Bubble Rule to Spiritual Vision (eBook)

WHAT IS THE BUBBLE RULE?

The “Bubble Rule” is a term used like the “Golden Rule” to point to a spiritual principle. Words communicate concepts. And like all concepts and the words used to convey them, their perceived meaning is relative to the totality of experience of those engaged in the communication. Essentially, words frame or “bubblelize” concepts for the purpose of communication only. Neither concepts nor the words used to bubblelize them are absolute. Their meaning is always perceived relative to human experience, stirring the energies of thought, emotion and action. Being relative, they can never be counted on to be the absolute truth. However, if the energies stirred resonate with those of our soul, they have the power to arouse our intuitive recognition of Truth existent beyond the membranes of the bubbles.

So, what are bubbles?

We observe as he picks up a small plastic wand with an open ring on its end. He dips it into the container of soapy fluid, removes and inspects it. A glistening rainbow-colored film stretches across the circle’s center. He moves his lips close to the wand and gently breathes into the delicate membrane. It stretches and distorts in direct response to the fluctuations in air pressure blown against its surface until a threshold is reached. At the exact moment dictated by physical law, the adhesive forces that bond the film to the ring are overcome, the misshapen form detaches, and its hole immediately seals. A bubble is born. It floats up into the air shimmering transparent rainbow colors to our delight.

And from whence do these delightful spheres originate?

Is their source the wand?

Is it the soap?

Is it the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms, the building blocks of the molecules that comprise the membranes and the air they contain?

Or is it more than this?

Is it the energy that enlivens the atomic particles in their dance of molecular formation?

Is their source in the fingers holding the wand, the pursing lips approaching it, the breath being blown?

Or is it the mind which conceived the bubbles with intent to manifest them?

The wand originated from the imagination of the mind that conceived it.

The soap originated from the mind that imagined the potential of its substance.

The atoms of membrane and air originated from the mind whose purpose they serve.

The grasp of the fingers, the purse of the lips and the blow of the breath originate from the mind which directs them.

The source of bubbles is always the mind which imagines and wills them and therefore activates the energies of life to manifest its intent.

The mind which imagines and wills and activates the energies of consciousness to manifest the dream of Creation is Cosmic Consciousness.

All forms are manifestations of thought. They are bubbles created by the mind which imagines their being.

And as humans, we believe in the physical reality that we perceive. My body is a physical form. I perceive it to be real. The chair I am sitting on seems to be real. I am here, sitting on the chair looking at the sunset. The sun is out there far away, separate from me sitting here. The meanings I see in the chair and the sun are those which I project upon them as entities separate from myself. Feeling comfortable with the meanings I have ascribed to them, I feel more secure sitting here alone, conceptualizing my universe.

But there is so much I do not yet know. Humans have endeavored diligently over the ages to observe, inspect, analyze, label and categorize each element of form we have discovered. We have defined each one. Each definition is a thought, a concept held in the mind. In essence, bubbles are human concepts. They have arisen from the observations of human beings over time, and their forms and the meanings we attribute to them constantly change in response to new observations. The sun has lost its stature as the center of the universe as it was perceived by our ancestors because we now see it from an expanded perspective.

The sensory organs of the human body download an extraordinary amount of data into the human brain day by day. This data enters associative pathways of the brain where it is amazingly assimilated, and its sense determined by that brain’s memory and the perceiver’s interpretation of what is relevant. Like the bodies which house the brains, human concepts are relevant only to the brief time in which they exist. All bubbles are limited in time and therefore burst when their function has been completed.

But the absolute Source of all that is, the absolute Consciousness of the universe and its breath of Truth which fills all form and the space between, cannot be contained in bubbles. Truth just is, as it always was and always will be. Truth is limitless no matter how we try to bubblelize it. No word, ‘ism or ideology can contain it.

So, if we ask any question, we seek the truth. Nobody really wants a false answer even though humans have a propensity for making up false answers to rationalize self-interests.

But to know Truth honestly, we must align our minds with Truth. We must begin the process of bursting the membranes of bubbles that separate us from it. We must begin to release our concepts of separation if we are to embrace the whole of Life as One. We must learn to sense the energy of Life pervading all forms and the space between, space which creates the perceptual illusion of distinction of one thing from another. And as we do so, our little human minds, created in the image of our Creator, will expand in awareness until Its One thought becomes our own.

What are some primary human concepts or bubbles?

Every word, every symbol, every label, every description, every definition in every language is a concept. Concepts are mental formulations that arise from the interpretive processes of the mind as it assimilates and associates the totality of sensory and intuitive input it receives. These concepts form the basis for our individual understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live. Our understanding then determines how we relate to others and the world. Our concepts of self and the world can change relative to new input and experiences.

For instance, we can suffer any number of physical, emotional, psychological and intellectual impacts from the ongoing series of dramatic events occurring on our planet. The steady barrage of record-breaking “natural” disasters wherever they happen—the earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, floods, blizzards, wildfires, drought, etc.—make us wary of our own environmental vulnerabilities. Climate change, doom and gloom, is being internalized as an existential threat. And then there are those events that are of our sole making—our incessant wars fed by mass delusion, daily mass murders fed by fear’s deranged romance with guns, epidemics of homelessness, mass migration and despair fed by our negligence toward the hungry, poor and uneducated and the corrosion of our moral compass fed by our worship of money, things, appearances, sex and violence. These are the events we witness and/or experience directly in our world every day. They test our character, either enhancing or worsening it, elevating us to tap into the nobility of our souls or entrenching us deeper in the ego’s quagmire of selfishness. On any given day, these experiences can, for the sincere Truth seekers among us, trigger reassessments of our concepts of life, death, justice, injustice, peace, war, God and our roles in all of this.

Life is good. Summer vacation was great. I drop my kids off at school, then see my doctor to follow up on some tests done to evaluate some vague abdominal pain I’ve written off to irritable bowel. He lowers his head so as not to look at me directly, then after this ominous pause, he looks me in the eyes, his voice tremulous, his manner compassionate, and tells me straight-out that I have late-stage pancreatic cancer. Prognosis: six months, if I’m lucky.

“Did he just say that?” Reality shifts in the instant. I’m thrust into a process, whether consciously or unconsciously, whereby I must grasp for my foundation, however it is conceived, and learn if my concepts of mortality and immorality lift or bury me. If they are taking me down, I may be ripe to open my mind and discard those that don’t help me adapt positively.

To repeat, concepts, like the mortal being who formulates them, are mere bubbles blown by the breath of mind. They are wrapped in limiting bubble membranes comprised of thoughts relative to limited experience. As such, they burst, leaving what appears to be nothing behind.

So, if we believe in bubbles as our reality and truth, then we believe in the mortality of the universe, a universe that will disappear in time leaving nothing behind but an empty void and our own personal annihilation.

But the breath of Truth exists within and beyond all bubbles. It is the energy of Truth that permeates all mind-made membranes. And though Truth indeed is “no thing”, it is everything.

So, the choice for the terminal human is to believe in our mortality and therefore in nothing, or to believe in our immortality and therefore in everything.

Are we flesh or are we Spirit? From which perspective, when it is all said and done, do we really want to experience Life?

Is the perceiver a bubble?

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