The human.
The universe is not a separate entity from the human experience. The human experience is the universe in and of itself.
I recently transcended on a psychedelic journey with downloads so profound that no words can match. But here I am, doing my best to match the experience with writing because it was too beautiful to not express in some way. So, I think the easiest way to do this is to break down what makes a human because our raw humanness is the core of the universe.
Stripped down to its core, what makes a human is…
Feeling
Thinking
Breathing
Creating
Being
Note: This is a collection of observations from my personal psychedelic and third dimensional experiences, this is not meant to be a one-size-fits-all.
Feeling
Most of my life was spent in dark corners hiding from my emotions because I was programmed to believe they are burdens, thanks to the traumas I endured in my youth. I believed you should only be happy because if you’re not, you’re a complication and that is what defined you— a complication, a weight to oneself and to others, a bother. I was ashamed in feeling sad, angry, or anxious. Because of that, I judged myself for my feelings and suppressed them in order to make others comfortable. I shrank myself to fit into tight spaces where I was not welcomed in the first place.
If there is one thing I could tell my child self, I would tell her that it’s okay to not be okay. How wonderful is it to be able to feel all that we feel? It’s amazing. There is beauty in our wide emotional range, even the ones that are uncomfortable, sad, or scary.
I believe this is why we are here. No other life form can cry, grieve, laugh, dance, hug, make love, express love, create, and smile as hard as humans. So while we are here in our physical bodies, let’s honor and celebrate all feelings.
Thinking
Much like I was ashamed in my emotional range, I was also ashamed of my thinking. Not necessarily in the sense that the contents of my thoughts were humiliating or absurd. But more so that my excessive thinking was “too much”. This is a common human trait— to “overthink.” But more importantly, it’s common to label our thinking as “overthinking”. What IS overthinking? Is there a minimum or maximum capacity to what our minds can create? What is the metric? Well, there is none. Additionally, labeling our thoughts as “too much” or “good” and “bad” can be self destructive.
Thoughts are merely energy. Energy manifests. If you want to master your mind rather than it master you, you can either grasp your thoughts with force, holding it back from its natural incarnation. Or, you can hold it delicately like a caterpillar until its ready to manifest into the next stage of its energetic nature.
“Observe, don’t absorb.”
In the same sense that constellations are diagrams of our birth, we should observe our thoughts as though they’re stars in the sky. No attachment, no judgement, no conceptualization, simply a respect for its transient existence. Maybe there is a lesson for it, maybe there isn’t. It’s not our place to question why it is what it is. It is just what it is. To have a healthy relationship with thinking, we must surrender to it, observe, don’t absorb, and let flow. This is a beautiful human capability.
“So look at your own thoughts as just noises. And soon you will find that the so-called outside world and the so-called inside world come together. They are a happening. Your thoughts are a happening, just like the sounds going on outside. And everything is simply a happening, and all you are doing is watching it.”
- Alan Watts, Listen
Breathing.
Breathing is our superpower as humans. It may sound uninvolved, but it’s a voluntary and involuntary capability we are gifted with. Through the breath, we release toxins and tension. There’s a reason practicing breath work is vital in meditation, yoga, and other forms of healing. Although we don’t always consciously breathe, noticing your breath opens a portal to awareness, especially in the meditative state. This awareness is the inner cog of our emotional and physical regulation. This goes beyond spiritual practices, it’s science. We can regulate our breath, blood, and brain through mindful breathing— a harness for the state of mind and body. Our breathing patterns can calm our nervous system and work as a filter for cortisol build up, relieving stress that results in mental and physical illness. If that is not a superpower, I don’t know what is. This is yet another trait to celebrate in our human experience.
Creating.
All that we see in front of us a mirror of our inner workings. In the same truth, we are the divine creators of our world, our reality, a reality that is not subjective. This is not a philosophy. Our eyes can transform light into physical manifestations in the same way our psyche creates our world. Your perceptions are your reality. If your inner world is dampened with negativity, your outer world will choose to see only negativity. If your inner world is showered with gratitude, your outer world presents its abundance that has been there all along. If your mind is limited, your outer world will be limited. This is not something to be afraid of. This is the fabric of our existence and it’s what makes this human experience so wonderful. We have the ability to design our reality much like an artist has the ability to express itself in a limitless form.
“Reality itself is gorgeous. It is the plenum, the fullness of total joy. And all those stars if you look out in the sky is a firework display like you see out in the fourth of July which is a great occasion for celebration. The universe is a celebration. It’s a firework show to celebrate that existence is.”
- Alan Watts, Dream
Being.
Human BEING.
We are celestial beings having a human experience, not the other way around. I said those words out loud during the psychedelic journey which, funny enough, is close to Rainn Wilson’s statement: “We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Who I am and what I am is not my body, it’s not even my personality, it’s not the trauma I suffered, it’s not what I’ve been through.” See the clip here.
We are not defined because our existence has no meaning. Not in the sense of emptiness. Rather, in the sense that our being is everything. How do you define everything? You don’t, you just experience it because you’re part of it. You are everything. This the very fabric of the universe, which is within ourselves.
We are the universe experiencing itself.
- CP
there's power in creation--there's power in reframing and perceiving our lives in our own vocabulary!