You know what you know but you don't know what you don't know.
Michael A. Singer
Say what crazy lady?
This is not a how much wood can a wood chuck chuck...type of statement. The above line is just to remind you, as it did me when I listened to yesterday's podcast again,...that most of us are living from a very restricted and contracted frame of reference. We are using this amazing tool of a mind with its unlimited potential and focusing its light down on this tiny speck(me) stuck to a grain of rotating dust by the powerful force of gravity as it spins around in a galaxy of over a million stars, in a universe of over a trillion known galaxies, and as it shouts out with great disgruntled righteousness after stubbing its big toe, "Why is this always happening to me?"
We only know what we experience, right? What the five senses bring in to us from the tiny section of earth we are standing on? Most of us, don't even experience that because we are too busy observing and experiencing the dramas of our minds that have nothing to do, possibly, with what the senses are bringing in at this moment. It is so limited! Yet, we build our experience of Life on this very limited reference.
The vast majority of what you experience is the yackety-yack of your mind....Singer.
The human mind is absolutely amazing. Just think of all the great things it was able to discover, create, do over the eons humans existed and evolved. Absolutely amazing! Yet we narrow this powerful consciousness down to the "personal" and blur out all the impersonal. We get lost n this drama of "me and my story" ...a drama that takes place in the personal mind and not in reality. The personal mind is so distracting with all its thoughts and feelings, we get swept away by our addiction to it. We contract, and restrict our focus of Life down to this speck on this speck stuck to this speck of dust when there is so much more we could be experiencing with impersonal mind.
We listen to, believe, and follow the mixed up directions of personal mind as if it is our master and we are the chained servants. That is ridiculous when you truly think of it. What personal mind is telling us is nothing more than some offbeat assumptions it has made based on its very limited experiences ( most of which were just snippets in a loop recording of old video footage playing over and over again in the head). We really do not feel good inside when we we allow personal mind to call the shots. Yet, we call this reality and "my life". We are not experiencing Life and the world around us when we do this...we are simply experiencing what the personal mind is doing. Yet, most of us spend the 80 or so years we have on this amazing planet doing just that..."living in our heads". We are using this amazing tool we have been given to experience Life fully with and using it to ruin our lives. How sad is that?
There is no limit to the capability of our minds, except what we are doing with it (contracting it). Let's stop contracting and start expanding it. Let's lift our gaze, the light of consciousness, away from the dramas of personal mind and start shining it on the glorious revelations of impersonal mind. Let's expand beyond "me" to "all". Let's start living while we can. Let's get beyond ...
Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond the ego.
Edgar Mitchell (Former astronaut, awakened human, and Founder of IONS)
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics [and most human drama] looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell
All is well.
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( February 11, 2024) Expanding Your Frame of Reference Beyond the Personal Mind.https://tou.org/talks/
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