exactly HOW to implement this I do not yet fully understand.

This ability is still very new to me and I’m very much still getting my bearings straight. You can liken this ability to “step into a parallel world” with the Law of Attraction, which in this case is basically the same idea.

Of course the true Self that you really are can never experience danger in the first place (really!) and so your true safety is not determinant upon whether or not you move out of the way of the bullet or not, but from the perspective of choosing what reality you wish to experience, there is a deeper sense of understanding of how to move between worlds.

But because consciousness can experience itself in this way, seeing why the Law of Attraction works the way it does suddenly becomes that much more intuitive, natural, and, well, downright obvious! It makes this all so much more grounded, real, and tangible.

Shifting Worlds

Ooh, just thought of a better analogy.. and I sure love my analogies!

Imagine a 20 story building where each floor was a totally unique world. Each floor had basically the same floorplan so it was structurally the same, but what was taking place content-wise on each floor was very different. Only one thing can happen per floor. In order to experience something else, you have to go to a new floor.

Now say that you were constantly switching from one floor to another, but you had no idea this was happening and so you’d say “My, all this stuff is happening in my world!” …as if there was a single thing called “my world” to experience. No no, there’s a bunch of individual worlds you keep jumping between, silly!

Only one thing is happening in the world you’re currently experiencing at a time. To experience something else, you have to go to another world entirely, another floor altogether.

When this recognition came, suddenly you’d find yourself without fear or worry about what’s happening “in the world,” aka. “on this floor.” If you don’t like what’s happening on this floor, you can simply go up or down a floor! Changing your physical reality is literally that simple! Reality doesn’t change. Your “location” changes, giving you the perception of a single changing world.

Moving in the 4th dimension is a lot like this. There’s an infinite number of 3D worlds, but you keep shifting in the 4th dimension, effectively changing what world is arising in the moment. This is us changing floors in every moment of Now.

There’s a real beauty in this dance. A great simplicity.

Being More of the Infinite

Another thing that I notice is that the human part of me feels expanded, fuller, and more complete, as if it’s coming more and more into alignment with the true Self that is already Infinite. As Abraham says, it’s the alignment between you and You, the physicalized leading edge of Source and Source itself.. which are actually One anyways.

You know that familiar battle between your mind and your heart/intuition? That battle seems like it continues to fall away.

It’s like I’m feeling more whole, as if I were returning to a seemingly long lost home that’s paradoxically been right here. There was previously the experience of being lost, an experience that arose when you couldn’t clearly see where you were.

We’ve been home this whole time. Call it Heaven or whatever, but it’s always been right here. We just couldn’t see it for what it really was.

Yeah, this is cool stuff.

Once upon a time, long long ago, in the time before time, which is not so long ago since this time we speak of is Now, there lived a vast empty space.

This space existed everywhere, all at once, simultaneously. It was omni-present. Yet it had no substance or form to point to that we could say it is “here” as opposed to “there.” Indeed, it existed nowhere. There is nowhere we could really point to to say there it is, for it existed in no location, and yet it was undeniably here.

One day the nothingness of space wanted to create matter, a non-thing creating a thing, but it was puzzled with the idea of how it could put matter somewhere given that it was already everywhere. “Ah,” it realized, “I may be everywhere, but there is nothing here to prevent matter from taking up this same space where I am. I love this matter so much that I want it to be right here with me, so close that the two of us will actually be one. It may look like there is matter over here and space over there, but if you look close enough, you’ll see that matter is actually mostly empty space. I may look to be outside of matter, but I’m actually deeply embedded within matter as well… the sweetest and most intimate kiss imaginable. Form will be infused with space, inseparable from it. We can talk about space and matter, but they’re really both me. Ah, what joy. I’ll have a playmate to play with that will actually be me, taking the form of something else. What a glorious game this will be!”

and space very much liked the idea of this game, so it made it so.

BOOM!!

The Universe as we know it was created.

Infinity was Born

And space was happy, basking in the glory of itself as the infinite manifestations of the One empty locationless non-thing that it is. It itself is the source of all form, inseparable from it, intertwined with it.

