Continuum

1.

It's said that we experience our lives as a flow, a kind of river that moves through time and space with its many experiences and effects on our minds and bodies. In addition,  the spiritual path has been referred to as an evolutionary, spiral current. In that spiral we return to the same points over and over but they are (hopefully) on successively newer levels or degrees of awareness. Both of these analogies can be viewed as being within a grander flow or continuum.

2.

The spiral path within The Continuum
runs through the lifetime.
It also runs from lifetime to lifetime.
And through it all
there is still the Stillness
of the permeating
Divine Presence
in varying depths
and through many levels and locales
but ultimately there is only the Absolute Center.

3.

The Divine Presence can be experienced
as various degrees of Shakti.
But it can also be experienced
as Consciousness alone.
As humans we have awe, joy and gratitude.
But as Consciousness we are still, fulfilled and at peace.
As a human we are emotional.
As Consciousness we are transfigured.
In either case,
there's nothing to do or say and nowhere to go.
We, as either I or i can only be co-present:
the I-consciousness and the i-Consciousness companions.

4.

The Permeating Continuum
is The All and all at at once.
The totality of The All That Is
is an infinite steady state.
But within that are dynamic, changing contexts
creating fluctuating variables.
It's at once both a closed and open system.
Since All is One,
All still comes down to
the same thing only different.
Experiencing Consciousness alone proves this.
The human "I" writes limited words
but the Consciousness "i" expands into
the unlimited Divine Paradox.

5.

The Divine Paradox is such:

     ~Stillness and motion are One
     ~Everywhere and nowhere are One
     ~Sacred and profane are One
     ~The observer and the observed are One
     ~God as creator and created are One
     ~God is a Substance-less Substance
     ~Consciousness is All

Thus, within The Paradox,
the true identity of the observed
becomes apparent that it's The Observer.

6.

The Continuum is a shape-shifting Presence
in which we are among the shapes.
As surely as God shape-shifts to experience itself, 
we are participants in it
merely by being.
We participate by experiencing ourselves
as localized Consciousness within its eternal stream
which flows in all directions as well as nowhere.
Thus, things move while remaining in the same place.

7.

In contrast, within our brains 
the so-called "stream of consciousness" of human thoughts
is random gross products
of the dross of physicality
of how our brains are constructed.
They are random, noisy, sometimes disruptive.
As sure as the brain is wandering, restless and needy,
so are all physical beings.
On the other hand,
"on purpose" thoughts are of a different kind.
They are Consciousness using will
to command the brain to be a tool.

8.

Silence outperforms thoughts, emotions and all bodily attributes.
Silence corners the ego of these
and...well...silences them.
Silence puts thoughts and emotions to shame in its power.
Silence "covers more territory"
than thoughts and emotions can ever hope to
despite their potential for incessant activity.
Thoughts and emotions say "my", "mine" and "I":
"I am in charge".
Silence is a remedy
from being either at the mercy of,
or obligated to,
our own thoughts and emotions.
Silence is the doorway to Stillness.

9.

Focusing on physicality contracts
into the densest and weakest layers of The Continuum.
Focusing on Stillness expands
into the refined and profound layers of The Continuum
and ultimatly The Absolute Center,
Our Ultimate Source,
the only place we can truly call Home.
For example:
does one have an emotional response
or a transfigurative response to God?
The former is immersion into the body.
The other leaves the body.

The body does not exist in non-duality.
To get to The Center of The Divine Presence,
one must go beyond the body.
One must perform a "shift" 
and go beyond what is the created to get to The Creator.
And, ironically, the latter lies within the former.
It's just how it's all set up.

Thus,
the ancient advice to
"Go within".
Not within the body,
but within Consciousness.
Meditation is the means
to move from duality into non-duality.

10.

Through silence of brain and body
we come to stillness.
Through stillness
we complete a cycle
within The Continuum
and move through duality
and return to our True Identity.
Through stillness
we come to Eternity.