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
    @Eazy_Danny Жыл бұрын

    "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."

  • @bethanienaylor

    @bethanienaylor

    11 ай бұрын

    I like this

  • @jorgetfreitas3167
    @jorgetfreitas3167 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @alani3992

    @alani3992

    Жыл бұрын

    Even in physics we don't understand space & time fully yet.

  • @JonasAnandaKristiansson

    @JonasAnandaKristiansson

    Жыл бұрын

    And, it is not "your"/mine/our" consciousness. For those who can still get "blinded" by the use of language. It is not "your consciousness", but that you Are Consciousness. And we are not in the infinite, we are the infinite. Just some adding of precision. Thank you Jorge. Om Shanti

  • @xCmOn3yx777

    @xCmOn3yx777

    6 ай бұрын

    then why do the constellations, jupiter, sirius, venus, orion, ect. I can wake up every night and know they will be in the same place?! no denying just trying to understand...

  • @Self-Duality
    @Self-Duality Жыл бұрын

    Every separation is a connection.

  • @simka321
    @simka321 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @BilfordBumpkins

    @BilfordBumpkins

    Жыл бұрын

    Beautifully worded and agreed, after awakening, the meaning of scripture came alive. One realizes the astounding amount of how much is lost and misconstrued through formal religion. "The letter kills"

  • @larrymuana2260
    @larrymuana22609 ай бұрын

    For a short clip video, it is very enlightening and all encompassing. More so than most books and much longer videos on the same topic. He effectively illustrated that when are aware and conscious of our perception of space and time we begin to see there illusory nature. Consciousness, our awareness to every thing, is fundamental to the ultimate reality.

  • @herculanogaspar7809
    @herculanogaspar78099 ай бұрын

    This is so beautiful! It s peace and love at the some time, Thanks to infinite consciousness that at reavealed her self as Rupert Spira, you are an inspiration , you are the being ! thank you-

  • @I-Am-Aware
    @I-Am-Aware Жыл бұрын

    What a treasure you are, Rupert. I also love the poetry that you quote with such feeling and depth. My gratitude to you runs over. 🙏

  • @MissLafontaine
    @MissLafontaine Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @peacenlove6502
    @peacenlove65028 ай бұрын

    wow !!! experience of space takes place here ....loved that !

  • @Shunya0101
    @Shunya0101 Жыл бұрын

    🤯 Always masterfully spoken and explained. 🙏🏻

  • @yinooyang7757
    @yinooyang7757 Жыл бұрын

    Live has the striving to live and experience itself as diverse as possible, no matter if as matter, never mind if as mind or whatever.

  • @dgliber
    @dgliber Жыл бұрын

    Omg! He is a master of explanations 🙌

  • @phoenix-wc5vx
    @phoenix-wc5vx Жыл бұрын

    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 💖

  • @TatTvaum
    @TatTvaum Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @luismoref

    @luismoref

    Жыл бұрын

    Love this comment section

  • @Sashas-mom
    @Sashas-mom Жыл бұрын

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

  • @ovidiudrobota2182
    @ovidiudrobota2182 Жыл бұрын

    "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.

  • @dannykeane333

    @dannykeane333

    Жыл бұрын

    I suffer with social anxiety & also have developed spirituality. Guilt & shame are the natural human responses to social incompetence… However the processes of social anxiety are completely illusory - truthfully, making us very ‘unenlightened’ when we believe in them. This is God’s way of presenting you with a challenge that will force you to FULLY (not partially) step into truth, more & more, through practice, over time. To actually EARN a deeper enlightenment. This process will create a deeper & truly embodied experience of truth than simply having a connection to awareness & convincing yourself that you are the awakened one, as many people do (not having a catalyst to push them beyond the self delusion we all face when awakening.) In this sense, I believe we are lucky to have this life challenge (catalyst). Labels of ‘partially enlightened’ etc will hold us back (I have done this frequently in my journey - & it seems like the egos response to dealing with the shame of social inadequacy, strengthening a character in order to feel safe from said shame)

  • @ozgursenturk11-11

    @ozgursenturk11-11

    Жыл бұрын

    If you still identify "yourself" with the name you were given and of course with your mind and body then that feeling of being afraid of "others" will never cease. If "you" Ovidiu as a person doesn't exist and if you know your true identity as a infinite being who were never born and will never die then who is the other means to you? It's not some other entity that you encounter who may harm you or harass you but rather it's "you" in different form. So knowing this oneness and seeing the essence of others which is the same essence as you are made of which is pure unconditional love then what is there to be afraid of. You called yourself half enlightened it because you know your essence which is infinite and you know your God-self but you don't see this in others! So you separate yourself from others and interact them with this false knowledge that cause you suffering. Know yourself doesn't mean that you know your identity but rather know ❤THE SELF❤. If it's only one being that is experiencing so called life then who is there to be afraid of others? No one can hurts you or makes you feel uncomfortable because there is actually no one around you! It's only you... The self. You are what you are afraid of🤗🙏❤

  • @jazzsecrets

    @jazzsecrets

    Жыл бұрын

    Inquire as to who is having anxiety issues, where is this "I" exactly ? look for it.

