The Illusion of Distance and Space – Understanding Reality

Are space and distance an illusion? Is there really a 'here' and 'there'? A man analysed the sensations he was experiencing while meditating. When he dropped the narrative around the sensations being a mouth or fingers, he was just left with two sensations. Upon further exploration, he noticed that what he originally assumed to be two sensations actually merged into one sensation, until he actually saw there was nothing there. He then questioned, does distance exist? Does space exist? Or is distance just a concept?

Rupert’s guides us through an exploration of various sensations in order for us to question our ingrained beliefs of the nature of reality with regards to space and distance.

When we feel ourselves as a newborn baby who has no access to thoughts of a present or past, all we can say is that our experience takes place in the place we call 'here'. Although 'here' is always the same place. Therefore, it is not a place in space. 'Here' is where consciousness is. It is the placeless place of 'I am'.

It is perception that refracts the dimensionless here and makes it appears as space. Just as it is thought that refracts the eternal now and makes it appear as time.

Timestamps:

00:00 Is Distance An Illusion? Does Space Exist?
01:17 Guided Meditation On The Now
02:02 All Experience Takes Place Here
02:23 Here Is Not A Place In Space, It Is The 'I am'
03:03 The Illusion of Space
04:37 E.E.Cummings Poem
05:17 Perception Creates The Illusion of Space
05:27 Thought Creates The Illusion of Time

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[Eazy_Danny]

"It is perception that refracts the dimensionless 'here' and makes it appear as space. Just as it is thought that refracts the eternal 'now' and makes it appear as time."

[jorgetfreitas]

All space is in your consciousness at the same time, because in the infinite is exactly where you are right now.
Gratitude to Rupert for teaching the infinite in everything and everyone.

[simka]

In spirituality, all "distance" is measured in qualities of consciousness rather than quantities of extension. Even though a second thing may appear to be existentially separate from its origin, if it has the same quality as the first thing (the prototype) it is identical to it. For this reason, we have the enigmatic Prologue of the Gospel according to St. John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was facing toward God, and the Word was God." This is also the mystical meaning of what is so cumbersomely formulated in the Nicene Creed, which says that the Son of God is ".... Light from Light, True God from True God ...". So much of the language of scripture and tradition can only really be comprehended by those who have actually attained the states adumbrated by the rhetoric. Without having tasted non-duality, these lovely words risk remaining mere poetry, at best, and dangerous dogma, at worst.

[ThomasCorfield]

Honestly, I made a sandwich this morning.

[TatTvaum]

Holy shit, this was one of the trippiest contemplations I've tried, haha.
I couldn't distinguish any "part" of my body from the rest. It was like a mixed soup, all jumbled together as one whole.
At first, the distinction between my mouth and feet vanished, and it felt like I suddenly had my feet in my mouth, sort of thing xD Really weird and interesting. Would definitely require a bit more contemplating to absolve all sense of distance or space, in my experience, especially with open eyes.

[phoenix-wcvx]

Everything is ONE point of Light... that's how God can be everywhere, time and space is an illusion... Creation is not outside of Himself, it is His imagination that displays infinite reflections of ONE being 💖

[Shunya]

🤯 Always masterfully spoken and explained. 🙏🏻

[Unfamous_Buddha]

There is no distance since everything is in the mind -- maybe a distance between neurons.

[ovidiudrobota]

"I allow everything to be as it is, " meaning that I don't repress or suppress my emotions, nor do I identify myself with the thoughts I'm having. I developed a heightened sense of awareness — I call it "hyper-awareness." I'm partially enlightened. The only thing that is getting in the way is my social anxiety issue — when I'm about to meet a person I get very tense and worried; my own mind wanders into the future. Or when I see a person appearing in front of me, I get a nagging feeling in my stomach area and my heart rate increases exponentially. I allow the anxiety to be there, and I even feel deeper into it — I've been doing this for a long time but it seems that the triggers of my anxiety issue are still within my subconscious. What can I do to solve my social anxiety issue and be at ease with myself in social situations? Thank you.

[subarnasubedi]

Will the here go off after I die although the question is asked from here 🤣

[waldwassermann]

The question that thus arises; why is there such an illusion to begin with...
Perhaps it is directly related to Genesis 2:18?

[rathodnarendra]

Everything that's I know so called internal and external is made out by myself alone whether it is sensation feeling thinking or perception.

[outisnemo]

Well, this can be accounted for in dualist interpretations as well, such as having an innate proprioceptive sense biologically speaking. In other words, as an unborn baby you wouldn't have any concept of how far apart the different sensations of touch are, but you'd still be able to tell they are in different locations, and even a general direction between the locations. This seems to line up more closely to actual experience.

[Sashas-mom]

The sensations take place in the “placeless place”….exactly.

[DPSAX]

Very useful. There is still a sense of a self in the head watching those sensations so they don't feel like Here, more like there. So I examine this self in the head but it's rather tricky to dissolve. Would greatly appreciate some pointers! Thank you.

[johnwise]

There’s no need to phrase the idea that one has to return to being an infant ( an idea of the mind. Sensation is immediately available now without any reference to an issue imagined past. Now is a real and here. I’m surprised that Rupert doesn’t use the oneness of senasation

[MissLafontaine]

So profound. Just like a drawing on a piece of paper. It seem like the lines are at a distance from each other, but they are on that same paper.

[Kaynos]

-"Here is not a place in space. Our experience of space takes place here".

[wattaura]

So infinite awareness II via the body medium i is creating the finite self illusion.

To minimize refractive index....🤔

Light, water, sound, breathe, yoga, diet.... diet in accordance with light, water, sound, breathe, yoga....yoga in accordance with....🎉

[KnowThyFulcrum]

"Some day, during your spiritual unfolding of inner-sensory perception through meditation, you will become aware of the fact that dimension is but an imagined effect. It might help you to take the first step in gaining this awareness if you will but realize that when you look upon a fifty mile expanse of land, building, people and events, you see it all within a dimensionless pinpoint of space within your eye.

The whole universe is thus reduceable to the non-dimension of Mind-knowing, which has caused the imagined universe to be extended from its eternal zero, which never exceeds zero in CAUSE, but seems to exceed it by dimension, in EFFECT.

God did, in fact, create the universe in His image, but dimension is as much a part of His imaginings as form and events are a part of it. Yes, the above is a wonderful lesson for one who is mystified by the vague idea of immortality, but a still greater lesson of universality awaits deep meditation by you upon the thoughts given above."

~ Atomic Suicide, Dr. Walter Bowman Russell