07/05/2026
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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ~ Rumi
"Most of us take the individualized body-mind-self to be representative of who and what we are — hence the “me-story”, or personal narrative. The prime misunderstanding generated from that conviction is the belief that we are human beings in a world of other human beings, all vying for survival and prominence. That mistaken identity is further complicated by sub-programs of gender, race, social affiliation, and cultural belief systems.
It is all an innocent enough assumption, since by inserting ourselves into this vibrational frequency, we necessarily assume a kind of amnesia regarding our true nature. The purpose of this amnesia is to create the illusion that we actually are the human animal which we have temporarily inhabited..
The illusion of the “person” is necessary in order to grant the incarnational adventure a sense of reality. For the experience to have a vivid impact, we need to identify with the fictional avatar in the virtual reality game of being human to the extent that we momentarily forget ourselves and believe we are the game character itself...
By investing a percentage of our light energy through a process of focused attention into the human host, we come to identify with the human character for the duration of its lifespan, enjoying the unique sense of self that results from the fusion. Nevertheless, we are not that human self, any more than we are the body-mind organism with which we are identified.
At death, the human does not move on — we do. The human returns to the atomic elements, but we eventually re-integrate that percentage of energy previously incarnated with our apparent “higher self”, or Spirit, which manifests as a seemingly immortal being of Light in what appear to be heaven-type worlds, dimensions which vibrate at a much higher frequency than the denser human circumstance.
At this level, we enjoy increasingly greater access to the Universal Knowledge, so much so that it renders even our most seemingly profound human concepts of enlightenment comparable to the vague murmurings of sleepwalkers.
This higher or “Whole Self” or “Spiritual Self” appears to be, for all intents and purposes, much more like our real and immortal nature than any human illusion, just as the world of Spirit seems infinitely more real than our lower density 3-D earthly sojourn.
However, regardless of our luminous radiance, we are still very much like characters in a dream, a dream being dreamt by the Source of all the universe, in the same way that humans are like a dream we seem to create when we incarnate that portion of our energy into the illusory environment of the human bio-vehicle.
Just as the human/soul entity populates its dreams with all sorts of characters at night while asleep, so too do we appear in the Mind of Source. Kashmir Shaivites have depicted it (metaphorically) as the dream play of Shiva, which in today’s quantum terms would correspond to the image of a projected super-holograph.
As “spiritual” beings, we have been infused with a sense of individuality by Source, just so that It can experience itself from every possible angle and thereby enjoy its creation through our various perspectives as co-creators of all manifestation.
In order to be able to appreciate Itself, Source manifests the conditions for the appearance of innumerable sentient forms, which are nevertheless still indivisible shards or projections of Itself. As Spirit beings of light and power (Source Energy), we are perfect vehicles and conduits for Source’s creative play of consciousness.
In that regard, one could say that what we actually are is Source Itself, “pretending” to be multiple distinct selves. Consequently, those who claim that we are not even souls at last are also ultimately correct.
In any event, Source is not some kind of Super Personality or Ultra-cosmic Entity (which are mere human concepts), but much more like a vast, fluid, ineffable holographic energy field of transparent Clear Light, an interconnected and resonant web of reality to which no human terms or descriptions can ever truly apply, but which includes all creation as manifest aspects and dynamic reflections of its own unconditional loving..
Indeed, whatever we interpret from our limited human point of view as the “Divine” is simply “That” which is looking out of our eyes, living us as Its own life, and replicating that same process in an infinite numbers of ways, an infinite number of lives, yet each distinct to the eyes through which It lives and sees and creates. Here, the mystics’ claim that “there is only God” is actually the literal truth, or as Alan Watts said: “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
~Bob O'Hearn
In Search of Self and Beyond
