So far, the main considerations of these series of posts (for the past few Fridays) have been the consequences of your beliefs on your personal life…but there is a bigger picture to consider.

As you, and your mindset, create your own personal experiences, you need to consider what you are dealing with in relation to a world event such as an earthquake, tsunami or a war which may involve thousands of people.

In order for you to consider this point fully, you need to remember how you experience reality.

Whatever you may previously have thought about the nature of reality, there is a perception of reality which is common to everyone.

Simply put, everyone categorizes their experiences as either what goes on in their head or what goes on external to them.

However, even medical science says that awareness of the so-called external world can only occur inside the head, because the optical and auditory images are formed inside the brain.

Someone once said…

“No one ever saw a picture in an art gallery. You always see the picture in your head.”

It could be said that you only have internal experiences.

Remember, in a dream you are having an internal experience that you interact with as if it is solid, separate and external to you.

In your waking state of consciousness you interact with these internal experiences in just the same way as you interact with your dream internal experiences.

In both your waking state and dream state you have the common experience of your conscious self being separate from the world you are experiencing.

This common everyday experience is called dualism.

The mindset and concept of dualism states that consciousness and body exist in two different realms, physical and non-physical.

Modern physics shows that this concept violates the laws of conservation of energy and momentum.

In order to obey these laws any interactions between different realms would result in a change of energy and momentum.

However, science always finds the energy and momentum of objects in the physical world to stay exactly the same.

Because the laws of conservation of energy and momentum are well established, consciousness and what is thought of as physical must exist in the same realm.

Physics knows that consciousness exhibits a quality that the so-called physical world does not show, that quality is known by physicists as non-locality.

The term non-locality basically means an instantaneous influence or communication without any exchange of signals through space-time, as demonstrated by such phenomena as telepathy and remote viewing.

This would place consciousness as primary to the so-called physical, which would mean that consciousness is the underlying reality out of which the so-called physical arises.

As all so-called physical things arise out of consciousness, this would have to include what is normally thought of as space and time.

These concepts are summarized by the statement from the physicist John Wheeler when he said:

“Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say that the world exists out there independent of us, that view can no longer be upheld.”

If there is not “a world existing out there independent of us”, what is the reality of a world event such as a volcanic eruption involving thousands of people?

As you think about this question, you can see that one of the most difficult aspects to understand is that of the other people involved.

When viewing the actions of other people, it is very easy to fall into the trap of thinking you are seeing someone else’s reality that is separate and independent of you.

This of course cannot be true; otherwise everything that has been explained so far, which is supported by the disciplines of philosophy and physics, would be wrong.

What is needed is a completely new way of looking at everyday reality.

Generally, the mistake that is often made is trying to understand reality by examining the bits and pieces.

This makes it almost impossible to see what the bigger picture is; in just the same way as examining the bits and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle makes it almost impossible to understand what the entire jigsaw picture looks like.

So, to help understand reality better, what is needed is a top down view, rather than the bottom up view that is usually taken.

So far, the bottom up view has been used in these posts in order for your intellect to understand the apparent nature of reality a little better.

Your intellect is now in a position to take a top down view, which needs to be from the position of the Self, or at least as near as possible from an intellectual point of view.

From the position of the Self, which is the true nature of being, everything is one; there is no separation or objectification.

The position of the Self is a point of knowing all, but to experience all requires the creation of space-time.

It would be rather like just reading books to learn everything there is to know about swimming.

It is only when you get into the water and actually swim that you can have the complete understanding of swimming.

The Self is not a personalized term, there is not a collection of Selves, the Self is unity, it is the One of which many eastern religions speak.

It is the source of the God concept of the western religions.

It is All That Is.

The Self desires to know itself completely but because of its limitless nature it is unable to do so.

In the words of Professor Amit Goswami:

“We choose our conscious experiences, yet remain unconscious of the underlying process. It is this unconsciousness that leads to the illusory separateness, the identity with the separate I of self-reference, rather than the we of unitive consciousness.”

From the position of the Self, concepts are explored using consciousness, which is the medium of expression of the Self but contained within the Self.

This is beautifully expressed in the words of the great Eastern mystic, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi when he said:

“The knower is ever greater than the known, and the seer is greater than the seen. That which is known is contained within the knower, and that which is seen is in the seer; the vast expanse of the sky is in the mind, not outside, because the mind is everywhere and there is no outside to it.”

