Perceiving a Crazy World in a Very Sane Way
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Robert Kopecky, author of the new How to Get to Heaven (Without Really Dying).
This is a crazy world, where crazy things happen all the time. It can be very difficult. In fact, sometimes it seems like it’s too messed up to ever straighten itself out…but then again it may be fine, just as it is. It’s possible the craziness just grows out of the way we look at it. Perhaps we needlessly suffer from a matter of simple misperception.
Being human means taking part in an unavoidably persistent set of illusions that we’ve all bumped into at one time or another. A lot of the time, nothing seems magical at all, but how else can we explain that amazing, magical things really happen quite frequently? Let’s start by rebooting our perception with this fundamentally magical fact:
We are floating around an infinite galactic cosmos on a tiny planet, spinning in limitless space.
If you think about it, that alone can change your day.
Being humans from Earth, naturally our little human minds—our “Small Mind”—wants us to believe everything it says is true. It wants us to believe the spontaneous thoughts that tell us “life is difficult,” and “amazing things are not likely to ever happen.” It wants us to believe that we’re separate little individual organisms, independent and unattached—but that’s silly, isn’t it? Just look at the world. We’re obviously much, much more than that.
The truth is that we’re all essentially one incredibly magical, completely and irrevocably interconnected thing! We’re the seamless energy of Life, riding around in human bodies (for the time being). Like every living creature, we’re personal packages of Divine Being-ness. Right away that takes some weight off our shoulders, doesn’t it?
I had the mixed fortune of surviving multiple “Near-Deaths,” the first being in the classic “out-of body” motif. I looked down on my crash and saw my own apparently lifeless body—and believe me—it’s hard to get the genie back in the bottle after that. Stop for just this moment, and imagine being there with me.
Imagine yourself outside of your own body, being your pure energetic self—unencumbered by the insistent demands of your limited human mind. When you identify yourself at the level where your inner self and the rest of the universe are one—seamlessly unified—the crazy problems and obstacles of “life on Earth” suddenly hold very little power.
With this simple, reimagined perception of Life, you can immediately gain an expanded, coolly tolerant and empathetic experience of Consciousness—as shared by all. It’s easy to accept the crazy world (and all the crazy people), just as it is. Freed from confining demands and expectations, everything is simply part of the whole, expressing that Divine Consciousness however it has to.
You engage in our “Big Mind”—a condition that’s also called “Buddha Mind,” or “Christ Consciousness.” That’s not such bad company to keep, is it? And for as long as you can stay there, you’ll never have to misperceive this crazy world again.
Our thanks to Robert for his guest post! For more from Robert Kopecky, read his article “What Did 3 Near-Death Experiences Teach Me About Heaven?.”
