"Am I an object in space or am I part of the space around me?" This is the question that arose within me as I ran along Mulholland Drive a few weeks ago. And no there were no psychedelic drugs involved!
This inquiry enthralled me for the remainder of the run and I can honestly say there were times I literally felt like the outline of my body had dissolved. The other thing I viscerally got was that what we call space is not empty. That lead me to another huge aha moment where I understood that I'm never alone.
Further contemplation revealed that the only thing that's ever made me feel alone is the notion that I'm an isolated body surrounded by empty space that needs to get to another isolated body somewhere over there. Think about it. Do water drops in the ocean feel alone? No! because they are all connected, literally. And so are we!
Through a divorce and what might be considered other traumatic events over the last year, I had already had glimmers of this. But that day a few weeks ago it became embodied awareness to some degree. It went from an intellectual idea to cellular knowledge.
So was all this a grand delusion sparked by a dormant flashback to a Star Trek episode? Or was I actually tapping into a more expansive, certainly different, way of perceiving things?
It definitely felt like the latter to me and I was excited (and relieved to be somewhat scientifically validated) when about a week later I discovered the work of physicist, Nassim Harramein. Like many geniuses, Nassim was ostracized as a child due in part to dyslexia. The communion and comfort he found in nature set him very early looking for the meaning of things.
Today he can be seen as a bridge builder between traditional and quantum physics and even more ushering in a whole new scientific paradigm.
Here's an interview that just might fascinate and inpsire you...
The question that began this newsletter emerges in the midst of a new awareness I'm infusing in my yoga classes - inviting students to look for the space inside their bodies instead of the constriction, tightness, pain, whatever it may be. To watch the effect of this perspective shift continues to be awe inspiring.
I have lots of opportunities for you to dive deep and meet yourself anew, including a new group class at Equinox Westlake Village every Thursday evening beginning on November 3rd.
Hope to see you soon! Even if there is no empty space to separate us, my eyes still delight in seeing you face to face ;-)
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