how much is one [2]

So coming back to wholeness, coming back to completeness is rediscovering One.

How much is One?

It's complete - nothing can be added or removed. It's singularity.

Singu-what?

Singularity. Like an atom, a star, a galaxy, the universe or a cell - each of these can arrive at a conscious-awareness of 1. Our oneness has never gone. It's always been there - we just stopped realising it.

Er... why?

Because...

Yeah - go on.

Well, that was the whole point. You're born. You enter topsy turvy land. You go through a series of weird and wonderful experiences, and then, all being well, you put two and two together and get one.

Er... you mean 4.

No - I mean one - all numbers add up to one.

They do?

Yep. Every number is complete and can't become more complete than it already is, regardless.

But surely 4 is bigger than 1?

It might be if you're talking about 4 bricks, but strange though it may seem, 4 bricks and four have next to nothing in common.

They don't? You could've fooled me.

Yes, well we won't go into that.

No, go on, explain if you would.

Well 4 is complete and therefore 1. Each and every whole is 1 with every other whole - they are all in harmony - they are indivisible.

Like God.

Kind of.

But a cell here and a cell there, or an atom, or a planet, or a galaxy - there are many of them, and they all add up.

In your right mind - in space and time - but space-time is a confusing place to be - so there's no point me trying to explain to you. Either you get it or you don't.

Don't you think that's a bit insulting?

Yes - it might sound that way. Actually it's an invitation to join me in oneness. That's the only way to get it.

And how might I do that?

By willing it. Come into silent neither space nor time.

You mean meditate?

Kind of. If  you come into singularity - in resonance with me you'll find harmony. We'll be one as, in truth, we are One, and you'll know exactly what I'm banging on about - for it's your own thought, your own idea, your own knowledge as much as it's mine.

It is?

Yes - we are one.

So you keep saying. I'm not sure I wish to be one with you.

Fair enough. No compulsion. That's the beauty of this world. You can remain in separation and have a great life experiencing your individualism - as long as you don't mind putting up with some confusion, pain and...

And what?

And emptiness. You see there are gaps in reality if you don't accept or experience the oneness - and these can be filled by strange entities - nature abhors a vacuum as you know.

What kind of strange entities?

I'd rather not go into that if you don't mind.

Oh - well if you feel like that then...

But if you'd care to come into oneness with me - you have the answer yourself. You can get it telepathically.

Look, I'm not telepathic.

True, but you can be if you choose.

No I can't. I don't want to hear voices or see visions.

Fair enough - but you hear your thoughts.

True - but they're my own thoughts - aren't they.

Not sure - probably a good part of them just enter your head from outside. Some of them could be put there by entities that want to control or manipulate you.

Yikes - that sounds scary.

Oh, I don't want to make you scared. Look, all I was trying to say is that you're already aware of stuff, hearing it, seeing it without being telepathic - so there's really no need to be anything more than you already are. Think of this as a kind of mind or spirit fitness - where we just become slightly more aware of everything that's already going on. It just requires the barest framework and a little mental hygiene.

Mental hygiene? What's that?

Well, we allow our mind to get all cluttered and clogged because we aren't aware of a half of what goes on - so it's as if our mind is in need of a good service. A wash. Some exercise...

Like our physical body.

Exactly. And that immediately helps us to see the wood from the trees. We're on our way back to One - back to aligning mind, body and soul.

And to what end?

Oh, just for the pleasure. It feels so good to be home again.

Home?

Back in our proper mind/body/soul configuration. Wow. It's power and light and bliss.

Almost sounds tempting.

Ok - so don't take my word for it. Set yourself a simple task - I wish to experience just for a moment what it really feels like to be me - to experience just for a moment what I really am.

Well, that doesn't sound too bad.

Ok - we'll do it together. It's always nicer that way.

But, what do I have to do?

Do?

Yeah - it can't be that easy otherwise everyone would be doing it.

Trust me - there's nothing to it. Zero equals 1.

afraid no more

So there's this bad dream - and it's terrifying me.

Yes - I'm not surprised.

And I was wondering if you could help me understand it.

Yes, but it's best if you do it yourself.

Do what?

Allow yourself to learn its meaning.

But how? I'm not an expert.

No, you don't need to be - you just have to face whatever it is.

That's easier said than done.

Well, try the alternative.

Try what?

Try admitting that you already know exactly what it means - because the meaning comes attached to the dream. You just need to deal with the fear.

Er - that's the one thing I'm unable to deal with.

Yes - but try the alternative.

Again?

Yes. Try accepting that you can deal with the fear because there's nothing to it - it's just fear, and it's designed to lead you to the correct vibrational frequency, the correct non-physical location, the correct level of awareness for you to unbundle the dream's inner meaning.

