Spiritual Living
Chapter 8
Activating Infinity Within You
If you’re dreaming, you can fly, touch the moon, jump higher than moun- tains: the whole life you know isn’t real.
Where did all that come from?
Let’s come back to that later.
For now, let’s create a diagram that shows what we’ve discussed so far:
Infinity / Consciousness
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Beyond the Edge of the Universe
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Edge of the Universe
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Universe
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Galaxy
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Solar System
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Beyond the World
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World Around Us
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Senses
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Mind
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Intellect
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Ego
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Infinity /Consciousness
This looks pretty clean— just one to the next to the next. So simple.
But it’s not.
Turns out all your different experiences, memories, actions and reactions (karmas) act like barriers preventing you from experiencing the clear flow of infinity through your life.
For instance, your ego, instead of being a clear glass tube for consciousness/infinity to flow through, is more like a plate of spaghetti.
And your intellect resembles a maze so complex and convoluted, it can never be solved.
Your mind collects information, so it looks like clouds gathering before a storm; densely-packed clouds of information and experiences.
So instead of clean and clear experiencing infinity in your senses and thinking and knowing
You experience this confusion, imbalance, moral judgements and questions, unclear priorities, and a mess of trying-to-figure-out-life.
Imagine shining a flashlight from at the base upwards! Can you imagine what patterns (if any) come out? On the one hand, with a clear, wide- open ego-intellect-mind, the bright light of consciousness simply shines through. But not most of us--we have clouds of impressions that just get in the way of the light shining forth.
No wonder you don’t see infinity!
What to do?
Clean up your mind, intellect, ego and senses! Practice the Transcendental Meditation™ (TM®) program or other meditations, or yoga, or fasting, or other purificatory practices, and gain knowledge and wisdom about the reality through science and the study of scriptures.
And keep reading, there's a lot more...