  • @recaiyoruk9968

    @recaiyoruk9968

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ozgursenturk11-11 Thank you ,for your detailed explanation . Very helpful knowledge ,to know and accept myself and others, as same and infinite ,eternal being . When my and others identities vanish , nothing remains .Only THE SELF...Again I apreciate .

  • @prasannathuse3280

    @prasannathuse3280

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ozgursenturk11-11 best & true reply...

  • @outisnemo8443
    @outisnemo8443 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @onepeople6679
    @onepeople6679 Жыл бұрын

    Everywhere at the end of time ✨

  • @DPSAX95
    @DPSAX95 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @10XSeiga

    @10XSeiga

    Жыл бұрын

    You are watching a sensation and desiring for it to go away. But you are locking it in place. Since there is no separate you who can influence things. The act of holding onto a sensation/idea is what's really happening. And you're blocked because you are imagining/generating via imagination a second self that is feeling the sensation and also the desire for it to dissolve.

  • @10XSeiga

    @10XSeiga

    Жыл бұрын

    No longer choose to interact with any sensations. Sensations continue on their own. Stop checking on yourself and you will exit this stalemate. You see, it is believed that there is a "you" separate from "life/the world/reality" and it is imagined and held in focus that "you" need to eliminate a specific movement of energy that "you" doesn't want anymore/avoids using more imagination. What's happening in reality is -- imagining multiple entities that can act upon eachother-- there is a imagining that the energy movement can be destroyed or transformed as long as the imagined secondary being holds up the image of the sensation it's desiring to avoid. Because there is no split between observer and experience there is a catch 22. It is like an artist drawing a delicious meal desperately trying to taste the food within the painting. It is not food it is imagination. It is like am artist drawing a robber with a gun pointed at him and then sitting on his knees with his hands behind his head for hours waiting for the robber to leave. Notice.

  • @danieleslava115
    @danieleslava115 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Sr

  • @rathodnarendra5255
    @rathodnarendra5255 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @shellygattenio6032
    @shellygattenio603210 ай бұрын

    Brilliant

  • @waldwassermann
    @waldwassermann Жыл бұрын

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

  • @innerlight617
    @innerlight617 Жыл бұрын

    :Perception is not only incomplete ,it doesn't tell us the whole story about what is the case out there. it is also distortive it doesn't optimize for truth,it does optimize for survival. -Bernardo Kastrup

  • @johnwise9874
    @johnwise9874 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @shalomk9708
    @shalomk9708 Жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @No-self_No-problem
    @No-self_No-problem Жыл бұрын

    🙏

  • @kevinfitzsimons41
    @kevinfitzsimons41 Жыл бұрын

    Rupert, can you do a video about what happens to awareness when we are drunk? Seriously this is a serious question. Thank you 😊

  • @melissaglueckskind

    @melissaglueckskind

    Жыл бұрын

    Eckhart Tolle describes it as: awareness goes below thought, when you are drunk, thought will be less and less in awareness. When you are fully aware, you are above thought, which means there is no need to grab a thought, if there are thoughts coming they are just like clouds in the sky passing. With no awarness and not being drunk: you just unconsciously identified with thinking, believing YOU are the thinker.

  • @kevinfitzsimons41

    @kevinfitzsimons41

    Жыл бұрын

    @@melissaglueckskind thank you. I feel the ego is much more to the fore if I’m after alcohol. I suspect the ego loves alcohol. What do you think?

  • @melissaglueckskind

    @melissaglueckskind

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevinfitzsimons41 that sounds like a selfdifence: you blame an ego in order not to blame yourself.....

  • @kevinfitzsimons41

    @kevinfitzsimons41

    Жыл бұрын

    @@melissaglueckskind Blame it for what? You shouldn’t jump to conclusions

  • @melissaglueckskind

    @melissaglueckskind

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevinfitzsimons41 Have a peaceful day Kevin.

