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Everything is made of matter. Matter exists as a solid, liquid or gas, but all matter is the same because all matter is made up of atoms and molecules. When heat is added, the atom and molecules vibrate and move faster, separate, and matter expands. When heat is removed, vibrations slow, and matter gets denser as it contracts. - 5th grade Chemistry The basic function of each being is expanding and contracting. Expanded beings are permeative*. We experience expansion as awareness, comprehension, understanding...We can be in the same space with one or more expanded beings. Contracted beings are dense and impermeative. [A contracted] being is unable to be in the same space with others, so contraction is felt as fear, pain, ignorance, hatred... - Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment * (adj.) spreading or flowing throughout
The latitude of the sun was at its farthest point north of the planet's equator. The southern hemisphere of the planet was now undergoing the beginning of its winter season. A cave. A frigid, pitch-black cave. A cave crammed with millions of densely packed ice chunks, blocked off from the transiting sun. No breath of light. This is my space. This is my spot. Nothing else of importance exists. This is all there is. The ice chunk was unaware of its true place on the planet. Unaware that it was in an abysmal subterranean cave. Unaware that it was situated at the threshold of the cave's passage out. Unaware that the cave sat at the base of a mountain. Unaware of the millions of ice chunks around it. Me. Mine. My area. Only I matter. I am the whole world. The ice chunk was solidly set in place. Set in its thinking. Set in its location on the planet. No movement.
The sun. The source of light and warmth. The orientation of the planet's tilt with respect to the sun changed as it orbited the sun. The southern hemisphere of the planet was now beginning its trek positioning sunward. Soon that region would warm with the increase in solar radiation. A glimmer peaked through the ebony curtains of the cave. The ice chunk saw something new in its world. A light. What is that? The sun's rays began to strike the southern hemisphere at a more direct angle. Its beams were a beacon and permeated the cave's entrance. The dense ice chunk started to transform as the sun's rays awakened it. Its outer hardness gave way, melting and began to change to liquid. The ice chunk's perceptions began to flow as expanding ideas began to vibrate inside it. Its liquefied parts started to trickle. I am in a cave. There is an outside of the cave. There is more than just me. There is something outside of me. The transformation continued. Its growing awareness continued. The trickle followed the downslope of the cave's entrance and started to pool outside. The pool grew as it blended with other trickles from other ice chunks that were also awakened by the sun's rays.The waters mingled and collided as the pool swirled. There are others around me. I am not alone in this world. The ice chunk was now completely liquid. Its former denseness was shed. Its form and thinking flowed more easily now. Its perceptions and ideas vibrated with rapidity. It could sense the feelings and actions of others. I am part of a community. My actions affect others. There is a 'We'.
The sun was a torch, blazing with transmuting energy. Its beams now radiated this region of the planet's southern hemisphere at its most direct angle. The molecules and atoms in the pool vibrated even faster as they reflected upon the sun. The pool increased in heat. Its waters and aspirations began to eddy and churn. The expansion continued. Its molecules separating and moving more freely, the liquid started to steam and change to gas. The broadening vapors rose sunward, climbing up the mountain sides towards its lofty peak. The rapidly vibrating gas particles were uplifted in understanding. I am but a brush stroke in the vast painting of the world. Awareness. The cave and the ice. The waters outside the cave. The mountain and the rising veil. The planet. The sun. The vapors merged and blended as one. Acceptance of all. No resistance to others. An infinite harmony of vibrating beings. I am one with all life. We are all part of the one.
The universe is made of one kind of entity: each one is alive, each determines the course of his own existence. - Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
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