Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is how we have everything right now, already.
I think coming to that realization and understanding is kind of the point of life, but maybe I’m wrong.
Anyway, people like Eckhart Tolle talk about it a lot. I particularly like the little story metaphor he gives in the Power of Now:
A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by.
“Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap.
“I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?”
“Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.”
“Ever looked inside?” asked the stranger.
“No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.”
“Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger.
The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.
Anyway, his point is to suggest that we already have everything within us in consciousness. I sense that it goes so much deeper than we could possibly imagine and is linked to the potentially fractal nature of reality. That we literally have everything inside us while simultaneously being inside of everything.
To go further, my experiences over the years of trying to gain mastery over the practice of manifestation has taught me that you attain what you give yourself inside first. Searching for things externally is ultimately useless until you first give it to yourself internally, in consciousness of being that which you seek.
As a result of this belief system, I spend a lot of time living the life I want to live from within. I’ve been practicing visualization for years now and I can visualize basically anything as realistically as if it were right in front of me physically. Even things like smells and tastes can be replicated purely in my imagination. I’ve eaten many an imaginary sandwich to completion lol. I sometimes do this to fall asleep.
Finally getting to the point of what I’m trying to say here, recently I’ve begun taking this even further. I’ve been going into “portals” of other places in my mind. I can walk through a serene forest and feel the solid dirt and rock and moss against my feet and feel the fresh air running through my hair and cooling my skin. I can even smell the trees and hear the animals.
I can go to a cafe and taste the tea or coffee there and see the people around me.
Ever since I started doing this my dreams have been as lifelike as reality most of the time. It’s like I updated my processing.
I wanted to ask if anyone else has experience playing around with this idea? With kind of just “going” to places any time you want or having experiences whenever you want?
And lastly I wanted to mention this person’s experience living in worlds like this entirely for weeks in at a time. It’s very fascinating to me and I think it goes a lot beyond how most people experience life. There are no restrictions on what you can experience right at this very moment.