Where is Space?

'Space' is a single word that indicates the experience of oneness that space is made of. This one word announces the oneness of space. There is one space of the universe, not multiple spaces. All points of defined locality appear within one single space.

Now, if all places appear within space, where does all of space appear?

Here.

Conventionally we consider 'here' to be a location in space, yet at every place in space we say, 'I am here.' So that which we are naming 'here' is not really limited to a place in space, for 'here' is everywhere. It is always Here.

To say the Reality of Here is everywhere subtly suggests that Reality is in space, at every limited location within and as space, that Reality is ultimately a three-dimensional phenomenon.

In truth, Reality is not in space. The opposite is the case. Space is a perceptual appearance within the Here of Reality. Every 'where' appears in the one Here.

All there is to space is the visual perception of it. However, there is no 'it' separate from perception. All there is to space is perception. No one has ever verified the existence of a three-dimensional space independent of perception. Nor could it be verified in the future.

The only means of verification available to us is experience. If we experience what seems to be a space that exists independent of perception, we are only verifying the experience of perception.

Space is a modulation of perception. Remove perception from space and it completely vanishes.

The presence of Reality pre-exists the visual perception that we call 'space.' Reality is, as such, not limited to space.

The perception of space is limited to appear within the presence of Reality. Just as the space in the movie is limited to appear within the screen.

However, unlike this metaphor, the screen-like presence of Reality, in its essential condition, has no spatial dimensions. It is dimensionless. As such, it is impossible to imagine. Try imagining dimensionlessness and see the mind dissolve in the sheer impossibility of the task. And what does the mind dissolve into? The dimensionless presence of Reality that it attempted to imagine.

At this point, these statements may seem theoretical if they are not immediately confirming the fact of our present experience, so let us realise and establish this fact more deeply in our experience right now. Just for fun. Why else?

Here we go, to the here that is Reality.

What comes first, space or Reality?

How to know this directly right now?

Is the perception of space always present?

No. The perception of space disappears when I close my eyes and reappears when I open them.

The perception of space appears and disappears. Before it appeared it was not being experienced. Space was nowhere to be found in Reality before it appeared as a perception. Prior to that appearance, Reality was simply present by itself, being what it intrinsically is.

Only that which is fundamental to Reality is ever-present. The perception of space, having a beginning and an end, is not fundamental to Reality.

What was being experienced before the appearance of space?

The presence of Reality itself, devoid of spatial qualities. And who is it that is experiencing this dimensionlessness? Our self, that which we call 'I.'

There is no separation possible between dimensionlessness and that which experiences it. There is no space or distance there.

We are this dimensionless presence of Reality. We are not in space. The opposite is the case. Space is in us. That is, the perception we call 'space' appears within the Reality of Consciousness.

So we, as this one Reality are present, absolutely devoid of spatial qualities, and from within ourself the perception of space arises. That is our experience.

Well, we might ask, how does this dimensionless presence appear in the form of spatial dimensions? The answer is; it just does. Evidently there is the perception of spatial dimensions. There is no denying the experience of that perception.

So, if we, like a true scientist, lay out in front of us the evidence observed from our experience, we see the fact that Reality, in its essential nature, is dimensionless, and Reality appears to itself in the form of spatial dimensions. Magic! Really it is.

How do all of these beautiful patterns of experience appear?

They just appear, for no reason. The mind may be asking 'why?' But this question can never be answered. There is no cause, reason or purpose of creation. Any cause, reason or purpose that could be conceived would already be conceived, that is, it would be a manifest form bound by the domain of creation. It would not precede creation.

Only the presence of Reality precedes creation. And that presence is one, non-dual wholeness; not limited to the concepts of cause and effect.