Everything you do, you do with others. A model for this idea can be found in table tapping. Table tapping is an attempt to communicate with the deceased by means of a group of people standing around a table with their fingers under the table. Questions are answered by a series of rapping sounds produced by the table. When such a rap occurs, it has been found that at precisely the same moment, everyone around the table pushes upward with their fingers causing the table to rise and then hit the floor in a brief burst. The brains of the participants all react at the same moment, before any conscious awareness can occur.
The same is true, in a sense, of all our actions. Our conscious mind has to process everything in the context of choice, except when it doesn’t have time to think before reacting. But the impulses that occur subconsciously in us do not need the interference of pre-considered choice in order to act. They respond automatically. It is only the conscious portion of the mind that must frame its own experience in terms of choice and free will.
In actuality, most of our being is an automatic response. Without the illusion of choice, however, the conscious portion of the mind cannot function as it is meant to. It believes that it needs that illusion to do what it does. Our brains receive impulses that are reactions to our environment, but we are also conditioned in our responses by our past experiences.
Another factor is even more buried from our conscious mind. There are invisible lines of force that act on all human beings and animals and all other physical phenomenon across the world. These “meta-events” sweep across our collective being simultaneously, and tie all our actions together. These could be considered to be “super-conscious” or above-conscious events in the mind.
Everything we do, we do simultaneously with others. As our environment is in reality made of consciousness, our actions can be seen as another kind of thought process, simply one that registers on a particular frequency. So, each action-thought acts on the mind-environment in ways that seem random and unconnected most of the time, but a higher order emerges when you experience the higher meta-events. We think and act, experience and react synchronously from these levels to the degree that we can bind our mind to them.
Every thought that an individual thinks impacts the whole thought system of others as well. But, being a closed system, a thought does not originate from that person per se but from a hierarchy of meta-events. Thoughts that are based in a particular level of meta-event can impact the structure at that level. However, as one goes higher in the hierarchy of meta-events, the structure tends to match one’s desire more and more, leaving less opportunity to influence the structure at that level with one’s thoughts, as one’s desires are already being made manifest. Our mind at this level is different from our normal conscious mind.
All systems are highly ordered at their core. Physical “reality” is a complex fiction and like any fiction there must be a fundamental truth to support it or there would be no experience at all. It takes a very complex set of continuously placed and interdependent systems to create the appearance of “chaos.” Because chaos does not really exist, it takes a vast amount of thought process on many levels to make it happen. This does not mean that physical experience represents a richer or more varied form of thought while more simple ideas are less interesting and meaningful. In fact, the reverse is true.
Physical experience is confined in a particular way that severely limits it. It is like a spiral path that dead-ends at the center of a circle. The simplest ideas are more abstract, and the less material and more abstract a thought the vaster its range of expression is. Within that range it will interact with all other thoughts in that range.
Physical types of ideas are limited to the physical, and when the fictional conditions of the physical are overcome at higher levels, and shown to no longer hold true, the associated physical ideas no longer have any means of expression. So, it is in fact the physical ideas that are the most limited as well as limiting.
Why does the physical become a dead-end spiral of thought? The fiction of chaos has to be tempered, level-by-level, from the reality of pure meaning and consciousness that is unified in meta-thought. Each succeeding lower layer of meta-thought/event that leads down to physical levels of mind must strip some small amount of Truth and thus interconnectivity and meaning from what was presented in the previous level.
Through this gradual process of blocking, false ideas are given a kind of order and system to operate in. The most false ideas are actually expressed as “physical” events. Although our body, our home and our actions do not seem to be mental events, they truly are. But beyond that they are also the ideas that are the most divorced from Truth that this fictional system can support.
Why did we create such a system? Because we wanted to have the experience of imagining that we were cut off from God and each other and were operating out of an illusion of free will and independence.
I recently had a dream that was quite mind-blowing, but it began innocuously enough. I dreamed that I could telekinetically move small objects. This continued for a while, but then it grew into an ability to fly. I soon found that by surrendering conscious control that I could fly very quickly and effectively. I then found that the ability seemed to surround me, giving other people near me the ability to fly as well. I surrendered even more deeply to become a dynamic witness as “God/Truth’s Will” created my experience from moment to moment in the dream. This giving up of conscious control made the dream even more dramatic and emotionally powerful and enjoyable, and increased my dream abilities to an unlimited extent. This “God/Truth’s Will” would be for our purposes the same thing as the higher orders of meta-events.
