The Youniverse

Everything that goes into the making of a being, is part of that being. It is that being in different forms. For example, a lizard cannot be a lizard without the insect it eats, the sun that heats it up, the water it drinks, the air it breathes, the planet it lives on and the universe it lives in. The concept of the lizard does not end at its body then, but rather includes everything that directly or indirectly goes into supporting it. In other words, everything that goes into the making of the lizard IS the lizard in different forms, because without those sources, the lizard would not be. In this way, the lizard is inseparable from its sources. 

The connections that go into the birth and growth of a cricket, the hunting and eating of the cricket, the breathing in of air, the drinking of water, the basking in the sun, is all ONE unbroken act of being a lizard. Each portion of the act is integral to the lizard’s existence; each portion IS the act of the lizard creating itself. In this way the lizard is not a fixed and limited item, but an actively living BEING with far reaching influence, which may not be readily apparent. It is living as and being a lizard. But since it is inseparable from its sources, the question arises: what is being the lizard? Since it isn’t separate from its sources, which includes the universe itself when you expand far enough, this means the universe itself or existence itself, is being the lizard. The lizard has all the sources within the universe at its disposal to be exactly what it desires to be, because it is all sources in the universe. 

Now, what goes into the making of the lizard is fairly simple, since the lizard itself is a fairly simple creature in its beingness. Its being has fewer aspects to it than other, more “intelligent” creatures, such as human beings for example. As human beings, we are similar to the lizard or any other physical creature on the level of physicality. Our sources for the upkeep of our physical bodies are very similar: sun, food, water, shelter, and so on. Where we differ is in our emotional and psychological aspects. We are blessed with an amazing depth to our psychological and emotional experiences, and these aspects open up whole new types of sources that go into the creation of them. For example, every day we are bombarded with information, from external sources in the form of our interactions with others and internal sources in the form of our imagination. This information completely escapes the lizards of the world. We sort out this information and choose what we wish to incorporate into our psychology and what we do not. This is the process of creating that aspect of ourselves. This aspect of creation is what makes the difference between each of us greater than the difference between two lizards. It’s the depth of our personalities and the depth of our perspectives. This information that we use is similar to food or water to the physical aspect in that without it we wouldn’t have the ability to create our psychological aspects. Holistically speaking then, this information is our psychological aspect in different forms. This includes ALL information, even the type of information that we choose to ignore, because what we choose to ignore highlights and clarifies the information that we choose to incorporate. In this way, each piece of information is critical and crucial in the creation of ourselves.

The coolest thing, in my opinion, that comes from the realization that there is no separation between the sources of your being and your being itself, is that it changes the process of self-creation. It makes it simple, and efficient by allowing you the freedom to simply choose the type of being you prefer to be and allowing the other portions of that being, the seemingly external sources, to flow into your experience. The hard way of creating your being, the way most of us do it now, is by trying to gather all the seemingly external sources first and then choosing the state of being we prefer after. This method usually creates a sense of separation between us and our reality, which leads to many of the issues we currently face in life. The idea is to think holistically and see that the reality we thought was external to us is actually us in various forms. That is how infinite we are. That is how multi-dimensional we are.

So when you choose to be a certain way, by incorporating certain aspects of your greater psychology into your current perspective, you will automatically gather the sources, in whatever form they need to appear, to uphold that new perspective. Now, I know some may think that not everyone seems to be supported in our experience. There seems to be much poverty, sickness, and violence. However, in these cases the same mechanism is at work. The sources are part of perspective, and when that perspective is segregational, which is what the experience of poverty, illness and violence implies, so are the nature of the sources. They will uphold the segregation you have chosen. You will believe as you have believed for a long time, that you live in an uncaring reality and not as the reality itself. 

It’s a simple understanding, yet is still tricky to get my head around. It makes sense to me that the reality must be the being in different forms. It cannot be otherwise. We cannot be separate. There can be no such thing as outside. What we tend to think of as separate or outside still goes into the making of ourselves just by our perception of it. So how can it be outside of us? It’s influence is very much alive in us.

The way I understand it now is that everything is one thing interacting with itself, creating different perspectives of itself, by relating to itself. Everything is us, we are everything. 

By the way, I used the example of the lizard only because I was feeding my own pet lizards some crickets when I came to the realization that the crickets are my lizards in another form, and that the crickets should be treated with love and respect just as I treat my lizards with love and respect, since they are one and the same.

Creation Education will be centred around the following major messages that the New Spirituality will bring to children:

1. You are One with everyone and everything in the Universe- including God. All things are part of One Living System.
2. Because you are One with God, you have the power to create what you wish to experience in your life.
3. The way you create is by what you think, say, and do.
4. It is not possible to make a mistake in the process of creation, and failure is an illusion. Everything that you create is perfect just as it is- including you.
5. When you create, you are fulfilling the purpose of your life, because creating is how you grow and evolve, and that is what you and all living things are on earth to do.
6. Life itself is your greatest teacher, and it has built-in consequences, but never punishments. Punishment is not part of God’s plan, and has no place in God’s Kingdom. Learning was always meant to be easy- it is actually a process of remembering what your soul has always known. This kind of “learning” will be joyful when you use the experience that you are now having to remember as much as you can about Life. Then you will remember what you need to remember when you need to remember it to make life work in the future.
7. Try to never harm another person, place, or thing in any way, but only to help others and love them as best you can, especially when they have made a mistake or have done something wrong. If you can do this, you will create a friend of just about everyone you know, and when you need one, you will never be without one.
8. There is enough for everyone. It takes very little to be happy, and the fastest way to create happiness for yourself is to create happiness for another.
9. Your very best friend is Life itself, because it never ends. When the portion of your life that you spend on earth is over, there will be no “Judgement Day,” no condemnation, and no punishment, but simply an opportunity for you to review all of the thoughts, words, and actions of your life and decide whether, as you go on to other adventures, you wish to choose again when confronted with similar circumstances. Choice is the process by which you evolve, and ultimately experience Who You Really Are.

