Out-of-this-world thinking
Out-of-this-world thinking involves a restructuring of your perspective and world-view. If you've ever played on Google Earth, then you'll have a feeling for the zoom control. We are going to apply a similar technique to our perspective on our lives. By changing the perspective, we will get a different view of life and be able to practice out-of-this-world thinking.
So all I want you to do now is to relax and be aware of the room that you are in, and of your body in that room doing what you are doing. Just see what you are seeing, feel what you are feeling, hear what you are hearing, and be here fully present in this moment now. Okay?
Alright.So in your mind's eye, just picture and imagine yourself there in that room. It's as though you've just risen out of yourself a little so that you can look down on what you are doing from a about 3 feet (1 metre) above.
Good, so when you've got that in your mind's eye, if only for a moment, just imagine rising up in stages and looking down on that scene. You rise up through the ceiling. And you imagine floating above the building, looking down on the roof and imagining your body still back down there in the room.
Rise up until you are a 100 ft (30 metres) over the top of that building. And then imagine you are floating even higher until you are about 1000 ft (300 metres) above that building, and you can see the environment around the building.
And rise up higher and higher through the clouds, seeing the shape of your country and as you go further out, you can see the curve of the planet and then the entire planet Earth. And I want you to imagine you are way out beyond the satellites. You can see the world and it appears to be the size of a tennis ball.
And just spend a little while looking at the Earth at this size. You might notice some of the many many satellites orbiting the Earth beaming information back to the people down there.
And draw back further still until the Earth is like a little marble, a tiny ball. And really notice how tiny it is.
Become aware of the vastness of space surrounding the Earth. And that planet Earth looks so tiny there. Think of all the billions of people down there. With the Earth appearing so tiny, you might be struck with wonder at how tiny and insignificant humans appear next to this vastness of space. From this distance, humans are as tiny, invisible and multitudinous as microbes on a rotting apple.
From this distance, human problems and challenges don't seem very important do they? From this distance, the things that frighten us and fill us with worry and dread in the night, they seem kind of insignificant, don't they?
Draw back further still watching the planet Earth disappear to a pin-prick and draw back even further so that you are lost in the vastness of the universe.
Being this far away from Earth might give you the willies and make you feel scared. Imagine if in some future time, people started banishing criminals from Earth. They send them out in some kind of see-thru module that goes to the far reaches of the universe for a period of time. The criminal has no control. He is strapped in and the module feeds and exercises his body somehow. He can't kill himself but just has to endure the loneliness and isolation -- the total sense of banishment. Wouldn't that be awful?
Being this far away from Earth can show you how attached you are to the idea of being a human being who lives on Earth. (And that's not even looking at how attached you are to thinking of yourself as a man or woman, as a member of your country / town / family.) But your journey into outer space has shown you how tiny and insignificant the Earth appears. There is a vastness out here. You can continue out further and further. And you can imagine that there are all sorts of planets and states of life out in the vastness that we know nothing of.
So perhaps you can entertain the idea that there might be other experience of Life that you could have. What if you reincarnated as some kind of amorphous blob that communicates by resinous secretions on some rock of a planet a trillion light years away? What if you were a mile-long, eighty-limbed insectoid with a compulsion for chemical gases?
The point is that we tend to think in terms of what we know, recognise and are familiar with. And that limits our creative thinking. Travel out of this world on the Starship What-If and open yourself to a different perspective on this life on Earth.
Doing this will:
What if all the Universes turned out to be cells within the body of some kind of life form?
And then you float up over that Being, higher and higher.... and so it goes on and on!
But just imagine, from that huge vastness in which our lives here on Earth are microscopic even within the narrow confines of our own galaxy ... does it matter that much to Life (with a capital L) whether the planet is polluted? Does it care whether there is climate change or wars here on Earth? Does it care anymore than we care if a braincell dies, or a cell in your arm decays and disappears?
Play with changing your perspective on your own problems and on the problems facing us all. Zoom out of this world to do your thinking. It will remove the emotional charge from your thinking. It can free you from terror or compulsion. It can add a depth of wisdom to your mind that all will benefit from.
Also remember that you also have to zoom in to get a closer look on things too. Life with a big L may not worry about the trials and tribulations of human beings and the tiny planet Earth... but life with a small l, meaning You and I, do care about our environment. So zoom in and out to change your perspective and experience out-of-this-world thinking.
Out-of-this-world thinking may just free you from your emotional conflicts. You might expand your consciousness by practicing out-of-this-world thinking (and develop a whole new self-identity in the process). It will take you to a place of quietitude in which you can think in freedom. What else can out-of-this-world thinking do?
Let me know....
