🌌 TREE 555: You are the universe and so is that jerk over there

Mushrooms,
intense spiritual and/or musical events,
being in the wilderness –
these are ways people transcend the ordinary and experience oneness with everything.

And then there’s most of life where most people live with a sense of separateness.

The separateness is a lie.

You are the universe.

At least you are one expression of it.

You are built out of the same stuff as everything around you, everything that exists. And everything that exists, exists within the universe and is part of the universe.

Let’s say there are astral planes or a spirit realm or a multiverse. Do any of those conceptions take you outside of one thing of which we are all part? No, they are just ways of thinking of the universe as even bigger than the unimaginable bigness that everyone agrees that it is. If you’re a Christian you believe that everything lives and moves and exists within God.

You are not something else than the universe. No one is. Nothing is.

There is diversity of expression but there are no foreigners in the universe.

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What does this have to do with not leadership?

Sometimes people think leaders are plugged in, that they are connected to the universe/God/source in ways that the rest of us aren’t. This is impossible. We are all the universe. Some leaders may pay more attention to that fact, but there’s no guarantee. (Fostering disconnection and division is an effective way to gather and hold power for a while.)

Tall bicycles, big noses and birds are all the universe.

The Avalanches are a huge influence on DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ who, as you know, is one of my favourites . Perry Farrell is frontman of Jane’s Addiction. And this is a good song.

Grow slowly
Jeff