It's not easy to understand what we mean when we say, "All is One." If we look around us it just doesn't make any sense.
Intellectually of course, we get that when we group everything together it automatically becomes one: one group with a lot of different things in it. That's clear enough. But open your eyes, look around and try to see it. Everything looks separate. It's a conundrum.
OK, so let's give something a go and see if it can help us understand how this works. We'll employ a little mental exercise using an analogy to try and get a better idea of why our world appears to be made up of different things and parts, but is really all one behind the illusion.
FILTERING
Take a large piece of black card and punch a bunch of holes in it. Now, hold it up to the sky. What can you see?
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Isolating Oneness |
This
passage is a clue of course to what really lies behind. We're given
the clue, but we still see separate states of 'being' out there through
the windows we've
created.
The punched card is a filter.
The punched card is a filter.
LAYERING
Now,
take an infinite sheet of stretchable fabric and pepper it with large
holes to create a thin lattice. Place yourself in a field of pure light
and wrap this infinite sheet all around you so that everything is seen
through that filter. Notice how
it's not an infinite sheet anymore: it's more like a sphere. It's
finite.
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| Filtered Light through a Container of Illusion |
At
this level, with one filter, we can still remember that behind it is a
seamless field of
light. The circles we made inhabit most of the space we created in our
sphere so we can see well behind it anyway, even with the filter in
place. In any case, it's easy to dissolve the filter and know the truth
again. It would be hard to lose your sense of
oneness looking through this single screen.
This is our first level of illusion. Let's call it 7th density since it's not really very dense here at all.
So take another piece of fabric. Punch some more holes in it—make them a different shape this time and place them a little further apart. Wrap it all around you inside the first sphere.
With this extra layer and an overlap between the grid as well, somewhat less light is visible through them. We can still make out the two different shapes we made and we can still see the continuity behind easily enough, even though it's somewhat more fragmented now.
We'll call this 6th density. It's our second layer of illusion.
Take another piece of fabric and punch the sheet again with yet another form. As the layers build up the light coming through diminishes further. The forms we see are becoming more complex now, but we can still see a unified field diffusely behind the screens.
This is 5th density and the third layer of illusion.
Next take another piece of fabric and this time create a solid hemisphere so half of the sphere is obscured and the other half is a lattice. Looking out toward the opaque half, it seems dark. Look the other way and everything still appears light as day. Naturally, the light half seems bright in comparison to the dark side. Despite the dimming and obscuring hemisphere, the general ratio between light and dark feels roughly equal overall here because it's only at this level that the brilliance of the field behind is moderated enough to be blocked out.
Of course on the dark side nothing much can be seen at all—just a reflection from the light coming through opposite. Since the overlap increases, the view breaks up perceptibly too. It starts to feel different altogether; and so the truth of seamlessness slowly fades from our perception.
While there may be areas where we can see a circle or other shape, they're few and far between at this level. Yet the sense of light comes through clearly enough so that if we focus past the filters at the light realm we remember is behind it all, we can still make out how the field might be as one. It's bright enough compared to the darkness when we look out that way, but less intense nonetheless.
If we focus on the innermost screen, some of what we see appears jumbled yet we can still maintain a perspective based on the light if we choose. It's really quite fascinating to gaze through these assorted windows now. We can see a high contrast emerging between the light and dark in many places. And then because it makes it so much easier, when we make out particular patterns we name them and hold that idea so we don't have to figure it out all over again. This seems like a very good idea.
Let's call this 4th density and the fourth layer of illusion.
Take another piece of fabric and this time create bands around. Now for the first time there's perceptibly more dark than light. At this level the illusion is almost overwhelming, or it might easily become so.
In our journey down through the densities, we're gradually becoming more and more mesmerized by the illusion of our increasingly isolated perception, so we begin to forget where we came from. It all seems so real in here.
And so this is 3rd density; the fifth layer of illusion.
Take another piece of fabric and let's place thinner bands perpendicular to the ones we made before. Now the darkness is almost complete and consciousness of the light is pretty much impossible to maintain.