So the fear's my ally.

Yes - once you accept it as such. It's just we humans resist this vibrational shift - we prefer to anchor ourself in 3D reality and operate at a single frequency. Terribly rigid we've become.

Ok. So I have to face my fear.

Yeah - dive in. Imagine it's a swimming pool. No point standing on the edge. Dive in and you'll be fine.

But there could be monsters lurking in the waters. I might drown...

You might - but fear will always protect you. It's a kind of foresight.

Yes - and I think it's telling me to stay away.

Then stay away - but if you want to know what the dream meant - then it's time to revisit it - and fear is your guide.

You could have fooled me.

Well yes, but pretty soon you're no longer afraid - you were only afraid because in the past you made it your intention to avoid knowing too much, and so you programmed yourself to experience fear at any time when you reached a threshold into knowledge. In other words, it has to be your conscious decision to cross into knowledge. It'll never happen accidentally.

But why would I have wished to avoid knowledge?

Oh - because you were involved in self-absorption. You were allowing yourself to get really absorbed in this reality and your ego - which was necessary at the time. Now you've completed that phase of development - your ego is fully formed and robust - you can now manually override the earlier programming - in order to rediscover what lies beyond the ego and 3D reality.

Oh wow - sounds exciting.

It's completely awesome. You're going to have an amazing time of it.

Short and sweet

Thank God you've finally decided to take my advice and write something short and sweet!

- Actually, I'm not taking your advice.

No? You mean you're gonna write something long and boring as usual.

- Nope. I'm taking Migran's advice.

Who the hell's Migraine?

- Not Migraine... Migran. You don't know 'im.

Well, to be honest, what does it matter whose advice you are taking as long as you don't try our patience as you're wont to do.

- "Wont to do"! Elegantly spoken.

Thank you.

- So here we go... I'm gunna take you on a cosmic journey.

A what?

- You heard me, a cosmic journey.

I'm not sure I like the sound of that...

- No, I don'expect you do... but I'm takin you anyway.

Wait a second - I think I'll be the judge of whether or not I...

- Oh can it Sedgewick. I'm invoking writer's prerogative.

You can't do that...

- Wanna bet.

You wouldn't dare.

- Just did. So relax - you can't leave until I'm finished. The doors are barred and bolted and off we go.

I protest. I... [muffled sounds fade away]

- Short and sweet - a journey through the infinite. Beloved one and all - welcome to the one that is I Am. Relax. Breathe deeply. Feel your whole being, your whole body and mind and soul coming into oneness - the oneness of ease and grace and flow awareness. Nothing, no thing stands between you and this moment, and this moment is filled with wonder and delight and magical realisation - realisation that you...

Yeah? You what?

- You heard.

No I didn't. Honest I didn't.

- You did. I saw you - I was there. You heard everything - and then I saw you levitating, and then you became a ball of golden light - pure energy, and you flew off into space. The only thing you forgot to do was to remind yourself to remember everything at the end...

Ah come off it Brad. You can't seriously expect me to believe that I've just been flying around the cosmos as a ball of golden light. What time is it anyway?

- Time?

Yeah. Go on. Tell me.

- It's tomorrow.

No way.

- You were gone 24 hours to the minute.

Oh come on.

- So now all you've gotta do is learn to remember the wonders of intergalactic flight - all of which are recorded within your own so-called memory.

Er, what do you mean "so-called"? Either it's memory or it isn't.

- Not if you don't remember it it ain't.

Fair enough. So how do I retrieve it then?

- You've gotta be worthy.

Oh pull the other one.

- I mean it.

No you don'.

- Yea I do. You're not gunna remember anythin' till you're worthy to - so you've gotta stop blocking it all out with your current set of blinkers.

Blinkers? I don'ave blinkers.

- In which case you'll be able to remember the delights of intergalactic flight.

Not if I didn't go anywhere. You were just making it all up I reckon.

- Yep, except I wasn't. You were gone 24 hours and...

And what?

- And nothing. Short and sweet, like I said.

But I wanna know more...

How much is many?

Actually I've been instructed to talk about fame. There's a "many" in fame if you think about it. There, that wasn't so bad was it - we've found a tenuous link between title and contents. Now we can move on.

God was saying only the other day...

- Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a...

Minute?

- Yeah, how did you guess?

Oh, just the usual blinding inspiration, breath-taking savvy, and the third is unprintable so I'll keep my rhetorical devices to two this time.

- Yeah, well, whatever... What in God's name are you playing at. You know the ban on God related references in this blog.