The very act of exploration requires the one to appear as the many.

It gives birth to such concepts as personalization and separation.

These concepts are expressed in vocabulary by such terms as I, you, we, and them.

From the top down view of the Self, it is understood that these are just concepts for the purpose of exploration; therefore the Self is not lost in personal identification and separation.

But from the bottom up view, the mistake can be made of totally identifying with these concepts of I and you, and this can give rise to feelings of separation and isolation.

As physicist Professor Amit Goswami said;

“The existence in language of such terms as I and my, leads us into a dualistic trap. We think of ourselves as separate because we speak of ourselves in that way.”

It is perhaps easier to understand this process by considering what happens in the dream state of consciousness.

You create and interact with all kinds of images and scenarios, which can sometimes produce quite emotional reactions.

You could for example create a scenario in your dream state of an earthquake that results in many people dying and as a result you can become very emotional at the sight of such a tragedy because you personally identify with the imagery.

You do this because during the dream you are not aware that it is you who has created the imagery.

However on waking you then realize that it was just a dream, and are then happy that it did not really happen and lots of people did not really die, but when you were in the dream it certainly felt completely real.

You can also create such an image in your imagination whereby an earthquake occurs but because you view it from just your imagination; you regard it as unreal, that people have not really just died, and therefore your emotions are not engaged in quite the same way.

In a similar way, the Self completely understands that consciousness cannot be destroyed and also knows the true nature of the imagery.

Therefore, all explorations using consciousness are viewed from a point of understanding that is not swamped by emotional energy.

It is important to realize that getting carried away by emotions keeps you locked in misunderstanding the true nature of the imagery.

However, this is not to deny the importance and relevance of having emotions; they are part of the creative energy used in exploring concepts.

You can now see how similar your waking state of consciousness is to your dream state of consciousness, because while you are so intently focused in either of these states of consciousness you forget that you are creating the imagery and therefore you personally and emotionally identify with it as if it is solid and separate to you.

The imagery is all the more compelling when it is personalized in the form of mother, father, brother, sister and indeed your own personal body-image.

Even the concepts of personality and ego are limitations on what you really are, because there are no actual divisions in consciousness.

Again, it is important to understand that the true existence of all things is in the mystery of the Self, not in the imagery of space-time.

It is perhaps easier to comprehend this if you think of your true existence and communications as being in the Self, and if you want to explore certain concepts you personalize and objectify them in states of consciousness that are called the waking state and dream state.

This is what the mystics of the East have tried to explain when they have referred to everyday reality as the world of illusion.

This is the concept that physicists are struggling to explain when they state that they no longer consider the world as being out there separate to you, which of course includes all that is thought of as the individual people you interact with.

So, whatever you experience in your waking state of consciousness will be based on your perceived limitations, and this will include what you think of as good and evil.

As already shown, space and time are concepts, not absolutes; in the same way, good and evil are also concepts, not absolutes.

They are concepts based on value judgments made by only taking the limited bottom up view of reality.

No matter how repulsive an action is that you see being committed, it will be based on your beliefs about what is possible, not of course on what you find desirable.

It is very important to remember the distinction between what you desire and what you actually believe is possible.

This is not condoning bad behavior or suggesting that you should turn the other cheek; it is stating that you create your own experiences in all their aspects.

All aspects of your experience are based on your perceived limitations about what is possible and therefore can be changed for a more favorable experience.

Once again, this is beautifully put in the words of another of the East’s great modern mystics; Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

“You have made this world and you can change it. The world, of which you are the only source and ground, is fully within your power to change. What is created can always be dissolved and re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it. You have created the world’s sorrows out of your own desires and fears, you deal with them. All is due to your having forgotten your own being. Having given reality to the picture on the screen, you love its people and suffer for them and seek to save them. It is just not so. You must begin with yourself. There is no other way.”

Reflective Questions

• Explain what is happening when you view an event such as war as well as an event like an argument with a neighbor?
• How does the ego interact with other personalities in a so-called world event?
• What is the most common mistake people make that cause them to misjudge what is happening in a world event?
• How would you explain if evil truly exists or not?

Please let me know your thoughts on this and some of your answers to the above questions in the comments below.

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