Try to imagine your physical body as a spacesuit, your life support/sensory system for navigating Earth.  Inside this spacesuit is an augmented reality screen overlaying the inside of your visor.  The operating system for your spacesuit displays all the information you need, data to keep the spacesuit working and data that helps you survive.

 

This spacesuit however doesn’t come with an instruction manual so you have to figure it out on the fly.  The operating system inside your spacesuit is constantly displaying pop-up ads about the world around it (these are thoughts).  These pop-up ads have free reign inside your helmet because you haven’t figured out yet how to turn on your ad-blocker.

 

After a while you begin to believe you are the spacesuit, you begin to believe that the pop-up ads are you also, so you click on and watch every ad that pops up, every second of every day when you’re not sleeping…No wonder you’re going crazy in there!

 

When your spacesuit is damaged or malfunctioning, you think it is you, so you cry…when the pop-up ads display something unpleasant, you believe them all so your emotions ride the same roller coaster that your thoughts (pop-up ads) do and you end up depressed or anxious or mad, or all of them at once.

 

Remembering who you are as the eternal awareness inside this helmet, is your key to escaping the madness.  Imagine that you are an eternal explorer…a ball of pure light that has never been born and will never die.  You have been dropping into new spacesuits every few decades after the old ones wear out and although they all look different on the outside, they are all identical on the inside.

 

One day you bump into another spacesuit who reminds you that you are an eternal awareness inside a temporary spacesuit and that you can turn your ad blocker on and have a much more peaceful experience inside that helmet.  After remembering this, you pay no attention to those pop-up ads anymore except for when it needs to tell you that rope looking thing on the ground is actually a snake (useful survival tool).  You don’t cry anymore over a damaged spacesuit because you remember that nothing can touch the real you and that you are an eternal explorer just having a temporary experience in this spacesuit.  This is ‘awakening’.

 

Most of us wear out many spacesuits before we bump into the one that reminds us that we are just an awareness, here to observe, enjoy and love.

 

But it gets even more interesting.  That ball of conscious, curious energy inside your spacesuit (the real you) has a livewire connected to a much larger ball of conscious loving energy.  So now imagine a large ball of energy the size of a galaxy, and all the spacesuits exploring the universe are connected to this giant ball each with a cosmic thread.

 

As you zoom out you begin to realize that all these billions of independent balls of loving eternal energy floating around inside billions of spacesuits, are all actually just shards of the larger single consciousness.  You now realize that all those spacesuits are piloted by one single consciousness. This whole time you thought you were a unique explorer amongst billions, only to discover that there is just one mind in the entire universe looking through trillions of different eyes at the same time.

 

You are that eternal awareness.  You are it.  The seeker is the sought, as above so below.

 

You are the creator of the universe and it has taken this long for your creation to evolve spacesuits that are finally capable of recognizing its true self (enlightenment).  The creator is finally looking at and discovering and enjoying itself (the universe) in recognition…through your eyes.