This is 2nd density and the sixth layer of illusion.
Finally, take another piece of fabric with no holes in it. Wrap it all around you again. At this level there's no light to be seen. What was once pure light is now pure dark. It's all one again, but the lack of light creates an entirely different experience of oneness. Down here the darkness is complete.
This is 1st density and the seventh layer of illusion.
Alright then, let's move back to the fifth layer of illusion in 3rd density. Look around.
In order to see anything at all you have to turn and focus through a window. Sure you can see more than one at once but the one you're looking at directly seems clearest. Between each aperture is 'empty space' because the light forms seem to leap out from the darkness here, their edges dissolving gently to create a sense of depth and perspective. The light coming through lands on the grids then reflects and this adds to the illusion.
All these layers create holes of varying sizes and shapes. We may have what appears to be a star over there, a crescent here, a box somewhere else, or a ragged shape we can't quite put a label on—and there are many others we can't define at all. It takes time to assimilate; time to make sense of the jumble of images; time to order it all.
Our sense of what we're looking at is confounded. Those patterns we started holding on to are hard to let go of down here—we've come to rely on them and we find ourselves believing they're real to the exclusion of other possibilities we can no longer make out.
If we forget altogether where we came from we begin to feel afraid—afraid that when we leave here we'll cease to exist. Why? Because the infinite light field is no longer our primary frame of reference—the grid we see surrounding us is. And then if we feel small against the immensity of what's 'out there,' we might believe the illusion is real as well, and think we're diminished. In fact, if we stay in here long enough without consciously reconnecting to our source, it's almost certain we will.
This is a recipe for disaster.
Now, let's go one step further and set these layers spinning around us at different rates.
The one on the outside flies around so fast you can barely see it's there. Really the only effect it creates as it spins is a slight dimming of the light. The next layer in spins a little more slowly and so the light dims a little more. Continue doing this all the way down to 3rd density and see how much the light diminishes. There's a blurring of edges now but this only serves to increase the illusion.
At 2nd density within the 6th level of illusion the filter moves so slowly it hardly seems to change. Eons pass as we wait. Of course this layer is actually beneath us since we've placed ourselves in 3rd density. All we can see in 2nd are mere facets of what is. The roundness we perceived earlier is beginning to break down and so the whole world seems to flatten out. The density here is overwhelming. Light is little more than a distant memory.
Looking at the innermost layer, well, this one barely moves at all. It's so dark and slow you can't even tell it's moving—less like watching the hour hand on a clock than a millennial hand if we had one.
Back in 3D however, what we see is like an ever-changing kaleidoscope of form and space. It's positively mesmerizing and beautiful! Some things appear to move and flow—fast or slow. Others seem solid and unchanging, and these of course are the densities below us.
Move around within this amazing space we've created in our minds—explore it. It's fun.
Now, take a photo and hold the image still. Then take another one. Do it again and again and again. These stills are the moments in our lives viewed from behind and within these veils. We look at them one at a time in sequence and say, that's it then. The memory of all those images we've already made are laid out behind us and we think of them as past, while the ones we haven't made yet are the future. At this level, these memories and the vague view we have before us appear to be All That Is. But is it? Really? Well, it is if you believe it.
So this is where we've been; and this is where we are. But will this be where we stay? It's a wonderful place if we manage to avoid the disaster of forgetting. If we aren't sure what happens when we don't remember, we can look around us now and see where that leads. Fear, violence, sadness, grief, longing, obscene riches and poverty, control issues, feelings of emptiness and irrelevance surround us. Everywhere we look is a mirror of our holding patterns.
But what if we want to know the truth of who we are? What if we feel the need to lighten up? It's hard to see in here. Where do we start? Our truth becomes almost impossible to perceive once we forget the truth of where we came from.
Alright then, so we're in 3rd density. In order to see clearly we need to dissolve the illusions we've placed around us.
Let's sort the 4th density illusion out until it disappears into the nothingness it came from. How much does the picture change then? With this screen resolved it's much easier to see the light, isn't it? Good, then let's continue.
