There is only this point of present consciousness. It occupies no time and takes up no space.
Everything that is apparent appears to take up space, and exist over time. But this apparent existence is all taking place now, within this single, simple point of consciousness. The consciousness itself occupies no time nor space. Experience this yourself, right now: does consciousness take up any time or space?
Everything that happens – is thought about, is felt, is observed – all takes up time and space. There is nothing in your world – mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual – that does not take up time and space. But consciousness does not take up time and space, so consciousness is not “in your world”; consciousness is that within which your world appears.
It is with this present consciousness that you know anything to exist. So it is as if there is an explosion of existence, once you move one tiny step away from the reality of the single, dimensionless, timeless point of consciousness, and move toward the thought-created forms that you imagine in your mind. Once a time and space “stage” is given credence in the mind, then anything and everything can appear on it.
The universe is imagined to be spread out over time and space, and therefore “existing.” But it is only existing, or apparent, within consciousness, which has no “room” for these things to occupy. They can only occupy imaginary time, and imaginary space. The consciousness itself, which has the capacity to give rise to all of it, is the only thing that is real. And this you know, right now, as your normal, knowing sense of being. It is who you are.
Consciousness is not localized, in the apparent “world,” because consciousness is the source of the apparent world. Everything in the apparent world springs from the single, dimensionless, timeless point of consciousness, which you know right now as the one witnessing the reading of these words.
There is no part of the universe that is not simply this consciousness, non-localized, the seed point of all existence. This seed point is all there is, and this is what you know, and have always known, not because the mind has labeled it and named it, but because there is existence, and you are always the witness of it. |