The Heartbeat of Manifestation

Listen to your heart beat.  How many heartbeats do you get until this manifestation is complete, this cycle is complete?  The cycle of one life.  The cycle of this Earth is also made up of heartbeats.  Civilizations are heartbeats.  Everything is always in constant motion.  Nothing is ever static.  Permanence is simply a limiting idea.  Everything is going through cycles of life and death, beginning and end.  As a lifetime ends, it is the end of a heartbeat.  When a lifetime begins, it is the beginning of a heartbeat; thump, thump, constantly moving through realities, heartbeats within heartbeats.

A mouse and an elephant have about the same number of heartbeats in their lifetimes.  The mouse's very rapid, the elephant's very slow.  There are cycles within cycles.  Within the heartbeat is the heartbeat.  The heartbeats of a lifetime create another cycle.  Within a single heartbeat is a cycle.

The Universe is expanding and contracting back unto itself and that is a heartbeat as well.  Everything in manifest creation is repeatedly created and destroyed.  Thump, thump, thump, thump.  This Earth has gone through several heartbeats before, several cycles before.  It has completely collapsed, been destroyed and then recreated.  The Universe is created and then destroyed.

Source has created multiple levels of vibrations, multiple levels of heartbeats and rhythms.  The mouse, the elephant, the Earth, and the Universe - their hearts beat different rhythms; different speeds and cycles.

When one begins existing more from a place of Spirit, one sees these heartbeats and rhythms are just the way the Universe flows.  As Spirit, we exist outside of that rhythm.  We experience the rhythm, but we are not part of the rhythm.  We do not exist as the rhythm, but we experience the rhythm through manifestation, through bodies, through just being in the manifest Universe.

It is very easy to get caught up in believing that the manifest reality is all there is.  If you believe this, then watching things being destroyed is very difficult.  There is sadness in watching cycles end.

We are much better at celebrating birth or creation than we are at celebrating destruction or death.  We need to become neutral with the beginning and the end of cycles, with birth and death.  We need to celebrate the end of a cycle just as we rejoice in its beginning.

On an individual level, we must be able to let parts of our reality crumble away.  The heartbeat ends with the understanding and faith that something new is going to be created.  Even if you cannot see where the path is going, and you are afraid, the cycles will continue because the Universe was created to flow.  After destruction is creation.  After creation is destruction.  So if we can let go of the pictures of how we want life to be, and instead be ready to accept the next piece of the journey, without judgment, then we can live in a state of harmony and peace.  We will no longer be limited by the analyzer and the tiny part of ourselves that needs to grasp and hold onto manifest reality.

- Scott Robinson