The Youniverse

We live in a wonderful time of abundance; so much so that we now spend the majority of our time convincing others to buy our stuff or being convinced by others to buy their stuff. Every piece of advertising attests to this fact. Almost every office job attests to this fact. Every store attests to this fact. 

There’s just so much stuff being created by us; our stores are filled to the brim with all sorts of goods, so much so that they constantly reduce the prices of the goods in order to convince people to consume them.

We live in a time when we can produce more than we can consume. It’s a time when we dedicate resources to creating sprawling storage areas for our abundance of stuff, so that we can keep our homes free of it. In our time, stuff is found everywhere you turn, and more and more effort is being expended in moving it around rather than creating it.

The abundance is all around us, yet we are blind to it, acting as if there is lack. We clamour at stores to buy the stuff that’s on sale, even though we have too much already at home. We eat food like we’re going to starve, even though we’re getting more obese by the day. In the meantime there are others in other parts of the world that suffer from a lack of those very things that we are overly abundant in. Yet we continue onwards in our consumption, driven by our perception of lack.

Our actions reflect the fact that we aren’t enjoying our abundance; we are anxious about it disappearing. We are so focused on lack that we don’t take the time to take in the astounding amount of wealth we have already created. Instead of experiencing the assured joy of knowing that we already have more than everything we need, we experience the feeling of anxious lack, and we are motivated by this feeling. It’s very, very strange.

Tying this realization into the workings of the Law of Attraction, it seems to me that without creating a state of being of abundance and gratitude first, we will remain blind to the abundance we already have. We will destroy the world looking for the abundance that can only be realized with the shift in state of being. 

• We have imagined a world where animals are kept in cages.
• We have imagined a world where pets are bred on one hand while others needlessly die in shelters on the other.
• We have imagined a world where slaughterhouses exist.
• We have imagined a world where there is such a thing as third-world countries and first-world countries.
• We have imagined a world where militaries exist.
• We have imagined a world where students learn about the world by being told about the world instead of experiencing it first-hand.
• We have imagined a world where 9-5 workdays exist.
• We have imagined a world where caffeine is needed to jolt us from our sleep and keep us awake during our unexciting days.
• We have imagined a world where one person makes less money than another for doing the same job, just because she has different body parts.
• We have imagined a world where nature needs to be “developed” and where polluting our air and water for industry is good economic practice.
• We have imagined a world where sweatshops and child-labour exist.
• We have imagined a world where people are dying from over-eating in one part of the world while people are dying from not getting food in another part.
• We have imagined a world where people who imagine things differently are mocked and ridiculed.
• We have imagined a world where being unhappy, overworked, underpaid and stressed out is considered normal.
• We have imagined a world where we produce more than we can consume, and throw out the excess as a solution.
• We have imagined a world where our seniors are banished to die isolated from the rest of us.
• We have imagined a world where we are separate from it and where the world is out to snuff us out of existence.
• We have imagined a world where all these imaginings seem to be out of our power to change.

The reality is that we have the capability and the responsibility to imagine a different world, if we are unhappy with the current one. We can imagine a world that is reflective of our desires instead of our fears. We can imagine a world where we are self-empowered. It starts with imagining a different world, and validating and following that new imagination. It’s all up to us. 

As reality continues to naturally expand, so will the idea of money. The current use of money to represent limitation and lack cannot work, because it clashes with the expansive nature of reality when used in this way. 

As you expand the idea of you, reality must also expand. Each human being is born with the inherent ability to expand itself through the use of its imagination. As each human being naturally expands the idea of itself through the use of its imagination, so does reality.

The trouble is that human beings are not familiar with the nature of themselves, and so they limit themselves to an idea in the mind, which then consequently limits reality. This is why getting in touch with the reality of humanity and the reality of reality is so absolutely critical to our happiness and our well-being. 

Money bends to the nature of reality, not the other way around. Living realistically- by validating and following the true desires born in your imagination, allows reality to expand in order to bring symbols of abundance into your experience to fulfill those desires. These symbols of abundance may be money, or it may be something else, but something must show up to fulfill  the new reality of you. The important thing is to allow reality to support the new you by avoiding to limit it through imagined expectation. Reality can expand in an infinite number of ways. Let it do so by simply being who you desire to be and getting out of its way. 