We can leave the 1st, 2nd and 3rd densities as they are for now so we have some kind of ground to stand on. That way we won't lose our individual sense of who we are in here. We'll keep our bodies too because we want to house our distinct point of view. With both of these elements in place we won't lose our bearing.
Now, dissolve the fifth density filter. How has it changed this time? Even more light appears and what we see now seems larger and closer. Light and dark are merging together, that's certain, and the space between is shrinking so the world around begins to come together. Strangely, although we've shrunk 'space' everything seems to be expanding.
Take the sixth density filter away then. And finally the seventh.
Aha! Just as we suspected:
We are All One.
This is our first level of illusion. Let's call it 7th density since it's not really very dense here at all.
So take another piece of fabric. Punch some more holes in it—make them a different shape this time and place them a little further apart. Wrap it all around you inside the first sphere.
With this extra layer and an overlap between the grid as well, somewhat less light is visible through them. We can still make out the two different shapes we made and we can still see the continuity behind easily enough, even though it's somewhat more fragmented now.
We'll call this 6th density. It's our second layer of illusion.
Take another piece of fabric and punch the sheet again with yet another form. As the layers build up the light coming through diminishes further. The forms we see are becoming more complex now, but we can still see a unified field diffusely behind the screens.
This is 5th density and the third layer of illusion.
Next take another piece of fabric and this time create a solid hemisphere so half of the sphere is obscured and the other half is a lattice. Looking out toward the opaque half, it seems dark. Look the other way and everything still appears light as day. Naturally, the light half seems bright in comparison to the dark side. Despite the dimming and obscuring hemisphere, the general ratio between light and dark feels roughly equal overall here because it's only at this level that the brilliance of the field behind is moderated enough to be blocked out.
Of course on the dark side nothing much can be seen at all—just a reflection from the light coming through opposite. Since the overlap increases, the view breaks up perceptibly too. It starts to feel different altogether; and so the truth of seamlessness slowly fades from our perception.
While there may be areas where we can see a circle or other shape, they're few and far between at this level. Yet the sense of light comes through clearly enough so that if we focus past the filters at the light realm we remember is behind it all, we can still make out how the field might be as one. It's bright enough compared to the darkness when we look out that way, but less intense nonetheless.
If we focus on the innermost screen, some of what we see appears jumbled yet we can still maintain a perspective based on the light if we choose. It's really quite fascinating to gaze through these assorted windows now. We can see a high contrast emerging between the light and dark in many places. And then because it makes it so much easier, when we make out particular patterns we name them and hold that idea so we don't have to figure it out all over again. This seems like a very good idea.
Let's call this 4th density and the fourth layer of illusion.
Take another piece of fabric and this time create bands around. Now for the first time there's perceptibly more dark than light. At this level the illusion is almost overwhelming, or it might easily become so.
In our journey down through the densities, we're gradually becoming more and more mesmerized by the illusion of our increasingly isolated perception, so we begin to forget where we came from. It all seems so real in here.
And so this is 3rd density; the fifth layer of illusion.
Take another piece of fabric and let's place thinner bands perpendicular to the ones we made before. Now the darkness is almost complete and consciousness of the light is pretty much impossible to maintain.
This is 2nd density and the sixth layer of illusion.
Finally, take another piece of fabric with no holes in it. Wrap it all around you again. At this level there's no light to be seen. What was once pure light is now pure dark. It's all one again, but the lack of light creates an entirely different experience of oneness. Down here the darkness is complete.
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| No Light |
This is 1st density and the seventh layer of illusion.
PERCEIVING
Alright then, let's move back to the fifth layer of illusion in 3rd density. Look around.
In order to see anything at all you have to turn and focus through a window. Sure you can see more than one at once but the one you're looking at directly seems clearest. Between each aperture is 'empty space' because the light forms seem to leap out from the darkness here, their edges dissolving gently to create a sense of depth and perspective. The light coming through lands on the grids then reflects and this adds to the illusion.
