Universal Essence
By Brian Wallace

I think that there came a certain point in my life when, through a process of falling in love and through a process of inquiring about the world around me, I started to experience a transformation of awareness or consciousness and some semblance of the understanding that the world around us is very integrated and it is one whole as opposed to many different aspects or overly multi-faceted.

I think that the sense of Eastern thought that says that there is a higher power, there is some universal essence that seems to keep the entire thing in motion, implies that we are manifestations or evolutions or forms of that eternal essence and that universal being and that godlike substance - whatever it is that's moving this entire thing. To me, that's very interesting territory to contemplate.

I think that we need to look at a perspective that somehow unifies the Western view with the Eastern view.

Coming from a Judeo-Christian background in which we are individuals, we have a very distinct ego and a soul that eventually will one day find eternal happiness if we are so lucky is one perspective. Another perspective is that we are trying to merge ourselves with that eternal essence or that overwhelming universal consciousness. Probably a balance between the two views is more closely in line with the perspective that I started to develop over a period of time.

That personal evolution of thought and that personal consciousness that I achieved was the result of a variety of different experiences. I think through diet, exercise, exploring various philosophical systems, traveling, reading, participation in certain psychoactive substances; many of these things were catalysts or facilitators of developing a more holistic and broad-based consciousness of really what's going on and what's happening.

The human nervous system is an amazing organ in and of itself and it is one form, I believe, of that essence that's moving the entire thing around us. I don't think it's necessary to view ourselves as so distinct and separate from nature and separate from the DNA process or everything around us. I think that we need to look at a perspective that somehow unifies the Western view with the Eastern view.

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