The current ideas of competition for a limited number of resources, or the idea that your abundance will take away from another’s abundance are delusional ideas that clash with the nature of reality. There is enough for all because each person belongs, as proven by the fact of their existence. 

Reality expands itself each time a new desire is born. It’s up to us to let go of limiting ideas on abundance and allow that expansion to take place. 

Everything in the Universe belongs and is intelligently created, except for human beings, the thinking goes. Creation’s only mistake is that we as human beings are cursed with the defect of escaping reality through dreaming and the ability to create our personalities. These aspects of us are mistakes we were created with and we must make every effort to forsake them. We must restrict our free-flowing imagination, get our heads out of the clouds and face reality, or what others tell us is reality. We must limit our identities to what others imagine we should be, because that is the only way to be a “normal” human being. 

For a moment, let’s forget what others tell us is reality and really take a look at the situation. The first truth about reality is it is always changing. Whether we’re talking about the reality of the natural world or the reality of our social systems doesn’t matter. It always changes. So when someone talks about reality as a fixed thing, they are not talking about true reality at all.

The reality of being a human being is that we can dream and that our experience of reality is a reflection of what we dream ourselves to be. We have usually been dreaming ourselves as separate from our Universe, as an accident of sorts, and we’ve played up that idea so much that our experience tends to reflect that idea. The reality is that we are one with the Universe and that it supports us, which is ludicrously lucky, if we are the accidents we may believe we are. The reality is that each of us is a localized point of the Universe, supported by the whole in the experience of ourselves through seemingly separate perspectives. 

The reality is that each of us does choose our identities, by choosing which ideas we resonate with and which we do not. We are not like the animals in this way (not that we’re better), because we have complex personalities consisting of ideas and beliefs, which creates a greater difference between two of us than any two animals. The reality is we use our inherent freedom to choose the idea of ourselves as a limited identity. 

The reality is that our identities are created from contrast, and so we need the lovely contrast provided by other personalities in order to forge our own. This means everything we are not makes us who we are, which paradoxically means we are everything we are not. The reality is that without contrast, each of us would cease to know ourselves as a distinct identity.

The reality is that each of us is in existence and that is proof enough that we belong, as we are. We belong with our ability to dream, to choose preferences and to be free to be whatever type of person we prefer to be. We wouldn’t dare think that it’s a mistake that birds can fly so why do we think this about our ability to dream? Validating our dreams and following them is akin to validating the bird’s ability to fly. It’s the natural thing to do. It is our birthright to desire what we desire and to expand in whatever way we prefer. We may choose to hide our desires and preferences, but they will always remain a part of us.  We are never inherently stuck in a situation; our desire to change the situation is proof of that. 

The reality is that we have created many of the restrictions we think we are born with. Countries, religions, classes and other systems are not the true reality of the world. They are our experience of the reality of the world. This experience is created out of our wonderful imagination of what the world must be like. Our day-to-day experience is created by us, and most of us do not realize it. We create this reality where it is not acceptable to truly be who each of us prefers to be. We create this reality where violence and competition is more acceptable than love and compassion. We create this reality where we work at jobs we hate for most of our lives. We create this reality of pollution and environmental destruction. We create all the experiences of conflict, pain and suffering in our reality. 

The reality is that we can just as easily create experiences of joy, peace and abundance. The reality is that joy, peace and abundance are not pie-in-the-sky ideas with little hope of being applied to our lives. They are experiences created out of our ideas, just as violence, competition and suffering are. 

Allow yourself to live the truth of reality, instead of what we have thought reality must be. Express your inherent freedom to be whoever you prefer to be. Create systems that reflect the ideas you prefer to incorporate within your personality. Allow reality to change in ways you prefer. It isn’t as rigid as you thought it was. 

It is our deep desire for less work and more free-time that has driven the development of our technologies. We have decided and continue to decide that work sucks, and that we’d rather have fun doing things we truly enjoy. 

