E (19:33)
Right, Exactly. We have to start from the beginning. We can start from the field. There is a field. A field is something that is non local. So when you say electromagnetic field, it's something that is not just contained in a box. It's something that is everywhere. So one way to imagine it, because imagining and metaphors, they help to understand sometimes more than even logic. So imagine like an ocean. There is an ocean, a big, huge ocean. And imagine that this ocean has no boundaries. It's infinite. It's beyond space and time because it's all and everywhere. Now, this ocean, we are saying, is an ocean of consciousness. It's not a material ocean, it's not a physical ocean. So it's just pure consciousness. We could call it love, we could call it power, we could call it energy, we could call it anything. We're calling it consciousness because it has a nature, it has a quality. And it's only one quality is to be conscious. So we're gonna now to see if consciousness is primary, how we build from consciousness all the other things, the logic, the universe, the laws, choice and freedom, determinism, pain and suffering and intuition. And, you know, all of these things we have to build from. So what does it mean to be conscious? To be conscious means that there is some entity being aware of something. I'm conscious of the flower. It means I am the observer, the flower is the object, and I am observing the observed. And also there is a process that connects me to the flower. So there is the silent observer, the conscious observer. And Its what we call reflecting on itself. Self referral. This is important. It reflects on itself. To be conscious and to have the quality of consciousness. You have to reflect on something. But since it's the only thing that there is, it's reflecting on itself, it turns back onto itself. So what we have here is three values. Within the one consciousness. We have the knower, the knowing and the known. And this is where diversity starts in the field of oneness. So oneness is always there. But reflecting on itself, it has these three flavors. I can see myself as an object of my observation. I can see myself as the one observing. And I see that in order to observe, I have to have a dynamic process that connects me to myself as an observed. This is where the three value comes. Now, these three values can have an infinite number of ways to look at each other. That is what is a key point also is that I can look at myself from so many different ways. As a broad perspective of infinite observer. Or a slightly hidden observer who knows something but doesn't know much. It's like the imagination flowing. And when you imagine something, it's still in the unmanifest. It's like an author who imagines characters. So that consciousness, that ocean of consciousness held within it, you can see like an author that imagines characters based on how wide is their consciousness, how broad is their imagination. Now imagine that if you have an infinite consciousness, how much your imagination can be fertile. So in that field of consciousness, we're saying a field that is only one field, but it has within it all possible imaginary, non imaginary things that can ever be imagined or sought or created. So it imagines all of these things. Now, this is a key point that I get asked a lot. Why is then manifestation happening? This is where physicality will come and materiality will come. And all of that we have to ask to be logical and complete. Why would this ever happen? Why this ocean of consciousness, which is infinite and bounded, imagining everything, actually end up appearing as you and me and the tree and the dog and the cat and the planet and all of these things. And the answer is based on its nature. What is its nature? Its nature is to be conscious. And it wants to be conscious in every possible way. It looks at itself and it sees all these ways of being conscious. It knows them on an imaginary level. What it does not know is what it is like to be Catherine, what it is like to be Tony, what it is like to be David, what it is like to be whatever, a tree, what it is like to be a cat. What it is like to be a planet, what it is like to be the sun, the moon. See, when the actor tries to embody a certain role, for example, in a movie, they have to forget to some extent who they are and fully put themselves in the shoes of the role they are playing. So if you are a very happy wealthy person and want to play the role of somebody who's working hard and trying to make a living and like that, and want the people to believe you, but also you want to see how it feels, you have to somewhat forget your nature and step into the nature of the role you are playing. And the more you actually forget and embody fully the nature of the role you are playing, the more you actually embody it and experience it as real, the more you actually know it. So what it is like to be happy, satisfied and enjoying something and having pleasure of eating or living or experiencing something grand and beautiful. Consciousness in its unmanifest level imagines it, but it doesn't know it firsthand. So what it does is hides its own nature and experiences from a limited perspective. And then it knows truly what it is like to be Tony or Catherine or whatever. So all what we see as manifest universe are different ways of being in a limited perspective, limited vision. Now, when you say those who have autism, they have somehow removed the barrier. If you say, you know, if those not everyone removed that barrier of limited perspective and they have pierced through the secret and they know that they are the ocean. Otherwise, when you are the wave and you want to experience the wave as such, you are bound on the wave and you have to keep your vision on the limited wave. You, you don't see, and you see all the other waves are different from you. So you experience the wave, you are the wave. You embody the wave. You live the full value of the wave. But to get liberated from that, you have to dive deep and know that you are the ocean. Now this is what transcendental meditation actually does. It's not that it produces autism, but allows you, while remaining yourself, allows you to pierce through the secret and experience who you truly are. You are the ocean. You are the ocean. Playing this role or playing that role, putting yourself in this shoes of this person or that person, and that's the beauty of it, is that we are all the ocean. We are all the ocean. That's what brings deep unity to our existence, to our life, to our understanding, because we truly are the ocean. Everyone is myself. Everyone is yourself. Everyone is that reality. And when you transcend, it means transcendental meditation. It means you go beyond the surface understanding of who you are and you experience the depths of being, the depths of who you truly are. And that's what we call pure consciousness. So you transcend the surface value and you experience consciousness by itself, without any other thoughts or feelings or impressions that are there. That's why we call it transcendental. Transcendental means to go beyond. You go beyond all surface values and you transcend and transcend beyond and beyond until you transcend everything and you find you are consciousness, you are pure being. See, this is one of the arguments I use in my logical explanation that consciousness is primary. There are many, many arguments. So it's a combination of intersecting, converging arguments from different, different angles, even from physics, that discovers what we call a unified field. From mathematics, from logic, from reasoning, from philosophy, from experience. Experiential, like what happens when you transcend, how you transform the body and how you experience that collective value from the experiences that you're talking about, even though I didn't mention those in the book, but I mentioned some of those experiences similar about people feeling connected, feeling one with everybody. And that's very real. It's beautiful. It is the reality of our essence.
