Experience infinity for yourself!

We talked about the abstract concept of infinity a number of times in these pages, e.g., here (Does infinity have any use?). Math was our friend. It helped clarify what we mean by infinity. In this page, I would like to talk with you about infinity in our own subjective and personal experience. You may say, no, I don't have such an experience. I know that I was born so many years ago and an inevitable death is fast approaching in the horizon. Life is much shorter than infinity and I feel like I am wasting my time reading these musings. Or if you're much younger, you might say, I am looking forward to turning 21, but it feels like it's infinitely far away from now!

Kids feel like trapped in the present moment and eager to grow older and move on to live their own independent lives in happy freedom. Of course, we adults know better and even further sometimes we miss our younger days forgetting about all the pain of growing up. What's going on here? I suggest that we are missing two obvious but subtle facts about our own existence, our own being. Please allow me to remind you (and I will expect you to remind me back when I need it :-).

There are two kinds of infinities that we can experience at any moment of our lives. I will save the best for last. For the first one, you may need to open up your eyes and look up. During the day, you'll notice an endless blue sky. And, at night, an endless darkness, going on and on, away from your eyes towards infinity. 

This is the conundrum of "nothing" in space. When we look up, we see an infinity of nothing stretching on and on without any borders, any major obstacles (don't hit the moon or an asteroid to cut your journey short, let alone a star or a black hole! Of course, we also hope no supernova would hit you either :-). Even astrophysicists tell us that, thanks to dark energy, the visible universe is expanding at an astronomical speed (furthest galaxies are, for some unknown reason, running away from us at speeds higher than the speed of light! Don't believe me? Check for yourselves. Google: speed of expansion of space.) All that is also thanks to what you experience in your personal subjective perception of infinite space. 

Ok, that's the first of the two infinities I promised to point out. You might have some doubts about it, and that's good, but, just inquire deeper and enjoy your own infinity in life. Now on the the better kind of infinity. This one is so amazing that you can experience it even with your eyes closed. What could it be? What is it that you don't need to see with the eyes of your body, but can experience nonetheless? Go back to your earliest memories. Say you are four years old. Or seven. How did you think of yourself? Or even better how did you experience yourself when you said I back then, all those years in the past? Didn't it feel like it was the present moment, the now, when you experienced your earliest memories? In fact, the simple fact is that, but verify this in your own experience here and now please, it is always the present moment. The current moment, what we call the now, is the infinity we experience eternally in our innermost being. The present moment is always with us. In fact, it is inseparable from us. Until death do us apart. But, that last thought is questionable. We don't know death. We have many ideas and thoughts about it and about what may or may not come after. But, what is certain is that the present moment is an infinity for us to enjoy. Are you enjoying yourself? You are in possession of two infinities and that will hopefully show you that you, yourself, is a greater infinity with a lot of power, supreme power. Here is btw one of my favorite books of all time, or no time. Strange title for sure, check it out if you would. If that link doesn't work, this one might. Otherwise, find out about it in the GoodReads website and check it out at your local library. Okay now. Well, that you are an infinity greater than your body and your mind with infinite powers... That's miraculous and yet very easy to forget. 

I suspect that you've got some objections. The pain in my back, you might say, reminds me that I have problems now and my body is going to give me more problems in the future. Or, I got to go and pee, it's been a while and there is a growing pain. We need to take care of our bodies and that might sometimes trick us into believing that we are a body with a limited existence. Let's talk about that next (Why, It is You!).