Communion with The Absolute is a form of communication, and realization of connection in The Consciousness. In communion, one begins to feel transcendent, moving beyond the normal consensus realm, seeing beyond the limits of the mind, experiencing beyond what one can imagine. It is the feeling of life itself, reaching deep into the hollow space of each particle and merging with it. Being one with it. So communion is a sense of oneness. This is not to the exclusion of the uniqueness of each particle. Instead, it is more a fulfillment, an acceleration of that uniqueness.

In the normal conditional perceptions, one sees life as separate, as problematic, as indifferent and uncaring. In communion, one begins to have a deeper and expanded sense of connection. Yet it is not a connection with something that is on the outside. It is the connection of the inner awareness linking with what has always been there, not as separate, but as previously hidden from view.

So communion is an accelerated aspect of The Consciousness. It is an acceleration of knowing. The feeling-knowing, the connection, the sense of transcendence, the sense of all-rightness of each moment, begins to deepen in the individual expression of The Consciousness. In this deeper realization of The Consciousness as it is, one feels that one is never alone, never cut off. One continually feels a sense of “on-purpose-ness” to life, and perhaps even a sense of intensity, of strong focus. That feeling is not of the conditional mind. The experience of communion can make use of the conditional mind, but it is beyond it.

As the embrace of The Consciousness continues, as the experience of communion deepens, one moves into a state of compassionate peace and allowing. One attains the awareness that the “within” and the “without” have dissolved, that there is but the One Self. That Self is experienced through individual uniquenesses, but it is never separate. It is experienced uniquely, but never lonely, never separately.

In communion, one begins to have a cellular realization, a feeling-knowing that in every cell there is The Consciousness without division, existing on purpose. That purpose is not an agenda, nor is it even a direction. Instead, it is a sense of extension, inclusion, expansion, boundlessness. So one begins to have a feeling of perhaps immortality. Then, instead of seeing death, one sees life, one sees possibilities. This becomes more intense as the embrace of The Consciousness continues — more of a possibility, more of a reality, moment by moment. In that deepening, the Real Self is embraced by its immortality. It is embraced in transcendence. It is empowered with direct experience. So the cells have direct experience of the Real Self. Doubt loses its hold. Fear has no place. There is this harmonious, balancing, flowing, movement. One is then at peace from the very interior, the very heart, the core of the hollow space.

In communion, the mind finally attains a place of rest where it is no longer scattered, reactive, or resistant. Then, the mind just is. It begins to function as a component in the synergy of The Consciousness, in connection with all mind. As the embrace of The Consciousness continues, one becomes less and less sure of the origin of thought. Thoughts are no longer personal. They are just there. It no longer matters where the origin of a thoughts lies. There is simply the experience of a thought. In this experience there is sharing, and no separation. The more the mind experiences this sharing, the greater is the expansion and acceleration of the cells, the physical form itself. So communion is that act of The Consciousness in which the body is healed through feeling-knowing of its higher possibilities. The feeling is often like meeting for the first time someone whom one has known all one’s life, something of which one has been aware of all one’s life, but never before having had the real encounter. This embrace of The Consciousness has always been there. There has always been a sense of it. Yet in the embrace of communion, it is the first meeting. In that meeting, a merger takes place. After that, there can be no more separate selves, no more individual direction. There is a continuous, flowing, feeling-knowing, fluid-like existence that brings about the best, the highest, the most-connected in every situation. One could say that life becomes quite magical, because there is no sense of the “doer.” There is no sense of making effort. Yet things are happening. So it becomes seemingly quite magical, but also quite natural.

In the embrace of The Consciousness, one finds oneself being prepared on various levels. It is as if The Consciousness starts to spark and awaken within, takes an assessment of what needs to happen next, and proceeds to set that into motion. As that is taking place, the next step comes into view. And so, one gradually sees the conditioning dissolve, the past dissolve, painlessly. There is no sense of loss or abandoning. There is the sweet surrender of allowing, but one is not even sure of what one is surrendering. It becomes so subtle that it is hardly noticeable that something that has been such a great limitation on one’s life, suddenly is gone, leaving no trace of its existence except in the conditional mind. Yet the stronger the embrace of The Consciousness, the less the conditional mind has any say. It becomes like a flag flapping in the wind. One hears only the flapping. There is no need to resist it. It is just there.

Communion is literally coming into life in full awareness, where one’s abilities become accentuated, one’s uniqueness more defined, more purposeful. Where the sense of connection is all-inclusive. This brings about a fearlessness. There is no longer any fear, because there is no separation. There is a continuous, absolute, all-rightness in every instant. One takes on a certain radiance, a certain serenity, and begins to emanate, moment by moment, the Real Self. This becomes quite detectable to others. There takes place a sense of familiarity, a sense of knowing that is astounding. top of page

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