STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES
TOPICS — The illusion of time, temporal perspectives, pride, hierarchy, wholeness.
We have each lived many lives, lived in many times, inhabited many types of body, and explored many realms of consciousness. We have played every role in a grand space-time opera.
Mortality is an illusion that we choose to experience as being real. We are eternal consciousness. This is the basis of most spiritual belief.
Time is an illusion that we experience as being real. We are timeless beings. This is not included in most spiritual beliefs, and yet, they are really saying the same thing, that…
What we are eternally are — consciousness — is not contained by either time or space.
The way a seed grows into a tree is like the tree-trunk of eternal consciousness branching out to explore ideas, creating foci of exploration called twigs, that produce the intense perception of leaves (which represent embodied individuals).
Because everything in reality is holographic, each leaf contains the coding for the entire tree and the pattern repeats in the individual (at another level of harmonic).
You are a tree trunk who branches out to explore ideas that excite you, creating groupings of exploratory time-space events called twigs, that produce the intense perception of leaves (which represent potent events in your history).
Just as you can look at the events of your life as, “These events are all a part of what I am. I am what connects them all”, so too does eternal consciousness look at every human and say, “These people are all a part of what I am. I am that which connects them all.”
You are the tree trunk that connects all the events of your life.
Why is it we can easily see ourselves as being the container of all the events of our lives (events which may be diverse and disparate), and yet we resist applying that to ourselves and seeing what we are as a part of something wider? This is because we become possessive of our individuality through qualities such as pride.
Pride can be a positive quality. I hope you feel proud of the events of your life. I hope you feel proud of your children. I hope you feel proud of everything you create. I hope you feel proud of each meal you cook. Pride is not the enemy.
Where pride creates a shadow — that blinds / obfuscates — is when it tips into possessiveness. This is a product of hierarchical thinking where a person ignores their negative qualities, amplifies their positive qualities, and believes these positive qualities result from them being a superior person.
We like to think of selves as being unique, not as something of which there are many.
Although it is far more subtle, it is this same possessiveness that causes us to resist seeing ourselves as a part of something larger. We like to think of ourselves as THE tree trunk, not a tree leaf. But, as has been discussed in previous articles, BOTH are true. You are both leaves and the tree trunk because…
We are the entire tree.
You are both a big fish in a small pond and a small fish in a big pond.
You are both eternal and within a ‘real’ illusion of mortality.
You are both an individual and a state of collective consciousness.
You span all states of consciousness you can imagine exist.
But this is too much to comprehend. It is not the mortal experience if you know you are immortal. The perception of linear time is destroyed by the perception of timelessness.
All that I write of is the state of awakening. Awakening from this dream. But you must always remember it is a dream we wanted to have. This has been a ‘good’ dream — a dream we are pleased with, a dream that delivered, a dream that was all we wanted it to be.
We are the tree trunk that created leaves. Leaves that dream of being a tree trunk.
We are the ocean that created fish. Fish that dream of knowing the entire ocean.
God created humans, and humans explore being creators. Creation is.
The breaking down of hierarchy is to see that each leaf contains the tree trunk and the tree trunk contains the potential for all the leaves. They are the same thing viewed from a different temporal perspective.
The bulb is a flower, just from different temporal perspectives.
You are young and old, depending on how you view yourself.
What this all boils down to is very simple…
YOU ARE NOT ONE THING (unless you define that one thing to be everything and every moment in existence).
Whatever qualities you champion, you are also possess the opposite of each of those qualities. You are all qualities. You embody all opposites. You stand in no specific spot. You are no specific age. You have no specific name. You are consciousness. You are life. You are creation.
You are all names.
You possess nothing unless you accept you possess everything.
You experience yourself as a state of consciousness that walks a singular path, but you are the consciousness that walks every path.
You see nothing, unless you accept you see everything.
You live nowhere, unless you accept you live everywhere.
You will experience mortality until you accept you are immortal.
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