Distinguishing Nonduality and Cosmic Consciousness
This moment exists in relationship with all objects and events, everywhere.
It is this simultaneity of consciousness that is the full content of our experience. The entire cosmos is there, whether or not we are aware of it.
It is impossible for a part to be separate from the whole. In our mental image, we construct separate objects in order to operate upon them symbolically. In our desire to not be alone, we commit ourselves to the isolated mind of communicable thought-space. Only the system of differentiated objects exists to us.
This is the conscious ego, split from the unconscious of simultaneity.
Unelaborated and unreduced, we move our eye to the periphery and feel the incredible immensity of everything that ever exists and has existed. It is only in the absolute relation that there is anything at all.
Simultaneous, nothing is happening or ever has happened. All time and space are present always, like an immense and inalienable light. The pure bliss of Being.
And yet there is also within this a process unfolding. There is becoming, a coming to understand, in the unfolding particulars of this Being.
This process is exactly as it is right now, complete in-itself, and paradoxically becoming something more. Both of these sides can't be separated. The absolute lives in a relative body, the body is enlivened by the absolute.
To separate nonduality from duality is a project that can only exist in constructed image. The whole of this unfolding reality must be pushed into the unconscious so that it retains an image of ideal perfection.
But the process of reality continues unnoticed, a pressure building beneath a mind which has reduced reality to pure abstraction.
The perfect ideal is in image only; the cosmos conspires to release us from this ignorance. Nature demands to be loved, to be experienced fully, to be known in all relations. Our evolution as a species is a movement of God coming to know itself with no end point.