{"id":216,"date":"2026-09-06T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabrielbeyer.org\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:57:28","slug":"what-if-the-world-you-live-in-isnt-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabrielbeyer.org\/en\/what-if-the-world-you-live-in-isnt-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What If the World You Live In Isn\u2019t the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine you are travelling through life and you make one tiny mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A completely understandable mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You think your thinking is reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You look at the world in front of you and think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Well\u2026 there it is. Reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My partner is annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My boss is an idiot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The economy is frightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That person doesn\u2019t respect me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My childhood damaged me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My future is uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday is shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Case closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And of course this sounds reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because how else could we experience reality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there another reality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn\u2019t what I see simply\u2026 what is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this is where things start getting interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Welcome to the cinema<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine sitting in a cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huge screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dolby Atmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perfect picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are completely absorbed in the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, somewhere halfway through, you forget that you are in a cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You start believing the screen is the actual world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it rains in the movie, you look for an umbrella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the villain appears, you want to call the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the main character gets dumped, you start hating her ex-boyfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if somebody beside you says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGabriel\u2026 it\u2019s a film.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAre you blind?! LOOK AT THE SCREEN!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is basically the human condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are looking at the screen of our own experience and assuming that what appears on it is reality itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we never experience reality directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We experience a <strong>thought-created rendering of reality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the time you don\u2019t experience another human being directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You experience your thinking about that human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t experience your job directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You experience your thinking about your job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t experience your past directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That one is especially funny when you really look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your past isn\u2019t even here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet you can sit on your sofa in Berlin in 2026 and suffer from something that happened in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is an astonishing superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No time machine required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just Thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We are rendering machines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are trees, buildings, dogs, traffic jams, bank accounts, wars, sunsets, WhatsApp messages and people who inexplicably send eight-minute voice messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not saying the physical world doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You never experience it without Thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And instantly, invisibly, beautifully, insanely fast, the human system renders an experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A complete inner world appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And because the rendering is so convincing, we usually don\u2019t see the renderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We see the movie and forget the projector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the most fundamental misunderstanding I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And at first it can sound like bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWait. You mean I\u2019m living in my own thought-created world?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this is not bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This may be the best news you ever hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because if your experience isn\u2019t being injected into you by the outside world\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">then the outside world does not own your inner life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I do not feel the world directly, then I cannot be the psychological victim of the world in the way I thought I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other people cannot install feelings inside me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Situations cannot reach into my body and press the anxiety button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My boss cannot inject stress through Bluetooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My ex cannot remotely access my nervous system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weather cannot upload depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no emotional USB port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I feel is my thinking coming alive inside consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That changes everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>This does not mean: \u201cJust think positive\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absolutely not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not suggesting that when your life is collapsing you stand in front of the mirror saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am abundant. I am abundant. I am abundant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">while your house is literally on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t positive thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It isn\u2019t controlling thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It isn\u2019t replacing bad thoughts with fluffy ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is seeing something much simpler and deeper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thought is transient.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have already had approximately nine billion thoughts you no longer care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday you were worried about something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today you forgot what it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years ago something felt like the end of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today you might need ten minutes to remember it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thought moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And because the world you experience is created through Thought, your experienced world moves too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means you are not permanently stuck inside any psychological reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even when it feels like you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The company of thoughts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes one thought shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes an entire corporation arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thought says: \u201cShe doesn\u2019t like me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then HR joins: \u201cNobody really likes you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finance arrives: \u201cThis is also why you\u2019ll probably die poor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legal comes in: \u201cWe have reviewed the evidence from 2004.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marketing says: \u201cYour competitors are doing much better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And suddenly you have a multinational organisation operating inside your skull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A whole company of thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Board meeting at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mandatory attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And because you believe the meeting is about reality, you act accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You defend yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Withdraw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because reality told you to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because a thought looked real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is such an important distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the stupid things we humans do are not because we are stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are simply caught inside a very convincing thought-created world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when the thought looks real enough, our behaviour makes perfect sense from inside that world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What if there is something before Thought?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we get to the part I love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because beneath all that thinking\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what is there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am this kind of person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis always happens to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLife is hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is there before all of that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something quieter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something formless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something very hard to describe because we have been trained to understand things we can touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qualifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We love concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Show me the spreadsheet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Show me the evidence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Show me the thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then someone comes along and says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe most important part of you might be invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you explain something formless to a culture obsessed with form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know if you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can only point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sydney Banks called it Mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You could call it life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Universal intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The breath of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing that grows your fingernails while you\u2019re busy arguing