Yes, I would do wouldn't I as I was the one who wrote the damn instructions.

- Easy, easy does it mate. No need to get violent.

Well it makes me sick, you know.

- It does? I was just quite rightfully objecting to your reference to God. I mean, how ridiculous... "God was saying the other day..." as if you'd know!

As I'd know? Why the hell shouldn't I know. Or the why the hell, for that matter, would you know that I didn't know?

- Er, with all due respect number 16, I'd like to ask you to avoid all unparliamentary language, if you get my drift.

Perfectly, as long as you're willing to avoid all un-Onely language.

- Un-Onely language. What the hell's that?

There you go - now who's the one being unparliamentary.

- Well it is so provoking after all. I make a perfectly reasonable request and you introduce a term that has no basis in the English language.

What? Un-Onely?

- Yes.

Well the whole of language, English included, emerged from the Oneness of One, so I'm surprised you object to my one reference to One.

- One what? That's what I refer to. You can't just throw in one without attaching something to it. Otherwise it's just a number.

Interesting you should say that. Who says I can't?

- Well it's obvious isn't it.

Isn't it? D'you mean "innit"?

- Yeah, innit?

That depends on what you mean by obvious. If you're living in the world of many ones - then yes - you would say it's obvious.

- And that's precisely where we are living. Our world is made up of many someones, none of which terribly important individually, but collectively a great One.

But, if like me you're living in a world of One - in which there is only one single One - and that One can just as easily be referred to as God - then it's hardly surprising that I'd overhear what the One was saying.

- But you have no right to. That would put you above the rest of us if you have direct access.

No it wouldn't - because we're all the same - we're all One, we all have direct access.

- No we don't. I refuse to accept that we all have direct access to the One. Most of us are impure, unworthy, blighted by sin and shame and guilt.

Oh well done - you got in the rhetorical triple whammy.

- Thanks, it just rolled off the tongue quite naturally.

Yes, so you see, by insisting none have access, you're either insisting that only you or your chosen should have access to the One, or that we have to agree to live in the world of your definition - in which we are all fundamentally sinful, evil and unworthy.

- Nice tri.

Thanks - second place sucks but we have to uphold the rule of three after all.

- Yes, I wonder why?

Why not ask the horse's mouth.

- No, blaspheme not. I dare not even consider the possibility. I prefer to accept my failings, weakness and limitations.

You prefer to avoid the One.

- No I don't. Why would I want to avoid the One?

For the same reason you prefer to avoid God.

- I don't wish to avoid God - I'm  just unworthy, sinful and one more - whatever it was.

Evil I think you said.

- That's it. Evil, with a vengeance.

No need to overdo it. Pride is, you know, a sin.

- Coming from you that's rich! You're the one who name drops God in casual conversation, wings an'all.

Wings an'all! What a great turn of phrase. I'll use it if you don't mind.

- Ok - just as long as you attribute it to me.

If I must. But that would be like Shakespeare pausing Mercutio's speech to attribute his latest witty remark to such and such a soul...

- Oh alright, have it then, it's yours.

Thanks. You can use mine too, if you like.

- But you never say anything witty.

I do and all.

- Don't.

I do. What about the "God was saying only the other day..." reference.

- Blasphemy and wit are so easily mistaken... No, number 16, that won't pass muster.

Ok - so maybe I'm not witty, but that's because I'm challenging the paradigm you sitting in.

- Who says I'm sitting in anything.

Well it's obvious innit.

- Not it ain't.

Well, whatever it is you're sitting in, if you weren't sitting in sommat, you wouldn't object to me chatting with God.

- Your reason. Let's see you worm your way out of this cul-de-sac of reason, this blank verse of logic.

Blank verse of logic?

- Oh forget it - I know it didn't work. But your reason man.

Who said anything about number 16 being a man?

- Well a woman's hardly gunna talk the way you do.

Who says?

- Get on with it. Your reason woman, if you prefer.

Actually no, I'd much rather be gender neutral.

- Ok, now get on with it, your itness.

Oh, that's much better. "Your itness" has a ring to it. So where was I?

- You were bluffing, trying to buy time, to think of something obviously lacking from your conversation.

What - bitterness and scorn?

- No, fool, reason.

Actually, fool is without any doubt unparliamentary. You therefore lose the right to call the shots.

- I apologise to the itness for my unpardonable outburst of unparliamentary invective. Would it kindly explain why I'm not allowed to challenge your reference to God.

Oh that? I'd almost forgotten. It should be obvious really.

- It should be but it ain't, which is why I'm asking you to clear this matter up.

