You are a god dreaming of time and space.
You are infinite consciousness imagining it’s human.
“To infinite consciousness, embodiment is as radical and progressive as it gets. To embody is to turn its back on all that has been known in order to create a new experience.”
Because we have such a linear existence within the human experience, it’s hard to imagine what it is to not live in relation to time and space. Our linearity is even baked into our language (which favors expressing cause and effect), making our words a poor tool to convey what the non-linear experience is like. I will, however, do my best using a somewhat clumsy, yet revealing, analogy.
Imagine someone called Bob who had an accident where they lost the use of their limbs and had to take physiotherapy to learn to move again. In this situation, Bob may start with something as small as just trying to move a finger. For a person in this position, the idea of getting up and walking across the room would feel impossible.
With this analogy, I want to highlight the concept of focus. It takes all Bob’s focus to move his finger. Whereas, for you and me, it only takes a small percentage of our focus to stand up and walk across a room. We can even do it while reading a message on our phone.
Because it takes all Bob’s focus to lift a single finger, he first has to choose which finger to lift. For example, he may move his right index finger and then his left. In doing this, he would focus on the right finger, move it, and then he would move his attention to the left finger. In this, imagine Bob’s sense of focus almost physically traveling across his body. This sensation of sending his attention from one hand to the other is comparable to a person traveling from one location to another because of how Bob’s attention travels.
We each possess a traveling focus that we are free to direct.
By equating the traveling of our focus with the traveling of our physical bodies, we can imagine a person who walks between two rooms as being like Bob’s focus traveling from one finger to the other. Where this gets interesting is if we imagine the two rooms as being different. Let’s use the two sides of the brain to describe that difference. Imagine one room that is all about fostering self-expression, creativity, and emotions and a second room that is all about fostering logic, categorization, organization, and rational thinking.
When we imagine these two rooms, it feels like two very different options are available because of their contrasting qualities. It is like the choice to go East or West, where we cannot imagine — because it is logically impossible — going in both directions at once. You cannot go East and West at the same time. You cannot be in the creative room and the logical room at the same time because you only have one physical body, and it can only be in one room at a time.
The equivalence here is that because you have one physical body, you can only be in one place at one time, and because it takes all Bob’s focus to move just one finger, his focus can only be on one finger at a time. Only being able to move one muscle grouping at a time is, no matter how hard we try, impossible to comprehend by someone who doesn’t even have to think about walking around.
To consciousness, which does not exist in time and space, the idea of only being able to be in one physical location at a time feels unimaginably limited. It seems like an impossible contortion of perception to be able to live through. Someone who has experienced sight cannot imagine what it is to be blind. Closing your eyes cannot tell you what it is like to be blind.
And that is just it. To wider consciousness / spirit, embodiment is impossible to imagine being human. If spirit wants to know what it feels like, it has to have the experience for itself.
- Eternal consciousness cannot know what it is to be human without being human.
- The Infinite cannot know what it is like to be embodied within time and space without being embodied in time and space.
- We cannot imagine what it is like to have our breadth of focus be reduced from the infinite to the finite. We could not imagine it, so we are living it.
This is how eternal consciousness, which is timeless / outside the experience of linear time, views those in linear time. To choose to live within linear time is to choose to live in one location at a time. We cannot comprehend how that looks to consciousness with the ability to experience all locations simultaneously, but I hope the finger moving analogy offers a clue.
We are the infinite choosing to be finite.
We are the experience of choice.
Infinite consciousness does not need to choose between options. It can go North, South, East, and West simultaneously. It can taste every item on a menu. Its infinite perception unifies all opposites and nullifies any need for choice. The idea of having to choose makes no sense to the Infinite. Just as it is hard to imagine timelessness, so it is hard to imagine living without having to make choices.
To infinite consciousness, embodiment is as radical and progressive as it gets. To embody is to turn its back on all that has been known in order to create a new experience. Embodied consciousness unfolds its experience by making choices.
Having to make choices is exciting to infinite consciousness.
