Over the past month or so, we have enjoyed some fascinating excursions.  We have explored our awareness, discovering through our own experience that our awareness extends into the Awareness of God.  We have examined that splendid survival tool, the ego, the Swiss Army knife of all survival tools.  This week, I would like to bring us back to earth and firmly anchor our feet on the ground.

So, take off your shoes and socks, and put your feet directly on the floor.  If it’s warm enough, go outside and dig your feet into the earth.  You’re touching the ground, right?

We think we're touching the ground, but we're not.  To explain this is going to take a little while, so please bear with me.  It is actually very important.  Let’s start by looking at whatever you managed to learn about matter in high school or college.  Let me start by saying that everything you learned there is wrong.  It’s a lie.  You were misled.

We were taught that matter is composed of atoms, tiny, discrete particles of stuff, commonly known as protons, electrons, and neutrons.  These assertions are a pack of lies.  When you actually look at these so-called particles, you find that they are actually vibrating packets of energy.

You can drill down even farther if you wish, and the farther you go, the smaller these packets of energy get.  At this point in our understanding of the nature of matter, scientists have labeled the smallest packets of energy as quarks and gluons.  Physicists hypothesize that there are even smaller packets of energy, but for our purposes, there’s no need to go any further.

So, let’s look at what this all means.  When we put our bare feet on the floor, we think we're touching the floor.  In actual fact, our feet are composed of vibrating packets of energy, and the floor is composed of another set of vibrating packets.  These energetic forces actually push against each other, repelling one another.  The sensations that we identify as “touch” are actually the sensations associated with being repelled.  How’s that for a head twister?  And that’s just for starters!

Let’s look at Time.  We all take time for granted.  There was yesterday, there is right now, and there will probably be a future tomorrow.  And all of this is simply misguided nonsense.  Let me show you how…

Let’s start with the present moment, because we know, through our own lived experience, that it exists.  We also know that the past no longer exists; it’s over and done with.  At best, we may have some memories of past events, but we know the past is over.  That means it no longer exists.

In a similar way, we know that the future doesn’t exist because the future hasn’t happened yet.  How could something exist if it hasn’t happened?

So, we commonly think that the only thing that's really real is the present moment.  But let me ask you this: if there is no past and no future, what does that mean about the present?  We define the present as that which exists between the past and the future.  If those don’t exist, then perhaps the present moment doesn’t exist either.  At the very least, it means that our understanding of the present is most likely false.

We commonly think of time as a kind of stately progression, almost like the slow movement of the Zodiac through the heavens.  There is a set of future possibilities that come into sight, that exist for a moment in the present, and then gradually recede into the past.  But if the past and future don’t exist, there is no stately procession.  In fact, there is no procession at all!

Instead, if we are to be faithful to the data, there is only right now!  If you will, a kind of Isness.  Without a past or a future, perhaps the idea of time is simply of fantasy – a fantasy that we have found useful for survival.  Just another tool, rather like the ego.  It is a fantasy with no objective reality, yet it is one shared by almost every human being.

Since time apparently does not exist, this impacts other fantasies we have – fantasies like distance.  In everyday language, time and distance are interconnected.  They are linked by the notion of speed, also known as velocity.  The equation that we learned in math and science classes looks like this: Distance = Time X Speed.  But if there is no Time, this equation doesn’t work.  

If Distance = Time X Speed, then Distance equals the value of Time (which is zero) multiplied by Speed.  When you multiply anything by zero, the result is zero.  By this logic, Distance doesn’t really exist.  Pushing this further, if distance doesn’t exist, then we must not be living in a three-dimensional world.  The three dimensions of height, width, and breadth apparently don’t really exist.  These three dimensions are labels for distance, but if distance doesn’t exist, then the commonly accepted three-dimensional world around us must not exist either.

It starts to make you wonder, doesn’t it?  These ideas we have held about the nature of reality begin to appear for what they really are: simple fabrications or fantasies.  At best, they are intellectual constructs fabricated to help us negotiate the rigors of daily life.  Yet, when you drill down into what actually constitutes the reality we live in, these ideas start to fall apart.

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By now, I expect that you are thoroughly confused about what is real and what is not.  I raise these points about our physical reality because there are many parallels between our understanding of the physical and our understanding of the spiritual.

