The World Within Me

Skull refection in mirror

"You are not in the universe; the universe is in you." — Rumi

Peering into the Mirror of Reality There comes a moment in every awakened life when the boundary between the self and the world dissolves—when the trees whisper your name, the stars reflect your longing, and every word spoken by another feels like an echo of your own inner voice. This moment is not madness. It is remembrance.

I live with a persistent awareness that there is nothing truly outside of me. The world is not happening to me, but within me. What I see, feel, and engage with is a projection of consciousness itself—filtered through my unique frequency, encoded with my soul's curriculum. And what a beautiful, maddening, holy dream it is.

Mysticism and the Teaching of Oneness Mystical traditions throughout time have whispered this truth:

• In Advaita Vedanta, all is the Self; the separate "I" is an illusion.

• The Gnostic gospels speak of the Divine Spark within, a mirror of the cosmos.

• Kabbalah reveals that the Tree of Life is not a map of the world, but of the soul.

• Sufism dances with the Beloved until lover and Beloved are one.

These teachings don’t ask us to believe. They invite us to see. To unlearn. To re-enter the dream with eyes open.

Science and the Mirror of Matter Quantum physics confirms what the mystics have long known:

• The observer affects the observed.

• Particles behave differently when watched.

• Entangled particles respond to each other instantly, regardless of distance.

And most poignantly, the "solid" world isn’t solid at all. Matter is mostly space. Reality is a probabilistic field responding to awareness.

As Thomas Campbell posits in his Theory of Everything, we may be living in a rendered reality—a simulation not in the tech sense, but in the consciousness-first sense. We are not brains in bodies observing a world. We are awareness experiencing itself.

Psychedelics and the Dissolution of Separation My own initiations into this truth were deeply catalyzed through sacred medicine work with Ayahuasca and psilocybin. In these altered states, the veils fall away. You don’t just understand unity intellectually—you become it.

The river breathes with you. The walls pulse with meaning. The pain in another becomes your own. Time unravels. You die and are reborn.

And then one day, after enough inner work and surrender, that state becomes more normalized. You walk through life slightly psychedelic. Not because you are altered, but because you are clear.

This is the path of integration. The mystical becomes mundane. Not because it loses power, but because you have become powerful enough to hold it.

Living the Dream Awake If everything is within you, then every person is a messenger from your soul.

• The ones who trigger you are parts of you asking for reintegration.

• The ones you adore reflect the qualities you've yet to fully claim.

• The ones you lose are teaching you how to stay.

This isn't about blame or bypassing. It's about radical ownership.

The world is a feedback loop for your evolution. And you are the feedback loop for the world's.

Call to Inquiry: Questions to Live With

• What does this moment reflect about my internal landscape?

• Where am I still believing in "other"?

• What part of me is calling out through this event, person, or feeling?

• If this were all a dream I scripted, what am I trying to awaken to?

Closing Invocation: May I remember that I am not a separate being seeking connection, but connection itself remembering it is whole. May I walk softly through this dream, knowing the ground is made of my own breath. May I love the world as myself, because it is.