Our individual consciousness IS a part of a pseudo-neural network of consciousnesses hosted within all living beings, comprising a singular being of infinite intelligence experiencing its own existence (and the proof of it thereof), subjectively through every instance of life. I’ve come to understand that this intelligence manifests reality from chaos as it goes along, like a dream, but with cadence; a perpetual, timeless, constantly evolving pairing of causes and effects. I am that. We are that. Everything is that. That is all there is. That is “God”. The sum of all life stories, experiences, knowledge and wisdom, past and future, encompassing all of space and time, forms its intelligence. And all of existence, combining the creator / creation bubble, that infinite intelligence, and the pure observer / awareness / perception (conceptual), in this present moment, is its life.
Why I put creator and creation together? Well. When you hug a tree with love in your heart, you are hugging the creator with love in your heart. Creation is a channel; a vehicle for the creator, which encompasses phenomenal layers of aeons of memory and an immense intelligence in and by itself. And by the function of a creator, not only creates this physical experience of life that you are having, but can also create for you, once your intelligence is properly aligned with the creator’s which in turn is aligned with the intelligence of the one being.
Do not doubt that you can interact with conceptual beings. They are infinite intelligences, and by the nature of intelligence, capable of the kind of intelligent responses behooving infinite intelligences.
You are a sliver of that intelligence, an amalgam of stories and experiences, temporarily housed within a highly sophisticated manifestation of matter; the conceptual housed within the physical; are you not? And by the nature of intelligence, the sliver seeks to expand in knowledge, experience and wisdom, do you not? How? By weaving in and out of more and more sophisticated such constructs ofcourse.
Each of us are at different levels of development and learning, and as we become more and more learned and capable, we gain experience and wisdom across multiple lifetimes, emerging Higher and Higher with a heavenly life experience until we complete a full life cycle, when we attain dissolution into that singular being of infinite intelligence, or in other words, “become one with God”. That is the ultimate dissolution of any sense of self. Where you accept yourself as a “non-existent” (“is not”) phenomenon; that you no longer exist; for long as you like. Beyond that, you can be anyone or anything. You can experience any moment, any personality, live any life. And it’s a big universe, teaming with life. And there are other universes as well! And levels, dimensions and states of being in this infinite existence. You can literally live for an eternity without getting bored.
As you attain higher states, you also become naturally helpful, averse to causing any harm, gentler and kinder, authentically compassionate, totally non-judgmental, selfless, wanting all life to ascend without any personal expectation of any kind whatsoever.
But those who get stuck with ignorant dogmas and beliefs, like for example, wanting infinite existence to somehow all fit into their limited personal standards or a handful of books (or a name! Imagine expecting the source of the infinite to have one specific name!), experience difficulty ascending, and over time, their life experience becomes one of emptiness, confusion and hardship. You can keep assuaging this with periodic rituals that create a feeling of connectedness and provide an experience of something beyond the physical, and that might work for you for now, but at some point, in one lifetime or another, everyone starts to wonder and question, everyone seeks to know for themselves without having been told. Sooner or later, everyone must discard their identities, beliefs, ego; anything that makes them feel like a separate individual; and start attending “The University of Creation, Presentville”.
That’s what all this meditation stuff is really about.
Of course there are other ways. For some it can happen by accident, or through emotional peaking, or through trauma.
In my opinion, voluntary inward meditation is the more pleasant method.
However, those that continue to choose hold on to their dogmas, despite life experiences teaching them otherwise, investing in the ego (either consciously their own, or their own but projected onto their teachers, deities or beliefs), suffer a hellish life experience, life after life, as they reject new knowledge and descend across life times, moving further and further away from the godly state, attaining demonic states until they are eventually burned out of existence.
This is not done flippantly or in a cavalier manner by any means. Oh no. Each being is tested for thousands and thousands of years to make sure. One cannot be eternally damned from just 80-100 years of testing. We live inside of an extremely compassionate being, for the compassionate state is a pleasant experience for the being.
Nor can one graduate without actually graduating your current state, meaning completing all your learnings, so that you are wise enough and will behave appropriately in higher worlds where life forms who are capable of higher sensitivity and awareness will be present, living highly nuanced lives.
Everything happens by the choices we make. If we allow our beings to learn fluidly, with compassion, using evidence, and without ego, we get better at making choices and hence lead better lives than those beings who are still not as learned.
Moving from old knowledge to new knowledge fluidly and freely is the most heavenly and the lightest way of life.