* Universal Consciousness * in Just Stuff

This is an extremely effective exercise if done as instructed. You will be
experiencing a series of “jumps”. Do not rush this experiment. Take one
jump at a time. The more you take your time, the more powerful will your
results be. If possible, get someone to read this experiment’s instructions
to you as you sit with eyes closed and follow them.

Close your eyes and feel the various parts of your body. Try to
distinguish the sensations of the more inner parts from the sensations
coming from the parts of your body that are reporting contact with your
clothing, the chair you are sitting on, the floor being sensed beneath your
feet, etc. Try to feel the inside of your head, between your eyes, inside
the nasal passages, the deeper parts of your mouth cavity. Try to feel your
eardrums actually capturing sounds. Feel–don’t listen–feel your eardrums
being moved by the sound waves crashing into them. Feel the inside of your
throat and neck. Practice “scooting around the body” to “visit” these
various sensations.

Jump One. After a few minutes of this “practice”, now, in your mind’s eye,
with eyes still closed, imagine that you can sense yourself ranging
throughout your immediate environment as if it were also your body. Pretend
you are getting “reports” or “sensations” or “some sort of information” from
the nearby objects in the room. To whatever extent you can, sense the
presence of the objects of the room–even though your eyes are closed. This
sense may simply be a conviction on your part that you “know” that the desk
is “there”. Pretend you can “somehow” feel the desk, the chair, the floor,
the other furniture in the room, and finally feel the presence of the walls
of the room like “another skin” around you. “Scoot around the room” like
this for a few minutes with your imagination. Feel that the room is
completely filled with your aliveness, your consciousness. Sense that every
speck of space in the room has you within it.

Jump Two. After a few minutes, “break out” of the room. Pretend that you
now can range freely around the entire structure of the building you are in.
Do NOT imagine yourself traveling around the building like a ghost; instead,
actually feel that you are being in every part of the building
simultaneously–JUST LIKE YOU NOW FEEL YOU ARE IN EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY.
Fill the building with “you”, with your living presence. Take a minute or
two to gain a bit of comfort doing this, or rather, BEING this.

Jump Three. Now take a breath, let it out, and as you breathe out, fill up
your neighborhood with consciousness. Pretend you are the life breath, the
soul, of the entire area in which you live. All the buildings, all the
people, all the animals, the wind, EVERYTHING is filled with your spirit.
Scoot around in your imagination for a few minutes. Everywhere you go,
there you are already. Like your hands or feet have always been filled with
you, feel the various “parts of you” in the neighborhood being similarly
filled. But, understand that everything is instantly available to you by
merely putting your attention on it. There’s no “waiting” for more distant “parts of you” to “report in”. No part of you is farther from you in terms
of time.

Jump Four. After a little comfort is gained, take another deep breath and
fill up all the land around you with awareness as you exhale. Blossom
yourself to huge proportion. Pretend that the seacoasts are like your toes
and finger tips. Feel the immense dynamism of the detailed world that is
full with your loving grace and support. Feel like the one soul that
pervades everything. See that everything is IMMEDIATELY available to
you–just a glancing or listening and instantly that part of you reports in
with some data. Imagine smelling the sea air on one coast, instantly seeing
a silent bird gliding up a mountain slope and then immediately hearing the
waves of the other coast.

Jump Five. Now, take another deep breath, and fill the earth with your
spirit. Say “hello” to the universe as you “try on” your Earth-body. Open
your spiritual eyes to scan the vast reaches around you. Feel the majesty
of your new self, a magnificent planet with billions upon billions of lives
complexly intertwined. Feel the serenity of space as you bask in the
pleasure of being so vibrantly alive with awareness.

Jump Six. Fill up the universe. Do not waste time with filling only our
galaxy, fill the whole of space and time. Fill it all. Pretend that the
billions of galaxies are like cells of your body. Delight in the fullness
of your almost infinite resources. Countless lives experiencing an endless
parade of feelings, emotions, thoughts, birth and death. Feel the intimate
ownership of everything. Instantly across billions of light years of
distance you find yourself “already there” wherever you gaze. Feel how far
beyond ordinary concerns you are. Millions of your units are dying and
millions are being born. Incredible changes are happening by the instant,
but you are unchanged by any of it. You are filling up everything. You
support all. Glory surrounds you like a cloud of light.

Jump Seven. See that the magnificence of all this is merely an object that
is within your attention. The immensity that you are, with your myriad
bodies and the wisdom of millions of cultures, is but a small blip, just
something to perceive, a THING, a very tiny precious jewel in a vast
infinite consciousness that is completely unbounded by any limitations.
Feel yourself to be, as you have always been, an all pervading awareness
that is everywhere, every time simultaneously. You contain all of it, and
it is exceedingly small compared to the vastness of your presence. Know
yourself to be pure, absolute and beyond everything.

Jump Eight. Give up all conceptualizations, feelings, sensations,
memories, values, qualities, and physicality. You are that that is beyond
all these things including the consciousness that is aware of them for you.
Understand that consciousness loves the universe and loves creating thoughts
about it and presenting them to YOU. See that the infinite resourcefulness
of consciousness is there for you to witness as it conveys the universe to
you. See that these thoughts about consciousness and its infinity are being
created by consciousness, not you. You are the witness of it all, the soul
of consciousness, the source of consciousness itself. You cannot be
described, but yet you are. Beyond all concept, you are. Completely
beyond.

Jump Nine. From out of this infinity, watch as consciousness seeks to
please you–even though you do not need any THING. Watch as consciousness
brings to you the vision of one of your bodies sitting in a room with eyes
closed with its small individual spark of consciousness. Watch as
consciousness introduces this individual to the unlimited potentiality of
itself. Feel the surge of pure love that consciousness has for this small
spark. Watch the blessing of pure compassion flood this individual as the
entirety of creation is found securely and comfortably residing within.
Feel the circle being completed.

Ask yourself,
What part of this experiment was real? Are bodily sensations more
important or more real than the experiences I call “my mind’s imaginations?”
What is the value of these pretended experiences?

Is my consciousness limited to my nervous system? What is the difference
between the dead layer of skin that covers me and the dead layer of clothing
that covers me? Where do “I” end?

What is the difference between putting my attention on a particular “object
of my senses” and being a “screen” upon which all my experiences are being
projected? Is putting my attention on something more of an example of “the
real me” than that “me” that universally accepts input from all of my senses
simultaneously?

What are the moral and spiritual implications of having a belief that I am
a spirit that can “inhabit” my surroundings? Is this “allowed” by me? Does
this concept make sense when fitted into my whole set of spiritual beliefs?

How would I go about differentiating one soul from another soul? Is the
history of the experiences of those souls the only way I have to tell them
apart? How does God differentiate two “fresh souls” that have yet to have
ever had even a single experience?

What is the difference between what I call “me” and “my soul”?

What is the difference between what I call “me” and “consciousness”?

What is the difference between “my consciousness” and “your consciousness”?

If the being that this consciousness experiment ended up encompassing were
to meet the “other beings” of the other persons conducting this
consciousness experiment, how would they be different from each other?

Regards,
Rick