And space went around thinking to itself, “Oooh, a planet. I am that. Hey, a porcupine. I am that. How shiny! A spoon! I am that! Oh look, a human! I am that too!”

Space found all of its infinite manifestations incredibly beautiful and wondrous, so amazing in fact that it wanted to look and look and look at itself and what it could be and do. It was a most curious looker. Space couldn’t really do anything but be with something, aware of its existence.

And so it was that the emptiness of space was simply here, being with all of its manifestations, including the manifestation which chose to call itself “human.”

Now this particular manifestation of space called human chose to have a verrrry interesting experience. You see, the “human” space that was looking decided to somehow forget about the formless aspect of itself and experience just the form, a transition from pure formlessness to both form and formlessness to finally only form.

And so it was that these humans began to experience themselves as only form. With this imaginative creative decision, space suddenly had the grand opportunity to experience itself as if there was literally something else, apart from itself. Wow! What an amazing new experience!

Separation was Born

“Here I am,” said the space-filled human, “and there you are. You and I are not one, for I am this form and you are that form.”

As these humans began to forget about the formless, they began forgetting about things like energy, universal presence, and the Source from which they arose.

And it was discovered that this experience was quite painful. Humans were very unhappy with this choice on some level, for it no longer was possible to experience such a sense of fullness and completion. On a very deep level, these apparently separate humans longed for a reunification with the Oneness that they intuitively picked up on within.

Slowly the formless began to be rediscovered. People discovered electricity. People discovered x-rays and gamma rays and microwaves… all these powers that extended beyond the realm of physical form. People intuitively picked up on some sort of larger power and argued over its nature. People experienced a sense of Love from within, but argued on whether or not it was purely a product of biological reactions or if it actually had some deeper home arising from this mysterious formless nameless something/nothing.

Remembering the Space

Over the years, some of these seemingly separate space-filled humans remembered that indeed they were much vaster than they eye could see. They were actually this infinite empty space arising as this person. In fact there was really no one here. It was really just this one nameless presence that had no boundaries.

“You crazy man!” other separate people cried. “You’re a looney! What are you talking about? Can you prove what you’re saying? No? Of course not!”

Slowly, bit by bit, one person at a time, more people began remembering about the space within them that they were never disconnected from.

They began to consciously experience a sense of nothingness that was full of everything, a sense of nameless and qualityless space that is full of everything that exists. They called it the pregnant void, and other mysterious terms.

“Everything is the same one empty non-thing,” said these people who remembered. “I can’t tell you what I am, for all that I could say arises within what I am. I can only point the way. You must remember for yourself what you actually are. It is the only way for you to truly know.”

“I don’t get it,” said the people who had not yet remembered, “but something sounds amazingly familiar about what you have to say. Something rings true about this. Let me see for myself what you are talking about.”

and so they began practicing a multitude of techniques in the hopes that they could discover what is already here. They began hoping for a particular experience of what they are, or to create something new… when the reality is that what they have been looking for, the vast emptiness of space, has been here all along.

As the restless seeking and searching began to subside, there was a resting that arose in its place, creating a space for the emptiness that simply IS to recognize itself.

“Ah, yes, THIS! This has been here the whole time. It never went anywhere. This sense of something that was missing from my life was actually here all along! What a deep sense of completion and fulfillment in a very non-human sense that is present. It is beyond what we call human, resting in and as something so much more.”

and so this space, which used to look at the different manifestations of itself and think that it literally WAS that as opposed to anything else it could look at, began to reawaken into its deeper nature, consciously remember its true infinite depth.

There is an infinite presence here, but it is no one. It is no thing. It is empty. and yet it is everything. It is everywhere. It lacks nothing for it is the infinite everything. All joy, love, and peace arise from it. Where else could it come from? There is nothing else but it.

and this space began looping back upon itself, remembering what it really is, seeing its emptiness yet again, and reveling in the bliss of nothing.

This space that had remembered itself through a person, people call enlightened.

“What are you so happy about?” people asked the enlightened one.

