I am present in a vast pool of possible experience. I know that my experience is not absolutely unique to me. The universe is filled with vast, surging energy. It is also formed by an intellignece that permeates and shapes everything that has existence. It is not a chaotic or random universe, but a universe pulsing with intelligence. I exist in that vast pool of intelligence, and my experience is guided by it. And I have a role in how I participate.
My participation in this vast pool of intelligence is not at all random. My involvement and alignment is guided by my decisions and actions. So too do all my associations guide how I make my way into this pool of experience. My participation in the universe was highly conditioned from the moment I had awareness.
For me, the obvious impact of my culture has shaped how I experience the world, how I make my way through the pool of world intelligence. I am aware how my culture is ever ready to impose dogma on me, tell me how to choose to act, shape how I experience the world. In many ways, this has allowed me to participate in the world in a useful, even meaningful way. It has also been on the ready to limit how I am present in the vast pool of universe intelligence.
My parents and all my ancestors have had a significant role in shaping my experience. Like the culture, they have been standing around me telling me what to see, what to feel, how to interpret the world. Especially for the early part of my life that was very useful. Then I learned to say “no”, and I began to shape my own movement through the pool of experience.
My own degree of openness to that vast array of potential experience has been influenced by how I have been open to the energy, the love of the universe. My own innate desire and deliverate decision for intimacy has allowed me to be shaped and guided by a multitude of individuals and events. I am a product of the many individuals and parts of the world that I have allowed to stand beside and penetrate me.
How much I have been shaped and formed by the world around me has to a large degree by what I allowed in. It has been very important that many aspects of the world and individuals have chosen to be close beside me. It has also been important how maleable I have allowed myself to be. Being open to all the experience that has presented has been a practice I have spent much of my life learning.
I am grateful for all aspects of the world which have been present to me. I am grateful for all those individuals and entities who have presented themselves to me. I am also grateful for my learning to be maleable and open to the wonders of the universe. It is a process that continues as I plunge deeper and deeper into the pool of experience. I continue to learn how to open to the intimacies of the world. I fall ever more deeply in the love of the universe.