April 28, 2026
In contemplation
Contemplating Existence
Mysticism is direct experience with your god. No dogma required. You are a mystic when you enter the room-within and know that you and your god are inseparable, that you do not exist independently. You are not the clay pot on the potter’s shelf. You are the dancing that is the dance. You are the expressing that is existence. You are that which I AM. Mystics know this inwardly without outside rites or rituals.
You are that which I AM but the me of the body perceives separation. It senses objects that have time and distance between them. Your body and its personality appear to exist independently from all other entities. This appearance seems real as you maneuver between here and there amidst this and that. The mystic, however, realizes that this sense of separation is not real.
Mystics know that our world of perceived separation is not our reality. Our reality lies within. Herein we realize that we are one with all, that there is no absolute separation between us or between us and all that we consider as other than ourselves. I like to call our inner reality the whole of the all. Not only is it whole, but it also is complete, perfect, and eternal. It is the thing itself. It is that which I AM.
Humans have always conjured up gods to explain existence and the afterlife. The sum of these constructs is that a fundamental source underlies our world. Religions connect us to this source as a divine power to be worshiped. The result is a world filled with seemingly absolute truths as seen through dogmas and sacred practices.
For me, the thing itself is not an entity separate from myself to be worshipped. It is a mental formation of emptiness that is nowhere. This emptiness is an eternal field of infinite possibility. It is intelligent and aware. Many call it consciousness, although it cannot be described or named. It has no comparison. It cannot be divided into parts and pieces. There cannot be consciousness and something else. Consciousness is eternal whereas existence is transitory. One is real, the other is illusion. Reality is not physical. Consciousness is not something to behold.
Consciousness is a field of knowing expressing separation as existence. We know existence as the universe and the world in which we live. We experience existence as the me of the body. We perceive existence as a world of separation. Separation, however, is not real. Existence is an illusion of separation held in consciousness much like children dream of unicorns. To know consciousness in existence is to remember the unity of the whole of the all instead of accepting separation as real.
The me of the body appears as a fragment of the whole of the all. It is comprised of pieces of the universe called subatomic particles. You, as the me of the body, are one of countless perceptions of the whole. Think of yourself as a molecule of water in an ocean. As the me of the body your experience of existence is unique, but your awareness of existence is not. Like a single water molecule, you are discrete awareness in a continuous ocean of awareness. You appear to be a fragment, yet you are the whole. The whole of the all is a continuum of discrete awareness much like an ocean is water molecules.
The me of the body and all of existence is rendered by consciousness expressing a thought of separation. You are that expressing. You are the dancing that is the dance. You are the expressing in consciousness that manifests separation as existence. The world does not exist independently of you. Your world is a projection of your discrete awareness. There is one awareness in consciousness with countless perceptions of existence. The world, like a unicorn, exists because it is perceived. Nothing exists independently of your entanglement with consciousness. Knowing this, you can transcend the illusion of separation. Knowing this is the core of mysticism.
