Your Universe

The Universe, All This Is, is not what we have learned it is.  The Universe is nothing other than symbols, their values and associations, and the relationships of symbols within our perception.  The symbols and relationships are constantly changing to provide an experience of something in order to avoid No-thing.  These experiences are our everything and that keeps us from Nonexistence.  Therefore, what we are perceiving is our entire Universe, and nothing else.  Anything outside of our perspective does not exist.

To quote Lon Milo DuQuette’s subtitle in his book Low Magick, “It’s all in your head, you just have no idea how big your head is.”  To put it bluntly, “your head”, or your mind, is the totality of all that exists.  This is not mere solipsism.  It must be remembered that Existence is an illusion, and that includes us.  Our perspective is indeed the Universe.

Since our perspective is limited, our Universe is limited and finite.  The more we expand our perspective the more limitless our existence becomes.  We expand our perspective through activity.  Note that anything that exists is active from the smallest spinning quantum particle to the largest pulsing quasar.  Without activity or movement there is stillness...No-thing.

Increasing activity with symbols and relationships that make up our Universe creates more perceptions and expands our perspective.  Seeking out and interacting with newly discovered symbols and forging new relationships expands the Universe.  Therefore, focusing only on certain symbols and relationships limits our perspective.  Perspective is the Universe.

Ceasing our focus, stilling or removing our thoughts that create focus, also removes self-imposed limitations on our perceptions and expands our perspective.

If we change our relationships or our symbols within our perspective, we change our Universe.  The Universe changes according to the minimum amount of effort, or energy, required for the next “logical” progression, but it is constantly changing.  The Ultimate Reality, being ineffable, cannot be perceived or experienced, so we continually create symbols to represent that while avoiding No-thing.  Changing our perceptions and our focus also changes our perspective as new symbols and relationships are discovered which actually existed all along, but our previous perceptions and focus eliminated that awareness.

By ignoring most of the Universe, Reality, we continually re-assign our purpose and create our experiences.  This ignoring, or forgetting, allows us to have a more individual being, and individuality allows others to exist.  Our Existence is the creation of those symbols and relationships of “I” and “Others”.   

Fear or disgust of No-thing, or Nonexistence, creates the illusion of separateness and the desire for other(s) and attachment(s).  Remove fear and you remove the perception of separation.

You are as real, or illusory, as everything else in the Universe, or your perspective.  As stated before, our individuality is a product of our symbols and relationships, and we are all the same thing.  Consider what “You” actually comprises.  Should you lose your legs in an accident, where did “you” go?  If you were super-morbidly obese and went from 800 lbs. to 150 lbs. are “you” still here?   “You” are actually comprised of the relationships and symbols of the Universe as with everything else.  The “others” are also “you”.  When you perceive others within the Universe, you are actually only perceiving that which is of yourself.