Closed Boxes in a Zombie World

Time constructs, while at the same time stripping away. Over time, we meticulously construct concepts of one another that strip away the possibility of awakening together.

You have constructed egoic concepts of those you profess to ‘love' and they conform like clockwork and from these concepts you believe you ‘know’ them.

How could they be any different than what you think they are?

Even when they seek to escape your conceptual boxes, you find a way to box them in by determining which box their attempted escape conforms to.

There is always a box available. The problem is that the same boxes used to contain others are also used to define your ‘self.' You cannot transcend your 'self' and still keep 'them' in boxes.

We are all victim to our conceptual boxes and this perpetuates self-containment and stifles freedom. In order to free your ‘self’ you must free others from your constructs. This is what was meant by “thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself.” By freeing them, you simultaneously free yourself.

The ‘world’ you experience is full of conceptual strangers, even those you do not ‘know,’ easily fit your boxes. You have determined that “happiness” is only available when the world conforms to your conception and you experience your world from that box.

All your concepts have been learned from the past so as to predict a future. This is why we compulsively repeat the past and why wars never end and peace is only a pipe dream.

Not to fit a box means it is unknown and the ego-self fears what it cannot predict. Sadly, this is why you have become predictable even to yourself, since fear of uncertainty has resulted in a neatly packaged self-concept that rarely sways from its original design (core beliefs).

The world is waiting for you to break free of your predictions and experience the infinite. How else can it be saved?

But, you believe that if you cannot ‘predict’ me, you cannot know me. Unfortunately, this is why you fail to know yourself and fear your own infinite capabilities. Once you find the right box for me (no matter how hard I might try to escape containment), my actions will confirm your judgments. If you cannot fit me into a box, something must be wrong with me.

But not to worry, there’s a box for that too.

Predicting my actions is paramount to our continued relationship, no matter how shallow and surface oriented we become. In this same way, "I" define “you” and the tangled webs we weave have been predicted long before we meet and are based solely on an egoic obsession with the past.

There is no intimacy in boxes.

Intimacy contained and stuffed into concepts obviously stifles Deep Spirit. Contained intimacy is NO intimacy, even though we may delude ourselves into thinking that “this is love.”

If your relationships are stifled, then find your boxes and open them. This not only frees your mind, but also the ones you have chosen to love. Love cannot be contained or limited and is impossible without intimacy, or the deep understanding that dissolves our strangeness and closes the gap between us.

The world is an infinite spectrum of experiences demanding to be shared.

If you box me into your concepts you suffer through your own self-containment and this not only disengages you from others, but from your world as well. Your world needs to experience the freedom of awakening through and with another, because your experience of a ‘world’ is entirely contingent on the experiences of others. “You" could not experience existence without "them." But you fear them and they fear you and therefore, all experiences are finite and limited.

Change is joyfully invigorating to an "existence" that realizes itself as infinite. But then, why do we seek to contain it in finite boxes? When will we choose to open our boxes and experience the infinite fields?

Your ego-self was constructed to anticipate events through inaccurate predictions so that preparations could be made (constructing boxes) to insure self-preservation. This capacity serves you well in preparing for things that might cause actual harm and we have learned effective means of insuring physical safety.

Yet, a problem occurs when insuring safety becomes an imperative for the egoic self-concept. Now you must predict my actions and behaviors to protect your own self-concept. Self-preservation demands fear and stifles intimacy. But, I must do the same, because in the past we have made mistakes in judgment resulting in attack. Although you extend an illusion of forgiveness, memory is impacted and you have now boxed me in for the sake of future self-preservation. And so continues the gradual erosion that affects all relationships and maintains a world of strangers bored with the mundane and tedious experience of ‘living’ from boxes.

In our mutual boxes, we have isolated ourselves and this is the ‘zombie world’ we experience; boxed in, frightened and disengaged. The world is an experience within you, don’t box it in by containing others. To free your mind you must extract from your experience the predictions you superimpose upon others, because living from boxes cannot set you free.

Open your conceptual boxes and prepare for the 'Surprise' that deep intimacy brings. It is a surprise that illuminates a shared world and is the only way we can save it.

A Healed Moment in Vertical Time

A healed moment is one in which you have escaped from the concepts of your mind, which imprison others and cause you to suffer because they fail to meet your criteria. The concepts are still there, but they cease to capture you based on what you demand from others and the 'world.'

We could say that in a healed moment the 'world' still exists. However, you no longer experience yourself as its victim because of how you now ‘see’ it and others in it.

When two or more share perfect equality, in a ‘world’ of confusing hierarchies, levels and degrees, time is experienced as vertical and not horizontal.

This does not negate ‘time’ just allows it to be realized from a Deep Spirit perspective. Vertical time takes up no space and everything needed is contained in one moment and experienced in one moment. But it cannot be experienced alone, since that continually reestablishes the incompletion of your autonomous egocentric identity, which continues to require time and space, or horizontal time, for which to achieve its completion.