Everything about the idea of choices is thrilling. However, when in human form, without the wider perspective on how creative, fun, and playful choices can be, we soon learn to express our fear through them. In fearing our choices, we have created the experience of dilemma. The universe is attractive in nature. Fear is repulsive in nature. Dilemmas are a balance between the two, such that the person ‘in the dilemma’ finds themselves stuck / incapacitated / unable to choose out of a fear of making the ‘wrong choice’.
It is important to recognize when you are in dilemma because opening up to timelessness at a real-world level (where time is experienced in a more fluid/magical way) is all about stepping out of dilemma — dilemmas such as East or West, right or wrong, black or white, all or few, equality or hierarchy, stay or go, and competition or cooperation.
Dilemmas are a fear-based illusion.
Bob moves both fingers by realizing he doesn’t have to choose one or the other … by realizing there is no dilemma.
The idea that one way is better than the other is an illusion. There is no dilemma. A significant part of learning to perceive reality as your spirit does is knowing that all dilemmas are illusions that have the power to reveal your fears to you (such that you can release them).
- Dilemmas are a gift.
- Dilemmas indicate you are ready to experience clarity.
- Dilemmas are a signpost with the name of your fear written on it.
The realization that transforms the experience of choice occurs when you see that whether you go left or right does not ultimately matter because both routes offer a valuable experience. Both routes lead to further clarity of self, where you have made a part of your unconscious conscious. Whichever option is chosen will lead you to better know yourself.
When our hands cooperate with each other washing dishes, we take it for granted because “How could we not cooperate with ourselves?” But, to a person who must consciously make their focus travel from one hand to the other, it is a miracle. This shows how cooperation grows the longer we spend within this experience because of how we start to see through the illusion that there is a right and a wrong choice (a left and right finger that must be instructed separately).
The other point to note is that because we live many lives, we get to go in both directions. The names of the actors and locations may be different, but across our many lifetimes we explore all directions. This seemingly impossible cross-life information that all options within a choice lead to valuable experiences lives within our subconscious.
Through video calls, we can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the planet (thereby collapsing distance). Through technologies such as video recording, we now document more comprehensive records of the past / our past selves (thereby collapsing time). This makes how we view the past different from those before the existence of photography and video recording.
Also, although our physical body remains confined to one physical location, through these technologies our focus can perceive multiple physical locations at one time (e.g., videoconferencing), and it can also physically manipulate those locations (e.g., the Mars lander).
We are not confined to our physical or temporal locations in the way we once were.
What I most want to point to with these examples is not just that technology is changing how we perceive reality. But, because of these technologies, we are (despite how it outwardly seems), forcing the need for global cooperation upon ourselves. No matter how loudly we argue and denounce each other, humanity is becoming a wonder of cooperating systems.
Technology is forcing a cultural bridge to be created that will eventually span our diverse perception.
This is a direct reflection of how your perception evolves as you accumulate life experience. As you accumulate lives, your ability increases to maintain a wider, more inclusive focus. However, this isn’t a focus that gets more and more powerful. This understanding is key to not seeing youth / young souls as inferior (or superior). As our focus widens through inclusivity, we lose the ability to remember what it was like to have a narrow focus.
Consciousness cannot imagine unconsciousness — it must be unconscious to know unconsciousness.
The Infinite cannot imagine the finite — it must be finite to know finiteness.
As we grow, what we are changes. We do not become better or worse than what we were before, just a different version of our wider self. As your soul matures, your focus will widen and become more inclusive, but it also becomes blind to what motivates people with a narrow focus and weaker instincts. What we most commonly call spiritual wisdom has a price/balance.
- To know immortality is to not know mortality.
- To know you are love is to not understand hate.
- To perceptually light a situation from all directions is to not see the shadows that others see so clearly.
- To know we are one is to be alone.
You are infinite consciousness playing with its imagination. You are what it is for infinite consciousness to imagine being human.
You are infinite consciousness imagining.
Imagination is reality.
Life is but a dream.
Consciousness continues…
Check out my full library with free mp3 at https://limitlessness.com
