Most of us are familiar with an optical illusion,
Where depending on your point of view or focus of attention,
An image shifts from one picture to another.
A famous one appears to be either two faces looking at each other or a candlestick.
Now contemplate a spiritual illusion.
This shift may be from a routine reality to cosmic awareness.
Try this.
Sit quietly and allow your eyes to soften and gently close.
Rest your eyeballs within your eye sockets and allow your muscles to soften and hang from your bones as they respond to the pull of Earth's gravity.
Imagine a set of nested dolls where there are multiple sizes with each one nestled within the next larger doll.
Now shift your awareness to imagine your skin as the size of a nested doll.
Create another doll of yourself which fits within your skin.
Now another and another getting smaller and smaller and smaller and again smaller.
Keep going beyond molecular size to atoms,
Quarks,
Leptons,
And until there is just a point of energy.
Rest at that point of energy as the emptiness of the universe with all points being the same.
Now go back to your skin size doll and create one a bit larger that you are nestled into and then again larger and larger and larger and larger.
Continue until you are the size of the entire universe and contain everything within you.
Notice that as your awareness goes from the point view to the universe size view of you,
The routine boundary of your skin has been dissolved and forgotten.
If you play with this illusion,
See it from different angles,
You will get a wow,
A brief moment of spiritual illusion where your routine sense of self is lost and you get a glimpse of sensing the universe from one end to the other.
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