How we are an embodiment of eternal consciousness explained.
Apr 27, 2023 (Medium.com)
“We are each an expression of the creative force behind diversity, selectively focusing upon the infinite matrix of probability that our intention to experience individuality brought into being.”
Your spirit is the eternal, non-physical level of consciousness from which you chose to enter into the human experience of individuality. Spiritual awakening is the path of becoming as familiar with your spirit as you are with your physical self. This is most easily understood as the path of learning to live through the guidance of your feelings, gut, and intuition — instead of through the fear-based wounds within your mind.
You have the ability to be aware of the reality of your spirit through opening yourself to recognize and allow wider experiences of consciousness.
Contrary to many of the teachings of religion, the purpose of human existence is not to awaken to your spirit and ‘ascend’ to the non-physical state. We — from the inherent freedom of our eternal spirit — created the human form because it is precisely what we wanted to experience. We did not create the human experience as a prison to be escaped or a hardship to be endured.
The idea that reality is a test we must pass (or a punishment we must endure) comes from religion using fear as a tool of control.
There is no edict to be spiritual. Anyone who lives a joyful life which flows from their heart — regardless of their spiritual beliefs — is doing what they birthed here to do, even if they die with no belief in an afterlife and a dislike for spirituality.
You are under no obligation or pressure to recognize your spiritual nature (i.e. the innate freedom of your consciousness) through any particular way or name. Being spiritual does not require you to call it ‘spirituality’ or dress it up in religious sounding words or rituals. You could call it ‘authenticity’ or ‘living consciously with love’ for example.
At the simplest level, it is the recognition that in just being yourself, you are fulfilling your purpose. At the deepest level, it is just being yourself. ‘Be yourself’ is as complicated as a spiritual philosophy needs to be.
You are not here to awaken to your spirit (although you may choose to). You are here to live your spirit’s dream / intention for this life.
- Our hopes and dreams for life are about joy — not some idea of an external God.
- Our intention is to love — not sacrifice who we are.
- Our choice for a human life is about the beauty of feeling — not mental construction based on the accumulation and refinement of knowledge.
The dream in your heart can never be met through the idea that you ‘should’ be spiritual. Joy is met through the realization that we all intend, and deserve, to live in joy. Do not believe in the ideas in this book because you want to be ‘more spiritual’.
Believe in ANY idea, regardless of where you find it, that aids you in living your life through a state of joy and appreciation.
There is a perspective from which you both are your spirit and are not your spirit. Imagine your spirit as an expression of all possibility. In human form, we are not all possibility in that we are a chosen focus of self (a focus created from the state of all possibility). What is more, the potential for all possibility continues to exist within us, but in an encoded form (meaning physicality, reality, and our embodied self are each expressions of the state of all possibility).
As you explore and develop the expression of yourself, so you decode your chosen focus within all possibility into what you choose to express yourself to be in each moment. In this way, all that you perceive, which is an expression of all possibility (regardless of whether you perceive it as external or internal) is like a menu that aids you in your creation of your mortal self.
The creation of your mortal self is through the selection of potentials from the infinite menu of all possibility.
Imagine your consciousness / spirit as an open rose. You are the seed of that rose. You contain the complete awareness to transform yourself into the rose. There are an infinite number of ways in which you can do this … ways which, in this moment, you are creating with the freedom of your perception. As you discover new and exciting ways of becoming the rose, so you enhance the rose. In doing this, you enhance The One Consciousness / all consciousness / eternal consciousness (because of our holographic nature).
You are The One Consciousness (which is unified because of how consciousness exists outside of time and space) in a state of expressing and exploring the freedom of consciousness to be. To be in a state of freedom is not the same as being all that The One Consciousness is, and yet there is no state within The One Consciousness you are not free to explore. There is nothing you cannot be and no quality you cannot embody.
Your choice is unlimited.
Your potential is infinite.
- This is how you are both simultaneously limited and unlimited — singular, yet infinite.
