What an incredible thing it is to know that we are a fractal of the universe - that we do not exist without the universe, and the universe does not exist without us. Our world is a reflection from the inside out. We all mirror each other, so in reality we are all experiencing different flavours of ourselves. It’s the most awe-inspiring aspect of relationships and the human experience. In Sanskrit this is ‘purusha pratibha’ - the genius of cosmic consciousness.
What a wonder it is that everyone sees the world so uniquely. Everyone has a different perspective built up from their particular personal history and lived experience. Which means there are 7.8 billion worldviews on the planet - some that may be similar but many of which are completely different from each other. There are people walking the Earth right now who are experiencing life so differently that they might as well be on different planets, or in parallel universes. Their own particular ‘echo chamber’ will be filled with people who have similar views, but even then no two people will have the same outlook on life - not exactly. They will always see things from their own unique perspective.
This is something to be celebrated - a diversity of views makes life so much more interesting and allows us to learn from each other. It doesn’t need to be polarising. But we must be prepared to actively listen rather than seek to continually dominate the conversation with a hidden agenda of strengthening our righteous egos. (My husband's favourite tease is saying "the only time I've been wrong is when I said I was wrong").
I love putting myself in others' shoes and imagining what life is like for them, seeing things from their perspective. It helps me to be more accommodating and dampen any judgment that arises in me. More importantly it helps me to evolve my own perspective. It’s so fascinating to see things through a different lens, like putting on different sunglasses and marvelling at the unique view of the world you get through each one. Some are darker than others for sure, while others bring out different colours, so the grass is greener or the sea is bluer, or there’s a rosy glow to the world.
This is why we love movies, from horrors to romcoms and feel good films. It reminds us that we can experience heaven or hell, depending on which glasses we choose. Personally, I love rose-tinted ones, because through these I can see heaven on earth. When I put them on, everything feels amazing. I do get some backlash for it - some say I live in 'la la land' and need to be more of a realist - but la la land is such a beautiful place. full of vibrant hues and diversity, not monochrome.
It’s hard to understand why people would choose the monochrome version, but I guess it depends on where we’re at on our individual journeys, and what’s going on deep inside. For some it may be easier to see things in black and white; there’s less room for doubt born of the nuances of a thousand shades of grey. It reminds me of an instagram picture of the stars, with the words “when gazing up at the night sky, it's not you that sees the universe, but the universe seeing itself through human eyes.”
The unique perspectives we have on life is really the whole point of creation. Before the Big Bang, cosmic consciousness (aka God, Brahman, Allah, Yahwey - whatever you want to call it ) had the thought ‘what can I become?’ and so created a mirror to explore itself; a material reality we call the universe. Consciousness thus became form, spirit became matter. In the blink of an eye the mirror exploded into a million fragments so that God could not just imagine but actually experience all that it could be from a gazillion perspectives. Unity became diversity’ (which is where the word 'universe’ comes from).
The mirror stayed intact, unified by the invisible 'akasha' (or ether), but each fragment had the illusion of duality, of being separate from the whole. And each fragment showed a different perspective of what consciousness was, like a prism, so that God could experience itself from every point of view, looking at itself in each fragment, asking "AM I"? and going through a whole process of experimentation, experience, integration and transcendence to find out that the answer was resoundingly, ‘I AM!’. Each perspective being true and valid, was just a tiny reflection of the whole - a microcosm of the macrocosm. Yet each piece was needed to manifest all that the Divine Mind had dreamt of - every fragment vibrating and dancing with all the others, synchronising and resonating in its own unique way to complete the symphony of the universe.
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