Upwards and upwards,
Wily Walnut
Resources:
To improve your ability to visualise leaving the Earth for out-of-this-world thinking, check out the Power of 10 presentation:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
So all I want you to do now is to relax and be aware of the room that you are in, and of your body in that room doing what you are doing. Just see what you are seeing, feel what you are feeling, hear what you are hearing, and be here fully present in this moment now. Okay?
Alright.So in your mind's eye, just picture and imagine yourself there in that room. It's as though you've just risen out of yourself a little so that you can look down on what you are doing from a about 3 feet (1 metre) above.
Good, so when you've got that in your mind's eye, if only for a moment, just imagine rising up in stages and looking down on that scene. You rise up through the ceiling. And you imagine floating above the building, looking down on the roof and imagining your body still back down there in the room.
Rise up until you are a 100 ft (30 metres) over the top of that building. And then imagine you are floating even higher until you are about 1000 ft (300 metres) above that building, and you can see the environment around the building.
And rise up higher and higher through the clouds, seeing the shape of your country and as you go further out, you can see the curve of the planet and then the entire planet Earth. And I want you to imagine you are way out beyond the satellites. You can see the world and it appears to be the size of a tennis ball.
And just spend a little while looking at the Earth at this size. You might notice some of the many many satellites orbiting the Earth beaming information back to the people down there.
And draw back further still until the Earth is like a little marble, a tiny ball. And really notice how tiny it is.
Become aware of the vastness of space surrounding the Earth. And that planet Earth looks so tiny there. Think of all the billions of people down there. With the Earth appearing so tiny, you might be struck with wonder at how tiny and insignificant humans appear next to this vastness of space. From this distance, humans are as tiny, invisible and multitudinous as microbes on a rotting apple.
From this distance, human problems and challenges don't seem very important do they? From this distance, the things that frighten us and fill us with worry and dread in the night, they seem kind of insignificant, don't they?
Draw back further still watching the planet Earth disappear to a pin-prick and draw back even further so that you are lost in the vastness of the universe.
Being this far away from Earth might give you the willies and make you feel scared. Imagine if in some future time, people started banishing criminals from Earth. They send them out in some kind of see-thru module that goes to the far reaches of the universe for a period of time. The criminal has no control. He is strapped in and the module feeds and exercises his body somehow. He can't kill himself but just has to endure the loneliness and isolation -- the total sense of banishment. Wouldn't that be awful?
Being this far away from Earth can show you how attached you are to the idea of being a human being who lives on Earth. (And that's not even looking at how attached you are to thinking of yourself as a man or woman, as a member of your country / town / family.) But your journey into outer space has shown you how tiny and insignificant the Earth appears. There is a vastness out here. You can continue out further and further. And you can imagine that there are all sorts of planets and states of life out in the vastness that we know nothing of.
So perhaps you can entertain the idea that there might be other experience of Life that you could have. What if you reincarnated as some kind of amorphous blob that communicates by resinous secretions on some rock of a planet a trillion light years away? What if you were a mile-long, eighty-limbed insectoid with a compulsion for chemical gases?
The point is that we tend to think in terms of what we know, recognise and are familiar with. And that limits our creative thinking. Travel out of this world on the Starship What-If and open yourself to a different perspective on this life on Earth.
Doing this will:
- Empower you -- you will feel bigger than this human life
- Free you -- from this fear of death
- Turn you upside down and inside out -- you needed a good shaking anyway
What if all the Universes turned out to be cells within the body of some kind of life form?
And then you float up over that Being, higher and higher.... and so it goes on and on!
But just imagine, from that huge vastness in which our lives here on Earth are microscopic even within the narrow confines of our own galaxy ... does it matter that much to Life (with a capital L) whether the planet is polluted? Does it care whether there is climate change or wars here on Earth? Does it care anymore than we care if a braincell dies, or a cell in your arm decays and disappears?
Play with changing your perspective on your own problems and on the problems facing us all. Zoom out of this world to do your thinking. It will remove the emotional charge from your thinking. It can free you from terror or compulsion. It can add a depth of wisdom to your mind that all will benefit from.
Also remember that you also have to zoom in to get a closer look on things too. Life with a big L may not worry about the trials and tribulations of human beings and the tiny planet Earth... but life with a small l, meaning You and I, do care about our environment. So zoom in and out to change your perspective and experience out-of-this-world thinking.
Out-of-this-world thinking may just free you from your emotional conflicts. You might expand your consciousness by practicing out-of-this-world thinking (and develop a whole new self-identity in the process). It will take you to a place of quietitude in which you can think in freedom. What else can out-of-this-world thinking do?
Let me know....
Upwards and upwards,
Wily Walnut
Resources:
To improve your ability to visualise leaving the Earth for out-of-this-world thinking, check out the Power of 10 presentation:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
