You are not alone...


The ‘bone cave’ story is a lie: we are not consciousness trapped inside matter - brains  in the prison of our skulls, sealed away from a world we can only experience by the shadow-play of our senses... We ARE those senses - and the neurones, and the skull the protects them, and the skin around it, and the blood and the heart that feeds them, and the lungs and the belly, and EVERYTHING. 


The lonely ego lies to itself: There is no real demarcation between ‘me’, ‘my body’ - no material separation between ‘self’ and ‘the world’; all that there is is the Universe itself! 


So when the Darkness tries to tell you: ‘I am nothing. I am alone and I am powerless’ - remember, that it is a symptom of believing the  illusion of separateness...


I am not alone. I am not singular - ‘I’ am billions of cells, arising and dying continuously, giving and sharing and working in tireless harmonious community for the good of all - every single one a fractal fragment of the whole, as essential to the whole as every other - yet forgotten and silenced by the tyranny of the Ego that can see only the self-imposed isolation of its mistaken presidence...


And the whole, a standing wave of energy in the infinite sea of energy that is the Universe itself - irreversibly and fundamentally connected  - the part indivisible from the whole.



So, Just breath

Deep, and gentle;

Soft, and slow;

Let yourself settle into love, and life...




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