“Nothing.”

“Tell me about God, the ultimate Creator of All That Is.”

and the enlightened one was silent. His silence actually was his answer. The silence of space IS the ultimate Creator. Any verbal answer is the created, not the creator. Silent space has no shape, no form, no beard, no name, no nothing. It’s empty. It is space. Empty and pure, and yet full of All That Is, inseparable from it.

This space that had remembered its innate emptiness would witness its human manifestation as a grand creation of this infinite space. This space would speak words through this body about returning home, and that our true home was here and now.

This space would speak words about how it is everything and nothing, both the source and the manifestation, the creator and the created, and that all dualities are really the same one thing… nothing.

Space could be nothing, everything, and/or just one individual. Wow… What an amazing play that space is putting on!

It was when space saw itself that it laughed. A laugh of recognition and remembrance.

“Just what I always wanted,” said space to itself, “to be everything and nothing, and I already am that. What more could I have ever asked for?”

Consider this: From the linear perspective of time, with your five senses you can not perceive what is actually arising in the present moment. It’s technically impossible.

Everything you’re seeing happened a fraction of a second ago or more. It takes time for light to travel from what you’re looking at to your eyes. Thus, you are not actually seeing the present, but the past. You’re seeing something as it existed some time ago.

When you look up in the sky at the sun, you’re not looking at where the sun is now, but where the sun was 8 minutes ago. When you look up at the stars at night, you’re not looking in the direction of where the stars are now (if they even still exist and haven’t exploded since), but where they were hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years ago!

The same applies for sound. It takes time for sound to travel through the air and vibrate your ear drums. So again, you are not perceiving the present, but the past.

What about taste and touch? Perhaps they’re different because in order to experience those senses, you have to be in physical contact with the object. Thus there’s no delay as the vibration travels through space to your body.

Well, it takes time for the nerve’s impulses to travel through your body to your brain so that they may be perceived by the mind. This process too takes time.

To recognize this more clearly, why is it that when you touch a hot stove, you almost instantly pull your hand back? That’s right. Reflexes. Your body knows to pull your hand away before the signal makes it up to your brain, is processed as pain and danger, and the brain then sends a signal back to your arm to pull your hand away. Thanks to our reflexes, physical responses can happen even before mental perception.

Perception takes time. What we perceive is actually the past. You can not perceive the present moment with your physical senses. It’s physically impossible.

Perceiving in Time and Space

With your senses, you’re clearly not perceiving the entire universe at once. It’s like you’re only perceiving a tiny fraction of all of time and space at a time.

What you perceive at any moment depends both on where you are and when you are there.

If you change when you are in a particular location or space, what you perceive in that space changes. You can’t just be in the right place, but you have to be at the right place at the right time.

Similarly, if you change where you are physically relative to any object, what you experience about that object at any point in time will be different. For example, if you’re far away from a loud noise, you’ll hear it later in time than if you were really close to it. Thus, when you experience something totally depends on where you are in space.

Time and space are inseparable. They truly depend on one another. This is why people call physical reality a time/space reality or refer to time more accurately as spacetime. You can’t have one without another.

What you are perceiving at any particular moment in time is not actually what is arising in the present, but your own version of the universe, depending on where in time and space you happen to exist at any moment. It’s almost like being in your own little world!

Thus, if you want to experience the Now as it is in its pure and undistorted essence, if you want to see Reality as it actually is, a deeper part of yourself must be awakened, a part of you that exists beyond time and space. It is what is Here and Now.

Awareness, Here and Now

As long as we approach the the Present moment through the content that arises in the present, we will always perceive the past. We won’t be experiencing the Now.

Even if we think about the future, we’re looking at a thought that arose in the past, but we’re looking at it now. The looking happens now. What we are looking at happened in the past.

Let me repeat this because this is so important.

The looking happens now.

What we are looking at happened in the past.

As long as we look to experiences, memories, or perceptions, we’re not seeing the Now itself, but rather the mind’s stuff that happened in the past. The mind exists in past and future, and yet awareness is seeing whatever it is seeing, right now.