The truth is most of us hate getting up in the morning and working at some boring, mind-numbing cubicle, or assembly line, or white-walled store. So we have developed the means to free ourselves or limit the amount of time we spend on that type of work. 

Through automation we can now produce more food, clothing, shelter and medicine than we know what to do with. This reality is obscured by our inane love for competition, which produces an illusion of scarcity. In actuality, we produce so much stuff that we feel more comfortable throwing it away rather than saving it, probably because we are implicitly encouraged to do so. We have so much stuff that many of us spend our time convincing others to buy it. We have so much stuff that we need larger and larger homes to keep it all, and now have an influx of storage facilities for overflow.

The reality is that we now have the capability to be free of work and follow our true joy like never before. And the unstoppable, strengthening momentum of technology is leading us to even less work. Others may tell you this is a bad thing, that we need jobs, otherwise people will be homeless or whatever. These people are looking at our development from an old perspective. They cannot imagine a world where people have the freedom to fill their days with enjoyable activities. They resort to calling us “free-loaders” or “lazy”, as if our desire for less work is wrong or that we should actually desire to be productive little humans, mindlessly producing what we are told to produce. They forget the reasons we have developed as a society at all. 

Make no mistake about it: we are progressing to create less work and less stress, not more. Don’t let the older generation’s limited imagination convince you that we cannot create a world of increasing enjoyment. Our desire is strong enough. It has always been strong enough. It has been and is still leading us to where we want to go. We will get there faster if we each allow our desire full expression and stop listening to the naysayers. We only need to believe in our desire. History is on our side. The future is bright.

Each of us is a social engineer. Our state of being and the choices we make determine what kind of life we live and what kind of society we live in.

At this point in time, most of us are amateurs, unaware of the tools we are using to create. In our ignorance we’ve gone about creation haphazardly, developing society without first understanding the mechanism of how we are developing it or why we are developing it the particular way we are. 

Because of our ignorance, our creation has almost taken on a mind of its own, seeming to be something larger than its creators. 

Now, we must realize that our creation is not larger than us and that it is very much within our control. We must realize our power and our responsibility in creating our society and we must do so quickly because we are reaching a threshold where numerous important decisions must be made; decisions that will affect the very nature of our lives as human beings. 

The human race as a whole is currently predominantly in a state of misery.

After all that we’ve been through in our relatively short history, we have come to some core conclusions about what we want in life. We want peace, we want joy, we want freedom, we want love, we want compassion, we want abundance, we want passion and we want harmony, among other things.

Yet the majority of us are not living the way we desire to live and this is where the misery comes in. The misery is created because we desire to be a certain way and yet are resistant to change so that we can be that way. We hold on to past ideas that no longer serve us as the people we wish to become.

This is humanity’s point of depression, where nothing seems to be working and a lot of introspection is taking place. Jobs are lost, houses are foreclosed, economies are failing, wealth gaps are growing, environments are destructing.

At this point in time, humanity’s locked itself in its room and is huddled under its covers, crying and raging, taking a deep look within itself to find the source of its misery. To coincide with this introspection, secrets are being revealed in many aspects of society so that more informed decisions can be made.

When this period of depression is over, much of humanity will be transformed. Through the releasing of humanity’s rage and sadness many systems and ways of life will be dropped as they are seen as outdated and non-serving to its new desires. Resistance will be released and humanity will move into a radically new identity of itself.

In the meantime, much turbulence is ahead, both individually and collectively. It is a time of introspection and release, which may seem destructive outwardly, but is actually highly creative and beneficial. Take the time to release your own personal misery. Move into your own preferred identity and allow the changes to occur throughout the rest of humanity. Above all else, do not fear the changes and do not resist them. They are representative of changes humanity desires to make within itself. Flow with them and create a new identity for yourself. 

We are loved beyond measure, literally. To clarify: love is the energy that creates bonds and integrates and we are connected to infinite existence through an infinite number of bonds. We are each connected to each and every aspect of infinite creation. In fact, we are One with each and every aspect of creation. This is what it means to be loved beyond measure: there is simply no way to measure the number of bonds between each of us and infinite existence. 

