What if "space" is more than what we think it is?

23 May 2015

Part I

Before we begin, I’d like you to do something, if you’re reading this during the daylight hours. Please look outside and look up, look to the sky, to the clouds (if there are any), look at the sun. What do you feel? Really look.

If you’re reading this during the night, go outside or look through the window and look at the stars, at the moon.

Now be present just for a few seconds and feel your own presence, become aware of your own existence. Just be aware and present with yourself for a few seconds.

No cheating, please do it before we go on.

Now, as you are present and aware of yourself and your existence, look at the stars, the clouds, the sun or the moon while still aware of yourself. Tell me, what do you feel? What do you perceive?

Tell me in your mind.

Now look at any object around you, such as your computer, a chair, your phone or a wall. Look at it as you maintain awareness of yourself. How do you feel? What do you perceive?

(Please share in your mind).

Do you feel less lonely? Do you feel there is something else besides you, existing? What is it like for you?

Part II

Now become aware of the space between objects or between objects and you; become aware of the space between you and your computer, between you and the chair, between anything. What is it?

What is that thing we call space? Is space empty? Is space nothing but emptiness?

Just be present for a few moments and become aware of the “space around”.

What if what we call space is not emptiness? What if our conception and beliefs about space are not true?

What would space be then?

What if space, as we call this “thing”, is actually not space in the sense that it is only a distance between objects? What if space is more than nothing, what if this nothingness is actually alive? What if all objects actually exist within this “nothingness” we call space, like things existing in the water of a swimming pool?

What if the swimming pool is what we call the universe, the water is an intelligent and alive consciousness, and all objects are the effects or creations of this consciousness?

If this was so, what would this mean?

Look again now at the space between you and any object. How do you perceive this space? Can you feel it? What if this space (like water in the swimming pool) is alive and breathes? What if it has rhythms?

Can you feel them?

III

Now, what if we humans, meaning you and me, are inside this swimming pool and for most of our lives have not been aware that we are in the pool; this means we exist and there is more to our existence than ourselves (as we perceive we are)?

What if our ability to be aware and to increase our awareness permits us to perceive more and more about who we are, what we are and what we are part of?

What if the mind/body identity, when in fear and attached, has a limited capacity to fully grasp existence itself, believing we are only flesh and blood?

What is these beliefs makes us experience life as something only material, ephemeral and temporal? Is this why we are so afraid to die? Is this why some are afraid of not existing?

Let's come back to center. Be present again for a few seconds. Become aware of you and the objects around you. Now shift your focus and become aware of the space between. Take a few moments.

Now become aware of everything at the same time, you, the objects and the space between.

What if all of the space and objects around us, and our very selves, are like a digital movie in which we are the directors and main characters? What would this mean?

IV

Is it possible that we can have some type of influence in the universe by being part of it? Is this what Quantum physics tells us, that we, the observers, affect the observed?

Does this mean that we are not passive elements in the swimming pool but active participants in creation?

If so, what would this mean?

Can we create with our minds? Can we influence reality with the way we are, and what we believe? Some say so.

I guess the only way to find out is to experiment. What if we change our point of view about something? What would the effects be?

What if we change our belief that we are powerless mortal entities at the effects of it all? What if we change and see ourselves as active creators? What if we just try it for a day? Do you want to? Would you dare to be an explorer and adventurer?

If you do, have fun and let me know how your experiment goes by sending me a message here. Or leaving your comments in the section below. I really want to hear from you.

Kindly,

SPACE, REALITY & US