The source of everything is you
by Vic Shayne
author
Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience
It took thousands of years, but now leading edge science has begun to collide with the ancient wisdom of enlightened sages. Where the latter group has used observation of the Self to realize the wholeness and potentiality of consciousness, science has discovered that space is the great unifier and container of all that exists.
We are all an unchanging, unbounded, unlimited, ubiquitous, and infinite source of reality. We are neither in this reality nor is it in us, because it has no place or designation. It is only the mind, which fragments reality into parts for the sake of navigating this world of thought, form and phenomena, that misbelieves that we are individuals who are separate from one another, as well as nature, objects, and all phenomena. But we are not. We are one singular movement that comes out of a singular, indivisible Silent Stillness; and the movement is called consciousness. To the scientist it may be called the quantum field or unified field. To the religionist it may be called God. Naming and describing it simply reduces it to the realm of thought.
Life in a vacuum
Progressively, over the last several decades, physicists have discovered that something still exists even when you remove all the molecules in a vacuum. This “something” is the energy that is in the space of everything, from the smallest sub particle to the largest galaxy. The “out there” is actually “in here,” as much in outer space as in the body of a bacterium or a grain of sand.
Theoretical physicist David Bohm mathematically proved that there is an “implicate order” to existence. For all of his trouble he was ousted by the physics community led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the nuclear bomb. Oppenheimer told his colleagues that if they were unable to prove Bohm wrong then they should ignore him. They couldn’t prove him wrong, and Bohm became the world’s greatest physicist — in exile where he continued to expand on his unprecedented findings.
Bohm famously said, “Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.”
Physicist David Peat wrote that Bohm’s concept of the holomovement in quantum mechanics brings together the holistic principle of “undivided wholeness” with the idea that everything is in a state of process or becoming — or what Bohm termed the “universal flux.” This wholeness is not a static oneness, but a dynamic wholeness in constant motion and in which everything moves together in an interconnected process.
We are not connected; we are one
It is common for those with a precursory, or intellectual, worldview to be fond of repeating the trope that we are “all connected.” This isn’t quite accurate. Instead, we are all one-and-the-same beingness; this is because there is no identifiable and separate thing or place of which we are a part. Another way of stating this is that we are not all part of something, but we are all the same thing, but the mind can only perceive reality, including the sense of self, as individualized, separate, and limited.
David Bohm said that reality is one unbroken whole, including the universe and all of its fields and particles. Thus, “we have to say that the holomovement enfolds and unfolds in a multidimensional order, the dimensionality of which is effectively infinite. Thus the principle of relative autonomy of sub-totalities is now seen to extend to the multi-dimensional order of reality.”
What does all this mean to us humans?
The implications of a world of wholeness mainly suggests one important reality: that we are all of the same universal fabric. It is only due to our psychological conditioning of the mind that leads us astray to believe that there is an “other.” It is this conditioning from birth (or before, if you are so inclined to accept such a premise), created by parents, teachers, society, and other voices of authority, that creates what the sage Jiddu Krishnamurti called “the center,” which is the egoic sense of self. This self — what we take ourselves to be as individual people —is self-centered and perceives itself to be positioned against the world, against other people, and against nature, and is steeped in ignorance that it is something other than the world itself.
Science has at long last placed its first step upon the altar of wisdom that suggests all is singular, unified, unyielding consciousness produced out of an infinite, unbounded space from a so-called nothingness that contains everything. This space, as Indian sages taught over the millennia, is neither nothingness nor allness, but rather an indescribable reality upon which the false reality of the mind has been overlaid. The sages have termed this permanent reality “love” — a “stateless state” (to use a term by guru Siddharameshwar) that is outside, or prior to, duality and all that can be known or perceived by the senses.
The mistake of the egoic self
Nisargadatta Maharaj, 20th century guru from Bombay, told a visitor something that applies to most people who view the world through the lens of the egoic self. He said, “There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche.”
Nisargadatta also said, “Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.”
Physicist Nassim Haramein explained that we are all bathing in a field of energy, and if you can become aware of this energy you may begin to feel for the other creatures within this universal space, and you may begin to learn how to use and interact with it. You may begin to feel one with the structure of space instead of feeling isolated and separated.
