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Here's the heart of it, according to See Do: We perceive an infinitely complex view that is painted in-full right at the instant of our perceiving it. And that includes all memory and its apparently seamless integration. After years of pondering this idea, I have found that it doesn't get any easier to swallow.
If you’re keeping up, you’ve now had a good taste of the substance of our temporal reality as well as the nature of our “keyhole perception.” Now on to the fun.
Here begins my account of See Do’s description of the reality behind our temporal reality. Importantly, I am not promoting or proselytizing any belief system. And equally importantly, I have no intention of criticizing or refuting any belief system. These chapters are simply my account of what my Spirit Guide, See Do, told me.
You may recall that in Chapter 32, See Do said that the future is not set, but then, to my surprise, he went a bit further with “and neither is the past.” And we’ve seen how all conscious perception is, in fact, memory.
According to See Do, all that we can actively perceive is the right now. In other words, all we can actively interact with is the immediate present. The future and the past are unavailable to us. We can remember the past and see hard evidence of it. We can even see and hear recordings of it. But the immediate present and the past are all one thing. There is only one thing. We perceive an infinitely complex view that is painted in-full right at the instant of our perceiving it. And that includes all memory and its apparently seamless integration.
I hope you didn’t miss that. Those last two sentences are key. Try them again:
We perceive an infinitely complex view that is painted in-full right at the instant of our perceiving it. And that includes all memory and its apparently seamless integration.
One of the results of this is that all perception is 100% consistent. It all works perfectly as it all reflects and resonates it all. It all blooms from one source, so reflects itself perfectly.
In the Buddhist tradition, you may be familiar with Indra’s Web. This is a similar idea or analog. It is all as an infinite hall of mirrors, or web of cut gems, reflecting itself to complete a 100% consistent image and timeline. Your consciousness, your spirit, your soul does this constantly and with minimal effort.
You create your reality and project it out into your apparent perceived space (you’re projecting the idea of the space too). It appears to arrive instantly and whole, complete with its universe of evidence, timeline and memories. Don’t look around trying to prove or disprove this assertion, as all you can perceive in your temporal reality is the 100% consistent projected stimuli. And all you can remember is a universe that is in 100% agreement with all of it.
In some ways, I found and still find this to be the single most difficult of See Do’s lessons. And we went over it many times.
There is simply no evidence to be found within any perceived temporal reality experience or record that will contradict itself. It all comes from, and is, the one thing. And as such reflects or resonates itself with complete fidelity. If you understand the origin, you will understand that it is impossible for it to do otherwise.
Remember that Time does not exist, but Time is all we perceive (chapter 56), so the “time” it takes to put all of this together is irrelevant. What you and I perceive as Time, that continuous, consistent unwinding of the now, is an illusion of our temporal-reality-based perceptual mechanisms. What is “really” happening might as well take an eon between ticks of the clock. Maybe it does. We’d never detect it anyway.
And that would just be for you. There are a myriad of other souls, or temporal viewpoints, around you doing the same thing. These projection/perceptual realities can mingle and overlap, carrying resonance between each other’s point of view. So the complexity that had you puckering a few paragraphs ago is mightily compounded. But See Do just chuckles. He says it’s not really as crazy as it sounds. Uh-huh.
The important point being that if you can see clearly enough into your own spirit to completely forgive yourself, to truly love yourself, and to become that being who you can completely love and honor; then, if you can see into your soul’s deep inner passion and truest desire and align it with the truth and love inside you, to move into your state of True Being, you can begin to experience a reality that you can actively create. More than the parlor tricks of calling in a song on the car radio, you can affect events.
Look out into your world and try and see that much of what you perceive are resonances or echoes of what lies deep inside you. You may need a minute. And you may see that there is work to do.
I know I do.
–continued ( Next: We explore the existence of a single moment)
The world around us seems so compelled to fragmentation. At times it seems to even enjoy presenting itself as a myriad of separate and distinct things. But this is an illusion. It is all a singular expression. There is only one thing.
Up to now, I have presented a chronicle of the experience of my contact with my Spirit Guide, See Do. Now I will present a more focused explanation of some of See Do’s teachings.
I will attempt to explain what I’ll call “See Do reality,” which, as explained to me, is the greater or true reality behind what we perceive with our physical perceptions. I will present one key point per chapter, walking through 19 points.
It is important that I explain that this is what I have been taught. In many of my sessions See Do went through all of the material multiple times. From the very beginning. And in detail.
So I learned.
Some of the information that See Do gave to me is conceptually very hard to hold on to. And even harder to live by. I often fail and fall back into the nuts and bolts of our day-to-day temporal reality.
But let’s begin:
There is only one thing.
This is all that there is. It is everything and everyone. It has no past, present or future, as it exists outside of the illusion we call “time.” This one thing has no physical properties or presence, as the “physical” is an artifact of our perceived temporal reality. The one thing exists outside our reality but is our reality. Everything we see as real is an expression of the one thing. It is the canvas and the paint. The author and the word. The sculptor, the sculpture and the viewer. And it is all, and all at once.
It encompasses all beginnings and all endings.
