It’s like watching a movie. It is a wonderful experience, unless we forget that it’s just a movie. But when we realize it is an illusion brought forth by the projector and the screen, then we can truly enjoy it, knowing we’re safe and knowing that nothing can hurt our true selves, that light of consciousness within us.

If we look deeply into the nature of the universe, what we see is that time has no beginning and time has no end. Space goes on forever. If there were a wall at the edge of the universe, there would have to be something beyond that wall. And so, if this universe is beginningless and endless, then we can see that, like everything else in this universe, which exists in spirals and endless circles, where everything is a microcosm of something larger, these laws repeat endlessly.

We can see that there was no birth of “stuff.” There was no moment when something suddenly came into existence. There is an endless cycle of expansion and collapse, and potentially infinite universes. So the real question is not, Why is there something instead of nothing? The real question is, Why was there never nothing?

We tend to think in terms of “I was born on this day and I will die on that day.” But you really cannot pinpoint the exact moment that we are born, and we cannot pinpoint the moment of death either. Before our inception, two people had to come together to create a new form, but that form is inseparable from the parents and inseparable from all of life on this planet, which went into the evolution of this one life form.

This ever-expanding and growing life form, life itself on this planet, would not be here without the stars that came before it, and the energy and hydrogen that made those stars. So it’s always been here.

To realize that there has never been a true creation tells us that something is a law of physics, just like gravity. It exists because it wants to exist. It exists because it needs to exist. And it exists in such a way as to create infinite possibilities, beauty, and love. We know that because there is infinite beauty and love.

At the same time, there is the appearance of separateness. We are taught from infancy: me, my. We learn our name, and these ideas are hardwired into the thinking mind. These concepts of a separate self are essential for functioning in this world, for opening a bank account, and not just having one public bank account for everybody.

The problem is when we think that’s all there is. When we lose touch with something much deeper than the separate self, which is relationship, connection. Everything we experience is experienced through the relationship between this illusory self and this illusory separate universe.

When we lose touch with relationship, which truly is everything, we forget that we can have unhealthy relationships with food or people, and we can have beautiful relationships with food or people. It’s never the person or the object that matters most; it’s always the relationship. And the question is whether that relationship is wise or based in ignorance.

When we don’t see the connection that connects everything in the universe, we begin to feel like we are the most important thing, that we need to look out only for ourselves, and that it doesn’t matter what happens to the planet. We begin to feel alone. We begin to be consumed by anger at others, by greed and selfishness.

But we don’t want to lose that connection. We don’t want to lower our consciousness. We want to expand our consciousness to include that sense of oneness, that sense of everything fitting together to create this experience.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. No one is truly alone. Everybody came from two people, and if we go back far enough, millions and billions of people and life forms went into creating this incredible ecosystem, this one life on this planet that sustains all life. The air we breathe comes from the trees. The food we eat is nourished by soil made from trees and countless other life forms.

Seeing oneness doesn’t mean we forget our name, or that our ID has a person’s name on it, or that we respond when someone calls us. We simply recognize that this is the most shallow, superficial, surface level of reality. And if we think that’s all there is, we will succumb to enormous suffering.

Every setback and every obstacle will feel life-threatening and overwhelming. It will consume our entire attention, and we will become slaves to the external circumstances of our lives.

But when we see underneath that surface, that there is just oneness, that there is a vast sea of energy that we are swimming in, and that it is peaceful, loving, and sustaining, then a sense of safety and joy emerges, no matter what else is happening at the physical level.

What we begin to see is that this physical reality is only part of the story. It is here to be played with, explored with curiosity, to learn and discover all these colors, shapes, and forms we find ourselves among. It is not meant to be taken so seriously that we become completely trapped by it.

There is so much more beauty, wonder, and mystery to discover. And that is where true peace comes from because it is eternal and infinite.

This may all be a hologram, a projection of energy to consciousness, but it is a wonderful hologram. Like watching a movie, it is a beautiful experience, unless we forget it’s just a movie.

When we realize it is an illusion brought forth from the projector and the screen, we can enjoy it fully, knowing we’re safe and knowing that nothing can harm our true selves, that light of consciousness within us.

These physical bodies are just part of the show. Consciousness is the light bulb in the projector that brings the illusion to life. We’ve been in the video game for so long that we forget we’re in the illusion.

But when we turn our attention inward, when awareness turns back on itself, that is when we can see that when the show turns off, there is still something there.