Spiritual Living

So the Universe is expanding into Infinity but we are already in it.

Now if it’s there, here is the very interesting thing. Everything comes from it.

This is one of the great discoveries of modern physics and unified field theory is that everything actually emerges from the infinity and returns to it.

The Thoughts Get Heavy

So if this is the case that infinity is everywhere and it underlies everything, then everything actually must be interconnected because everything has its basis as the same infinite.

All the branches on the tree have the same trunk, all the leaves on the tree have at their basis the same sap.

In fact in the most ancient tradition that we are aware of in the world, the Vedic tradition, they talk about everything having as its basis consciousness, “pure awareness” which they call Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat means abso- lute, chit is consciousness and ananda is bliss, so it means “absolute bliss consciousness.”

Even though it is called that Sat-Chit-Ananda it contains some things that are not absolute, some things that are not consciousness and some things that are not bliss.

For instance, pain is not bliss, yet if we understand correctly, since every- thing in the universe is part of infinity, pain must be within sat-chit-anan- da. And so it is, even though it does not display the qualities of sat, chit, or ananda.

Cool, huh?

Now interestingly enough, all of our experiences are based on our being conscious or having consciousness. This is the basis of our experience, and we know this because when we are not conscious, then we are asleep. And the experience of sleep is having no experience, no awareness, “not know- ing anything.”

Dreams are different. In dreams, there is some awareness, of some con- fused experience, but it’s the awareness, consciousness, that lets us have the experience.

So everything we experience in life, that we create in life, that we see around us in life must have its basis in consciousness, in wakefulness, in awareness, in consciousness.

Now this is interesting:

We can be awake anywhere: in our office, in a car, on a boat, on the moon. If we can be awake anywhere, then consciousness must be everywhere.

Everywhere!

If it’s everywhere, it must be infinite!

If it’s infinite, it must be infinity! The same infinity the universe in expanding into.
So that means, somehow, our consciousness is already connected to infinity!
Whoa!
That means we are already connected to the flow of life.
But wait! I still have problems; each of us still has problems. Which means the connection is simply not complete.
Some blood, some sap, some nourishment is getting through. Just not enough.
Why not?

More Thoughts On Infinity

When we talk of the infinity that underlies everything and goes every- where,—even beyond the end of the universe—because we’re just regular folks, we call it “infinity.”

But educated folks, physicists like Einstein, call it “the unified field of all the laws of nature.”

They call it that because they are trying to fit everything in the universe and beyond into one shopping bag. But you know how the boxes and packages you buy all have different shapes and sizes? Sometimes if you try to fit them all in one bag, the bag rips.

Over the past many decades, physicists have been trying to fit the universe with all it’s different principles, laws, into one bag without it ripping.

But you have light and dark, up and down, hot and cold. So to get all these different “shapes” (principles) into the same bag, they try to find out if any of them are the same; to unite them.

For instance, hot and cold are both temperatures! Ta-Da! Now instead of 2 things, they have one.

The more things they can unite, unify, the fewer shapes and sizes to fit in the bag. Which means it’s less likely to break.

So it turns out, over the centuries, physics found different principles. Like gravity. And donuts--no, wait, that’s what bakers found.

Okay, gravity, light, electricity. At first they thought all these things were completely different.

Over the years, it’s like they kept pulling the camera back to get a better view.

At first, the camera was a close-up on first one leaf then another. Because they could only see one leaf at a time, it seems like they were all different unconnected leaves.

Then they pulled the camera back, and found all the leaves were on one branch.

Pulling the camera back even more, they found all the different, unrelated branches were actually part of the same tree.

Physics located several principles: gravity, for instance, and electromagne- tism. Gravity is gravity and electromagnetism is already a combination of electricity and magnetism. There is something called the weak force and something else called the strong force.

At first the physicists had a hard time combining all those different forces, principles, trying to find some way to unite them. Einstein and others worked on this, and at this point, and the general consensus is that while no one particular theory is completely accepted as the best one, the basic idea is that there is a unified field of all the laws of nature. They also un- derstand that the unified field is infinite, unmanifest (having no individual form) and that, it is invisible. Oh, and it’s “under” everything.

And it must be everywhere.

All the different donuts, cakes, cookies, breads in the bakery all turn out to be carbohydrates! Or baked goods. The name doesn’t matter--it’s the prin- ciple that a whole lot of different things can be united and called one thing.

So, before we said infinity is everywhere, even here. We said conscious- ness is infinite, because you can be awake anywhere. Now we’re saying the unified field of physics is infinite, because it underlies everything.

Trick question:

Let’s pretend you need to keep these infinities apart from each other. How are you going to do it?

If you put one in the closet, one in the basement, and one in the garage, then...

let’s see...

The one in the closet is infinite: it has no boundaries. So it will bulge out of the closet.

The one in the basement is also infinite, it will bulge out of the basement. In fact, it will bulge everywhere the one in the closet is bulging. And what about the one in the garage? It also has no boundaries, so....

All of the infinities “bulge” into all the places or non-places the other infinities bulge into.

In fact, how can you tell them apart. They may have different names, but if we pull the camera back far enough,

could it be all the different infinities are the same infinity?

It turns out they have to be the same FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT IF THEY ARE DIFFERENT, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SEE, TO DISTINGUISH DIFFERENCES.

Can you?

Describe each one, and you’ll discover you use the same ideas and words to describe each of them: infinite. Unmanifest. Unbounded. Having no form. Being everywhere. The underlying source.

Every term you use to describe one infinity describes all infinities.

So they must all be same. And that, my friend, is pretty cool.

What it means is the unified field that’s the basis of everything OUTSIDE of us and consciousness INSIDE us as the basis of all our experiences ARE ONE AND THE SAME!