Stepping back

Since the end of July, I've had an hourly alarm set on my phone to remind me to meditate for a moment. Sometimes it irritates the guys in my office because it'll go off when I'm in the other room. Every time I hear it, I take a moment to center, take a few breaths, focus on the observer, and keep going. If you've been following me then you've probably ready about my breakthroughs and insights - there have been several. It's been quite a journey for me.

Today I had another insight - a moment that I wanted to share. My alarm went off just as I had read a passage from the book, The Master Key System by Charles Haanel. As I stepped back and centered, I stepped WAY back and got an entirely different view of reality.

I was eating lunch in a busy cafeteria, munching a salad, and reading on my iPhone.

This is what I read (if you've been following Quazi's work for a while, you'll be familiar with the concept): "The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is what has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite Wisdom, infinite Power, and Infinite Supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development, and expression. If we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without."

This is the mirror principle in a nutshell, right?

Well, as it happens, I've been doing some dream journaling lately. I've found that with each passing day of journaling, I remember more and more of my dreams. As I was reading that passage today, a few images from last night's dream were swirling about - I was deep in the ocean without any gear overhearing a debate between construction workers about the best way to put a saddle on a shark while my beloved grandmother who passed years ago was showing me her new, muscular body and asking me to buy popcorn (it was a dream...just go with it). Those images were floating in my mind, along with subtle wonderings about lucid dreaming, and manifestation...

And my alarm went off.

Reflexively, I centered and stepped back, but this time I stepped way, WAY back. I got this new perspective of the mental plane, the "thinking stuff" I wrote about a few days ago, the quantum realm. It was vast and all happening simultaneously, and beautiful and surreal, and psychedelic, and sane. It was just for a moment, but I felt it rumbling and roiling through me just below the surface of all we see, but maybe not below the surface, but being the surface of all that is in the material world. Still, we can only see that which pertains to our survival and procreation.

Just as suddenly as I saw it, I was back chewing my salad and looking at my iPhone. The room was still bustling. It was all just the same but suddenly felt less real - less tangible. It struck me that the world within me is impossibly and inconceivably more vast, powerful, and beautiful than the world outside.

When I say that, I only mean MY world. I'm not talking about the Milky Way, suns, galaxy clusters, or anything else in the physical plane. I'm talking about my car, my house, my job, and my concerns that seem overwhelming at times - the world inside me is so much more vast and powerful than all that I see outside of me.

Even though I've made loads of progress in this RCA journey, it felt like some of the last crumbs of resistance washed away. That huge tax bill I was facing suddenly felt as intimidating as a lost penny on the side of the road. The truck I just can't get fixed and is such a huge energy drain was suddenly no more irritating than a minor splinter I can hardly see. Marriage challenges, parenting challenges, job challenges, political challenges, whatever other challenges, suddenly appeared as they were in the face of the overwhelming, infinite, loving, beautiful power that runs in and through each of us - wisps of shadows of dreams poorly remembered. Our only task is to allow it to move through us and trust in the infinite, unknowable perfection of the All that Is - the Eye of the I.

In Excelsis Deo.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I believe there's a new episode of Loki on Disney+.

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