It All Points to You

In Chapter 2, we talk about reality as an experiential phenomenon. That is, experience is an essential quality of reality, and without it, there is no reality at all. Quantum physics describes this as superposition, where all possible realities potentially exist together, but none of them actually exists. From a personal level, it means that experience is the outer boundary of reality. There is nothing that is beyond it. Even the idea of something beyond it exists within experience.

But what can we say about experience, and experiencing? What are its significant elements? In the book we talk about experiences which are always present, such as locality in time and space (everything is experienced here and now), but what stands out about experience itself?

Every experience is YOUR experience. The entire Universe exists because YOU are experiencing it. The experience is literally directed toward you. Consider the most distant galaxies, and their light, travelling billions of light years directly toward where you will be when it arrives HERE, NOW. Now you might be inclined to think that there's a lot of light that travels everywhere else, too, but that's not the relevant matter. It's the fact that everything out there has reached out to YOU that matters. From every direction, the Universe comes to you.

You are always in the middle of everything pointing inward, reaching back to here and now and YOU. You might be inclined to think that there are many of us, all subject to equal attention by experience, but the experience is the same for each of us. We all are touched by Everything through the phenomenon of "I experience". The whole of existence is a first-person phenomenon in this way. Even if you forget that we are all one "I", we are all still One in that each of us is at the center of time and space, reached out to from all directions by the entire Universe through the connection of experience.

Remember this the next time you feel insignificant, or like you don't matter. You are God, and you can see it all around you, the Universe pointing at YOU.