Grades In Space

It is awkward to make the transition in understanding of Space. Like responsibility itself, it requires a shift from “This is done to me” to “I can manage what happens” to “I create”. In spatial terms the lowest awareness band, which is found in catatonic solid cases, is “All is a black clump” or the beautiful catastrophe of solid chaos.

As one painfully finds his way through the treacherous bogs of injustice, irresponsibility, enforced reality, undesired communication, and into the higher ground of more rational, and more free, perception, a transition occurs in his or her perception of space. From a black frame filled with mysterious impulses, it gradually assumes three dimensions.

In this perspective of space, false realities and their dark mysteries give way to a clarity and solidity on agreed-upon spaces with solid things of bright colors. Flows are sent back and forth, objects move in recognizable patterns, and if you keep your oil changed, your engine keeps running as it should. Phone calls get logged and checking accounts get balanced and it is all fairly clear, as long as no-one springs open any of the darker wellsprings of tainted awareness that sometimes threaten. Of course the ability to operate normally while holding those dark doors closed is one of the signs of normalcy - the noise stays at bay. One is able to communicate relatively consistently regardless of the potential recreations of chaos which are hidden just below the orchestra pit.

This is a space of energies and flowing streams of things shifting in time and place within acceptable parameters. It is possible to achieve a state of clarity of mind wherein these objects flow more easily, energy is more tolerable, and things seem bright and comfortably real. This is a state of cheerful and energetic extroversion, the above-average human who is alert and aware and in good tune.

Managing an even greater sense of individual breadth and clarity space itself becomes a transparent creation, much like a directors view of a stage-set. Yes, it is an illusion; but having intended it into existence in the first place one can suspend that knowledge to enjoy the creation made feasible by it. Spheres of one or another kind of belief or awareness or intention can be postulated into space because it is one’s own space, not borrowed from the fetid war-chest of the material universe temporarily.

When space is addressed consistently from this level you find somewhat magical things happening - the manifestation of will seems to occur beyond the scope of your immediately traceable influence, and your life takes on a charmed flavor.. It is actually your ability to know by an act of will that has grown. But space itself may very well be nothing more than a by-product of that ability, which dwells in the core being of each of us.