How To Feel IT.

In my article about the The felt presence of one-ness (which I highly recommend reading first), I went over how everything is One and that "things" such as "I", "you", and "that" are all but glimpses of a unified process. And that "you", sitting here, peering out of this biological form, flowing over this very sentence is the entire Universe doing so. Not to mention that stranger that just drove by your house and that bird perched upon the tree. We are not just part of this beautiful cosmic dance, witnessing it for some odd years; we are the cosmic dance.

You may be thinking, how could I never have noticed this? How could I have lived my entire life without this feeling and knowledge? Well, that would be because you are thinking. Every time you are "in your head" you are not "in your body", and thus not in the present moment where everything takes place. There is no other moment than now. That past event you are so concerned about happened in the now and is just a distant image being referred to right now. When you think about your future, you are thinking about it now, and when that future event comes, it will then be now. All there is is the now.

So! How do you reach the present moment? Well, there is no reaching involved for you are already in IT, but in order to get "out" of your head, you need to get "in" with your body. Feel your entire body. Scan it. Feel the sensations it gives you. Feel your breath that is going on all the time and that you consciously zone in and out of. Feel the chair you are sitting upon. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Hear the sounds that merge out of nothing and disappear to it once again. See the "things" around you and the space that holds it all together. Become aware of the organic rotating rock floating in the void you are currently upon. Feel gravity and levity holding you in place. Notice the planet and trillions of other galaxies dancing with you. Be aware of your thoughts. Notice how they move so spontaneously like the moment and then "disappear" once again into nothingness.

 If you try to stay present, you won't be, for instead you will be merely trying to do so. Instead, drop everything you know from the past and forget about the future. Be here now. This is so effortless that any effort will take you away from it. Diving into the now is so easy it isn't. The now is forever spontaneous, forever here, and forever from our grasp. To base IT on previous "events" stored within your mind would be foolish.

Sure, you could practice mindful meditation and yoga daily, but if that sole purpose is to reach some form of enlightenment, you are setting yourself a trap. All you really need to do is, simply, be in your body. It is that simple. Be aware of what your entire self is doing and the "things" IT "interacts" with constantly. Stop reading this if you'd like. Get off the computer, stay on, go for a run, hitchhike, travel, whatever! Follow the love that lives within the moment. "Face the facts", if you will. You already know what to do. Live in, as Alan Watt's would put it, The Great Stream.

“You are an aperture

through which

the universe

is looking at and 

exploring itself. ”

 Alan Watts

The Next Step In Conscious Evolution – The Felt Presence of "One-ness".

I am sure you have heard the New Agey idea “we are all one”. At first glance, you may find it to be pretentious, not based on fact, and pseudo-scientific. Well, I am here to change that. I am here to explain this “one-ness” as a very simple fact; a fact that will be hugely important to recognize and feel in these next few years.

Let’s do a little thought experiment, shall we?

Imagine a circle and nothing else. Okay, when you imagined that circle, you imagined a background around that circle, correct? Now get rid of that background because space too is something. So right now, you should only have a circle. Pretty hard to imagine. In fact, it’s impossible. In order for a circle you need space around that circle otherwise that circle would be everything and thus no edge to the circle, thus no circle.Now add another circle. How? Add the space in-between. Now you have two circles and the space around it all. 

In order for something to exist, you need a background. This is a very observable fact. “In the Gesalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived except in relation to a background...” – Alan Watts
Look around your room. Pick a table, a lamp, anything. There’s a background to it, yes? Now lift up your hand. Put it in front of your face. Background, yes? Move it. Background again, yes? Move it again. Background once again, yes?

“The thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, mineral, is not only unknowable – it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most ‘practical’ reasons of economics, politics, and technology. This is not to say that things only exist only in relation to one another, but that what we call “things” are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation. In the Gesalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived except in relation to a background. If, for example, you come so close to me that the outline of my body lies beyond your field of vision, the ‘thing’ you see will no longer be my body. Your attention will instead be ‘captured’ by a coat-button or a necktie, for the theory also asserts that, against any given background, our attention is almost automatically “won” by any moving shape (in contrast with the stationary background).” – Alan Watts

This realization and actual felt presence of “oneness” is, to me, our next GIANT step in evolution.  It is part of our consciousness’ evolutionary process that will lead us hopefully out of this mess we have gotten ourselves into. We believe ourselves to be separate to this world. We feel as if we have popped up in the middle of history, given a bag of skin to wear, and are dealing with an alien world that will continue to exist once "we" vanish into nothingness. We don’t trust our instincts, we second guess ourselves, get anxiety, and hurt our environment which in-turn hurts ourselves.

“What we need is a sense of unity. Not an idea of unity. Not an ideology of unity… a feeling of unity. So it doesn't come out of intellectual exhortation. It comes out of a personal act of courage…an act of courage which involves surrender…” – Terrence McKenna
The time to recognize and more importantly feel this is now. We don’t have much time. When someone says “we are all one”, it isn't some crazy inter-dimensional, magical thing, it’s just a fact. Observe the mind. Recognize you are pure awareness, not the mind. Follow your instincts. Work with nature, not against it. Give, give, and give for you will only be helping yourself. Everything you experience is you. You are all IT. But there is no "you", IT is IT. :)

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Do what YOU want to do.

Are you comfortable? Right now, in your warm room, relaxing after a long day of school or work? Are you too tired to do anything? Go ahead, sit, relax, enjoy it, you earned it! After (x) hours of work/school, you deserve to sit down and watch your favorite TV show and play the new Halo, Call of Duty, or whatever game you love. Sadly, after that show, after that final kill, after that final high, you have to return to reality. And to some, that reality is a bitch. But hey, you can return to your alternative reality tomorrow! No problem, right?! Wrong..

After a few weeks of this repetitive mundane life, you begin to get tired of it. The happiness you once received soon fades away. Trust me, it never lasts. What I am here to tell you is; do not settle for the alternative reality, the artificial happiness, the rubber society that we have collectively created. If you are not happy with your current situation, change your situation! Do what you want to do! Not what your parents want, not what society wants, and not what your friends want. You are your only limitation. Follow the inner voice that is you.

News flash! You are a part of a great big, vast world that is within potentially an infinite Universe which is also potentially intertwined in a Multiverse, all simultaneously working together in this moment that we call the Now. What you are currently doing in the moment is what the entire Multiverse is doing right Now. You should NOT settle for the next video game or the new Dancing With the Stars to spend that Now. Just because it’s cloudy out, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go outside. Life is grand. Explore it!

As far as I can tell, we only live once. Do you want to leave this rotating crystalized blue rock in the void, inhabited by life, life that you are, and that seems to be the only life in this Universe (doubtful), with not even living that precious life? For the sake of humanity and the Earth in general please, follow that inner voice and do what YOU want to do. Life is here for one thing, to live. 

So….LIVE! Choose wisely what you do, because if your life truly flashes before your eyes when you die, you might think twice about what you did.