We Don’t Need To Know

We don't need to know that the home of the self that is consciousness is infinite. There is no way to meaningfully prove that even to ourselves. All we need to know is that on the level of actual experience it isn't limited to the body. If we accept this as our living experience then we can see that we may have been unconsciously living as if our self was defined by our body. Then we can see why we would feel that all the phenomena that we call thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving were being generated by a brain in our heads. Now instead of knowing, based on experience, not theory, that we cannot locate the Self that is consciously aware of our experiences inside our body, we can choose to live as if the Self, that is conscious is unlimited and is singularly the source of all phenomena. Then we can see what actually happens in our inner and outer world if we consciously choose to live in this way, as opposed to feeling our Self to be a single body. Then we can see through experimenting with our experience if this is a better way to live than seeing our Self as an individual body. Does it make us calmer, clear-headed, able to take into account the needs of others as well as respect those of ourselves, courageous, resilient, able to carry and process our emotional wounds and see them as jewels, playful and creative, able to use the mechanism of our mind and body to its potential? Or does it make us miserable? Only we will know as we conduct the experiment in our living experience. No amount of ideology will make a difference. It is our experience that matters most. It doesn't matter what other's think. Our hearts will know. We don't have to demonstrate it to others. Our experience will speak for itself. As Francis Lucille points out, living in the not knowing of the nature of our Self but living as if we do know, we can test out the theory of its limited or unlimited nature and see for ourselves which is better.