The Absolute Surface
For many years I have described my experience more from the side of Absolute stillness— from the inside out—always a little more silent than active: from unbounded awareness, as one continuous sweep through reverberating intelligence, as the flow of the Absolute, to the transformation of consciousness into physical reality, through the instrumentality of the elements of nature, churning a vast ocean of Pure-Consciousness to its material fulfillment.
In the last year or so I have started to notice that I am perceiving the surface value, or daily life, as equal to, and as whole as, the flow of Absolute silence. My experience is the same dimensionless stillness, but it is also much greater because now Absolute Self-Awareness has consciously located a fully occupied divine environment in which my heart, mind, body and senses function.
Rather than being abstract knowledge alone, my experience has become a very physical and object-oriented Absolute consciousness. Unbounded consciousness and relative life both, seem like such see-through affairs to me that the slight separation between them is maintained by the discriminating, yet unifying, structure of the whole range of pure-to-expressed knowledge.
You could say that I am swimming around in daily life, experiencing the surface of a vast ocean of awareness, where I can see clearly all the way to the bottom, thus making it one integrated, perfectly layered connectedness. This kind of heart-oriented, physical knowing and seeing, makes universal space my entire place of residence. A body always enjoys, and appreciates a home, and when that home is populated by the supreme, personifications of the laws of nature, there in lies an added, heavenly, fullness to my activity and experience.
When the sight and communication with the Divine levels became continuous, and was seen to be occupying the same physical space as my body and surroundings, the same field of pure consciousness, and all aspects of my regular life, then my experience began to display a sublime clarity of celestial, omnipresent detail. Pure intelligence resides as the spilling bliss in the heaven of this wonderful on-going relationship with my celestial family.
I am experiencing a reality and knowledge that clearly lives on all these levels at the same time. I see my whole self as Absolute shimmering silence, yet it is the walk and breath of this silence that is the joy of the knowledge and perception of the organizational structure of my awareness and physiology in relation to my Universal Self.
To put it in more practical terms: my mind is wrapped in pure knowledge, my heart is an openly cascading heaven, where I live surrounded by innumerable Beings of divine light. My heart, mind, and physical-to-universal body is the multi-faceted, infinite narrative of it all.
I can see, and hear, a fathomless, roaring ocean, without beginning or end, that pulses in eternal cycles of creation’s expansion, progress and contraction. It is all within a blazing, life-centered brilliance of consuming and regenerating fire; so all-inclusive and vast that my words are simply way too small.
My daily activity—outside to inside, inside to outside—has simply emerged as the greatest, brightest, wonder and splendor of it all. The reverberation of my so-called surface consciousness and activity is actually the most unboundedly Absolute, the most heavenly sublime, the most knowledge-filled, and the most cosmically inclusive wonder of my, and everyone’s, normal existence.
“To put it in more practical terms: my mind is wrapped in pure knowledge, my heart is an openly cascading heaven, where I live surrounded by innumerable Beings of divine light. My heart, mind, and physical-to-universal body is the multi-faceted, infinite narrative of it all.”
Are you saying here that you’re passing beyond bliss and entering a new and, perhaps, greater level of awareness? That your consciousness has expanded beyond experiencing the glory of its connectedness to the Infinite, is looking around, in a sense, and realising that there’s a lot more out there? (I’m visualising a plane passing through a film of clouds, its occupants realising there’s another layer of atmosphere they didn’t know was there before, if that’s in any way appropriate.)
And above “. . . consciously located a fully-occupied, divine environment in which my heart, mind, body and senses function.”
When you say fully occupied, does that mean there are individuated consciousness present?
All very interesting; thank you so much for sharing.
mg
Hi Mary
Very perceptive questions
The short answer is, that it is always the same experiencer who is having the expanded, clear’er experience of what was only patially there in the past. Also all states of awareness that unfold are natural, subtler additions and do not hide any other experiences. A little like just adding a new sense. And yes, Unbounded clarity reaveals the details of the very structure of one’s own reality, which includes many new layers of peception, one of which is the celestail.
It is really quite astonishing what actually is additionally available to our senses, to our knowldge, to our every day lives when the connectedness and unity of the fully realized experience is discovered. The divine spheres of creation are also occupied all the way to God or if you prefer all the way to the Absolute. Individuality, even the so called path, in fact everything in universal to terrestail existance is the content of the Enlightened experience. But now known and seen in the glorius light of the eternal Self.
All the very best to you
Harri
Hi again, Harri,
What became additionally available to your senses; can you give examples? In the realm of sight, eyes open or closed, what do you see now that you didn’t a few years ago?
If words aren’t adequate, (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they aren’t), perhaps you can point to artwork, your own or others.
If you’re aware of other beings or energies in the celestial realm, are they real in the sense that you can interact in some way with them? If so, what takes place?
Mary
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and being so selfless.
When I listen to you and read your words it helps wake me up.
Sincerely
Robert