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We
are limitless beings continually limited by environmental
distractions. Our “souls” are pure consciousness, purely divine.
The fear of contact with this aspect of ourselves, and others, is
intentionally, rapaciously thrust upon us from the time we are very
young. This is materialism in all forms. The material
world, in itself, is not “evil.” It would not exist only to be
so. However, it can be used as a shield between us and our true
natures. This is the unfortunate reality.
Like a toy, the
material is there to be manipulated for our experience: For home runs
and touchdowns; For the creation of new Life; For enjoyment. These
are the “forms” of the material, human “being” experience.
But we are all, underneath, human becomings,
constantly changing and evolving from this material experience and
its outcomes.
FORM = FOR (M)aterial experience
Our consciousness has no material stuff. Some would argue
that consciousness consists wholly and entirely of and within the
brain. It has been my experience that this is not entirely so, and I
would propose that the brain is merely a conduit, a container within
which the immaterial expresses itself outwardly in the material,
3-dimensional world. While the brain anchors consciousness in
3-dimensions, consciousness remains interwoven with the fabric of a
greater existence that we can't wholly integrate.
With this partial understanding, we can extrapolate that while the
body surely will die, the consciousness part of our existence might
not. In fact, the very reason we might have bodies is so the
entity that is our consciousness can experience and grow in a
3-dimensional plane, with nearness and distance, touch and feeling,
sights and sounds, birth and death and all the dynamics involved.
Of course, some sort of “afterlife” is not a secret that
the Kulture tries to keep, however hardily it might attempt to confuse.
Religions such as Christianity and Islam rely heavily on the idea of
some ethereal survival after the death of the body. Some, Buddhism
and Hinduism in particular, have varying ideas regarding reaching
this state of existence before death, through ritual,
meditation, abstinence, and the like. I have come to believe that
the secret our Kulture and other cultures have sought to obfuscate is
how easy it is to connect with our infinite selves and the infinite
selves of others. I don't believe there is a special chant, a secret
handshake, a password, or a set of pain-inflicting tasks one has to
achieve in order to access this other plane. Why should it be so
difficult? After all, it is within us.
Okay, now for the hokey part. I have never been an extremely
religious or new-agey person, I don't believe in ghosts, and for the
most part, I'm fairly down to Earth and analytical. However, I do
believe I have communicated with the “consciousness” of someone
who was close to me and now is dead (body), and also believe I
occasionally communicate with another “person,” the nature of whose
consciousness I'm not going to get into right now (entirely human, don't think I'm all evil-spirited up).
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Yep … get the meds and call the R-wing, he's ready for transport
to the rubber room!
Except, not really. When the world's largest religion believes that
bread and wine are literally turned into 2000 year old flesh and
blood, when another promises 72 virgins as a result of martyrdom,
when yet another believes that darker skin means more sin in a
previous life, the idea of consciousness transcending locality and
the death of the body isn't too extreme.
Now, I don't mean to prove
that my own idiosyncrasy is true just by the fact that others are
more outlandish; to the contrary, I don't mean to “prove” this
belief at all. I mean, I'M not even convinced. But let's just
suppose …
IF consciousness is non-local, AND it survives the death of the
body, THEN the likelihood of inter-dimensional communication is not
only possible, it is highly probable. As I stated before, I believe
that I have experienced this very phenomenon and there aren't any
bells and whistles.
I wrote the lion's share of this essay directly after one such
“conversation” with, actually, both of the two
consciousnesses I previously mentioned. Parts of it I felt as if we
were writing together. Almost entirely *lost in thought and
well-focused, I didn't find the rift between life and death difficult
to maneuver. Maybe, after all, THIS is the secret that all the
Kultural fiddle-faddle seeks to hide:
It is as easy to communicate with those who have been close to us in
the material world and have died as it is to communicate with those
who are still present in body. In fact, it is much easier.
Terrestrial communication is limited by many barriers: time,
location, focus, consciousness barriers, language (including the
obvious language barriers, but as well, body language, differences in
vocabulary, nuances in meaning of words – a single word can have
different “experiential connotations” attached to it depending
upon the person uttering it or the person listening, etc.), semantics, health,
age, culture, and others.
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"This is not a pipe."
Telepathic
communication (and I'm not even sure telepathic is the correct word because that involves distance) is limited only by focus. Cogito ergo sum.
There are a few other, perhaps geometric
barriers I don't quite understand and it has only explained to me but
in visual representation. It appears as a kind of rounded, opaque,
grey corner, rotating toward me with mathematical symbols and lines
of demarcation, as if it were time itself unfurling in my direction
(that is my interpretation, anyway). Those who are free of the
material, can “see” around these corners, like shadows lurking in
the direction of the light. “Pre-shadows,” if you will.
