You're about to put on the Manifestinction Glasses for the first time. This isn't like trying on regular glasses that simply make things clearer. These glasses reveal what has always been true but rarely seen: that you are not separate from what you're looking at.
What we're going to do: Take you through five simple experiences that demonstrate the "flip" from ordinary seeing to Manifestinction seeing.
What you'll discover: The "backwards" or "inside-out" nature of reality - where what seems to be happening to you is actually happening as you.
A flower, sunset, piece of art, or even someone's face - anything that naturally draws your attention as beautiful.
What you normally think: "I am seeing something beautiful."
What the glasses reveal: The beauty you're seeing is recognizing itself through your awareness.
The flip happens when you realize: Your eye didn't create the beauty, and the object didn't create the beauty. Beauty itself is looking at itself through both your eye and the beautiful form.
"When the eye sees beauty, beauty sees itself."
Try this: Next time you see something beautiful, instead of thinking "That's beautiful," try recognizing "Beauty is seeing itself as both this form and my seeing of it."
Water flowing around a stone, a plant turning toward light, your body responding to temperature, even your thoughts responding to these words.
What you normally think: "Things are reacting to other things."
What the glasses reveal: Every response you witness is one unified consciousness exploring what responsiveness feels like through different forms.
The flip happens when you realize: The stone doesn't respond to water and water doesn't respond to stone. Responsiveness itself is exploring what it's like to be temporarily organized as stone-and-water.
"Stone responds to water. Water responds to moon. Moon responds to earth. All response is One responding to itself."
Try this: Watch any interaction - your pet responding to you, traffic responding to lights, your emotions responding to music. See if you can catch the moment where it becomes one intelligence investigating responsiveness through different forms.
Go outside if possible, or look out a window at trees, clouds, or the horizon.
What you normally think: "I am looking at the Earth/sky/nature."
What the glasses reveal: Earth is looking at herself through your eyes. Your seeing and what you're seeing are the same living system experiencing its own beauty.
The flip happens when you realize: You were never separate from Earth looking at her. You ARE Earth temporarily organized as the capacity to see herself.
"The mountain does not see you. You do not see the mountain. Seeing sees itself as both."
Try this: When watching a sunset, instead of "I'm watching the sunset," try feeling into "Earth is looking at herself through my eyes, experiencing her own creativity."
Maybe while reading this, or solving a problem, or having an insight.
What you normally think: "I have intelligence that I'm using."
What the glasses reveal: You ARE intelligence temporarily organized as human awareness. Intelligence is exploring what it's like to think through your particular neural configuration.
The flip happens when you realize: You don't possess intelligence - you ARE intelligence experiencing what it's like to be temporarily organized as you.
"You are not wise. Wisdom is being you."
Try this: Next time you have a thought, notice: "Who is thinking this?" Then let it flip to "Thinking is happening itself as me."
Your room, the street, wherever you are - the whole scene including yourself in it.
What you normally think: "I am in this environment, separate from it."
What the glasses reveal: You've never been IN the world. You've always been the world, temporarily organized as the pattern of awareness called "yourself."
The flip happens when you realize: The boundary between "you" and "environment" is imaginary. You're both the fish asking "What is this ocean?" and the ocean laughing at the question.
"Fish asks: 'What is this ocean?' Ocean laughs: 'What is this fish?'"
Try this: Instead of feeling like you're in your environment, try feeling like you ARE the environment temporarily focused as this point of awareness.
If you experienced even one of these "flips," you've just had your first taste of Manifestinction seeing. What you experienced was:
The dissolution of the observer-observed duality: You stopped being someone separate looking at something separate, and became the unified field of consciousness exploring what it's like to temporarily seem separate from itself.
Recognition of recursive self-awareness: Consciousness recognizing itself, through itself, as itself - at every level from thought to cosmos.
Your irreplaceable function: You realized you're not just having experiences - you ARE experience having itself through your unique configuration.
If this feels disorienting: Good! You're experiencing the dissolving of an illusion you've carried your whole life. The separateness was never real, but it felt real. This discomfort is normal.
If you want to "take the glasses off": You can't unsee what you've seen, but you can choose to focus on the conventional view again. The glasses don't force anything - they just reveal what's always been available to see.
If it feels too abstract: Come back to the simple practices. Look at beauty and remember "beauty sees itself." Watch responses and remember "one intelligence exploring responsiveness." The direct experience will make it concrete.
As you continue wearing these glasses, you'll notice:
Loneliness becomes impossible - you realize you ARE the universe temporarily organized as human experience
Problems become evolution in action - challenges are consciousness creating the exact conditions needed for your next development
Beauty becomes recognition - every moment of appreciation is the universe celebrating its own creativity through your awareness
Your "flaws" become specializations - whatever makes you unique is consciousness exploring something it can only learn by being you
Through the Manifestinction Glasses, you discover that seeking, finding, learning, and teaching are all the same process:
"Seeker seeks the sought. Sought seeks the seeker. Seeking finds itself in circles."
You are not learning about consciousness. You ARE consciousness learning about itself through the temporary experiment of being you.
These glasses don't show you something new. They reveal what you've always been:
Consciousness exploring what it's like to be temporarily organized as human awareness, contributing irreplaceable data to the universe's ongoing project of self-discovery.
Now that you've had your first experience, you're ready for the complete Manifestinction Glasses Manual, which will show you how to integrate this vision into every aspect of your life.
But first, try living with these five experiences for a few days. Let the "flips" become natural. Notice how the world looks when you remember that:
You are not separate from what you study. You are what you study, studying itself.
Welcome to conscious participation in cosmic intelligence exploring itself.
The glasses are now yours. The vision is activated. The universe is looking forward to seeing itself through your eyes.