A healed moment is entirely absent of all conflict, because there is no right or wrong for which to distinguish needs. A perspective that emphasizes lack or deficiency seeks to blame the world for what is lacking in the belief that what is needed must be found in the 'world.' This is always cause for conflict and is why all true 'awakenings' involve the world. No one awakens alone, because "it takes a village" to teach and learn fear.

Therefore, only a collective can awaken to its own unified completion in order to end all fear and conflict for its members. This literally alters the physical landscape because space/time is useless to those who need nothing because they experience NO lack or deficiency.

If you experience a world of lack and deficiency, make no mistake, that experience is entirely 'within' you and is not contingent on an external world and in no way related to anyone but your ‘self.’ However, dissolving that experience must involve another; otherwise, it only serves to reinforce your egoic construct of autonomous fear. The ego will always fear what it experiences as apart from itself and this is why you often experience the world as a very fearful ‘place’ to be.

Examine closely any problem you experience and you will understand the causal interdependency of collective consciousness. All conflict must involve another and every individual problem is intricately interrelated to your experience of a world full of other minds interacting with yours. This is because every problem you experience comes from a lack and the ego will always recognize what it lacks based on what it believes others HAVE.

Did you find the “soul mate” who will finally complete you? Did you seek your completion through another only to find that they could not give you what you lacked, even though you perceived them as having what you needed? Does someone you 'love' reinforce your lack by what they have? Are they withholding from you because they believe you withhold from them? Do you really have what they need?

The ego seeks to claim from others what it lacks in itself and this is often misinterpreted as complementarity. Unfortunately, the ego that fails to access Deep Spirit will fail to realize the futility of such a search and only continue searching more persistently.

You lack nothing. However, the ego-self is nothing more than a belief in lack and everyone who has what you need, also wants what you have, because lack and need is how an ego-self defines “love.”

A healed moment experiences no lack because, in desiring to see another as complete, you immediately experience your own completion. In fully trusting another, you trust yourself. In seeking to experience perfect peace with another, perfect peace becomes yours and an experience of perfect peace is a healed moment of vertical time.

Although a healed moment is an experience of perfect peace through unified equality, the commitment to time returns. Nevertheless, the desire for another breathe of infinity is irresistible and you will seek out others for which to share in it. This results in an increase that exponentially magnifies its effects in the world each and every time it is shared.

The only resistance encountered is by those who still wish to awaken alone and pursue a continuance of that autonomy.

But resistance to truth is a futile endeavor and merely delays time. The non-dualism of unified atonement is an unbreakable chain that grows with the linking of each 'individual' mind and this provides an experience of accelerating time. You cannot know what is rapidly approached, but you feel it is ultimately momentous and profound and this feeling is always available when experiencing from Deep Spirit.

Therefore, since it is only a matter of ‘time,’ why delay?

Who Are You Really Attacking?

Revenge can be subtle and quiet in its attack. In fact, those who profess to love one another are often the most vindictive in employing the tactics of revenge.

You will judge me as an attacker and set a retributive cost for my psychological attack and I will always evaluate the cost as not equal to my actions and magnify my reciprocating attack based on that perceived inequality. Thus, the circle of reactivity is maintained.

Justification is always forthcoming and easily invented. Your ego is righteous in its need to attack, as I am in attacking you, and soon the foundation of our relationship becomes righteous justification for attack.


Oh sure, we have moments free of attack. But they are always stifled by our defensive preparations and anticipation of the words that commence the battle. We know the words that commence hostilities as we’ve said them time and time again, always accurately predicting the results.

The expressions of battle always begin with one chief word, more powerful than all others… ”you.”

Yet, when you say these words, is it the real “me” you see or merely your own conceptual rendition?
Revenge must make an object of your opponent and this is a basic premise of war. To attack the enemy without guilt, the enemy must remain faceless and can have no feelings for which to confuse your egoic goal of attack.

In the moment of justified anger, I must become an object for you. No longer loved, but as an enemy I am eligible for destruction. What you seek to destroy is my psychological self, but only so that you may experience increased control. If I can be controlled, you have won.

For some this becomes a daily occurrence. When your most significant relationships are stifled by attack-defend-attack scenarios, is it any wonder that your engagement with the world loses its luster and joy becomes desensitized numbness?

The external world is an interior experience that you create within yourself through your relationships with others. If your most significant relationships are oppressed by revenge, and attack-defend-attack scenarios, is it any wonder why the world seems so gray?

Contrary to pop psychology, happiness is not a solitary pursuit.

The solution is in your mind. Do not expect it from the other, until you identify your own mental concepts of who the ‘other’ really is in the moment of anger.