The content was created in the past, but awareness is seeing it now.

Right now, Awareness is looking at these words, regardless of when they were typed or when they showed up on your computer screen.

Awareness is aware of this moment. There is a big difference between awareness which is aware, here and now, and the content and experiences that arise within awareness.

Awareness is present. Awareness is always present. It is impossible for awareness to not be present.

The only thing awareness can be aware of is what is, here and now.

It’s not something to think about. It’s not something to understand. Thinking and understanding are all more mind-stuff that arise within time, are subject to time, and exist simply as passing content within awareness.

All satori moments, glimpses into your true nature, sudden realizations, feelings of oneness or love.. they’re all experiences that arise within awareness. None of that is what you are. None of that is it.

Connecting with Who You Are

To connect with who and what you truly are,  just be.

Be still.

Rest as awareness.

It sounds utterly simple, and it really is.

Just rest as the timeless awareness that is here and now, for that is what you already are anyways.

By looking consciousness straight in the eye, it will come to know itself clearly.

This remembrance, this reconnection to the I Am that I Am, this is the foundation of awakening.

Consciousness is peering into this world, but it is not of this world.

Awareness is like this witnessing presence that is looking through this body/mind, like a watcher of a movie looks at the screen of a movie and is immersed in the sounds and colors.

But awareness is completely independent of the movie.

Rest as awareness.

There is nothing to understand. There is nothing to figure out. Just simply be. Be who you really are. Be still. Be.

photo credit: Michele Catania

Awareness

There is awareness. There is awareness.

For some reason there is the belief in the human mind that physical reality is what’s real, but it is nothing more than just a belief. It’s the illusion.

When awareness gets amped up and it’s realized there is nothing but awareness, the content that awareness focuses on feels so… empty and light.

Everything is nothing.

What’s the difference between physical reality, imagination, the dream world we visit at night, wherever we go after we die, locations experienced when astrally projecting, experiences that arise in deep states of meditation, and everything else?

The rules are different. Certain laws, like the laws of physics, may apply in one place and not another. Certain colors and forms and shapes appear in one and not another, but that’s about it. They’re all just different illusions appearing within awareness. They’re all like different movies that awareness can watch.

Awareness is.

and awareness is SO much more real than any observable reality.

Finding Yourself

Who you are is not found in something that can be observed, but in what does the observing. (Yet a deeper realization is that the observer and the observed are one and the same, for there exists only one presence.)

It is what can not put into a box because it is that which witnesses the box.

Your true nature can not be labeled because it is that which is aware of the label.

It is what the mind can not wrap itself around because it is the infinity in which the mind does the wrapping.

It is not found in thought because it is that which watches the thoughts.

It is not found in form because it is the formless spaciousness that allows form to be.

It is not your consciousness because it is that which is conscious of a “you” who could be conscious or have a consciousness in the first place. Rather, it is consciousness itself, directly.

It’s All One

The Infinite are One. The One is Infinite.

We experience synchronicity, where we see the same thing showing up repeatedly in multiple times, in multiple locations, and in a variety of ways.

We experience the Law of Attraction, where we see the correlation between our thoughts and what manifests.

We experience the world reflecting back to us our own state of being and our own level of consciousness, much like a mirror.

Why is this?

Because it’s ALL ONE.

See Awareness

This. This.

What is in this moment, right here and now, exists everywhere and is everpresent. The eternal presence of Here.

The awareness behind the thought.

The awareness behind the mind that looks for truth in beliefs or in evidence.

The awareness that witnesses scientific reason and religious faith.

The awareness that is so close that it’s so easily overlooked.

The awareness that witnesses the ego.

The awareness that witnesses the seeking and the clinging.

The awareness that is “found” during spiritual awakenings and “lost” if identification with form resumes.

The awareness that is aware of unenlightenment and the awareness that is aware of enlightenment.

The awareness that witnesses the most unconscious of actions and states.

The awareness that witnesses the most conscious and loving expressions.

Awareness.

Is awareness aware of itself?