This recognition doesn’t need to be on some airy philosophical level either. The bonds can be recognized strictly through observing life as it is right now. Take a look at our existence in our wonderful bodies. For our bodies to exist they must be connected to the workings of the planet, which produces the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. These are the basics without which life as we know it cannot exist, and they are provided through the loving bond between ourselves and our planet. 

Taking this recognition a step further, the workings of our planet itself is based on its connections with the rest of the Universe. Without its unique connection with the Sun, for example, our planet wouldn’t have the environment to be able to provide the basics we need for us to exist as human beings. This we usually take for granted. The Sun in turn is connected to other larger parts of the Universe and its workings are based on its own connections. The point is that the more we look at every aspect of existence, the more we realize how each part of it is dependent on the whole and how the whole cannot be whole without each aspect. Nothing exists in isolation. Everything is connected to everything else. Everything is loved beyond measure.

With this in mind, it can be said that everything is love. That is, everything can only exist through loving connections and so everything is given existence through love. Now, humanity has talked about love since we came into being, but we usually limit our recognition of it to only a few circumstances. We talk about loving certain people, or loving certain circumstances but if we only recognize love in these circumstances we limit the amount of joy in our lives. Love is infinite, existence is infinite, to exist is to be loved. Recognizing this can make every moment of existence a joy! There is no need to wait to feel loved by someone special. There is no need to feel lonely or worthless because our existence is proof of the love around us. Every breath we take is an act of love and a gift from existence. Every utterance, every action, every thought is an act of love but we just don’t realize it.

How would you behave if you knew of this love? How would you treat others, who are obviously also loved by existence? How would you treat yourself? How would life change? The challenges we face on our planet mainly arise from us not realizing the depth of love existence has for each of us. To solve our challenges we need to remind ourselves of this love by taking notice of our connections, by taking notice of the air we breathe and where it comes from, or the water we drink or the sun lighting up our world. Once pointed out, nobody can deny these obvious signs of love from existence, we just have to take notice of it.

Once we recognize this love around us, it is up to us to pay tribute to it. We pay tribute by living our lives joyfully, which comes from knowing our sense of worth. We pay tribute by behaving lovingly and living with a deep sense of gratitude. It is up to us to recognize how loved we are and to portray our recognition through our thoughts, words and deeds. Right now, we are behaving out of not recognizing the love of existence and out of our sense of worthlessness that arises from not noticing the love. 

In fact, by not recognizing the love that has always been there we have been destroying the signs of the love around us. We have been poisoning our air, water and food so that we reaffirm our belief that we are not loved by our world. We look at the Universe as something out to get us and snuff us out of existence and yet nothing could be further from the Truth. We look at each other as competition who we must struggle against for the love of existence, not recognizing that their existence is proof that they too are also loved. 

Our society itself is based on connections between one another, and yet we treat others as if there is no connection. We fail to recognize that the clothes we wear, the entertainment we enjoy and the rest of the extras in life that make life as beautiful as it is all come from our connections with the rest of our society. Because we fail to recognize these connections we continue to treat the others, especially those in “poor” countries, as less than worthy and we risk ending their current form of existence. What we have done to ourselves, by not recognizing the love of existence, we do to others, creating in them the same sense of separation from the rest of society and from the rest of existence. 

Were we to pay tribute to the love of existence, our society would obviously reflect this. We would recognize our connections with each other and lovingly strengthen them, creating a greater sense of the unity and love that already exists.  

This lack of recognition of love has also given birth to our religions, through which we declare our sense of worthlessness even more, creating more of a sense of disconnection from existence. Paying tribute to the love of existence would create religions that aren’t built on obligations to God or attempting to get his love, but would rather celebrate the love that is already there. Prayer wouldn’t be offered from a sense of worthlessness but a sense of being loved. It wouldn’t be offered to create more of a sense of separation from existence and to get love, but would be a grateful tribute to the ever-present loving connections around us. 

In summation then- as I’ve said in previous posts- what we need on our planet, is a recognition of our loving connections to existence. Whether those recognitions are strictly on the physical level or on the spiritual level doesn’t matter. Each of us can choose whichever is most easily recognizable to us, but the recognition is important. The recognition itself is so powerful that it can change our world in ways we can’t yet imagine.

