I had a chat with a friend on Facebook yesterday and we talked about the turmoil in the world and the forecasts for the end of the Mayan calendar, the supposed “end of days”.
We talked about this and that and for my friend he seems to take comfort from the fact that this life is ultimately an illusion because in reality the universe is all one thing at every dimensional level, namely energy, our apparent physicality being an illusion according to the speed with which the energy vibrates. This means that we are all part of the universal consciousness, the everything that some call God or Allah, and that it is an illusion that we are separate, an illusion created by the ego.
Therefore, my friend argues, whether we live or die doesn’t matter. He maintains that it is an ego attachment that we care about it at all. So, he is trying to keep the perspective that he will be OK whether he dies or not. This is all good stuff in that we can then be free to live in the moment and not live in fear. I get all that and its great. It is also true that we are just part of the One and in death we go “home”. Great. By why come here at all? What is the point if we don’t “give a damn”?
As my friend said (I hope I recall this correctly) we come to experience and I think he said that God, as I will call the universal consciousness for ease, want to experience itself. OK. I get that too. But from my experience, when we die, we don’t just go back into the common pool that is the universal consciousness free of separation (i.e. we don’t vanish or melt back into God) but somehow continue to be ‘demarked’ - I say “somehow” because the main separation tool in life to allow the maintenance of the illusion is the ego but the ego is part of our incarnation which vanishes on or soon after death. I have no thoughts on what it is that maintains the separation until a spirit is ready to re-join the whole in unseparated form once more. I just experience the separate spirits that persist beyond this incarnation and indeed reincarnate until they have reached the point of no longer needing to do so (though some still do anyway to assist other souls advance).
Let me interject at this point. I “know” or at least think I “know” the things I am writing about and that my friend talks about too, but I was left feeling something was missing in that perspective as in a way it makes a nonsense out of living. If you are going to go out and play football, would you go on the pitch and just stand there? It is perhaps unfortunate that my example uses competition which is not relevant in the game of life, but a game is what life is, a game to be played “to the max”. I agree that if you “lose” or “fail” it doesn’t matter but to come to the game to play and then not play in earnest is not, for me, an attachment, it is what life is about.
No wonder I had an uncomfortable feeling inside. It is not about being attached to the outcome but committed to something, preferably something that lifts your spirit and contributes directly or indirectly to the collective game, the collective benefit. Sure, if we fail and earth is destroyed, the universe will go on as an illusion without us and, in all probability, Mother Earth would pick up her illusory pieces and continue her own game of illusion, but my aim is not one of the ego at all, it is something I have set my heart of for lifetimes at a soul level. I know because it is what sets my heart on fire and fills me with a passion for life. It’s why I get out of bed in the morning and probably why God did too!
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