  • @estudantecuriosoAUAU
    @estudantecuriosoAUAU Жыл бұрын

    🙏🏼❤️

  • @srinivasbmh7749
    @srinivasbmh7749 Жыл бұрын

    WHAT I AM IS INPLACELESS PLACE AND TIMELESS TIME

  • @wattaura7621
    @wattaura76218 ай бұрын

    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....🎉

  • @DevendraTak
    @DevendraTak Жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @Kaynos
    @Kaynos Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Unfamous_Buddha
    @Unfamous_Buddha Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Vlatka211
    @Vlatka211 Жыл бұрын

    How can I connect with the community?

  • @niya-rsteam1870

    @niya-rsteam1870

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi Vlatka211 Thank you for your comment. You can connect more with friends of Rupert's, through the FaceBook community page. If you scroll down through the descriptions box underneath this video, you can click the link below JOIN RUPERT’S FACEBOOK GROUP which you take you to FaceBook. I hope that helps. Rupert's team

  • @cipher940
    @cipher940 Жыл бұрын

    It's a small World after all.

  • @soubhikmukherjee2982
    @soubhikmukherjee2982 Жыл бұрын

    How to get rid of past memories? They really haunt me time and again, making me experience extreme sadness 😔

  • @injoyinmyself2018

    @injoyinmyself2018

    Жыл бұрын

    Do your past memories define you?

  • @lilygt9237

    @lilygt9237

    Жыл бұрын

    Try ho'oponopono

  • @LP-kq9rq

    @LP-kq9rq

    Жыл бұрын

    Because you want to get rid of these memories they will haunt you. You resist what is...therefore these memories will turn up more and more frequently. Observe the memory when it comes, without want to get rid of it ,or judge it . Let it be and so let the sadness be. It needs practice but you will succeed.

  • @kbsikandar

    @kbsikandar

    Жыл бұрын

    @Akbar Karimi You need a therapist if you dont have the clarity of mind to understand the profound depths of non-duality. Non-duality goes beyond critical thinking- it is an intuitive understanding of a pure untainted mind. The meek shall inherit the earth.

  • @solozzo30

    @solozzo30

    Жыл бұрын

    try reading j Krishnamurti's teaching on anxiety,fear , sorrow etc..'observe your fears,sorrow without trying to suppress or get rid of them or escape...Stay with them,in the sense just be a witness without being judjemental'.that's the gist.

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    imagine this two boys walking playing saw two boys sitting playing busy doing something so the two walk up to see wat it all about..the two sitting boys are busy digging out a bullet stuck in the asphalt..my friend go let sit in and help but i find it boring and refuse then walk off...hour later mum running home say where is your blind eye from the explow bullit? i heard people say two boys dig up a bullet and it explow his eye blind his name is you and his mum name is me...i run straight home crying looking for you...what the fuck mum ? i was there watching it with the two boys but i got bore and leave...what u mean that two boys is also me and his mum and you are the same mother and son? in the same time and place watching the same object ..but only one got hurt but the one did not get hurt also the same kid with the same mum?

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    but wait there is more for extra effect call now

  • @subarnasubedi7938
    @subarnasubedi7938 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Grace-pb6cx
    @Grace-pb6cx Жыл бұрын

    It was never an intention to control anyone or impose energy or music unwillingly for any reason except to bounce a hypothesis off of My kind, and caring spiritual teachers, with the probability of no results at all....like jumping from an airplane and learning that I can fly! 💕🎶💌 Me as a terrorist? Now I am scared 😳

  • @carlavela7106
    @carlavela7106 Жыл бұрын

    💐🙏

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    totally unrelated but it add suspend so call now there is more

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    but wait there is more

  • @haroonaverroes6537
    @haroonaverroes6537 Жыл бұрын

    hallucinator !

  • @haroonaverroes6537

    @haroonaverroes6537

    Жыл бұрын

    thief Apes !

  • @robinaguenkel7534
    @robinaguenkel7534 Жыл бұрын

    👍🇩🇪

  • @bestsleepsounds7370
    @bestsleepsounds7370 Жыл бұрын

    EXPAND THIS TO ALL HUMANITY. tingling in the mouth and feet both happening --here-- no difference, no separation, no distance Just here is the response. the here (spaceless place) is the same for 7 billion people. the tingling sensations in the lips and feet of 7 billion happening here - no difference, no distance, no separation. All humanity -Here-

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    i did also got shot by my uncle

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    call him uncle sam

  • @ThomasCorfield
    @ThomasCorfield Жыл бұрын

    Honestly, I made a sandwich this morning.

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    is that coincidence or too much meth even before i smoke it?

  • @ghanem.sbaih87
    @ghanem.sbaih87 Жыл бұрын

  • @saigonmonopoly1105
    @saigonmonopoly1105 Жыл бұрын

    but wait there is more