An ancient Vedic text named Yoga Vasishta reads: “The world is like a huge city, reflected in a mirror. So too, the universe is a huge reflection of yourself in your own consciousness.”
What a beautiful and perfect quote. It is interesting that so many people, so long ago, were so much more in tune to the universe than we are now — despite everything that science has shown us. I was reading that it has been mathematically proven that the distance in terms of space time between any two events must always equal zero. Physics, at the quantum level, has also discovered a that reality is but a soup of energy and information blinking on and off at the speed of light that we create and organize through our consciousness.
Perhaps stressful jobs, busy lives, a world of violence, war, and destruction has disconnected us from ourselves and the universe. But, it is easy to get back to a place where the universe dwells. Deepak calls this place “nonlocal intelligence.” Nonlocal intelligence does not have a size, or a weight. It doesn’t have energy, mass, volume, or space. It doesn’t exist in time. It is pure spirit.
When we have an experience in our lives, such as walking down the street, we are experiencing local projections of the nonlocal reality. Deepak also says that at a deeper level of reality, “you are this nonlocal intelligence, a universal being observing itself through a human nervous system. Just as a prism breaks up a single beam of light into the colors of the spectrum, nonlocal intelligence, by observing itself, breaks a single reality into a multitude of appearances.”
We can “experience” nonlocal intelligence is less abstract instances. Observing the flight of a flock of birds demonstrates this concept. The birds simultaneously and without error dive and dip and turn. The same can be said for schools of fish. These creatures are in touch with nonlocal intelligence. Our bodies, too, are examples of non-local intelligence. We have 100 trillion cells inside our bodies. Somehow, each cell is in constant communication with every other cell in our body — a feat that is impossible without nonlocal intelligence.
To get in touch with nonlocal intelligence, it is important to see the universe as one entity, exploding outward with spikes of awareness. Each of us occupy one such spike, but we are all part of a greater whole, observing itself.
