Traces of the Beloved

A man observes that the apparent world is full of beautiful metaphors – dreams, ocean, space, clouds, sky – that we use to point to awareness, and wonders if there is anything pointing in the opposite direction. Rupert agrees that manifestation is ‘littered with traces of the beloved everywhere’, visible to those with ‘eyes to see it’. For those without such openness, there appear to be no traces of the divine. He notes that two people can look at the same object, with one seeing evidence of a materialist perspective while the other sees evidence of the divine. Rupert singles out dreams as particularly significant, suggesting that the relationship between dreamer and dreamed character mirrors exactly the relationship between us and the infinite – ‘just one step up’. Every night, our unified field of consciousness imagines a world within itself, forgets it is imagining that world, and localises itself as an apparently separate subject within its own imagination. Rupert proposes that the waking state functions identically – the one infinite mind imagines a world within itself and simultaneously localises itself as numerous finite minds (all of us), from whose perspective it perceives the unlocalised aspect of itself as the universe. This is not a ‘newfangled, new age idea’ but a mechanism that exists in nature, for which we have direct evidence every night.

From event 09 - 16 March, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mercy Center, 9–16 March 2025

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