ASSUMPTIONASSUMPTION Connecting dots with a straight line is how humans make assumptions based on inadequate and partial information, and their conclusion is a lie, or at least not the truth. Connecting the dots with a straight line flies in the face of infinite possibility, of nonlocality, of truth itself. Truth can only be known by connecting the dots with an infinite number of other dots, by observing a situation with respect to the whole and knowing events are not isolated. My theory of relative reality: All things assumed to be real are only real to the state of awareness that believes they are real, and relative to other, higher states of awareness, are not real. To illustrate we will use an example where a person is sleeping, and while sleeping, has a dream. There are three known levels of awareness in a sleep-induced dream. There is the dreamer who is in the dream and believes the dream to be real and acts according to the belief system he was given and the beliefs he has assumed to be real through his waking, non-sleep experience. The second level of dream awareness is when the dream self "awakens" to the realization that "oh, this is just a dream, there is nothing to fear because none of this is real." The third level of dream awareness is to be aware of the dream, and go one step beyond that to control the dream through nothing more than intent. You're having a dream. There is a large animal chasing you and you are very afraid; so afraid that you cannot even move to run away, nor can you call for help because your voice won't work. This is stark raving terror, and as the dreamer who believes the dream self to be real, the threat is real. It is only relatively real. It is only real to the dream self that is unaware that he is dreaming. Suddenly you realize you are dreaming, and the the one who realizes this, is not the one who was dreaming about being chased and was afraid. The one who realizes that it is a dream is another dimension of the same being, who has awakened. This awakened state is awakened only relative to the first state where the dreamer believes the dream is real. The awakened one realizes; "It's me, I was here the whole time. How could I not have known that?" All the awakened state knows is that he is dreaming, that there is nothing to fear, that no matter what happens in this dream, none of it is real because he will wake up in the morning to his "real", non-sleep life. And the third state is a dimension of intention, whereas the second state was of passivity. The second state simply watched the show of the dream as though a non-sleep state person was watching TV, though the awareness knew not to fear anything that happened. The third state of dreaming is built upon the knowing of the second state--that the dream is relatively not real, and knowing it is just a story, and also knowing how to create a story, the dreamer actually controls the events as they unfold in the dream, knowing that no matter what the awakened dreamer decides to do, it is not real as compared to the non-sleep state. There are no non-sleep consequences for absolutely anything the the third state awareness does in the dream, though since it is still a dream, it is relatively real. When the awakened dreamer realizes he is dreaming, he is careful not to lose awareness so he can create whatever situation he wants. Since the state knows that he is dreaming and that the dream seems real, he can enjoy the dream without fear of any non-sleep state consequences and do whatever he wants because relative to the non-sleep state, the dream is not real. In the third state, the awareness is both dreamer and non-sleep awareness at the same time. Because this multi-dimensional awareness exists in both states at once, he can experience the dream as "real", knowing full well that it's not. Like the dreaming state of a sleep-induced dream, there are three states of "real life", non-sleep awareness. The first state of non-sleep awareness is similar to that of the first state of the sleep-induced dream; the awareness considers everything he can see, feel, hear, taste and touch to be real. He experiences this reality based on what he was taught and what he experienced up to now. This non-sleep state is "real life", and he has no reason to believe otherwise. He has seen people die, and to him death is real and final--though he may have been taught about an afterlife of sorts. Though he may claim to believe in this afterlife, it goes against his senses, because he cannot prove it is real. Like an awakening within a sleep dream, there is also an awakened state within "real life" experience. Most people chance upon this state by accident or through unbearable conditions or loss. An accidental awakening occurs when there is a sudden realization of truth. Though nearly impossible to describe, the best I can do is to call it an awakening whereby one realizes that there is no such thing as separation. There is no indoors or outdoors, there is no other or me. It is a realization of oneness, and need not be proven. It just is. There are no judgements of good or bad because there is no good or bad outside of thought. You feel that to spend one moment outside this state is wasting something precious. You feel as though you have won the lotto, just because you are alive, and that aliveness is amazing in itself. You move your hand and watch the fingers as they bend and straighten. You remember that though modern medicine can find the control centers in the brain that make those fingers move, they cannot find the one who decides to move them. The controller, the creator of intention to move your fingers is not in your brain. It exists throughout your body, it extends out to the totality and can be described as consciousness, awareness, intention, love, nonlocality, universal intelligence, being, and even god. There is wonder in everything you see because you have dropped the agreed upon labels for things that make them into a "known". A label say, for a flower, can't begin to describe the whole entity that is the flower, nor can the human senses detect the flower in its entirety, or that the flower could not exist as it does without the rest of the universe being just as it is. The third state of waking consciousness is when you realize that you are not in the world, but the world is in you; that there is only energy of differing intensities; that there is only one consciousness, one being, that you are that being and nothing exists other than that being; that the physical world is a dimension of that being and there exist infinite dimensions that the human mind could not even grasp. This is the state of being that is available to all humans, even as they live on earth. Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is among you. This is what he was talking about. It is the same as enlightenment, nirvana, salvation, or any other religious or philosophical "end game". This state of being, in some religions, requires a "good" life, belief, and that you die. In this state, there is no belief, there is only being, and through being comes knowing. How do you get there? here's a start--love all things and beings as yourself, unconditionally, because beyond the physical world, they are differing states of you. Next, accept each aspect of the physical world as an integral part of the whole, that nothing could be any other way than it is; that you could not possibly know why things happen, but you know they are supposed to happen, and exist just as they do, in incomprehensible perfection. Finally, withhold all judgement; of yourself, others, the physical world, of anything. When something happens, use the brain to act or not act accordingly, completely beyond the realm of judgement. When a choice has been made to act or not, stop the thought process as, continued thought will only result in regret of the past (last year, five minutes ago), or fear of the future (five minutes from now, next year). Regret and fear are mental pain. Events do not cause them, thought and judgement cause them. Through these steps you can transcend them, even as you live your physical life. |