Field of Vision

Ever stop or even slow down enough to consider your field of vision? I have stopped and I just think now. I have a concept to share about a field of vision and how it relates to consciousness and the nonexistence of time.

This concept may save you from the thought maze I've traversed to unravel it, but it will create a thought maze, double it's original size, in which to further the understanding. The end of this next maze results in a doubled new maze to traverse. Thus is the quest for knowledge. Each new bit of information is added to the whole to better understand the next level of bits as they present themselves. This is true of consciousness and it is the truth of the system we inhabit.

So, I can take you to the end of one maze, which is the beginning of yet another maze. I have found a path through the first one for us all and now we can all stand at the door of the new maze, ready to explore and learn. I can only show you the door, however. The final choice is yours to make. (Thanks Matrix)

Let's begin with the statement the "Time does not exist". All is always and there is no now or then. Think of the gambler at the track metaphor. Our gambler has vast knowledge of all possible outcomes of the horse race, including the knowledge that no matter how many factors are changed during the race, there is a set of outcomes that already exist. Otherwise how could he place a wager?

Now consider the same horse race from the rider's perspective. Countless are the things that may transpire between here and there. Heart attack, horse explodes, rider kills horse, horse loses rider, ground turns to liquid...you get the point. Even if all these unimaginable things occur "during" the race, the set of outcomes that existed prior to the race is fixed. All the outcomes exist at the same moment, always. It is the act of choice that defines it.

(pause...breathe)

So if the choice sets the outcome, then how could our rider be choosing to have the ground change to liquid? Linear thinking says that the rider obviously couldn't predict nor control the ground turning to liquid. Therefore he must have been forced into the situation by some higher power. Something beyond his control.

Try and think non-linear for while, for it is highly important in conceptualizing this stuff, in understanding it. The rider did choose to pursue a horse racing career and he did choose to participate in the race. He simply had no knowledge of the liquefying ground prior to his experiencing it. The fact still remains that this occurrence of liquefying ground always existed as an option, it was simply not known to the rider. The key here is the knowledge gained and the mental back tracking done in order to find the choice made and determine it's effectiveness. The rider cannot deny that the event exists, no matter how unbelievable it may seem. It's existence translates into always having been an option, which further translates into always being. Therefore, if all options and outcomes exist always, known or unknown, time does not exist. It is only perceived by us, created by us.

(whew)

Now consider the question of what is consciousness. We can all relate to the tactile world we inhabit so here is a metaphor that I have used to understand. When you are awake you are aware of your consciousness. You see things and breathe and the like. When you get in bed to sleep, you are aware of the bed until you fall asleep. Then your awareness of the bed goes away, but the bed does not. Your awareness of your breathing goes away, but the breathing continues. Your awareness of time in dreamland is nonexistent or skewed, even though it does not stop in the waking world. This is a key.

While asleep, are you really "unconscious"? Or are you simply continuing to exist in a state where tactile sense and physicality are unnecessary? Well, if you are awake reading this then you obviously didn't die in your sleep, so while you were sleeping, you obviously were conscious. Just conscious of an alternate reality that exists as this one does. Dreaming is simply an adventure in the consciousness of all that is. It is a state of existence that we are instructed to ignore and most do. It exists and that we cannot deny. Just as the rider cannot deny the liquefying ground after experiencing it.

We can say that if it exists, then it is obviously an available option from which to choose. Therefore, if time does not exist in dreamland, then it is a possible choice and outcome that time does not exist at all. Following this?!

To put some perspective in play, imagine that your face is a searchlight. Everywhere your field of vision takes you, a stream of light is emitted. As your vision travels around, the light illuminates a portion of your surroundings. As you complete your visual journey over each item surrounding you, you form a memory of those things. Even though you may be focusing on the television, you still are aware that the other things around exist. Now change the light to paint. As you paint all the surroundings with your eyes, what eventually happens?

Everything turns one color and begins to lose distinction. Stay with me...

Do this same exercise with your eyes closed and you find the resulting painted area to resemble a sphere. As though you have painted your self into a ball. However, because you are not limited to the size of your imagination, you are able to recognize that this newer sphere of knowledge is wrapped around all the older spheres of your memory, one inside the other. This is the breakthrough.

New sphere surrounds old sphere and so on...Ad infinitum. Connect the dots to determine if the choice was effective toward your goal. Knowing that there is no limit to consciousness and realizing that all the possible outcomes already exist, always, is not counterproductive. The truth is one relies upon the other. All the outcomes must always exist so that when one's consciousness expands, it can expand through all levels of the souls development. And due to Free Will...there cannot be a limit on size nor possible choices. It is a cycle.

Final thought... We all know dreams exist and we all know that when it exists, it is real. This is what we do everyday while awake. A dream is as real as a desk, the two simply occupy different realities. When you can make that connection, you will begin to be set free. Expand your field of vision and your existence will expand with it.