Any thought cannot truly describe nor comprehend the silent still space between thoughts. Further, anything describable, finite, known and limited cannot truly describe nor comprehend the indescribable, infinite, unknown, and unlimited.

This is why the mind resists surrendering in meditation and the human being resists surrendering in death. To the mind, being separated from thought through meditation is an alien experience, just as to the human being, separation from its body through death is also completely alien.

This type of fear also comes into play when we, human beings, encounter the unknown and the infinite possibilities it contains. Perceiving ourselves as finite, known and limited beings, we relentlessly cling to the known out of our deep fear of the unknown. We cling to what happened in our past by constantly remembering it and we use what is known in the present to attempt to create a predictable and knowable future. We cling to our thoughts, beliefs, ideologies, youth, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, material possessions, bodies, or anything else we can to create our identity and to remain known, finite and limited, even to the point of our own misery. 

Not only do we do this clinging ourselves, but we also attempt to force others to do so. We like to identify others through neat little definitions and it bothers us when they do not conform to these definitions, such as when many of us encounter a gay person for the first time- who challenges our known definition of what it means to be a man or woman,  or when we encounter a person from a different race- who challenges our known definition of what it means to be human, or even when a person we know changes their idea of themselves so that it no longer fits into our previous idea of them. Through their non-conformity to our definitions we come in contact with our fear of the unknown yet again.

For most of us, this clinging to the known gradually replaces our childhood curiosity as we mature. As young children we are so used to the unknown because the majority of the world is literally the unknown. As children we innately understand that without accepting the unknown we are unable to grow, but sadly this understanding slowly dissolves as we mature. As children we are open to meeting strangers, trying new activities, or just exploring for the sake of exploring. Our curiosity is what drives us, while in adulthood we temper that curiosity and allow our fear of the unknown to drive us instead. In adulthood we take fearful steps and sometimes stop ourselves from taking steps at all, due to our fear of losing our identity, of losing what we consider ourselves to be. The fear of the unknown grows with our fear of dying, which is essentially the fear of losing ourselves, whether that self is our body or our personality. 

It’s truly futile though, this clinging to preserve our identity, and its futility is demonstrated best through physical death, which we must all face and which pries our grip from what we know and forces us to finally realize our true nature as the infinite, unknowable, unlimited and indescribable. In finally diving into the unknown beyond death we will realize that it is not the empty void we feared, but the infinite space that gives birth to the finite, sort of like the silent space between thought that gives birth to thought. To put it simply: a void is experienced not only when there is nothing in it, but also when everything is in it, which is the paradox of the void of existence. We are a part of this void. This void is our home from which we came and to which we shall return.

I recall so many people describing this void inside them which they try to fill with anything and everything external to them. This is why people cling. Once we have found something to occupy our mind, whether it is the love of another or our job, or anything else external, we cling to it so that we don’t feel the void once again. “I feel empty”, people say when they lose something cherished, or “I don’t know who I am anymore”. They are feeling the void again. I now understand why that feeling of emptiness is there. I now understand that the void, the emptiness cannot be filled by anything because the void actually is everything. Everything is within us. We are everything. We are the void. We are the emptiness from which everything springs.

The good news is we don’t need to wait for the void of death to let go of our fear and to embrace the unknown that we are. We can understand that life is the result of the infinite undefinable - call it God if you want, defining itself as the infinite variety of forms around us. We can understand that form is the result of this act of defining and that all form, whether it be as small as an ant or as large as a star, cannot help but constantly redefine itself because of its true underlying nature as the undefinable. Through this understanding we can become flexible and practice attached detachment, knowing that all form shall change and that clinging to it is impossible. 

We can understand that the most accurate description of unconditional love is the freedom of the infinite and undefinable to define itself in any way it can. That is, to unconditionally love someone or something is to allow them to define themselves in the way they prefer.

We can understand that every form is by its very nature unconditionally loved and so is completely and utterly free to define itself anew over and over, whether that redefinition is allowed to takes place through the process of life or whether it is “forced” through the process of death. 

The understanding of the void of existence has the power to positively change our world in unimaginable ways. Well, the first thing to change is that we will be willing to change, because we will be embracing the unknown rather than running from it. This willingness to change is missing in many people around the world and it is exactly what is needed at this time.

It is time to let go of identities that do not work for us and embrace identities that do. It is time to let go of out-dated societal systems that we attempt to preserve out of our desire to preserve our false identity as the limited, known, finite, and describable. It is time to embrace our true nature as the unknown and dive into the unknown in an act of reunion with ourselves. It is time to embrace the unconditional love of existence that we are through this new understanding of our true selves and of life.