The Limits of Linearity
When many consider reincarnation, they conceive of a linear series of lives existing at particular locations in space and time. We may ask ourselves how we can be all of these other people who lived all of these other lives, and yet still be the singular identity we perceive of as "I". In exploring this concept, we come to realize that we are ourselves, as unique, sovereign, and individuated identities; and at the same time, we are part of a larger grouping of self, from which all of the lives that we think of as our past lives spring.
Each linear life adds to the total understanding of this greater self, thereby influencing the experience of the other lives. Even with this expanded understanding, the true complexity and magnificence of our being is barely explored. All of those linear lives and the greater self from which they spring are collectively part of a much larger, more complicated and wonderful whole that does not only move forward in time.
Time is an illusion, and much of reality exists outside of that illusion, including the vast bulk of our consciousness. Our other incarnational lives are not only linear. We have past lives; and we also have future lives, concurrent lives, probable lives and lives springing up in countless other realms and modes of existence. All of these lives are us, in that they spring from the same greater self, a shared animating energy that creates certain unique and shared significances – a unique prism through which reality is experienced – and at the same time, each life is independent and sovereign on its own terms just as we are, and each experiences a reality in which it is the center of its universe, and we are the probable, past, future, concurrent, or other even stranger types of lives.
Each of these lives influences all of the others in a timeless and infinitely complex dance, via an energetic infrastructure that is the realm of the fae, the connective tissue of reality. This faery lattice weaves and reweaves itself, infinitely dissolving and reconfiguring in a single spacious timeless moment. We are part of an interwoven lattice of larger self that is us and that is also not us. The whole of the lattice and every part of it at every level is conscious and is sovereign and independent on its own terms, and at the same time is engaged in an infinitely complex coordination towards collective growth and the ultimate realization of collective unity.
When we explore the boundaries of self in this reality of infinite interwoven strands of beingness, we see that there is no boundary, no outer delimiter restricting the capacity of our sense of self to expand to encompass all that is. The whole of spiritual growth is the process of releasing consecutive barriers that limit our sense of self and keep us small. We do that by gradually releasing our fears and anxieties — all of the things that trigger feelings of overwhelm, that keep us separate and turned away from love and unity. We gently expand our conception of what our self actually is into larger and larger threads of being, until we begin to encompass all of those disparate threads of identity woven together into an infinitely complicated and singular being. We are each a holographic refraction of the universe, coming to know itself.
