The body of the one

I have a question. This must sound pretty insane but I don't see why wholeness should take itself off and go in search of itself. Why would it do that?

There isn't a reason. The question arises from mesmerisation with the thought story.

But it just doesn't seem to make sense why wholeness becomes mesmerised and has to ask itself questions.

It doesn't have to ask itself questions, there's no necessity for any of it. It is simply the play of life arising in this way. It's all the cosmic entertainment.

In the thought story there is a search for meaning and a looking for a way out of it all - whereas when it's seen to be simply a story arising presently, an extension into past and future existing merely in thought, then the seriousness goes out of the quest for oneness. There is simply registering of the present content of awareness. This is all that is ever happening. This is already presence, already oneness.

There is mesmerisation, identification as the thought story, but there is no one who is mesmerised. The 'I' is only apparent, part of the happening. Everything is happening entirely spontaneously of its own accord. There is nothing that 'you' are doing. This message is not a prescription for oneness - it's a description of it.

You're just a tourist in the play.

No. 'You' are no specific thing. Your true nature is oneness - nothing and every-thing. Oneness is the whole play.

So is it that all questions are oneness overlooking itself and jumping into identification?

There's no 'jumping into' identification. Identification is an appearance in the play, registering in awareness - the movie appearing on the screen.

So identification arises and then it's seen through.

Yes.

I very much like your analogy of a multi-dimensional screen. I had pictured a flat screen - as in the cinema - and so, until now, the analogy has never quite done it for me.

Yes, so this movie is playing on and within the screen. Another nice analogy that we can use is that all of this is the body of the one, and all the human characters are li?le cells circulating around in the body of the one. They are simply viewing points.