A Step Into the Unknown…

A STEP INTO THE UNKNOWN AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER……

And the Great Mind said to the Wee Mind, “I have endowed you with awareness and attention.  By these powers you will develop four basic attributes – thinking, feeling, willing, and action.  Go out into the universe and learn, learn all there is to know – but don’t forget yourself.  If you solve the mystery of the Self, the mystery of what you are, you will also, at the same time, solve the mystery of what the Universe is.”

And the Great Mind showed the Wee Mind a point of light in the far, far distance.

“Look carefully,” the Great One said.

The Wee Mind saw that the light was receding and growing dimmer until it was gone.

“I can’t see it anymore” said the Wee One.

“I know, but it is still there,” said the Great Mind, “you must go in search of it.”

“But how am I to do that?”, asked the Wee One.

“You will find the way.”

“And now” said the Great Mind, “you will know me no more.  But although you will not be able to see, hear, smell, touch or taste me, I will always be with you and will never leave your side. One day in the distant future you will come to know me again.  You must go now.”

“Your suffering will be my suffering,” said the Great Mind.

“Your pain will be my pain.”

“Your joy will be my joy.”

“You are a mental being, a form of Consciousness.  I have also blessed you with the powers of thought, imagination, creativity, action, memory, learning and evolution, which you can use to satisfy your every need.  There will be no problem that you cannot overcome, no summit that you cannot reach. You are also blessed with the strongest force in the universe – the wish. Go forth and multiply.”

“Multiply!?”, cried the Wee Mind, “I don’t even know how to add and subtract yet!”

“You see,” said the Great Mind, laughing, “I have also given you a sense of humour.”

The Wee Mind suddenly realised he was alone, and at the moment when the Great Mind had disappeared, he felt the need to become a form, become somehow more dense – not different from the ethereal consciousness he was – but denser.

“Look at me,” he thought joyfully, “I have become this strange form, sort of round like a ball. This feels good!”  The Wee Mind spent some time simply revelling in the feeling of this body he had become.  After a while he sensed that his vital energy had gone right down, and he felt weak.

“What can I do about this?”, he wondered.  As soon as he thought this, he fell into a blank swoon – with no sense of time or space.  After some time he realised that he was awake again: but he was not the same.  He was ethereal again with no form, like the wind.

“This feels strange,” he thought, “What’s happened?”

Then he thought, “Oh no, I’m ‘dead!’.”  I’ve lost my form.  What a shame.  I liked my form, I liked being a ball even if I was denser.  I want my form back, I wish I had my form back.”

Before he could think anything more he fell into another blank swoon for an unknown time. Suddenly he became awake again, although he could not make out where he was.

“Oh good,” he thought, “I’ve got my form back, I’m a ball and I’m denser!  This feels great.”

Time passed and the Wee Mind could still not figure out where he was.  He could not see or hear, but felt somehow that there were other beings around him – dense like himself. The feeling became stronger and suddenly he touched something – something smaller than himself. He felt attracted to it, he needed it.

Somehow he knew that the smaller entity was a seed-form, and he must draw it into himself. But how?  After great deliberation, he realised he would have to change his shape and create a mouth and use it to draw the seed into himself.  This he did eventually and with great difficulty drew the seed into his body.  When the seed entered the hole and was assimilated the Wee Mind had a sense of well-being, of satisfaction.  He knew he and the seed had become one, united.  The seed merged with his own form and disappeared into him.

For a while the Wee Mind felt good, the seed made him feel strong and energetic.  But then, he felt a little discomfort and sensed that a part of the seed had not been absorbed into him.  He felt the need to get rid of it: but how?  The remaining part of the seed was lodged in the back of his mouth and try as he may he could not dislodge it.  What could he do to get rid of it?

After much deliberation, the Wee Mind got the idea that he could extend the back of his mouth further until it reached the other side of him and he could eject the part-seed.  After much time and much thinking, he managed this feat and the residue of the seed was ejected.  He had now become a cell with a tunnel running right through him.

By this time he was feeling hungry again and went in search of another seed. Eventually, he found one and quickly snapped it up. Again a residue was left over, but he could not move it to the other end of the tunnel. Again after much thinking and experimenting he discovered how to undulate his new body and use it to push the part seed to the opening at the other end of the tunnel.  He somehow managed to contract his form, make it smaller and then expand it. This wavelike motion caused the part seed to move along the tunnel.  Encouraged by this, the Wee Mind repeated the contraction and expansion movements until the seed was ejected from him at the end opposite the one where it came in.

No sooner had this happened than the Wee Mind felt a kind of pressure all around him and he became very hot. The pressure increased, making him really frightened.  Even though he was afraid, he realised that he was experiencing an emotion of fear for the first time.

“What’s happening?”, he thought desperately.  “Something seems to be crushing me!”

Then he found himself in a strange tunnel where he was having the same experience that the little seed had had inside him.  He fell into a deep sleep.

Once more time passed and the Wee Mind woke up again and realised he was “dead”.  The strong wish, the irresistible need to become a body again came back to him, but he fell asleep as soon as he thought and felt this need.