Ah, but this matter ain't matter at all. It's divine truth. It's the cosmic code of creation. That's why you object to it. You can't argue with it. It simply is - without reference to anything or anyone.

- But things can't simply be - without reference to anyone or anything. Everything has to be a part of the greater order.

Does it? Your reason?

- Well, it's obvious innit?

Can't say that it is - but I'm sure you can make me see reason if you try.

- Well everthing has to be part of a greater order.

Why?

- Because the parts have to make up the whole.

Why?

- Because that's how everything fits together.

Is it?

- Well yes, obviously.

To whom.

- To whom what?

To whom is it obvious.

- To anyone who is reasonable enough to see it.

So I have to be reasonable to see what is obvious.

- Well yes.

So, as long as I'm governed by your version of reason, I'll see everything the way you do.

- Not my version of reason - just by reason. Then everything'll make perfect sense, the way it does to me.

And does everything make perfect sense to you.

- Well yes.

And does it make perfect sense that reason is not the only way of seeing things.

- What do you mean?

Well, reason is one way of seeing things, but not the only way.

- What do you mean? Reason's the only reasonable way of seeing things.

True, but not the only way.

- But be reasonable.

Why?

- Because it's reasonable to be reason.

You want me to see reason.

- Well yes.

Why?

- Because that's the only reasonable way to make sense of everything.

But what if I don't need to make sense of everything? What if everything already makes perfect sense just the way it is, without me needing to make anything of it.

- Then what'd be the point of your existence.

What'd be the point of yours?

- Well obviously to make sense of things.

Have you succeeded?

- Not quite... but we're getting there.

Are you?

- Well, yes. There have been a few minor setbacks.

There have?

- Well yes. The planet has faced some difficulties. Our highly rational approach requires us to verify everything by experimentation, so we have to kill a lot of animals, and our economic system, though highly rational based on Darwin's laws of natural selection doesn't seem to be able to harmonise with the needs of the planet or the sustainability of humanity.

You could say.

- But that's just because we haven't yet hit the highest pinnacle of reason.

Ah ha.

- But that doesn't give you the right to invoke the One.

No?

- No, coz we're almost there, and we don't want God or anyone else to get in our way and stop us completing our mission.

Your mission?

- To make perfect sense of everything.

And do you think there'll be anything left by the time you've completed your mission?

- Do you want my honest opinion?

I suppose so, but give me your half-honest one if you prefer.

- Looking at the situation completely squarely, there's almost no chance that we're going to succeed, but one has to believe in miracles, even if God's not supposed to be a part of it.

Fair enough.

- So, do you accept that we need to be reasonable?

Yes, if you accept that beyond reason there's a whole spectrum of alternatives that you've so far failed to consider.

- What do you mean? Beyond reason there's just un-reason.

Is that so? Have you investigated this scientifically? Have you considered all the alternatives empirically?

- Well no, but it goes without saying.

It did until I said it - so now get to it - earn your keep and consider what lies beyond reason, if you want me to play along with your "don't mention the war", scientists don't need God game.

- Ok, it's a deal. Any clues to get me started?

Oh yes. Start by questioning everything you naturally assume, and go from there.

- Ok. That shouldn't be too difficult...

How much is one?

Greetings beloved Earth beings and intergalactic, interdimensional life... one and all.



For the record, we are One.

Like most of you, I have precious little idea what on Earth this might mean, but it's on the record so it must be in some way true. A little patience and diligence and I'm gonna crack this one open. I have complete confidence that individually and collectively we can do it. Hell, we can do anything.

- Do you have to use that kind of language Mary?

Er... no. Who the hell are you anyway?

- I was asking if you have to use that kind of language.

I already answered which is more than you did.

- My apologies. Appleblossom.

Oh come on - your name's Appleblossom?

- Well yes. Don't you like it?

Er... it's great if you like names like that. What are you, if you don't mind me asking?

- I'm one of the One.

Well obviously... but is there any need to be secretive?

- None at all. I announce myself openly on all communication frequencies. Sometimes I forget to verbalise - we don't usually bother as it tends to cause confusion.

You're telling me. No end of confusion. But me and some of the other readers are a bit blocked up and shut down, or that's how we're playing it right now, so confusion be damned - let's verbalise.

- Dearest Mary...

Actually it's Merry.

- Ok. Dearest Merry, please refrain it at all possible from language that is harmful.

Oops - did another one slip out. Sorry Appleblossom. I don't know what's come over me. I'm usually so polite and softly spoken.

- Well, that's not exactly true, is it?

Er... not all the time, but it's my forceful, vigorous style. Anyway, why does the occasional expletive bother you?

- It's like when the teacher scrapes her nails on the blackboard - or used to in the good ol' days when boards were black.