As my surrender deepened, I found that the experience went well beyond the thrill of flying. I could mentally feel everything around me in a new way. There was an intense thrill to every moment of this experience, although there were more mellow moments and more intense moments. Rather than “thinking” about what I needed to do, I simply felt an urge to do something simultaneously with the appropriate action of doing it on my part.
I could see that I was constantly weaving in and out of other peoples’ lives. My interaction with them was teaching them, and transforming their consciousness. You would think that the loss of being the person “in charge” of self would be a let down. However, the opposite was actually true. I felt so much more and more passionately, and there was no unhappiness or feeling of conflict. It felt wonderful to help others, as my consciousness shared in their growth. Perhaps the best metaphor would be that I felt like a hammer that had been used as a door stop its whole life and then was suddenly used to hammer a nail for the first time. There was an intense feeling of my purpose being fulfilled.
We have to aim at a specific target in order to succeed. We have ideas of what success is, and those definitions limit us. But worse than that, they keep us off-target. And, whatever keeps us away from success also keeps us away from our joy and purpose as well. It has to be hard when people in our culture succeed in gaining wealth, status or a position in a certain field only to find that it leaves them feeling empty. We can avoid this fate allowing success to find us.
How can we do that? We have to first give up our sacred cows. We have to let go of wealth, status and other ideas that have fictionally limited our definition of success. Then, as we grow in our comfort zone about what success might be, we simultaneously surrender to the meta-events at higher and higher levels. Like an amusement park ride, we allow these events to impact us directly rather than through more and more distorted levels of thought.
As we become comfortable with wanting and experiencing direct meta-experience, we are carried along with it and the process of choice, decision and taking action become more and more fluid and automatic, with less self-willed involvement. In the following exercise we will learn how to ride the meta-event superhighway.
Exercise: Meta-Event Experience
We will keep this exercise very simple. Begin by getting relaxed and comfortable. Keep a pen and paper handy.
See before you a vast series of horizontal (flat) escalators, like the people-movers you see at large airports. These escalators are laid out in concentric rings, close enough to almost touch each other on the sides. The outermost ring is moving the most slowly and the innermost rings are moving very quickly. The second-to-outermost ring is moving only slightly more quickly than the outermost ring. The rings are all moving in a clockwise direction.
These rings represent higher and higher levels of meta-events of mind, with the outermost ring being the lowest one that is above your current level of operation. As you step onto the outermost ring, keep your awareness on how you feel. Do you feel an increased sense of calm? Does the disturbance of your thoughts and feelings decrease slightly? You will call this ring Meta-Event #1.
Now, step onto the next escalator that is moving slightly faster. This is the next step up in the level of meta-event that you are “riding.” You will call this Meta-Event #2. What internal changes do you notice as you make this step? Do you feel more awake and energized? Do you feel less depressed? Do you have a greater sense of yourself and of long-range goals that you might be part of? Write down notes if anything significant comes to mind.
Now, continue this process, taking a few minutes to enjoy the change and to notice how it affects you. Don’t stop until you have stepped on at least Meta-Event #10. You might find it more relaxing to sit at each new level rather than standing. Continue to keep track of your movement from escalator to escalator.
By the time I reached Meta-Event #10, I felt that I was in a very high state of mind. Some of the themes that seemed to run through the process of climbing this meta-event ladder were love, meaning, clarity, peace, understanding, excitement, insight, pleasure, abandoning false goals and listening. You will have your own list. Write it down and keep it for future reference.
The second part of this exercise is more practical. During the day, place yourself in one of the meta-event levels you have experienced during this exercise. Use whichever level felt the most comfortable to you. Use a one to five count to consciously place yourself in that meta-level. For example, you could say, “On a count of one to five I will be in Meta-Event #9.” Then count from one to five. Give the state of mind a few seconds of attention, then experience how it effects your activity and experience in the outside world. Don’t worry if you can’t remember exactly how it felt at that Meta-Level, as your mind remembers much more than you consciously remember.
You can continue to explore higher Meta-Levels by repeating the original exercise and spending less time at the lower meta-event levels you are already familiar with. Always travel only one meta-event level up per step, though. Your comfort level will grow and take you higher and higher with practice. As you use the real-world part of the exercise with higher and higher meta-event levels, you will experience a rise in you overall well being and your comfort level with direct meta-event experience will grow. You will see that happiness is actualized by merging together with others in a unified purpose, rather than in being a lone wolf.
Take me home!