Where do we draw the line!

Between that which is ‘real’ and that which is a fabrication?

On a personal level there are many lines we draw I the sand, lines beyond which we do not feel comfortable.

This is a good place to start this journey. Why do we draw lines in the sand?

Mostly I suspect because this defines our comfort zone, inside the line, all is okay, if not exactly okay, then manageable.

Outside the line make us feel threatened, so we react, by withdrawing or attacking. Anything that makes us less than comfortable we either deny or point the finger of blame at something outside of the ‘self.’

But why do we draw the line at all.

Not a simple yes no answer..

If we assume that when we are born into this body we carry with us memories, or perhaps memories can be called charge. This charge will resonate with the charge of our parents, time and place, social environment etc. We are born into the physical, already carrying charge and we then inherit any charge that our parents, or their parents, have not yet ‘cleared.’

So ultimately it is charge that is responsible for another life. Work out and release all charge then perhaps there will be no more need for the physical experience.

However, most fall into identifying with the charge, in turn this leads to judgements about good and bad, right and wrong, war and peace etc. where we identify with any of these charges, we are okay as long as the stand we take is shared by many others, so, collectively we have found a safe place to be.

When the stand we take is challenged by others, who in their turn believe they are in the right, we defend our point of view. Our comfort zone has been threatened. As has theirs.

So it is our judgements that create the need for a line in the sand. Our judgements are based upon beliefs that we have inherited. They have nothing whatsoever to do with any form of reality.

What reality they appear to have is simply the product of our giving energy to that point of view.

This helps explain why we need the line in the sand. Points of view are being challenged. safety zones threatened.

Up until now we have just looked at the personal, the immediate reality that is constantly presenting.

What if we take another step along that path.

In this step we no longer question the personal line in the sand but go deeper into what passes for reality in this world.

We can assume that a tree is real, for, if I drive a car into it at full speed, pain and suffering follow.

The planet itself appears stable (until you are caught in a strong earthquake!)

So, if we can begin to accept that our personal manifesting reality is a construct, built on expectations, which arise from experiences, which arise from conditioning where do we draw the bigger line.

Is the planet real or just an incredible construct?

Is the cosmos real?

Is anything ‘real’?

From the perspective of a consciousness locked into a physical body, a physical reality appears to be real, no question about that.

But, our world view has to be very limited. Limited by our imagination? What happens when we move beyond this addiction to this physical form. Plenty of people imagine something (or nothing) beyond the physical, yet is it so hard to accept that the something or nothing is a product of the same consciousness that believes it is purely physical.

Are we all victims to mass hallucination? Or are we the creators of the illusion?

From an expanded point of view our personal lines in the sand seem very petty.

Don’t question your reality and remain lost in the drama!

Question everything, believe nothing and you might find that reality is something else entirely.