As Far As My Eye Could See

So the Universe decided not to take me up on my generous offer to be quietly exited off the planet.

Instead, I found myself sitting right back in my boat. In the fog. I was relieved to see that my amorphous shape was nowhere to be found. Without me there to shade it, slather it with SPF 75 or nurture it and justify its existence in any way, I imagine the exposure to the illumination of its blackness quietly dissolved it like the Wicked Witch of the West’s ultimate and final “I’m melting!” a la The Wizard of Oz.

Monday two very important things occurred although I did not realize their importance at the time. (I was too foggy) A very dear friend mentioned that because of the conflict I was going through with my previous teacher, I was sitting on the cusp of a potentially wonderful opening to experience “an unprecedented soul connection” with her. The second thing that happened was that in doing some research on soul connections, I came across a website that described a Third Eye meditative technique.

It was Tuesday (5 days after my very own Freeway meltdown in the car) before I decided to take a brief gander (out of the corner of my eye) at A”S”CIM. I read a section entitled “Perception and Choice” (pg 523). For the past several months, I have been struggling with the idea of “sensory perception of the eyes” as opposed to “Seeing.” A”S”CIM talks about “Seeing” a lot, and I have not been able to figure out, on an experiential level, what “Seeing” is all about. I get the concept, but the actual tangible experience of it has been illusive. Furthermore, according to A”S”CIM this ability to “See” rightly is not necessarily a skill to be developed, as much as it is a choice to be made (which, honestly, also confused me).

When I arrived at work later that morning, I sat in my car in the parking lot and attempted to lift myself out of the fog. I reclined back in the driver’s seat, closed my eyes, and envisioned a new kind of relationship with my teacher. Those words “unprecedented soul connection” rested in my consciousness as I closed my two physical cornflower blue eyes and followed the processes from the Third Eye meditation I had discovered on the web. I suddenly found my Self at the top of my cliff with my former teacher sitting across from me.

So many things converged at that moment as my meditatively activated Third Eye took in the 360 degree expansiveness of my (new and definitely improved!) timeless eternal view. I knew that a world of physical bodies was engaged in the daily activities of life on terra firma down below us while this connected, real, and authentic meeting of the One Mind was going on at the same time in the world above the human experience. I opened my Eye even wider and saw that there was an individuated world of One Mind, an illuminated sea of souls, past, present, and future as far as my Eye could see.

There is a world that exists and functions just fine, thank you very much, on the earthly plane. And there is a world that exists and functions just fine, thank you very much, way up here on my (yours, our) cliffs of God consciousness.

I am not alone “down there,” and I am, most definitely, not alone “up here.”

I was overcome (and still am)…with joy and excitement but also with the gravity of the importance of the choice before me, and the faith required to make it.