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What you say Gribbons is quite humbling, about if reality were like Inception. Stuck in the subconscious mind.

I've read before that we are all thought-forms. If indeed everyone else is a self-generated image, as was reality itself, it leads for a lonely existence. Very interesting observation there.

Ra: Let us for a moment consider thought. What is it, my friends, to take thought? Took you then thought today? What thoughts did you think today? What thoughts were part of the original thought today? In how many of your thoughts did the creation abide? Was love contained? And was service freely given? You are not part of a material universe. You are part of a thought. You are dancing in a ballroom in which there is no material. You are dancing thoughts. You move your body, your mind, and your spirit in somewhat eccentric patterns for you have not completely grasped the concept that you are part of the original thought.

As you can see from this Ra quote, there is no material. It is all an illusion that is taking place in consciousness. Physicality is simply a dream -- a tangible expression or manifestation of that intangible consciousness. An inverted reflection, if you will. We understand, or come to know, that which we are through that which we are not. Thus, the excursion into illusion. Consciousness is engaged, eternally, in the act or process of knowing itself.

I completely agree with the concept that everyone is a reflection. There is only one consciousness, which is looking through an infinite number of eyes -- the eyes of the human, the eyes of the animal, the eyes (I speak metaphorically here) of the bacteria, the eyes of the particle of matter, the eyes of the sun, the eyes of the earth, the eyes of the universe, the eyes of the insect, the eyes of the logos. It is not that just everyone else is a self-generated image. Everyone is, including our own personal ego. We all share the same Self. There is one soul, its circumference is nowhere and its center is everywhere. All egos are equally illusory. They are just illusory vessels for that clear-light which is consciousness.

A thought I would like to offer you for your consideration: loneliness is a negative state, which arises from a perception of separation. *ALL* negativity, and *ALL* resistance, arises from a perception of lack, which can only appear to be so, not actually be so. Separation cannot actually be. Nothingness cannot actually be. Infinite-intelligence, which we are, is also infinite abundance. Infinite substance -- somethingness as opposed to nothingness. There is no lack from that perspective. Whenever you perceive lack, you have perceived an illusion, or in other-words, something that is not what it appears to be. There can be no lack.

The One feels no loneliness, I assure you. That arises from resistance, which is not a part of the One perspective. There is only well being.

The excursion into the illusion of creation is not driven by loneliness, but rather, an infinite desire to know ones self. Because the self is infinite, and ultimately, unquantifiable, it cannot be completely known through material manifestation, which is the realm of the quantifiable, the measurable, the finite. Thus, the knowing of Self, in the realm of manyness, is free to continue in an eternal present. You never "get it done", as it were. And that is a beautiful thing, from a broader perspective. There are infinite expressions, infinite creations, infinite relationships.

The desire to know oneself literally perpetuates creation. And our inability to fully do so necessitates that it will go on forever.