- This is how you both are and are not your spirit.
- This is how your spirit both is and is not The One Consciousness.
- This is how you are.
- This is what allows you to be in the experience of an individuated self.
To see this is to see why you should not seek to be all — you should seek to be yourself. The All already exists as All That Is / The One Consciousness. You, however, are the only state of being that exists as you. You are unique in your expression of The One Consciousness. Your potential is that of a birthing ‘God’ in human form. Do not destroy yourself to become what already exists. Be bold. Be what you came to be.
And that is to say, “be something new”.
And that is to say, “be you”.
Within human form, we experience different selves as having particular preferences because of our choice to physically imprint predefined preferences into our human form. You selected these to be in line with your intentions for your individuation. You genetically coded yourself to be a unique expression of consciousness.
‘Being yourself’ is to reveal your spirit’s choice … which, in turn, reveals your spirit.
Because The One Consciousness is a unified state of consciousness, it experiences a singular will. Within the individuated state, we experience that will as being our own, even though it is the one and only will in existence. Therefore, despite how complex, conflicted, and diverse our collective reality appears to be, a ‘single will’ made every choice in its creation.
To exercise your will is to exercise your ability to choose. Just as there is only one consciousness in existence with infinite expressions, so there is only one will in existence with infinite manifestations. Your will is not different from my will.
There is only one will in existence. It makes all choices. This is why the foundation of life — beneath the illusion of competition — is harmony.
Your personal experience of will is a unique experience of the one will. This means that even though there is only one will, no one experiences it in exactly the same way. This uniqueness is why the realization that there is only one will does not reduce or devalue your experience of that will. It is a self-defining quality of your individuated perspective.
Your choices are the manifestation of potential self-definitions that you are capable of perceiving and selecting. Whenever you make a choice of one thing over another, you in some way further define / refine / navigate / select your experience of self.
You are free in your choice of your experience of self, and you are free to deny making this choice.
An individual can be thought of as a vehicle for consciousness. Vehicle here refers to the complete reality experience (including not only our outer reality but also our inward beliefs, thoughts, memories, and emotions). Individuals are constantly changing through the accumulation of their reactions to their experiences.
In each moment, the vantage-point that each vehicle offers creates a unique experience of the one consciousness and its will.
It is through this will that our experience of freedom arises (one of the most beloved human qualities). Our unique experience of ‘the freedom of our will to choose’ allows The One Consciousness to experience making many different responses to the same choice. This diversity of reactions always results from variations in the vantage-point of the individual and not through any difference in their will. Different responses to a choice only exist because of the differing vantage points created by individuality.
The diversity of human preference is an illusion that is full of meaning. Beneath this apparent diversity, what we all want is the same.
When we feel judgment about another person’s choice, we generally believe we would have made ‘a better choice’. This is to not accept that if you took on the other person’s exact vantage-point (which is to become them) then you would make the exact same choice you are judging.
If you walked fully in any other person’s shoes, then you would choose as they chose because we are all expressions of the same consciousness. To judge another’s choices is to deny that we are all one consciousness with one will. Although seeing that you would choose as others do is a liberation from separation, it is usually resisted because of how it removes the ability to judge or blame the actions of others. Judgment is a denial that we are the same consciousness.
The vantage-point that arises out of your individuality is what uniquely defines you and, in each moment, your vantage-point includes the accumulation of all that has ever affected you.
You are an eternally, self-evolving vantage-point that is not tied to any particular form of vehicle or lifespan.
This is to say…
You are infinite (which is the religious equivalent of saying “you are God”).
Infinity is not a definition of quantity. It is the concept of something without end or limit — something with unending potential that will always reveal new detail the more you focus upon it. For example, with perception capable of seeing it, you could perceive an infinite number of hues within a rainbow.
The One Consciousness becoming diversified created a perceptual illusion that revealed infinite dimensions of detail within itself / what already exists / its oneness.
