There is NO Environment: The Earth is our Extended Body The environment is us. The environment is our extended body.

We are learning from the wisdom of the indigenous people that our sense of separation is an illusion. We are learning that even though the journey of seeing beyond our linear rational mind that allows important distinctions for function, we require “vision” which is more than seeing. To establish vision of the intricate web and weave of energy being totally interconnected in a holographic matrix requires some transformational shift. 

We can align our intention with a vision to enable us to experience a force of love, a universal source of energy that allows us to gain access beyond our usual thinking mind. For some it is easy to intellectualize how the macrocosm is a reflection of the microcosm and vice versa.  Transformation flows from context. For others, certain qualities allow for what appears to be separate to be newly appreciated as interconnected.

Establishing a context of curiosity, clarity, creativity, compassion, courage, confidence, and being calm can open up possibilities for access into a quantum field.  

The world we live in constantly reinforces separation and fear and we repeatedly deal with our conditioned patterns that tell us separation is real.  We can work hard to maintain our insights and breakthroughs and “stay transformed.”
I remember getting there is no permanent enlightenment. Enlightenment is a reference experience that needs to be renewed constantly by ourselves and through the community of elders and healers we surround ourselves in. 

I remember 18 years ago, when I was in the Amazon Jungle staying at Kapawai Lodge, I was talking with a young man who served us food and was preparing to go on a 14-day trek through the jungle to visit his parents. He would hike for 7 days to get there and then spend 1 night with parents who he had not seen for a year and then return for a 7-day hike back through the jungle. Given that the day before I had seen an enormous snake, and had heard tales of jaguars, I asked him about how he was feeling about his trip. Was he scared? Where would he sleep? 

This beautiful being lived in a different paradigm than I did. For him, the environment of the jungle was part of him. He respected the animals he would encounter, the water, the rain, the trees were all part of his consciousness and awareness to respect and appreciate.  There was no fear. 

We in the modern world are learning to respect our body, live in our body as “home.”

We are learning to “see” the environment as ourselves. We are learning the reality of the total interconnection and unity of life and energy despite the multiplicity and forms of manifestation.

Maybe we could help ourselves by not referring to an outside “environment” that keeps anchoring a reality of separateness. 

Maybe we could support the transformation in our awareness of a connection that we yearn to experience in more sustainable ways, by using an ontological expression that is more aligned with our new vision.
The environment is our extended body. 

The environment is just another projection of our mind that sees dualistic separate entities more easily than holographic unities.

Let’s practice seeing our “self” living outside. Our human body is made up of nearly 80% water. The earth is made up of a similar percentage of water.  Our body uses lungs to breathe. Our earth uses trees and other natural ways to breathe. Keep going. Make up ways of interpreting what you see outside as a reflection of your SELF. Watch your judgmental/analytical mind measuring exactness. Notice that tendency and let it be.  Like a poet or a lover, allow your self to blend and merge your awareness about the outside world in ways that increase your capacity to feel connected. 

Maybe as Irving Oyle wrote in 1970, “it is all happening on the back of our eyeball.” The ‘Quantum World’ exists in a reality of space and time that is often different than what we think.
Most of us make meaning of separation that creates longing, fear, and loneliness.  What if the separation was all part of the healing journey back to recognizing there is no environment. Mother Earth Gaia is us, we are Mother earth. There is no outside. That is all illusionary as well. Inside, outside is all the dualistic part of the modern daydream we are working with to get to “We are ONE BODY.” 

Thank you for considering being part of the LOVE YOUR BODY vision about health and healing. I invite you to read and study my book Love Your Body: Your Path to Transformation, Health & Healing. You can order here: https://drbarrytaylor.com/product/love-your-body-book-revised-edition/?kuid=722b4176-430f-4f68-8b6c-395f80db6701-1732873147&kref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrbarrytaylor.com%2F

All of the profits of book sales are donated to Pachamama Alliance and other organizations that lead the way for us to live in more harmony with the earth, others and ourselves. I respect the transformational work they do teaching us to honor and be compassionate with all people, all species, and to interact with our Earth with the awareness of gratitude and love from that part of our being that knows there is no separation. 

Barry Taylor, ND