The Free Radical

I’m always excited to encounter Frog! He will only appear when conditions are suitable: i.e. pristine. He doesn’t handle pollution or other environmental degradation or corruption well. You only need to watch his antics very briefly to understand his mastery, though.

Frog successfully navigates the landscape of ego-consciousness utilizing leaps of deduction, hopping from one concept to the next until the ‘right’ idea is located. He is even more comfortable and adept at maneuvering through the watery/emotional elements of consciousness, though. He finds comfort in the muddiest waters whenever threatened. And if stirring up the silt at the foundation of emotional outbursts doesn’t provide adequate cover, Frog won’t hesitate to dive right into the soft mud of the subconscious… completely disappearing in the process. That his message today is about unitary consciousness shouldn’t come as any surprise.

“You have been separatists. You are split between two worlds… and one world obscures the perception of the other. The natural world of your outward perception is, in truth, seamless, whole and complete… but you do not see it thus. The obscuring world, the one of illusion, is held within your own heads like a bubble. It is flimsy and thinly veiled, but you continue to mistake it for reality nevertheless.

“The world of illusion that you carry with you everywhere you go is maintained by your internal dialogue. Your incessant self-talk IS the whole basis for the illusion. It is a world made of words; you arrange them into narratives which make sense to you in the moment, but the very nature of words is that they are fragmentary and divisive… and even the very best narratives are incomplete.

“Only in rare moments does your internal dialogue fall silent. In those moments– however brief– the separation dissolves and you merge with the real and natural world of your environment; there is nothing holding you apart.”

I have to admit that one thing I had noticed as I got more and more into foraging during my daily walks, the more often my inner voice would fall silent. In times past, it was “normal” to carry with me an inner agenda– things to think about on my walk. But as I was required to focus more and more on my surroundings in order to locate the treasures of my foraging pleasure, my inner voice had less and less to say. I found that I couldn’t sustain both worlds at once. I could either be in the real world which provides life and sustenance, or I could occupy the illusory world of my thoughts– philosophizing.

“So much of the primary human ‘mistake’ is that you are all supremely arrogant. Each of you is so utterly convinced that your thoughts matter. You act (in consciousness) with the belief that if you were to stop thinking, or merely to stop over-valuing your own inner dialogue, that the world would somehow be diminished. The real world, by virtue of being real, does not require the overlay of your precious narratives. It will continue on merrily without your incessant self-talk.

“Niels, you yourself have noticed that the creatures of the forest will shy away from you in fear or suspicion when you are self-absorbed. We can easily feel the intrusion of your illusions… and cannot immediately trust your story lines. When you move with the grace of internal silence, however, you are part of the forest environment. You are not separate, and your peaceful intentions are easily discernible to all.”

It’s true. The forest doesn’t fear me in the slightest; it just mistrusts my thinking. As I refrain from thinking, I am accepted and assimilated into real life. It’s really the easiest thing ever… once I get past the idea that my thoughts are oh-so-important! Thanks Frog!

“The real world is seamlessly one… unless you choose to think otherwise.”