Allow awareness to be aware of awareness.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwyeqVEe0vg

Heaven is not just some place that we go after we die, somehow separate from earth. Heaven is simply a particular level of consciousness. We can bring Heaven down to earth by raising our level of consciousness to the point where we realize that Heaven is already here in this moment.

“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”

Change Thine Frequency

The reason Heaven wasn’t being perceived or experienced before was that we were vibrating at a lower frequency. In the same way that we can change what channel a TV is set to by changing the frequency it’s tuned to, we can change what frequency we’re attuned to and shift to a different level of reality as well.

“My Father’s house has many mansions.”

When you die and you go “up to heaven,” it’s not that you literally go up vertically into space. (Afterall, everything is Here and Now.) You do go up, but you go up in your frequency, in your vibration, in your level of consciousness as you drop all that heavy earthly ego baggage.

You can do this very same thing while still alive here on earth. You just get enlightened. It’s just a matter of letting go of all the lower vibing stuff so that you naturally and automatically rise up higher and higher.

This is something you do within yourself. You raise your own personal level of consciousness. The external world is basically just a reflection of your own internal state of being. Thus you must go within to do the work in order to see it reflected back to you in the world.

“The Kingdom of God is within you.”

Walk the Walk

It’s not about changing the world itself directly, but changing yourself. Yet by changing yourself, you change the world. You bring Heaven down through you.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

No one else can do this for you. It’s like when you are miserable even though everyone around you is happy: You’re still gonna experience miserableness. If everyone around you is manifesting heaven on earth, if you’re creating hell for yourself, you will only experience hell. Thus if you want to experience Heaven, YOU must manifest it for yourself.

For some examples of people actively bringing heaven down to earth, check out this forum post by CaterpillarWoman as well as this forum post by Katrina as they share their own personal experiences.

You could even say we’re creating Heaven in the forums, a vibrational heaven which we can model and take back out into the “real world.”

photo credit: Desirée Delgado

♪♫ “Life is but a dream…” ♪♫

You know what? That’s not a metaphor or just some random lyrics in a song… When we talk about physical reality being the “dream state,” that’s actually a quite literal explanation.

Life is becoming such a joy now that my state of being is no longer tied to the circumstances of life and thus at the affect of it. It’s like unconditional joy. It literally does not depend on what happens in the world!

Blurrrrrr

The lines between what we call “real life” and what we call “dreaming” at night have begun to blur for me. There doesn’t seem to be much difference anymore and it’s quite a fascinating and enjoyable experience.

Real life is literally starting to glow with this colorless radiance. It feels much more malleable, as if it’s more like playdough than actually solid substance. Even walking through the aisles at the grocery store, I don’t so much see cream cheese and milk (though I do mentally perceive that too when necessary), but I feel like I’m directly interacting with liquid love. That’s how I’d describe it. (Looking at this experience right now, it feels more like I’m feeling it with my heart than seeing it with my eyes. I guess our hearts can see!) 

At night when I dream, my dreams are becoming more lucid. I’ve read about lucid dreaming in the past and tried to learn how to do it, but I wasn’t able to do it at that time. No biggie. Now I’m actually starting to wake up in my dreams and know that I am dreaming while I’m dreaming.

The sense of consciousness that is present while awake in a dream is the very same flavor of consciousness that I taste and delight in when awake in the real world.

It’s all just different experiences happening for/within the same one consciousness.

I love flying in my dreams! For real! When I was at the grocery store last night (in real life), I literally leapt through the air and felt myself soar, free as a bird! It’s THAT fun!

The idea of separation drops away and there’s only the experience of what is, of liquid love. And my God… it’s pure appreciation and silent bliss.

Bashar!

I just listened to this wonderful Bashar talk on youtube and there are a few parts of it in particular I would love to share with you:

First, putting human existence and forgetting our true nature into a larger context and seeing what this realization of our limitedness and unlimitedness is like for others (starting at 1:23):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bnn1UvhvkU

A lady who is truly letting go and letting herself shine (starting at 3:57):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2drg_ZFQmU

JOY!