Vachon Imagined

Are we just imagining it?

No matter what we point to, it is first happening inside the mind—or within the totality of God. Nothing exists outside of it, which is to say, nothing exists outside of your experience of mind and consciousness.

Your individual experience of life unfolding is a privilege. We often struggle to think that “bad” things—cancer, abuse, or societal structures that make it almost impossible to stay afloat—could somehow be good things. And, of course, a mind in resistance to itself would see them this way.

But once we understand and radically accept that we cannot point to anything and prove its permanent existence, we begin to understand that we are walking through a field of consciousness that is coming through individual experience—or “I.”

So yes, while we tell our stories to gain acceptance, love, joy, empathy, rage, anger, or maybe even pity (which is allowed within consciousness), when we lose sight of God and direct experience, we can come to believe that these things are happening to us rather than happening within us.

Shifting our focus and seeing everything as, in some sense, an imaginary state helps us not only take responsibility for our minds, but also for where our bodies go and how we move through the world.

Life is the direct experience of life itself. It doesn’t matter what form it takes. That form of consciousness—what some people call a vibration—exists as who you were before you became conscious of your own thinking.

Before you divided into, I am what I see and what I see deserves praise or admonishment, judgement.

That self-awareness gives us the ultimate insight to ask: Where am I?

Well, truth says you are inside God, inside consciousness, inside the experience of consciousness. And no matter how far you go, you cannot step outside of that experience.

The question then becomes less about, “Is this happening in a physical reality? Can I prove it, touch it, or sense it?” and more about a visionary kind of insight that says:

I am blessed to see what is happening inside me, what is happening through me, and what is affecting the world around me.

That appetite is profound. It is also never-ending—the constant thirst to understand, even intellectually, how powerful we are to impact not only ourselves but those around us, and ultimately, through them and through all things, an entire world.

An entire planet.