I use the term ‘The Infinite Matrix’ (or ‘The Infinite Menu’) as a conceptualization of the complete array of unending potential experiences that came into being when eternal consciousness conceived of the perceptual lens of diversity. As such, it represents the collective potential of all diversity. This ‘Infinite Matrix’ contains infinite unique reflections of The One Consciousness. Being uniquely differentiated, these reflections can be focused upon individually or in combination, creating an unending potential for experience.
Although ‘The Infinite Matrix’ is not a literal structure, it can be helpful to picture it as a gigantic multi-dimensional web that contains every single possible version of every possible experience, and then to imagine yourself as an individuated point of consciousness — or focus — navigating this infinite landscape of potential experiences of self.
In each moment, we choose from an ocean of potentials (often visualized as a radiant web of timelines), each offering evermore unique tastes of what it is to be The One Consciousness.
If The One Consciousness is white light and the lens of diversity is ‘as a prism’, then the infinite matrix of probabilities that we exist within is the conception of the rainbow of diversity that is revealed. In this, see how a prism does not create a spectrum of colors out of nothing — it only reveals the infinite hues that were already existing within the white light.
The presence of diversity in The One Consciousness does not change what it is, as the lens of diversity only reveals what is already present. However, for wider consciousness to consciously perceive its own diversity is to evolve its understanding of itself through reflection. This is done by looking into the lens and perceptually entering a selective focus on this infinite matrix.
There is no end to how far you can travel into the lens of diversity. To be within the infinite matrix of potential it creates is to be in an ever-unfolding evolution of your own experience. It is a focus that will always draw you forward into an unfolding extension of the present moment through the creation of the perceptual illusion of linear time.
Time is a color in the palette of creation that adds a particular flavor of meaning to an experience.
This unending potential can also be imagined as the potential that exists within a block of marble before a sculptor carves it. Every possible sculpture that could ever be sculpted is simultaneously present within the block of marble. A sculptor is a person who removes a part of the marble to reveal their creative vision. You are a sculptor of self. The act of carving away the stone is analogous to the application of perceptual blindness (forgetting / unconsciousness) to the full spectrum experience of The One Consciousness in order to create the illusion of a uniquely defined / focused individual (the definition of the sculpture).
We are each The One Consciousness looking at the same uncarved block of marble (The Infinite Matrix), perceptively fantasizing (dreaming) whatever we desire as a reality.
We are each an expression of the creative force behind diversity, selectively focusing upon the infinite matrix of probability that our intention to experience individuality brought into being. In focusing upon the unique experiences reflected through diversity, The One Consciousness enters an unending potential for experience. All have equal access to this unending potential. The lens of diversity has birthed us into an infinite collective experience. As a collective, we exist in relation to each other across this diversity of potentials.
We are each a self-evolving selective focus of eternal, unified consciousness upon itself, perceived through the lens of diversity.
You can choose to say that there is a certain number of colors in a rainbow, but each of those colors is then revealed to contain infinite variations such that the most orange yellow stands so close to the yellowest orange that it is not experienced as distinct from it. It is the same with selves. Although a meaningful distinction between ‘other beings’ and ‘other versions of yourself’ can be drawn, the wider understanding is that each, and every being is another version of The One Consciousness (which can therefore also be referred to as ‘The One Self’).
How we divide our perception is a choice.
When considering experiences based upon linearity, the infinite matrix of probabilities can be imagined being like a harp with an infinite number of strings, with each string representing a linear unfolding of a state of definition. We traverse the strings of the harp and experience them as variations of our current experience.
You are a musician … a sculptor … a creative creator of creation.
From No Religion — Consciousness Creates Reality, a compendium of spiritual philosophy I am publishing on Medium. For my audio recordings, please visit StoryWaters.org.
Written by Story Waters
‘No Religion: Consciousness Creates Reality’ is a compendium of dogma-free, inspirational, spiritual philosophy published on Medium.