There is no size to it. Through our lens it is simultaneously huge and small. You are zero distance from it. And in fact, the ideas of space and distance are also just artifacts of our temporal reality.
Everything is one and completely connected. But be careful as the idea of “connected” is also an artifact. “Connected” implies two things. There is only one thing. It can not be disconnected.
Attempting to separate from it would be the definition of folly. That is simply not a possibility. Seeking to consciously better join with it, to move with it and to see everything as one with it is one step on the path to understanding.
The one thing is not conscious like we are, though it holds all sentience and consciousness within it. The one thing has a simple and singular need. Call it a motivation, a goal, a cause, a reason for being, though all these crude words are wrong. Our ideas of consciousness and thought are too rooted in our temporal or time-based reality to translate with any accuracy what is really going on. We see thought as a prelude to action. In our world we are motivated to act, then we act. The one thing exists outside of our ideas of time and space, so before and after don’t apply to the one thing. And I should remind you that “there” is here. There is only one thing. You express it. And it expresses you.
The one thing does not have a name. It is that it is.
But the one thing has, let’s call it, an “idea.” And this “idea” is the end-game. It is where we are supposed to be heading. It is perhaps the singular thing that See Do wanted me to “get.” It is the great castle. Remember? The purpose of life(Chapter 20)? See Do explained that the purpose of life is “to use a small tool to build a great castle.”
It is “one-ness.”
And that is where we and our perceived reality come in. You may have noticed that the reality around us, our temporal reality, has a little problem. Well, let’s not call it a problem. Let’s call it a property, as it appears to be rather ubiquitous. It is entropy. That is the inclination of all physical systems to progress toward ever greater disorder.
The expression of entropy in life can lead us to see reality as a compilation of distinct and separate things. But there is only one thing.
You will begin to build the castle as you begin to see and appreciate the one thing around you and expressing through you. You will begin to build as you see your reality as our own creation. And when, through your deeper understanding, you begin to actively create your reality, rather than trying to dodge and dance around what you might see as the world’s random acts of entropy.
I know you’ve been told all this before. Many great faiths and spiritual leaders have brought forth the same message. For good reason. It is where you must begin. There is only one thing.
We’ll come back to this keystone idea. That was lesson one. Get it?
— continued (Next: Time to talk about Time)
A tiny shell, little more than 1/4 inch long. Until I saw it under the microscope, I thought it held a grain of sand. That grain is the tinier shell, held fast within. The events that joined them are unfathomable. The energies and histories flowing around you right now are no less complex. We'll look close at a small piece of our own reality and reflect. Oh, once again, the ripples in the background are my fingerprint pressed into clay.
The next week, everything seemed to slow down. Communication seemed off and See Do was harder to reach. Most of the week, when I tried to make contact, there was just this vague sense of needing to dig deeper into understand some of the complexities in this temporal reality around me. For some reason, this is important.
And I’m not sure if it’s literally important, meaning that there may be some hard information there that I need to make part of my background of understanding. Or whether it’s just important as a mind-expanding and spiritual exercise, meaning that doing the heavy lifting of understanding all this complexity will ready my mind(and my soul) for what See Do has in store next. But either way, I spent much of my “spare time” this week working on it.
And what comes next has also been revealed to me. After this meditation on our temporal reality, comes a more detailed explanation of what I call “See Do reality,” or the mechanics behind what See Do has been explaining over the previous 40 chapters. (As we move toward that, you are obviously encouraged to go back and review some of what has been taught so far.)
Please understand that what you’re about to read in this meditation did not come directly from See Do. I believe he merely sent me after it. I dug deep into many sources and now believe the research itself was also part of the lesson.
What I’m going to explore over the next several chapters goes back to the incredible amount of information that is constantly moving through the apparent world around us that we are almost completely unaware of. In fact, much of it is undetectable to us by our five senses, but it is clearly there.
And perhaps that is the key word here, apparent. Maybe there is something in understanding the opposite of what I’ve been trying to understand. Maybe I’m supposed to understand the nearly unimaginable complexity of our “apparent” temporal reality construct versus the “real” or “See Do reality” behind it. I can’t answer that just yet. But I can walk you through the world I’ve been looking into all week.
The basic conceptual framework I was given to work with is the idea of coming to terms with everything that is going on inside a hypothetical cube that is roughly one-quarter-inch on a side, floating in the air a foot in front of my face.
Take a breath and imagine it. Shape it between your fingers. Each surface is a little smaller than the fingernail on your pinky. It’s about half the dimensions of a common sugar cube. About the size of a nice blueberry, but square. If you have a TV remote nearby, the physical volume of one of the buttons will do just fine.
And what I’m going to lay out in the coming chapters is just an overview, a glimpse. This exercise could easily fill a book. Or a collection of books. It is nothing short of an attempt to really look at this temporal reality that we all feel so familiar with. And I now know I have seen just barely beneath the surface of something very deep and complex.
I’ll give some time to consider this task on your own. Or perhaps you might want to do some of your own research. But in the next chapter we begin. And it starts with something as simple and as beautiful as light. Please stay tuned.
–continued (Next: We look at the world of light that envelops us.)
