Edward’s Diary Entry 151: Time-out!

Diary entries are few and far between recently, because of travelling, summer heat, family reasons, and more travelling, and relaxing as far as writing is concerned. Daily awareness exercises and activities continue, though. When in doubt, persevere, they say.

A reflection from daily activities: Physically, when we touch something or someone, we think we are experiencing that thing or person, but we are only ever experiencing what is inside us, what our sense organs perceive and create inside our minds. On the physical plane, we try to connect and maybe experience some kind of union when holding hands, in an embrace, or in sex. But this doesn’t last long.

By awareness of breathing, however, we can see how we are invisibly connected through air with the rest of humanity, the animal kingdom and plants – the plants and trees that are generating the oxygen we take in, and recycling the carbon dioxide we give off. This doesn’t last long either in our awareness, but in reality it is happening all the time, and we are simply unaware of it.

By awareness of our own consciousness, we are even more invisibly connected with the whole mind of the world, with individual bubbles of awareness in other human beings and that of the animals and the intelligence of Life itself. Those are the (first) three degrees of connectivity we have available. Maybe there are others that are higher. But they must be outside our organs of perception, and outside the mind, which is our normal psychological functioning. Remaining very quiet, with the body and mind still, there are tiny glimpses of something higher than this, but nothing real to report yet.