“Are you seeing what I’m seeing?” I asked. Ken nodded his head slowly. Very slowly.
“What are you seeing?”
“Holes in his hand,” replied Ken after a very long pause. “I am seeing right through his hand and can see the mints.”
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“There is no actual, physical universe.”
If you ever had a sneaking feeling that things may not be quite the way we all think they are, then you may want to watch Rupert Spira tell you that, “There is no actual, physical universe.”
EDITOR: It starts at around 1:58 and he drops the bomb about 60 seconds later.
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The way Castaneda wrote was immediate and compelling, beautifully crisp and concise, yet sometimes also astonishingly poetic and resonant (we owe to him exquisite phrases like ‘unbending intent’, ‘controlled folly’, ‘dark sea of awareness’ and ‘active side of infinity’). And his mysticism was actual, not theoretical. It involved realising unimaginable possibilities, marshalling extraordinary discipline and finding considerable courage. Above all, it communicated a sense of adventure.
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In the last couple of decades it has become more and more commonplace to encounter — in science and popular culture — various expressions of the idea that the universe we inhabit is, in one way or another, not real. The idea being that it, of course, exists but not at all in the way we perceive it. That it’s a masquerade.
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With consciousness we can envision a place of neutral buoyancy between that which can be seen and that which is unseen. Position ourselves just a bit too far on this side and we only experience is the visible. Descend a bit too far in the other direction and all that can be seen is the unseen, that which can be experienced but not necessarily described.
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