on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t really care what name you give it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name is not the thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The important part is that beneath the noise there seems to be something incredibly sane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something peaceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something that does not need to constantly discuss your performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Your distilled nugget<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sometimes think of it as the distilled version of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before all the decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before your CV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before your nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before your achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before your mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the personality you have spent decades constructing and defending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a more fundamental you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when the noise settles, even slightly, this part becomes visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not visible like a chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You become quieter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clearer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You see more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You need less defending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t have to force wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t have to manufacture peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peace was underneath the noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t have to create love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You notice that the walls around it were made of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And life starts becoming lighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because your circumstances suddenly become perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But because you are no longer carrying a psychological interpretation of your circumstances every second of the day and calling it reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The life orgasm<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sometimes call this feeling the <strong>life orgasm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And before you get too excited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not talking about the peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean that moment after the tension drops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That long:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aaaaaahhhhh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole system settles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your shoulders come down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your breathing changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing needs fixing for a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are not defending yourself from life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are just here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a lovely feeling underneath all the mental activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sydney Banks often spoke about looking for the feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the more I see this, the more I understand what that points to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a feeling of being alive that we are all searching for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wholeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then we make the tiny mistake of searching for it outside ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it is in the next relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next amount of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next follower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next person finally understanding that I was right all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I\u2019ll feel it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if feeling is generated inside us, we are searching in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing we are trying to get from life is already built into life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is already inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kingdom of heaven is within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes, if you prefer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the queendom too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not going to fight over the branding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It\u2019s here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Heaven is not hiding<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That peaceful place is not hidden somewhere in Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You do not have to climb a mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You do not need seventeen certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You do not need to meditate for 40 years until a beam of light shoots out of your forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is underneath the thinking you are currently taking seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the overthinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the self-improvement project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the endless internal discussion about whether you are enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is already life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And a surprising amount of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because once you start seeing the mechanism, some of the things your mind does become hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh! Here we go again. Apparently everybody hates me because someone used a full stop in a text message.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can still get lost<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Understanding this does not mean you float through life permanently enlightened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I certainly don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will still get caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will believe some ridiculous thought at 8:15 in the morning and by 8:17 you\u2019ll have mentally emigrated, divorced everyone, sold your company and decided humanity was a failed experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The difference is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You begin to know what is happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know you are in the cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may still cry during the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may still scream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may still get completely absorbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But somewhere inside you there is the understanding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is a movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that changes the entire game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because eventually the scene changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thought changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feeling changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not necessarily the physical world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only one you can actually experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What if we reversed the ratio?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of us seem to live predominantly inside the thought-created world and occasionally fall into essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A moment in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing with a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laughing uncontrollably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creating something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walking the dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Standing under the shower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suddenly\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">nothing is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are just alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then five minutes later:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh shit. The mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back into the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if we could reverse the ratio?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if essence the new normal\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and the thought-created drama became the place we occasionally visit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not by controlling our minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not by fighting thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not by becoming spiritual superheroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply through realizing how the system works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then maybe life becomes less about escaping fear and more about living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less about protecting ourselves and more about creating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less about proving who we are and more about discovering what is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less tightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More exhaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less surviving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More life orgasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Maybe this is the freedom we have been looking for<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if the thing creating most of our psychological misery is not the world itself\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but innocently mistaking our thinking about the world for the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if \u201cI\u2019m not good enough\u201d is not a fact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if \u201cI can\u2019t handle this\u201d is not a fact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if \u201cmy future is dangerous\u201d is not a fact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if \u201cthat person makes me feel this way\u201d is not a fact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if they are creations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temporary worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beautifully rendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emotionally convincing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes terrifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But still made of Thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then something enormous opens up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I no longer have to fix every movie playing on my screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can begin to understand the projector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And beneath every movie, every story, every fear, every identity, every bit of mental noise\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">there is still you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connected to something far bigger than the small personal world inside your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A place of wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A place of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A place of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A place of possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The place we come from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The place we spend our lives searching for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And maybe the funniest part is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We never actually left.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are travelling through life and you make one tiny mistake. 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