Super Human? No thanks, just HUMAN will do me! /March 7, 2014
Cosmic Jokes
Presence is an illusive state. Like trying to pick up a bar of soap in the bath. Just when you think you've got it, it slips away.
Like many, I read the Power of Now and thought I had discovered the answer to life. I just had to be present. I became a walking talking presentometer perpetually scanning my mind, body and spirit, assessing my state of being,
How hard could it be? There really should be nothing to it, but I soon found I couldn't even do that! I couldn't even do nothing! Argh!
Only when exhausted by the continual search would I give up, get on with life and, lo and behold, slip into the state of presence by accident.
At this stage I discovered a wonderful cosmic joke. As soon as I noticed that I was present I was no longer present! Argh again!
It had taken a while but I had come to recognise presence as the absence of self reflective thought. Working out whether I was present or not wasn't ever going to be too helpful.
True presence is an awakened state, often a portal to a different dimensional space. A dimensional space filled with the promise of super human abilities such as time-travel and bi-location.
But therein lies the next cosmic joke. Super human powers, particularly time-travel and bi-location are the blocks to us accessing our super human powers! Double argh!
Time
We spend so much of our lives time-travelling that we never get present enough to notice we are time-travelling!
The first aspect of presence is time.
Our power lies only in the present moment. Not yesterday or tomorrow, but NOW.
Most dismiss the possibility of time travel but in reality the overwhelming majority of us are living our lives visiting the past in an attempt to organise the future. Do you notice how Dr. Who is constantly travelling through time seeking out problems to solve. Well, we are pretty much the same. If Dr. Who would just unplug his Tardis (his mind) and sit still for a minute he may notice the absence of problems in the present moment. Perhaps we should try it too!
Space
We spend so much of our lives bi-locating that we never get present enough to notice we are bi-locating!
The second aspect of presence is space.
Our power lies only in our current space. Not wherever our children and partners maybe or where you wish you were, but HERE.
Most dismiss the possiblity of bi-location but in reality our attention is usually on some-one or some place which isn't here. We are all familiar with the phrase "where attention goes the energy flows". We are energetic beings and whenever our attention is on some-one or some-place else we are no longer fully present. Another way to describe this phenomenon is bi-location.
When someone gives you their full attention it feels really special. That is because it is highly unusual for all of someone to be in the same place at the same time.
Super Human? No thanks, just a present HUMAN will do me!
Goodness knows what other super powers we can access if we could just stop the constant rejection of the present moment. We have all heard stories of feats of super human strength in emergencies, when the present moment really grabs the attention!
I feel that in the present moment we can lose the Super prefix and just celebrate our humanity. In the Present moment we become truly HUMAN, each of us a unique expression of infinite possibility, a bridge to the extra-ordinary, a vessel for limitless creation.
The term Super Human is like saying most tallest, it doesnt really make sense.
Just Human will do for me!
Love
Bill