Your Multiverse

Have you ever noticed some people seem to be ‘on another planet’? Have you wondered if they’re even in the same ‘universe?

Consider this – you’re sat around a table with a group of people. Who is there around the table you can’t see? Who is it around the table each of the others cannot see?

Assuming you’re not sharing a table with ‘the invisible man’, the one you can’t see is yourself. Indeed, you only ever see yourself as a reflection in a mirror or in a photo or video.

You and I cannot see ourselves. Sure, we can see bits of ourselves but not our body as a whole.

Here’s the thing. You and I inhabit different universes, alternate universes running in parallel. Where we each live is our personal ‘take’ on the Universe as a whole.

Sorry Sci Fi writers, there is only one Universe, but everyone has a different view of it. The Universe is infinite, the only option for the type of parallel universe often written about, is an alternate and duplicate ‘infinity’; mind you, I suppose anything is possible!

So far so good, but it gets a little more complex. You see many people in their personal alternate universe have split it up into what I’ll describe as a personal ‘multiverse’. Are you inhabiting a multiverse?

In my experience of nearly 8 decades, I’ve encountered only a few people who live in a single ‘core’ universe and they’re often near one end or the other of what some might call a ‘quality of life’ spectrum focussing on just one ‘existence’. Most of the global population seem to embrace between two and four parallel existences going on – their ‘multiverse’ – it’s down to the way people organise their lives.

It’s been shown through personality tests and such like we have different approaches to different life situations and tend to like to keep them ‘separate’.

A common example is the ‘dilemma’ of ‘work-life balance’, usually caused by people who at work seem to have one persona and at home another completely different. Two universes with a clear boundary between them although this is often ‘challenged’ by one side or the other.

A third universe may be introduced through aligning with a particular ‘religion’ which requires full attention to the exclusion of other matters on a specific day of the week.

This may also be the case through having an enthusiasm for a hobby, pastime or sport with any of these things taking precedence of the other universes when the focus moves in their direction.

A fourth personal universe lurks in the background and can cause significant impact on the others if not properly integrated, this is the universe of ‘self’. This is really the ‘first’ as it is and has always been ‘there’.

Those who’ve found the ability, naturally or through a ‘life change’ to bring the ‘whole’ of life into the ‘universe of self’ are the ones who have ‘cracked it’, the ones who’ve broken the code and realised we aren’t fragmented in the way our consciousness likes to organise things. These are the winners of the ‘multiverse game’.

Sadly, so long as people continue to compartmentalise the alternate universes in their life, keeping multiple existences ‘separate’ they will miss out on the fulfilment and peace which come from ‘living life as a whole’.

The ‘answer’ – to achieve this ‘escape from the multiverse’ is to develop an understanding of how you see your personal freedom as an expression of the idea of ‘one life – one universe –your universe’.