METAREALITY
Imagine a symphony conductor on his podium,
arms extended out and above his head, in front
of the orchestra he is directing, baton in hand. He
points his baton at the musicians and the instruments he wishes to bring into the foreground, at
the right time, and within the context of the piece
being played. In our metaphor, the baton is attention and the conductor is the will that directs it. The
magic that attention performs naturally as part of
our everyday experience happens so smoothly,
and with such congruency, that we barely notice
its actions at all. It wasn’t until I investigated my
own ordinary experience that I realized the extraordinary nature of attention.
Attention can travel across the barrier between subjective and objective
reality without changing its form.
No other aspect of the self can do this. Attention
can move from the world of matter, perceiving a
material object, to the world of the mind, perceiving a thought, to the world of the body perceiving a
sensation. It can also travel deeper into subjective
reality and perceive energetic dimensions of higher consciousness, all without changing its nature
-which is to focus, point, target and illuminate the
object und