Oh yeah - I hate that noise. So you're hyper sensitive to language?

- You could say that. We, the people I represent, are more into non-verbal communication, what you call telepathy, and these expletives cause some discomfort if you're finely tuned.

So what exactly are you Appleblossom, if you don't mind me asking...

- I'm a faery collective.

Oh how awesome. I had no idea I'd be blogging with a faery collective.

- Nor did we, but the Oneness of One moves in mysterious ways, and apparently we have some shared work together.

Oh this gets better and better. By the way, I always thought it wasn't the words so much as the intention behind them.

- Yes, I expect that's right.

Then why the hell did you object?

- Ouch. Just because it hurt a little, but if you're happy about that I can try to readjust and turn down my levels of sensitivity.

Oh, don't do that - I expect your sensitivity is a great thing to share with the readers. You probably have something important to share with us.

- Yes, we do have something important to share - but this is an equal opportunities conscious space, so everyone is participating on equal terms - readers too.

Well that's what we say - but everyone knows it isn't really true. The readers are just reading after all...

- Not so Merry. From our perspective the readers are instrumental in holding the space. Think of them as the resonating chamber of a drum, a guitar or any other musical instrument. Without it there's no sound worth talking about. In fact, they are more than that - for in the Oneness of One there is no reader/writer duality - simply consciousness that exists outside time, outside space and outside form. So your particular form or ego, ours, the readers' - all is One in truth, in essence, as is.

As is?

- Yep, as is. When we come back to the Oneness of One, the Seem of 3D reality no longer applies.

Ok - so we're all One. Sounds great in theory, but in practice, in reality you know it ain't like that.

- Yep, in reality, but sooner or later you have to ask the million dollar question "how real is real?" particularly now.

Why so?

- Because right now the reality you have grown accustomed to is going through a complete upgrade. It's actually being completely replaced. So using "reality" as the benchmark of truth or that which fundamentally Is ain't gonna work. You're gonna come unstuck.

I'm not sure I like the idea of good ol' reality being replaced. I'm not sure how I'd cope with an entirely new one. I've grown accustomed to this one.

- Hardly surprising when you've had it for so long. Thousands of years in fact.

So why does it have to be unceremoniously dumped?

- Who said anything about this being "unceremonious"? We're going through all the correct procedures in replacing the old with the new, and ample warning has been given.

It has?

- Oh yes, it's been talked about, written about and disseminated throughout the collective consciousness for upwards of two thousand years now.

Well, that's just the point isn't it?

- I'm not sure I follow?

If you've been banging on about this upgrade for two thousand years then almost everyone will be assuming it's never gonna happen. That's way beyond the concentration span of most human societies.

- I see your point, but there's really nothing that can be done about this. Ultimately, we are all One so you guys are just as much in the know as we or anyone else is.

That's hardly true.

- And yet, paradoxically, it's entirely true. Deep within you are completely connected and are fully aware of whatever's going on behind the scenes.

Deep deep within... that hardly counts. Most of us don't really have access to our deep awareness or intuition. We're too busy being busy bodies in this world of Seem as you call it.

- Yes, I expect you are, and yet that alters nothing.

It doesn't?

- No, you see every moment of your waking reality is like a star in the firmament surrounded by aeons of dark space - an ample expanse for you to tune in and be aware of everything going on behind the sight screen of Seem.

But we're not aware of all that.

- Don't be so sure. Between every breath, every heartbeat, every subatomic moment you plunge back into the deep dark waters of full conscious awareness. Then you pop back up to the surface for a little wave surfing. You exist in both realities. The two really cannot be separated.

They can't?

- No. So you see, you're aware of so much more than you may have realised up till now, but now you can adjust by taking my words at face value.

By simply believing you?

- No, by testing them, tuning them, feeling their truth with your inner truth sense. Doing so, you'll realise that what I'm saying makes perfect sense because you've always known it to be true.

Oh, you do sound sure of yourself. I'm not sure I like that.

- I agree. It sounds terribly conceited of me, doesn't it, so don't believe a word I say - simply allow your curiosity to be piqued, and do your own due diligence.

What, test it for myself.

- Well of course. You're hardly gonna trust a complete stranger, even if we are fundamentally One.

No, of course, but hadn't I better look elsewhere for the answers - in a book or the teachings of a spiritual master.

- Yes, you could do, but unless you develop your own truth sense you're never really gonna learn to stand on your own two feet, so I'd advise you to start working things out for yourself, and learning to trust your inner-guidance. That's how you strengthen your God link.

Oh my God... What the hell is that?!

- Please, please, this is killing me...

Oops, sorry...