Hidden in our vision

SO that's how it works! The world. ha. Our eyes give it away in the way that they function. I am laying on the earth, and my chest is on the ground. I am in love with it. In Love. With the earth, the world, with life, with existence. In love. I am laying on the ground and looking in front of me. There is my hand and a ring on my finger, right near my face. Beyond the hand, there is a wildflower, and beyond that, a tree. My eyes can focus on the ring, the wildflower, or the tree. I simply have to adjust something in the way my eye is perceiving. It is an easy switch. I just have to change what the eye is focusing on. If I focus on the ring, the wildflower and the tree are still there, but they are blurry. Although I cannot really see them clearly or well, I am aware that they are there. If I focus on the tree, the same is true but of the wildflower and the ring, etc. It's an easy switch. That's the way the world works. We may be focused on the obvious or the less obvious, on that which is right in front of us, or on that which is broader, bigger, or more distanced from us. We may be focused on the minute details of our life in this particular moment, or we may be focusing on big spiritual concepts like God and existence or the future. Whatever we are focused on, all of these things are still there. When I focus on the ring, the wildflower and tree are still there. When I focus on God, I am still here, and when I focus on the details of my life like cooking food and showering my body, God is still there. Also, despite what our focus may be on in the particular moment, we should keep everything else within our consciousness, just like when I am focused on the ring, the tree and wildflower are still within my perception, even though they are not the focus at that time.

We should all practice to be able to switch our focus/ mode of consciousness as easily as we can switch the focus in our vision. As easily as I can change my focus from the ring to the tree, I should practice to be able to shift my focus from that which is right in front of my face, the ring, the mundane tasks of life, to the bigger picture behind it all, the tree, to the God energy force that runs through everything.

We are so free. If we can just tap in to the Truth behind it all, and if we can only be able to consciously be aware of all layers of consciousness simultaneously, even when we are in one, be aware of the others, even when I'm looking at the ring, know that the flower and tree are just as real, then we are so free. Because once we can tap into Truth, anything else that anyone tells us to do, a friend, enemy, or acquaintance, a teacher or a student, society, the fashion industry, the fads, etc, no one can have any hold on me, and if they want to persuade me to do something, I can check in with that Truth that I am able to reach, and if what they tell me to do conflicts wit that Truth, then I won't even feel tempted to give in, because once we are aware of Truth, we are free. But how do we become aware? Simple (well, not so simple), but it starts with a simple eye exercise. Try it: focus on something right in front of your nose, then without moving anything, switch the focus in your eyes to notice what is just behind, and then again to what is in the background. Got it? Now try it with life and existence. Keep practicing ;)

Another thing I noticed that runs along the same vein as what I wrote above: you know how sometimes even when a light bulb is turned off, it still has a slight glow against the darkness? I was laying in my bed and noticed this phenomena with the light bulb that hung from the ceiling. Ok, another thing, have you even noticed how sometimes, when you are star gazing, if you look directly at one of the distant shining dots, it seems to disappear, but if you look just to the side of it, you can see it again? There is a tiny blind spot in the very center of the eye, and so if we look at something that small straight on, we can't see it at all. So, to tie these two thoughts together, I was noticing the not-completely-dark, turned-off light-bulb, and I was having the distant-star-blind-spot effect with the not-completely-dark, turned-off light-bulb. It was bizarre. I had never noticed the blind-spot effect with something so big! A star is a tiny dot so far away, but this light-bulb is not so small, and it was very close to me, almost right over my head. What was so strange is that I was one hundred percent certain that the light bulb was there. If I looked to the side, I could see it. The light bulb was right there, so close I could have touched if if I had stood up! But if I looked right at it, I could not see it at all, not one bit, not even a hint. It was as if the light bulb was not there at all. The point is to say that what is reality is more than simply what the eye can see. There is more to reality that what we can pick up with our eye. Our eye sees only a certain amount, and then our brain filters what the eye sees so that we register even less. When we look around, we don't see the tiny micro-particles floating around in the air. When we look outside, maybe we don't see it so obviously that there is a Creative Energy Force that is flowing through every single thing, but we should remember this lesson, that there is more to reality than what the eye can capture. Even though I could not see the light bulb, I did not doubt for a moment that it existed and that it was there right in front of me the entire time. So, even when we hit a dark spot in our lives and cannot see the light bulb, the camouflaged but ever present Godly force flowing through creation, we should never loose faith and should always remember that it is always there, right there in front of us, even if we cannot see it clearly.