In both cases, we have accepted a false dualistic paradigm.  The most heart-wrenching consequence of this false paradigm is that we separate ourselves from the Divine.  We believe that we are right here and God is somewhere else, usually someplace far, far away.  We fantasize a vast abyss between God and us – an abyss that brings us infinite pain and suffering.

In the same way, we have fantasized about the nature of the material world around us.  We have fantasized about the nature of matter, about the nature of time, and about the nature of distance.  We have fantasized about our own human nature.  And all of these fantasies, while intertwined, are erroneous.

If these errors were inconsequential, I wouldn’t bother to talk about them, but they are not.  In both the physical and the spiritual realms, these errors have led us into dead ends.  We cannot move forward until we learn to base our actions on the Truth.

So, let's look at that weirdo who refers to himself as “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” (John 14.6)  Just after Jesus says this, he goes on to say, “Just as I am in the Father and the Father is in me, so also, I am in you, and you are in me.” (John 14.20).  This, among many other similar statements made by Jesus and the saints who followed him, clearly shows this most important spiritual understanding.

The Divine lives deep inside of each one of us!  It doesn’t matter whether you are Christian or not.  As far as we know, Jesus did not come to found the Christian church.  He never talks about an organizational structure.  He never talks about a creed or having to believe in a certain way.  Rather, he came as ‘Rabbi,’ which means Teacher in Hebrew.  

Furthermore, Jesus came to set us free – free from our too-narrow ideas about ourselves, free from the guilt and shame that we heap upon ourselves and each other.  He invited us to follow him; he didn’t force us.  And he didn’t force us to believe any of the deep spiritual truths that he revealed to us.  Rather, he shared his truth – the Truth – and invited us to trust him.

St. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, invites his readers to “put aside your childish ways and beliefs.”  We are invited to look deeply within, where we will find that magnificent Presence we call God.  We are invited to step away from the unreal reality that we have hallucinated:

• To step away from the passage of time and to step into Eternity.

• To step away from the distance we imagine that separates us from God.

• To step away from the meager protections that our ego offers.

Instead, we are invited to step into our full stature as children of the Most High.

This “stepping into who we really are” is not dropping one set of beliefs for another.  It’s not a matter of trying to hallucinate this Reality.  Instead, it involves learning about the dimensions of the spiritual reality that underlies the physical reality we ordinarily perceive.  As we learn about the beauty and awesome wonder of this deep reality, we learn to trust the teachings of the one who points it out to us.  As our trust grows, we find ourselves walking this holy Way, just as the many others before us did.  This Way involves learning to go deeply within ourselves so that we can actually experience the Reality that Jesus points to.

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I think I should probably stop here.  I am beginning to pontificate, and that is always a warning sign that I should just shut up.  So let me encourage you to continue with your daily meditation.  Go deeply inside, that is our spiritual destiny.

In a bit of good news for you.  Several of us are working to put together a website that will allow for more graduated instruction in the spiritual life than a newsletter format allows.  I plan to continue this free newsletter as long as I am able, but many of you have asked for more systematic instruction.  A team has gathered around this possibility, and we hope to have an operating website early in 2026.

This website will focus on what we need to do to enter more fully into the Being of God.  It will contain a full program for spiritual transformation.  Specifically, it will provide a course of study that equips you with the intellectual knowledge you need to understand the spiritual life.  This knowledge will provide the basis for specific life changes in yourself that will facilitate your inner transformation.  As these transformations unfold, you will be introduced to deeper forms of meditation and contemplative prayer.  

Taken together, we believe these are the necessary components for a deeply spiritual way of being.  If you will, the graduated exercises we are preparing will move you into the Being of God.

That’s all for now.  May God continue to bless you in every way!

With deep affection,

P.S.  These newsletters were written in a particular order, but due to the limitations of our email delivery system, we cannot send them in the order in which they were written.  We can send out the first five in order, but then the system sends out the next one, whatever that happens to be.

So, if you are suddenly moving from issue #5 to issue #whatever, it might be a little jarring.  If this sounds like you, I would encourage you to go back into our archives and do your best to read them in order. 

Humility as a Tool  → Letting go → Fear → Openness →  Acceptance & Growth

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