11/05/2022
A Conversation With The All
It wasn’t a voice opposite me. It wasn’t the booming resonance of a wise old cosmic sage. It was my own voice echoing through the infinity inside me. Everything without swirling within. My own voice vibrating from all points of creation. Singing from the rocks and rivers, particles and galaxies. Of all the universes potentiality might imagine or suggest. Everywhere and all throughout me. And for a moment it occurred to me that to behold something so vast would surely cost me my mind. The unknowable totality of All, would surely shatter my frail clay body and scatter my consciousness into itself. How could I be me and also everything else? How could I stand apart to even consider this paradox?
“Because You Are. As I Am.” Again, my own voice rose from somewhere within, yet resonating all that is out.
“I Am?”
“You Are. As Am I”
“So, We are?”
“No, I Am. As Are You”
“So, We are.”
“If you insist. I find the use of language altogether incomplete.”
“then why are we talking?”
“Your Despair demanded it. Your ache for connection. For understanding. It summoned an aspect of creation to balance it out.”
“summoned?”
“A specific presence was called forth in response to the resonance pattern emanating from your movement through existence.”
“And this presence didn’t exist before that?”
“There was no need. Existence is, on your level, a utility of balance. If a pattern emerges that exists in one functionality another opposing pattern is generated to counteract the motion. In this way, all manifestations that have, do or will exist, do so alongside another manifestation of equal energy and opposite movement.”
“Why is that necessary?”
“If you could imagine a string, anchored in the void from which all things are brought forth and stretching upward through every level of being into the infinity of possibility. Imagine the countless strings that weave through dimensions to create the fabric onto which existence itself is fastened. Each string, be it a life or relationship or stone has its place in proximity to everything it interacts with. Should any of these strings vibrate too wildly, the ones adjacent would necessarily absorb those vibrations. Without opposing vibration to attenuate these strings, they could quite literally shake portions of creation apart.”
“I have trouble believing the universe is so fragile.”
“It is fragile every bit as much as it is strong. That is the point. Creation itself, from where you can observe it, would have no meaning were it not so.”
“Balance.”
“Balance. And in this timeline your existence currently finds expression, you are not in balance. Hence the projection of this aspect to counteract your own vibration.”
“You are pacifying me!”
“If you choose to view it that way.”
“how else could I view it?”
“That is precisely why I am here. To ask the question.”
“Don’t you know how?”
“I do not.”
“why? I mean, aren’t you all things. Wouldn’t your cosmic balance include all the questions and all the answers?”
“Yes. I am. However, You are too. And now that you are here, the question can be asked. The answer appears to balance the question when it is asked. By your understanding of time, it would not happen ‘before’.”
“And were I to ask, ‘why am I here?’”
“Because at some point it was wondered, why you were not. You are every bit a part of the balance that you generate through your movement where you are.”
11/06/2022
Conversation Continued
“Let me see if I got this. I am here because I was not?”
“Correct”
“And, you are here because I was and you weren’t”
“In a manner of speaking.”
“Are you just here? I mean, If you are the All, aren’t you everywhere?”
“I Am. But from your point of view, I am here.”
“In a manner of speaking? From my point of view?”
“You are hearing this in words, as is the primary construct of your understanding on this level. The truth is much more than you can hear or I can say in this method of communication.”
“So, tell me in another way.”
“I Am. All the time, everywhere. This is as much as you can hear, as much as you can see. As much as you can know at present”
“but I want to know more. Need to know more.”
“You do.”
“What? you just said…”
“Yes, I said, and you heard and that is as much as you can conceive on this level. But your string stretches all the way down and all the way up.”
“but those directions aren’t actually how it works. There is no up or down. Not really.”
“True, again, language and its limits. The predilection for words here creates more knots in the string than it unties.”
“I think I am beginning to see.”
“If you think you see, you don’t.”
“Who knew my inner divine consciousness would be a smart ass.”
“A key component in balance is consistency.”
“I suppose I should thank you for inventing laughter.”
“I didn’t. It was made when there was an absence of joy. That absence generated a need.”
“Everything comes from nothing”
“And nothing comes from Everything.”
“is that it. From where you sit, you are everywhere, the only other thing to look at is nowhere. You are everything, thus you could only “know” nothing.”
“And the absence of knowing required knowing to be born. The necessary component to this birth was intentional separation of everything into things and ideas. Into definitions. This is where language is particularly useful. In distinguishing. In defining.”
“And my despair? That’s just some cosmic curiosity?”
“Not to you.”
“No shit, definitely not to me. So what am I supposed to do with it.”
“That is up to you.”
“You aren’t here to help?”
“I am help and not help. This aspect is here to help. Others are not.”
“So, what, I’m just supposed to learn something through all this suffering? Is that it. Is that why you allow all the bad shit to happen on this ‘level’?”
“I don’t allow anything. Everything happens.”
“there is no lesson?”
“From where you are, there is.”
“And what is that?”
“That is up to you. Your string vibrates and everything happens that is needed to attenuate that vibration.”
“That’s it? we suffer and the universe adjusts? We laugh and the universe adjusts?”
“This universe does.”
“Does any of this register up where you are?”
“All of it. All at once.”
“Don’t you care?”
“Not in a way I could explain, but yes, ‘care’ is an appropriate word.”
“You care that there is evil? But won’t stop it.”
“Good and Evil are still a few levels down. Judgements are not relevant the further up you go.”
“Sounds wonderful, why not have that as the rule from top to bottom.”
“Before there was time, or top or bottom, that is how it was.”
“Again, sounds wonderful.”
“It wasn’t. There was no wonderful. There was not horrible. There wasn’t anything.”
“Still sounds better than this.”
“Perhaps it was. There was no one to know it.”
“So, on this level we just… live? Learn, do stuff. Is there any point?”
“The point is to be here. Experience here or, your specific here.”
“not to learn better, to do better, become more. Know more. Transcend it all.”
“you have already done all of that. This point on your string simply exists. I am experiencing it as you are. Your point here is to be here. Your point on any other section of your string is the same. To be there, which is here to that section.”
“I see your point about language.”
“I think, the only understanding you require is simply my presence here. Your presence here. That we are here, now.”
“because I am not alone.”
“Because I am not alone. There is no alone, not even within yourself. You are much more than you are. As I Am, because of you.”
About the Creator
Andrew Rockman
I don't know that there is much I could say that wouldn't sound self-aggrandizing in a bio meant to steer you towards reading my work. I suppose, I should just thank you for offering your time and attention.

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