I have always had a separate, yet abstract, sense of God’s presence as an over-arching part of the experience of unbounded awareness. Gradually over time as I gained familiarity with universal consciousness, I discovered that even my senses, particularly sight, was also gaining the spontaneous ability to remain awake. Functioning very close to what had been transcendental to them in the past, they began to glow and shimmer with an inner divine radiance. It seemed that almost overnight I was suddenly transported into a wonderful heavenly environment that was delicately superimposed on my daily experience. I was in the midst of a celestial society; a glorious, in-dwelling, heart-felt home. The experience of being in an all-encompassing physical paradise directly related to and encompassing my daily life was so clear that it was at times over-poweringly exquisite, creating a palpable divine family encompassing joy. I saw the celestial personifications functioning as a host of orchestrating, universal laws of nature that supported me and everyone else. Not disruptive in any way but certainly unavoidably alluring.

This is a state of awareness where the senses function on the finest aspect of inner-to-outer life, not yet Absolute, but certainly very close. I could not feel, think or move without constantly stirring a wonderful onslaught of divine sights and sounds that cascaded exuberantly around me in every direction; all of me, suspended as it were, on the very surface and depth of Absolute awareness. I could see clearly my regular life connected and dependent on divine activity, one-, two-directional, interdependent weave of connectedness.

During this time I experienced that in activity my senses were very acute, as if a mist had been lifted from them and everything was super clean and bright, everything was delightful, on the verge of shimmering. I felt that God’s presence was there in my consciousness, even though at first I could not clearly see Him; I was in a state of devotion and love so pronounced that the joy of devotion alone kept God at a slight distance and that’s where I wanted Him to be. He was that something so great that I could still feel devoted to and aspire to meet face to face. My heart, mind and body were truly swimming in the tangible substance of Heaven’s glorious reality. I was captured and submerged in pure unthinking, unmistakable personal-to-universal love. I wanted and needed to see God as a universal being separate from myself, yet sitting in my heart as the grandest feeling.

A silent ocean of wonderfully expressed knowledge that, in these days, is the universal content of my experience was then, years ago, definitely in the background. My experience was all about bliss and the divinely functioning senses. I would have been happy to stay in that state forever. However as this state stabilized and became permanent my experience started to change and to rapidly expand. Those beautiful states of experience that I was traveling through became permanent aspects of a layered wholeness in that they never went away but they certainly progressed to more and more pure knowledge and clarity.

With time, as a profound sense of all-inclusive wholeness naturally began to unfold, even in my daily life, unbounded awareness and divine perception joined in the on-going parade of experience. Nothing was left behind, the whole process was completely additive, nothing was lost even though my core relationship to all these aspects of consciousness was dramatically changing.

There came a time, when at first, abstractly, as pure knowingness, and then gradually also with my senses, I could hear and see not just the divine heavens and occupying manifestations but also the very mechanics of their unfoldment as the continuity and oneness of all the layers of my personal, celestial, and universal consciousness. And now each layer’s very existence is not some separate, far-away aspect of existence, but is wonderfully revealed as a complete togetherness of pure experience, pure understanding and pure happiness: God’s eternal playground here and now.