One night, a few years ago, I woke up around three in the morning. I was in a state of intense joy. It seemed like every cell in my body was suddenly experiencing relief from separation.
I got up and started praising and singing and moving around in ways that naturally expressed what I was experiencing. As the experience continued, it occurred to me that I might want to express it to others sometime. I began to analyze what was happening in an effort to put words around it so that it could be communicated.
The experience began to fade away, and I saw that thoughts were incapable of expressing exactly what the experience was. In fact, they cut the experience off.
What I realized was that thoughts and experience are different. An experience is a state of experiencing, and thinking thoughts is only a way of alluding to an experience.
Thoughts are not an exact duplication of anything. For example, if you look at a chair, then close your eyes and think about the chair, your thoughts are not the chair. Only the chair is the chair. Your thoughts about it are only an allusion to it. They can never reveal to you the actual reality of the chair. All human thought is this way. It does not express the exact truth about anything. If we see our thoughts for what they are, allusions to experience, we can begin to operate in a higher state.
An understanding of this has stayed with me, growing and expanding as time goes by. When something profound is experienced, it seems to cause life to change and grow. And even though the experience fades away when you began to analyze it, it leaves something that gives fresh inspiration when you direct your attention there.
Certain experiences cannot be contained within conventional human thought. They are bigger than our minds. They have a revelation quality that continues to unfold. Maybe they will continue unfolding forever.
There is a higher state you can come from that is beyond human thought. I have had a sense of it from time to time, but the Avatar tools in Sections II and III increased the frequency with which I experience it. When you come from this state, you have such a large, encompassing viewpoint that all of your beliefs and concepts are easily discarded as insignificant. This incredibly bigger picture that you experience replaces thought. I believe this is a kind of knowing that can look right into things and people and comprehend exactly what is there. It is a state of compassion, love, and complete acceptance.Scott Dunham, Cedar Hill, Texas
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