Initially, I would assume that these barriers would only limit our
communication from them, but oddly enough, it seems to be the other
way around. Perhaps this is for “their” protection (i.e., would
a dead parent want to experience his child having sexual relations,
or committing a crime?). That appears to be the only barrier None
of the Hollywood contrivances like seances our talismans are
necessary. These ideas are simply more barriers that are put between
us and our true nature.
That
is not to say a piece of the material world might hold a “piece”
of former consciousness within it, or help one to focus, at the very
least. An illustration of this (pun stumbled upon) would be an
experience I had in the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. While
gazing upon a Van Gogh self portrait, I experienced a literal
“thought conversation” with the man. It was as if he had left a
piece of himself in that painting with a message and the painting
itself acted as a doorway to this communication. Tortured soul that
he was, it would only seem logical that he would leave pieces of his
soul within his works. It's possible that sigils such as great works
of art, which are, in essence, gifts
(in this case, gifts to the world), help to eliminate the
aforementioned thin geometric barrier.
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Our
Kulture seeks to further the limits of our true nature consciousness
regarding the transcendence of the material. You have the obvious –
the decadent descent into all things superficial. Most people are
lost on this 1st
level material plane, hindered by financial hardships or greed,
desirous to be fashionable and keep up with all the Joneses, blinded
by technological advances, obsessed with appearance and all things
shiny and visual, seduced by science that tells us such things are
impossible, stupefied by the school system, and/or hypnotized by the
media.
But there are other, less obvious barriers our Kulture places
between us and ourselves. One is the implication of the necessity of
“evil” in the transcendent. How many men in black robes does it
take to chant mystically in a circle around a sacrificial virgin to
communicate with the dead? ZERO. However, this idea becomes
implicit when we read, watch television or movies, or even go to
church. It is implied that something BAD must happen, that there
must be an evil mojo present, or at the very least, an ordained
minister's blessing to conjure such a notion as the transcendental
nature of human consciousness.
We
actually know VERY LITTLE about our own human consciousness
experience or even the very essence of the universe, but these wise
men and women are certain to tell you exactly how NOT to do it.
They've let us know that we must be dabbling with the dark
if we consider anything but the material … unless, of course, it is
a practice labeled and approved by a major religion.
From my experience, the transcendental nature of reality ebbs and
flows through the material world as sure as all those little Wi-Fi
waves are zipping and fluttering through your bones this minute. Let
me give you an example:
Imagine
a perfect square and assign a unit of 1 as length of each side.
Mentally, draw a line from one corner of the square to its opposite,
making two right triangles. Now, give me a measurement in units of
the line you just created. The fact is, you cannot. The measurement
of that line is √2,
which is an irrational number – it is a number that continues
infinitely without repeating 1.414213562 … and on and on and on …
So, a basic shape that you learned to identify when you were 1 ½
years old, about the simplest shape there is, one which appears
bounded on all sides, and in every way extremely simple, actually
contains the infinite. Nevertheless, we can use a
square to build a block, and this block can be played with by a
child, or it can be used to build a pyramid. All the while being at
once completely tangible while containing the completely intangible.
Now,
of course there will be those who will answer: You
can't draw a perfect square.
To whom I will answer: You
can't draw an IMPERFECT
square.
By definition, a square, the concept – square – is perfect. By
definition you can't draw a square, period, because we live in a
3-dimensional world. A square is 2-dimensional. Even the dust from
the pencil makes this impossible. Regardless, this conceptual
square exists, and we use it to lay foundations, build walls, and
guide ships. And within this very solidly bounded shape exists the
UN-bounded!
From
our tangible experience, we humans begin with a body. Kulturally, it
must be clothed. Then, they must be the right
clothes, the fashionable clothes. Then, by kulture, you've got to
have the right accessories. Next, you put this Kulturally clothed
person in a box, a house or apartment, somewhere away from the
elements. Send this person to a school box to conditionally
associate all the Kulturally acceptable from unacceptable. Give this
person a Je-ob (or, Job, Biblically, tortured while worshiping the
torturer over a bet, as similar to industrial employment as any
metaphor I could conjure), and put the person in a boxy vehicle to get
himself from one box to the other. Feed it a daily dose of fear from
boxes of cereal, program it from boxes that flash little digital
pictures and audio into its brain … is it any wonder why the
original, naked being while becoming loses its connection to the limitless? Is n't a person in our Kulture analogous to the diagonal of a square? Even
if you begin to think “outside the box” it is labeled “radical”
thinking.
Our naked body is the 3-dimensional boundary of the infinite,
limitless consciousness contained within. If this were the only
boundary, without all the Kultural distractions, we might soon discover that the connection to the eternal,
the divine, or the “perfect” is not so difficult as we are led to
believe.
*lost -- isn't it odd that when someone is extremely focused and concetrating, we call him "lost" in thought? Is the pejorative "lost" an attempt to keep the minds eye on the material?
~ Whajonahle 7.2.2013