After some time – he didn’t know how long – he woke up as a body again.  This pleased him immensely because he loved being a body so much. He was very happy for a while, enjoying the feeling of being a body, but then the strange sensation in the walls of his tunnel returned and he knew he must find another seed-form and draw nourishment from it.  He moved his body around by contracting and expanding it, feeling all around him in search of a seed-form.  He searched for a long time and his feeling of need of nourishment got stronger and stronger until he felt very anxious.  He knew somehow that if he did not get nourishment he would cease to be a body and “die.”  The Wee Mind wished fervently to remain living as a body.

“I must find something,” he thought, his anxiety verging on desperation, because he could feel that he was losing his strength.  Just when he thought he could travel no further, he suddenly sensed a seed-form next to him and quickly drew it into his tunnel.  He immediately felt much better and his strength came back. No sooner had this happened than he felt this great pressure and heat again.

“Oh no!”, cried the Wee Mind, “It’s happening again”.

This time he was quickly aware that some other bigger body had drawn him into its tunnel and was drawing nourishment from him.  He passed out.  Once again he later woke up to discover he was “dead” and had lost his form.  Yet again the great need, the great wish arose in the Wee Mind to be a body again. As before he fell into a deep sleep and on awakening was delighted to discover he was a body again.

“This is great,” he thought, “I love being a body.”

He then figured that to remain being a body, he must become aware of any other entities around him that he could draw into his tunnel and get nourishment.  He thought also that he must avoid any forms which tried to draw him into their tunnels and get nourishment from him.  The Wee Mind learned, that if he was to stay alive, he would have to function at the peak of his “psychophysical” capabilities: he must primarily learn to think at lightning speed and move rapidly to avoid being eaten.

So the Wee Mind contracted and expanded himself and in this way moved around feeling everything around him.  If he felt a smaller seed-form than himself, then he would draw it into his tunnel at one end, take nourishment from it, and expel it at the other end.  If he felt a larger seed-form, he would contract and expand his body very quickly and move away to avoid being drawn into the entity’s tunnel.

He repeated this process countless times, until he became very adept at it. But the relentless, staggering repetition, the constant vigilance meant that his sense of feeling had to remain very acute and his attention had to function optimally.  Eventually, this made him feel tired and he could not keep his attention up.  Suddenly, he sensed another creature close by and knew he was in danger of being drawn into its tunnel. Before he could move, however, the creature swallowed him up and he fell into another blank swoon.

When he woke up yet again, he knew that he was ‘dead’, and this time his longing to be a body grew even stronger.  Once again, however, he fell into another deep sleep.  When he woke up he was delighted to find he was a body again. He moved around gracefully, enjoying the feeling of being alive. Then, however, he suddenly felt sad because, although there were many other life-forms around him, he had to consciously and constantly avoid them because they were hostile and would swallow him up.  This made him feel very lonely.

He wanted so much to meet another form that would not want to destroy him, another of like mind, but he dared not trust any others if he would stay alive.  Then he had an idea.  He remembered that the Great Mind had given him the power of thought and he felt a great need to use this power to create another body from himself.  But how?  He thought long and hard and tried to remember what he had done to become the dense life-form that he now was.

He recalled how, when he was formless, was pure Consciousness, that he had managed to channel the cosmic energy that he had into a dense form that had a sense of touch.

Then came the thought, “Well, if I could do that once, I can do it again!”

The Wee Mind gave all his attention to remembering how he had thought himself into being a body, and when the process became very clear he managed to duplicate the form he had and he became two identical cells. This was wonderful! He did not feel lonely anymore because he had a companion. The two Wee Cells loved and supported each other and were inseparable friends.  And yet they were still one. The two were distinct but not separate from each other. This made him feel even happier.  But this joyous feeling had distracted his attention from his surroundings and he suddenly felt a larger form beside him and before he could move away it swallowed him up. When he woke up he realised he was “dead” and was pure consciousness again with no form.  His sadness was truly devastating and he wished strongly to have, not just his single, but also his double form back. He did not want to be lonely anymore. Suddenly, he became aware that he was a body again, and this made him so happy that he immediately drew on his memory and duplicated himself. He felt great! He also noticed that because of his previous experience from the first time, he was able to become a body a little quicker this time.

The Wee Mind then realised that by thinking about it he could consciously repeat this duplicating process over and over and over again.  He enjoyed it so much he could not stop doing it.  The process got faster and faster.  And so he became 4 and then 8 and then 16 forms and so on until after billions of years and many incarnations, he became the beautiful creature that he is today: a form of Consciousness that we now call the body: a body spun out of the Wee Mind’s fundamental Consciousness that gifted him with the ability to recognise a need, and to use his amazing, creative power to meet that need.   Today his beautiful form is made up of billions of little forms that have been created by the power of his conscious thinking.  Little forms that became his beautiful heart, head, eyes, ears, face, neck, arms, legs, vital organs and every other part that makes up the human being that exists today.  All of these tiny living beings also know how to think and work together as one being, one beautiful organism that is now known as the body.

In all his incredible evolution, however, he has forgotten that he is a creation of the Great-Mind, Universal-Mind, World-Mind, the Creator – call it what you will – and It was with him all the way – truly a CO-CREATION.  His task now is to find his way back home and realise he is a thought in the World-Mind.  He was born out of Its boundless imagination.

This article was first published in The Power of How by Daniel McGowan. You can download the PDF of this book for free here:  FREE DOWNLOAD