All these layers create holes of varying sizes and shapes. We may have what appears to be a star over there, a crescent here, a box somewhere else, or a ragged shape we can't quite put a label on—and there are many others we can't define at all. It takes time to assimilate; time to make sense of the jumble of images; time to order it all.
Our sense of what we're looking at is confounded. Those patterns we started holding on to are hard to let go of down here—we've come to rely on them and we find ourselves believing they're real to the exclusion of other possibilities we can no longer make out.
If we forget altogether where we came from we begin to feel afraid—afraid that when we leave here we'll cease to exist. Why? Because the infinite light field is no longer our primary frame of reference—the grid we see surrounding us is. And then if we feel small against the immensity of what's 'out there,' we might believe the illusion is real as well, and think we're diminished. In fact, if we stay in here long enough without consciously reconnecting to our source, it's almost certain we will.
This is a recipe for disaster.
MOVING
Now, let's go one step further and set these layers spinning around us at different rates.
The one on the outside flies around so fast you can barely see it's there. Really the only effect it creates as it spins is a slight dimming of the light. The next layer in spins a little more slowly and so the light dims a little more. Continue doing this all the way down to 3rd density and see how much the light diminishes. There's a blurring of edges now but this only serves to increase the illusion.
At 2nd density within the 6th level of illusion the filter moves so slowly it hardly seems to change. Eons pass as we wait. Of course this layer is actually beneath us since we've placed ourselves in 3rd density. All we can see in 2nd are mere facets of what is. The roundness we perceived earlier is beginning to break down and so the whole world seems to flatten out. The density here is overwhelming. Light is little more than a distant memory.
Looking at the innermost layer, well, this one barely moves at all. It's so dark and slow you can't even tell it's moving—less like watching the hour hand on a clock than a millennial hand if we had one.
Back in 3D however, what we see is like an ever-changing kaleidoscope of form and space. It's positively mesmerizing and beautiful! Some things appear to move and flow—fast or slow. Others seem solid and unchanging, and these of course are the densities below us.
Move around within this amazing space we've created in our minds—explore it. It's fun.
TIMING
Now, take a photo and hold the image still. Then take another one. Do it again and again and again. These stills are the moments in our lives viewed from behind and within these veils. We look at them one at a time in sequence and say, that's it then. The memory of all those images we've already made are laid out behind us and we think of them as past, while the ones we haven't made yet are the future. At this level, these memories and the vague view we have before us appear to be All That Is. But is it? Really? Well, it is if you believe it.
So this is where we've been; and this is where we are. But will this be where we stay? It's a wonderful place if we manage to avoid the disaster of forgetting. If we aren't sure what happens when we don't remember, we can look around us now and see where that leads. Fear, violence, sadness, grief, longing, obscene riches and poverty, control issues, feelings of emptiness and irrelevance surround us. Everywhere we look is a mirror of our holding patterns.
But what if we want to know the truth of who we are? What if we feel the need to lighten up? It's hard to see in here. Where do we start? Our truth becomes almost impossible to perceive once we forget the truth of where we came from.
RETURNING
Alright then, so we're in 3rd density. In order to see clearly we need to dissolve the illusions we've placed around us.
Let's sort the 4th density illusion out until it disappears into the nothingness it came from. How much does the picture change then? With this screen resolved it's much easier to see the light, isn't it? Good, then let's continue.
We can leave the 1st, 2nd and 3rd densities as they are for now so we have some kind of ground to stand on. That way we won't lose our individual sense of who we are in here. We'll keep our bodies too because we want to house our distinct point of view. With both of these elements in place we won't lose our bearing.
Now, dissolve the fifth density filter. How has it changed this time? Even more light appears and what we see now seems larger and closer. Light and dark are merging together, that's certain, and the space between is shrinking so the world around begins to come together. Strangely, although we've shrunk 'space' everything seems to be expanding.
Take the sixth density filter away then. And finally the seventh.
Aha! Just as we suspected:
We are All One.
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