A RELFECTION ON SEPARATION

POSTCARDS FROM OUT HERE

I recently came across a quote from Dorothy Fadiman. She said ---

In dreams, I need you.

In experience, I love you.

In true reality, I am you.

Neither Need nor Love (in the usual sense) are real. The only reality is Am-ness. We know that we ARE; everything after that is up for question. Need and Love are based on an illusion that is not real. The illusion is encapsulated in two words – “I” and “Me” – neither “I” nor “Me” are any more real than last night's dreams. Anything that relies on an illusion for its existence must itself be illusory.

This world we live in is part of a Universe – not a Duoverse or a Multiverse – a Universe. All one. Only one, without a second, or a third.... One. No separation, except in our nightmares.

So why was the illusion of Separation created? What use does Separation serve? My guess is // so that the Curiosity Question “What am I?” can be explored. And for that we need Reflections, which means we also need mirrors. Well, we have no shortage of them. Mirrors surround us everywhere – the bathroom, the bedroom, the bus, the shopping centre – we're chockas with mirrors, made of silver, glass, human flesh.....

The illusion of Separation allows us to experience all kinds of things we couldn't get in Heaven – experiences both yummy and yukky – like relationships, romantic love, togetherness and conflict. Separation allows us to experiment, wrangle and wrassle with all kind of differing ideas, concepts , opinions and beliefs and the feelings that follow – just to see what experiences they provoke and how they turn out.

But remember, it is only a dream. When you and I look at each other, we see bits of ourselves reflected back to us. Whatever we see in another must already exist within ourself, otherwise we could not recognise it. Get it?

Whatever we see in so-called “otherness”, we are. Once you get this, you can really start to get to know yourself by owning what you see. When you put it all together, you can get a grip on the grandeur of what you have created yourself to be – that is, all you see. I invite you to be grateful for the reflections.

[Reflections – Jimmy Barnes (A) – 3:04]