The World Transcended

Everyone has moments of clarity when the normal perception of life is transcended and there is literally not a care in the world. In those moments the mind is disengaged as any movement or reflection upon the memory – just the direct experience of life with no mental interpretation of existence. The state would endure were it not for the almost overwhelming hypnotic pull of the world to identify with whatever is happening and to know why things happen the way they do.

Nothing is happening of any value anywhere in the world that doesn’t directly affect the life of an individual. Events and circumstances seen through the media happen, not in reality but within the brain of whoever is watching the latest news bulletin, tweet or text. The brain absorbs and processes data and information in a way that formulates a cohesive mental stream of continuity, consonant with someone’s experience of life. For example, the perception of the world of a tribesperson in the Amazon who has never ventured far from his village differs enormously from a modern urban dweller in one of the world’s great cities.

And yet in these times even those whose lives have barley been touched by the western culture of material greed and neurosis are not immune to the overall world waves of the virus of discontent of the human race. When someone begins to disidentify with the world as something separate from their own inner reality, the structure of force that supported the edifice of self loosens and eventually collapses. The same process happens in the external world of the masses with periodic collapses of the economy – recession followed by growth and prosperity and so on in repeated cycles over time.

For the lover of truth the path is often bumpy and unpredictable, with setbacks ranging from minor inconveniences to soul-destroying encounters brought about by the guiding light of consciousness. The world within (which is the energetic force of the past – the substance of the emotional self) will battle to the death to survive. But what is false cannot endure in the presence of that which is beyond its understanding. Everything in the world can be understood by the mind and exists relative to some other life form or object. Nothing is free-standing in the mind since the mind exists in movement as reflection on particular parts of existence and not the whole.

The world, as an aberration in the mind, disappears as any problem in the presence of love. Love bridges the distance between this moment and the next in a way that eliminates the world from the equation. What endures is a discontinuity of time which is nothing becoming something and then returning to nothing, anew every moment. This is the wave of the original point of eternity being sustained by the transmission of reality within the purified space of the being.