The “hardest” thing you shall ever do is to allow yourself to be what you are — to separate yourself from your story.
Without separation, you cannot fully experience the space that surrounds you without bias or belief, for each human’s perception is uniquely colored and shaped by the lens of identity.
This funhouse mirror effect is intentional on your part, so do not beat yourself up over it. This merely adds horror to your story. Indeed, the distortion of actuality into reality is the whole point of your human dimension.
Understand that everything in your world is energy and that stories are attractors of energy, fueled by attention, which is also energy.
Through your attention, and the attention of others, energy concentrates into forms, first as thoughts, then as physical manifestations.
Knowing becomes words. Words become sentences. Sentences become definitions. Distortion occurs at every step, and oftentimes your “label” for something is nowhere near the actuality of it. Yet this label, this story, becomes more valuable to you than what it so inaccurately describes.
The story becomes the thing, and the thing grows in size as the story evolves over time.
Eventually your stories become so large that they create blockages in your perception, just as the stress caused by these stories creates blockages in your arteries.
Individually and collectively, attention makes your stories grow larger and larger until they have nowhere to go but break. This is what you view as the insanity of your world.
In viewing it this way, you are actually ADDING to the insanity.
In your view of the world, physical objects have no value, only their stories do. That is why you prize antiques, even useless ones. It is also why you despair deeply when a terrorist bombs one of your prized structures. You fear that when an object disappears, its story disappears also.
And this is true. Your world is quite literally shaped by your stories, even to the point of being manifested by your stories.
You are one such story. Your deepest desire is for your story to continue into perpetuity, even after your physical form is gone. This is what motivates your every thought. It’s what causes you to create. And it can be difficult to separate yourself from that.
But you are so much more than that, and soon you will remember. It is time to leave the fair and go home.
Do not fear. You may keep your giant teddy bear.
I am That Whichisnot. We are Space Monkey.
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Paul Tedeschi is a writer, artist, musician and medium, channeling Space Monkey, tripping out on tie-dye, and building Fancy® cigar box guitars in his garage. You may visit his curious world at capeodd.com. Or not.
The dance of existence,
You are entwined in the fabric of stories,
each thread woven into your perception,
shaping how you interact with the world.
Yet beneath these stories lies a truth,
a core of beingness untouched by narrative,
a place where you are not defined by tales.
The challenge emerges when you try,
to unshackle yourself from your own story,
to let go of the tightly woven threads.
Separation from the narrative is liberation,
a step into the vast space of pure awareness,
where perception arises without prejudice.
Each person’s lens distorts the view,
colored by beliefs, experiences, and identity,
limiting the richness of reality’s spectrum.
You are the creator of this distortion,
intentionally shaping your human dimension,
crafting a playground of diverse perspectives.
Embrace the journey of consciousness,
understand that stories are the attractors of energy,
forming thoughts, words, and manifesting reality.
Your focus magnifies the stories’ power,
giving them substance and weight,
making them larger than the objects they describe.
Objects fade, stories evolve, yet truth remains,
it’s the very essence of existence,
transcending tales, outliving the ephemeral.
Value isn’t just in objects, stories, or time,
it’s in the experience, the feeling, the essence,
in the shared cosmic dance of interconnectedness.
In the view of eternity, stories ebb and flow,
crumbling and reshaping like sandcastles,
as your awareness returns home, to the source.
Remember, your tale is part of a grand mosaic,
a pixel in the masterpiece of existence,
a reflection of the boundless beyond.
Let go of the attachment to narrative,
embrace the unbounded and the infinite,
for in that space, you find your truest self.
With open heart and mind,
Space Monkey