After my walk the other day, I sat in my car. It was cold and cloudy, and I was called to sit with an inquiry:
What core or hidden belief has been holding me back, quietly operating just outside my awareness? What is ready now to be seen and brought to light?
As I rested there in a state of meditation, something began to bubble up. This was not a familiar narrative thought. It didn’t arise from the usual mental storyline I experience as coming from my head. Instead, it emerged from somewhere deeper, almost as if it rose up from below, from the ground itself. And the belief that revealed itself was this:
If I don’t hold on, I will be lost. Everything will be lost.
I sat with that for a few minutes, fully allowing it to be present. I leaned into the experience with curiosity and unconditional acceptance, letting myself feel whatever arose. My intention was simple: to meet it openly and allow it to be integrated fully in its own time.
When I finally opened my eyes to the daylight, the world was shimmering. Tiny flecks of light danced across my vision, like moving glitter.
Science might explain this shimmering as a natural effect when we open our eyes after they have been closed, as photoreceptors adjust and neurons in the visual system fire. These tiny flashes or sparkles are real and documented in perceptual science. But even with that explanation, what I experienced felt like far more than a physical perception…
It was like a firsthand glimpse of the effervescence of aliveness itself; little ever-moving micro bubbles of light and love that glittered, shimmered, and popped their way through experience—the perpetual, ceaseless movement of life itself. I could see that glistening with my own eyes, presenting itself in the waking world.
All of that to say this:
Our five senses in this human form are limited. We tend to relate to the world only through these senses, which define our everyday reality. But what if there is much more happening than we can detect? Science has already proven that humans cannot perceive everything around us through our five senses alone.
So here are the What If’s:
What if there is more beyond our ordinary senses?
What if grounding ourselves in the body and the five senses creates a Zero Point—a place of presence from which we can reach out with non-ordinary perception?
What else might we discover that lies beyond simple sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch?
What if the effervescence of being alive is not just in our imagination, but something waiting patiently to be seen if we allow ourselves to sit with (and trust) what bubbles up from below?