Answering My Questions. Questioning My Answers.

I cut my hand the other day. It’s almost healed now. Did I heal it and, if so, how did I do it?

You, as the ego-self, most certainly did not do it. The you that beats the heart, grows hair and nails, and breathes life-giving air into the lungs did it. No one can say how they (as the ego-self) heal a wound. Anyone pressed for an explanation will likely respond “It just healed itself”. This is a clue that “you” are something beyond your self.

Who am I outside of my body?

The body is one part of the Whole that I am, including my brain, my environment, other people — everything.

There are sights and sounds. Are they external to you or are they all in your mind?

Seeing is sight. Hearing is sound. My mind and my experience are one; there is no need to differentiate between them.

When I am walking down the street, am I passing from point A to point B or am I stationary while the world is moving beneath me?

Is there a difference? There is no separate external world; there is no separate internal you. The way you view the movement is based on your perception of the body relative to the environment. However, they define each other.

There is a room in my house. I’ve seen it before and know what’s in it. But I don’t see it now. No one does. Is it there now, or will it become real once I am present to experience it?

What is reality beyond the experience of the here and now? You say the room is there. In this moment it only exists as a memory. Not until you are in the room experiencing it does it become a present moment reality.

Is there an edge to the Universe? If so, what’s beyond it?

Again, do the outer edges of the Universe exist unless we are able to observe them? Once we observe farther into space, more space opens up. Once we inspect the smallest particles beyond the atomic level, we find smaller particles, and so on. Try to imagine nothingness. Neither somethingness nor nothingness can exist on their own.

Is there an experience beyond death?

What was your experience before conception? Whose death are we speaking of? Once the experience of the individual ceases, that particular story ends. But the Whole of Existence — that which you really are — continues on. It was there long before the body was born and will be there long after the body has died. When the individual being identifies itself with the One, there is a realization: the death of the limited self gives birth to the immortal Self and there is no need to be concerned with any experience beyond “death”.

What is God?

I cannot say what God is; I can only say what God is not. God isn’t an idol to be worshipped, an anthropomorphic being, a man-made idea, or any thing. God — the Eternal, the One, the True Self — just is.