Deadspeak

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).

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.

"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.

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 1^st 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