Energy or Matter: It’s a choice

I was walking around the Harvard University campus wearing my favorite dark blue t-shirt. In yellow letters on the front it said E = M. ‘That’s not quite right’, most minds might habitually react. On the back of the t-shirt, it said “Energy or Matter. It’s a choice.”

OK. First of all, almost all of us are stuck deep into matter. What choice?

I used to teach meditation. One of the exercises I had all the students do was to spend five minutes laying on a Chi Machine. You lay on your back and place your ankles on this device that wiggles your legs back and fourth. When the movement finally stops, a rush of energy encompasses your consciousness. And in those moments, you are energy.

The worlds of energy and matter are so very different. I don’t need to tell anyone about the world of matter – we all know it all too well. But the world of energy, that’s the one that is so elusive to us. First off, there is no space or time here. There is only a “here” and a “now”.

Second, we are all one. That’s a hard one, isn’t it. To experience it, we have to dissolve our personal self and all the boundaries and borders that go with it. And then we have to see everyone else in the same light. In the world of energy it is all connectivity. There are patterns and change, but there are no walls or borders.

Third, you will have no control in the energy world. There is some kind of order, but it will be beyond understanding. It’s a magical, dreamlike experience where images, thoughts, feelings arise and disappear and nothing gets held on to.

At this point, you might think, “What’s it good for?” Ah. The magic. If you get comfortable moving into the energy world, you will increasingly be able to broadcast a feeling. And there is one feeling in particular that will widen the passage for those you love to experience this state. It is the feeling of universal loving-kindness.

I realize everyone who reads this is in their own unique relationship to the world of energy. There are those more experienced that I, there are those about at my same experience level and there are many who are more distant from the state in a number of ways.

One thought that helped me draw nearer to this state is something you can find on a bumper sticker.

Wayne Dyer and Stephen Covey attribute this quote to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin but it actually comes from an earlier source, G. I. Gurdjieff. The quote can inspire in you a shift in your center of gravity.

The material world of matter and how humans experience it is in a dire situation. And this is partly because so many beings are making the shift to the world of energy. We are nearing a tipping point in this regard. It will seem like a miracle that the world can be transformed so quickly. The quickening happens when you look into the eyes of ‘strangers’ and either you or they or both of you are in the energy state. It is these moments of overcoming all fears, that we can be united and we can further realize the peace and comfort – the love – that we all seek.