Entering a State of Non-Local Perception

During heightened states of consciousness, it is possible to feel that you are no longer bounded by a body. The perceptions that enter your awareness seem to come from a wide swath of space and you may feel as if you are a cloud instead of the body that you reside. Experiencing and understanding these non-local perceptions can help prepare you to integrate this fully into your understanding of being.

This physical experience we are all having right now has a tendency to habituate our perceptions through our senses. We look outward into the world like a lighthouse shining out to the sea. In this manner, we are clearly located in one spot, as the searchlight of our senses scans the horizon for a passing ship. We are here and the ship is there. For many, this is the basis upon which fact is defined.

However well our senses operate, they only function as tools of our consciousness. Yet our consciousness itself is expansive and non-local, meaning it is not restricted to only one location at a time. Instead of working like the lighthouse shining out to sea, rather, our consciousness is the light. It is the light in the beam of the lighthouse. It is the light of the morning sun peaking up over the horizon. It is the light of the lightning bolt, snaking down from the heavens to touch the earth.

For those that have experienced these non-local states of perception, there is a template for understanding the change that comes with it. If someone has yet to experience this state, depth of understanding flows from personal experience of the non-local. It really requires feeling and undergoing a change in the state of consciousness to know for one's self the truth of non-locality.

Imagine for a moment that you are sitting in your chair and your body changes into a mist-like cloud of light. You no longer feel gravity because there is no longer any matter to be pulled downward toward the ground. Your perceptions have changed such that you don't feel that you are centered inside your head with your senses pulling information into your brain. Rather you feel that you are a mist that can spread and float at will. Any discomforts in your body have vanished, as you cannot even feel the surface of the chair where your body sat moments ago. You are this mist-like cloud of light.

This simply describes sensations that might be experienced in this heightened, non-localized state of consciousness. Now consider that at this elevated state, new levels of knowledge, awareness, information, and wisdom are present. They are right there with you. What benefit would this have for you? Consider what could be seen with the beam of light from the lighthouse versus what could be seen from the light of the dawning sun? It is a level change such that words may not be adequate to convey the differences.

There will be a free meditation exercise that I will be posting in the Programs section within the next few days that is designed to practice entering this type of non-localized perception. There will be a follow-up post when this is available.

Training ourselves to recognize and enter these non-local states helps give us an alternative to the everyday sensory based perception of the world around us. We may find that this is preparation for things that lie ahead of us. As we continue to evolve as magnificent, expanded beings, what type of perception will be our basis for awareness?