Therefore I offer
you my contemplations on the infinite universe and the innumerable worlds.
Giordano Bruno
The entire creative process happens instantaneously, simultaneously
and continuously. There is no beginning but rather a combination of states and intensity of Being diversely modulated and invigorated by
phenomena operating on the reference plane of existence.
Inside every tiny particle of conceivable matter this process
renews itself continuously. The creative energy emits directions and planes
with different densities and variables and yet every thing is connected with
the All, and every one of its smallest constituent parts contains the infinite.
Just as with space and the things and beings that surround us,
time is also the fruit of an illusion of the mind: time itself is part of the
great experiential theatre created for the evolutionary goals of Consciousness.
Time is in its own way a manifestation of primordial Energy, of
the All. For us it becomes the indispensable instrument through which we express
and read our perceptive experiences – which have descended into this
manifestation – and therefore through which we give significance to this form
of existence: to events to life, to ‘history’.
But if we separate from our material nature, we can emancipate
ourselves from our limits in space and time and interact with reality outside
of the limits of the cause and effect established by our current mind: we can
access a superior level of relationship with reality, with power over illusion
and synchronicity. Or, at least, remind ourselves that our reality is nothing
more than a theatrical representation and, by going behind the scenes every now
and again we can ‘return home’.
On a technical plane, ‘time’ more than anything else is the ‘container
of possibilities’: an immense circular
sphere of the eternal present. There is no flow; everything is there, to
design a complex geography of potential events. It is a multi-dimensional field
curved in on itself, just like space. The universe is in itself non-local, or
indistinct, contemporaneous and simultaneous: The One.
Nevertheless, within the confines of the universal field, time, expressed
and perceived in a chronological sense, is important and indispensable: it
serves to measure growth, to give a sense of reading (and therefore a sense of
consciousness) to the transformation of events or the material world of Form at
every level.
To explore ‘reality’ we
have to begin from the supposition that what our current senses perceive is
nothing more than one of its possible
aspects, or a manifestation consistent with our perceptive and elaborative
possibilities. We are talking about a kind of meditation (or better still many
levels of meditation) and consequently of a meeting point between the Absolute,
higher levels of reality, the mind and the biological senses that limit our
experience.
Everything that we participate in is ‘just’ our plane of existence, or the current reality:
·
Three-dimensional
·
Human
·
Terrestrial
·
Consensual
Our plane of existence is the result of a sensorial circuit of a
consensual and conventional kind; therefore, it is all relative. It is the
result of the meeting between all that is
and that which can be differentiated and perceived through the exercise of our
current senses. They in their turn are developing so that a possible level of consciousness
can interpret this existence and attribute ever more complex significance to it,
transcending and identifying it as an aspect of the Absolute. It is thus
transformed from mechanics (field of
laws) to awareness (field of choice),
or from a precarious and unstable manifestation to an incorruptible presence,
from the chaotic illusions of the senses to an aware experience of
consciousness.
Our reality is - to all intents and purposes - a bubble of
appearances: and we have the task (the challenge?) of making it real and
everlasting in the Absolute by means of ourselves.
The thoughts - and the considerations that follow - need to be seen
in the context of spiritual, alchemical and magical disciplines and therefore with
‘another’ kind of sensitivity – or perhaps with a more authentic sensitivity
that we have yet to reawaken – rather than be investigated with the rational
mind. We need to use the breath of the
thinking heart, as I like to call it: try to read, understand and absorb these
ideas with your body, your heart and not just with your brain.
Use the breath. Feel the correspondence and the call of truth
inside yourself. But be careful: we are
not talking about expedients. It is necessary to use all your experience to
comprehend, so that reading and study becomes a real meditation practice, a
kind of yoga-study. Learning to use other parts of yourself to navigate with a new
and different logic helps to break away from the ordinary rhythm of the mind. It
is necessary to change perspective and comprehend new stimuli on many levels;
otherwise there is no point in proceeding. These themes are meditation
practices and not just ideas to store in your head.
For example, in the practice of Jnana Yoga (the path of
knowledge) the liberation (Moksha) and therefore the union with God can be acquired
for half the knowledge of Brahman,
recognizing Brahman as your own Self. The liberation from Samsāra (the cycle of
birth and death) is achieved thanks to the realization of the identity of the
individual soul (Jīva) in the Supreme
Soul.
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