![]() ![]() If you’re thinking that way, why not put your scientific mind on the shelf for now? Not forever, because it’s good to bring it back again when you’ve experienced this boundless reality. And more than that, it takes duality to be the true condition of reality. This is because our modern Western science is inherently physically reductionistic. So if you’re thinking scientifically you’ll have trouble with this perspective. Of course, this perspective of the whole universe being pervaded by this reality, from which everything is formed and in which everything swims, doesn’t accord with the scientific perspective of things. This Spiritual Perspective Can Hold the Scientific Perspective Easily We see that the atmosphere condenses into dense drops, and these drops are our souls, and the whole physical universe is formed out of densification and condensation of that atmosphere, all swimming within the ocean of it. ![]() That’s why we say “omnipresence” you recognize your presence is now omnipresence because it really is everywhere.Īs we lose our boundaries, we recognize that there is only this boundless, infinite atmosphere, and that all the essential qualities are basically differentiations and condensations of that atmosphere. Only when you see through the skin as a boundary do you realize that you don’t actually have a size or shape. The more you see through that belief, which is part of the ego principle, the more your essence expands, and it gets bigger and more expanded until you feel, “Oh, it’s really big now!” When you feel so expanded, it can feel like you’re filling the room, but although you’re expanding, chances are you’re still believing that you stop at your skin-it’s just that your skin has gotten as big as the room. The only reason why your essence stops at your skin is because you think it does, because that’s what you believe. Your soul doesn’t stop at your skin, and neither does your essence. In this work we want to learn experientially, little by little, so that you’re gradually learning the teaching and at the same time learning what you yourself are and what reality is.Īs your experience of the aspects and your essential nature is no longer felt to be something that is only inside you, you begin to see that you don’t stop at your skin. Some teachings try to give you the whole story right from the beginning, but it’s difficult to absorb, except in an intellectual way. That’s what happens at the beginning-and we explored that in the first volume of this love series-but now we’re concerned with the big picture, the whole story. We are not working just so that you feel your essence inside you and resolve your issues and that’s it. True spiritual or mystical experience is to experience the nature of everything, which is the same thing as the being of God. If you only understand yourself as essential nature, you are only just beginning to know spirituality. We cannot understand spirituality if we don’t understand divinity, if we don’t understand the cosmic being, or the nature of everything. And when we understand the connection of the soul to the larger perspective, it means that we understand what the boundless dimensions really mean, and that is when we begin to understand what spirituality truly means. ![]() I said at the beginning of this teaching that it would involve a shift of focus from the experience of the individual soul to the experience of the whole of existence. ![]()
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