Once again, as I’ve said in previous posts, it’s up to each of us. It starts on a personal level by paying tribute to the love of existence through our thoughts, words and deeds. Our lives lived is the tribute we pay. Joyful existence is the only real tribute and it is an effortless tribute at that. The question remains, “What would love do now?”, which is another way of saying “How can I recognize my connection with this circumstance?” Because the connection is there, if we look for it. That’s all that is required to create lives of joy, both on an individual level and on a collective level. Recognition of connection and love, always and all ways. 

Existence is the infinite space which holds all truths. Each truth is a different perspective of existence and each truth is valid in its own right. Existence has enough space within it to allow each truth its own space to be valid and to grow infinitely without having to contradict any other truth. This is the beauty of existence. It allows each aspect of itself infinite potential for growth and expansion without condition or question.

As a society we have forgotten this. The way we see it, there is only room for one truth in existence and so this one truth must actively deny and attack any opposing truth. Each religion believes this, each political party believes this and each person believes this in one way or another. Humanity as a whole believes this. This is the reason humanity seeks to deny and attack nature’s truth, or the animal kingdom’s truth, or the truth of other aspects of humanity. We believe that our truth is powerless and invalid without the invalidation of any other truth. 

Take a look at our experience and you should be able to see how this is true. The fact is most people are not expressing their own unique truths, but are rather expressing what others say should be their truths. This is why our society, actually our world, is in a state of misery. Invalidating truths is the fastest way to cause misery. Joy, on the other hand, is found by validating all truths and this is why it is said by many spiritual teachers that existence is joyful in nature.

The other thing our society has forgotten is that the validation of others’ truths does not negate our own truth, but rather enhances it. An example: the validation of nature’s truth obviously enhances the truth of humanity for humanity wouldn’t even exist to express its truth were it not for nature. Another not so apparent example is that the validation of everyone in society enhances the whole of society.

I believe our experience as a society will be moving towards that of the nature of existence, if it isn’t doing so already. Our society will allow all truths within it and yet each truth will see that if it is to enjoy its validity it must not be hypocritical by infringing on any other truth. In this way each truth will be based on each person alone and will not have anything to do with the approval or disapproval of other people, unless the truth is known to affect others in a negative way. Each truth will be declared and expressed freely and joyfully and will intermingle with all other truths to create a loving tapestry of valid truths. I believe we will create a microcosm of the nature of existence on our own planet and what better model is there to base it on?

In our economy the most productive companies are protected and given wealth in order for them to continue thriving. What I don’t get is, under this type of thinking, shouldn’t we be protecting and allowing the planet itself to thrive above all else, since it is the most productive “company” we know of?

The planet itself is what has allowed for the production of everything we know of and yet we treat it like it’s the least productive part of our whole economy. We say that we have to make it “productive” by cutting down its trees so that we can produce paper, but aren’t those trees producing the air we breathe? We also make it “productive” by drilling the shit out of it to get oil so that we can pollute its air, which is the very same air that supports us. It’s all a bit crazy, isn’t it?

I guess the reason the planet gets treated so unfairly is because it doesn’t have hundreds of lobbyists bitching to governments about its sad state of affairs like the other “successful” companies do.

So I guess what I’m saying is, we should all do our part to help out the economy. You can help out by:

1. Sitting under a tree on a nice summer day, instead of cutting it down. 
2. Taking a swim in the ocean.
3. Stopping and smelling the roses.
4. Watching the newest and hottest (both literally and figuratively) reality show, “Nature”. It’s playing right now, outside.
5. Starting your career working for the most productive company we know of. The planet is now recruiting new staff! It offers a great salary and an excellent health coverage plan, which includes: clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, awesome weather and scenery to enjoy, an abundance of healthy food such as fruits and veggies and the like, and so much more. It also provides extremely flexible work hours and the ability to work outdoors and in multiple locations. The planet also provides a state of the art work environment which uncannily mimics the benefits of nature. Interested? No need to apply. Simply decide you want to work for the planet and do whatever you can to help it thrive.