Livin' the Dream*
Bill Bauman
1/10/20243 min read
When I recently greeted someone with the usual “How are you?”
he proudly announced: “I’m livin’ the dream!”
His confident response captivated me.
I thought: “Hmm, from a purely quantum perspective,
could it be that every one of us is ‘Livin’ the dream!’”
Everything about us—who we are and even our human world—
could be like a dream.
In this view, whether we’re “row, row, rowin’ our boat” or not,
each one of us serves as the main character in a creatively designed dream.
I think that means you’re legitimately a movie star! Congratulations!
But who or what is having that dream? Who or what is dreaming you and me?
The quantumly viewed answer, of course, is this: the quantum source.
Emptiness itself. Pure nothingness. The quantum realm.
Does that imply that our creation—the one that looks so tangible and real to us—
is not really the physical and energetic reality that we perceive?
Does it mean that we’re some kind of creative ‘thought’
of a divine-like or quantum consciousness?
Is what we call ‘God’ simply imagining us, picturing us, dreaming us
in ways that appear convincingly palpable, physical and material?
If so, is it that you and I are only apparent human forms
being projected on some invisible movie-like screen
of a vast and inexplicable quantum consciousness?
These are interesting questions … and considerations.
For the moment, let’s assume that they have enough merit in them
to deserve our serious consideration.
What follows is how I have experienced their reality,
after having cuddled comfortably into the invisible lap of the quantum void,
then looking out at “creation” through its intangible lens.
As you might expect, the first thing I observed is invisibility, nothingness.
Empty, zero-dimensional non-space.
A mystery-filled zone of unfathomable wonder.
Yes, there it was, being laid out before me—
the magical, formless, empty world of the quantum void,
looking quite self-contained and complete within itself.
Then, as I peered further into nothing’s endlessness,
I began to perceive the faintest hints of ‘creation.’
I observed pure potential beginning to become various forms—
light forms and infinite space, multiple universes and fuller dimensions, and others—
with each of those forms taking on its own tangible qualities.
But, inexplicably, nothing I was viewing seemed convincingly real to me.
I realized that I was seeing them all not through our human perceptive eyes,
but through the eyes of the quantum void,
where invisibility and visibility co-exist simultaneously,
where fantasy can look like reality, where light can look like physicality.
Then, an ‘ah-ha’ occurred, an understanding took over my awareness:
In my view of creation, I was viewing the fantasies of the quantum mind
pondering what infinite potential might look like if imagined as real.
Could it be that ‘all creation’ is, in truth, the inventive imaginings
of and in the unbridled inventive ‘mind’ (so to speak) of the void?
As I turned my attention to this enigmatic quantum void,
I swore I could hear it saying to me something like,
“What you call ‘creation’ is nothing more than my consciousness!
A consciousness that holds the possibility of anything and everything within itself.
A consciousness that imagines and ponders each possibility as if alive and real,
observes each possibility expressing itself in myriad ways
and opens itself to invent and observe even more possibilities … endlessly.”
With such a statement, we have a picture of what we have come to call ‘creation’:
the real-feeling creative imaginings of the void’s quantum ‘mind travel.”
Given this picture, what about our real-feeling earthly and human world,
where we specialize in particular quantumly imagined possibilities—
such as space? Time? Duality? Morality? Physicality? Feelings? Energies?
Light? Love? Minds? Bodies? Individuality? Families? And so many more?
Are they all as real as they seem … or as important?
Or, are they mainly products of a giant quantum-based dream,
starring you and me, who are being equally dreamed,
as their focal point, their playing field, their seeming embodiment?
Then again, from a more personal perspective,
are you and I dreaming ourselves and our lives daily into apparent reality,
while humanly believing that all of it, including ourselves, are so real—
similar to how we dream other worlds and dimensions in our nightly sleep?
I’ve come to believe that we can’t answer any of these questions
by using only the ‘either/or’ limited gifts of our human minds.
Bigger answers—perhaps ones with more of a ‘both/and’
or even ‘nothing/everything’ perspective,
begin to appear, it seems to me, only when we expand
beyond our human attachments, step outside of creation as we know it
and mystically fall into the embrace of the quantum world
—where we witness everything tangible turning back into pure possibility,
and possibility itself turning back into quantum consciousness,
and quantum consciousness turning back into the purity of the quantum void.
There, in the void, is where the purest truth sits—silently, neutrally, wisely
—waiting for us to discover it.
I wish you a grand voyage of discovery … as you continue “Livin’ the dream!”