Key Takeaways:
What the root cause of all human error really is
How being centered is the most important thing you can do to become your best possible self
How miscalibrating your center prevents you from “driving your vehicle” the right way
How you can properly render yourself in space-time and become a race driver!
Consider this crazy fact. The cause of all your problems, difficulties and hurts can be distilled down to a single word: “off-center”.
And the whole solution, to another word: “proximity.”
The higher-level cause of all your distortions is a miscalibration: you create your reference point of yourself off-center in space and time. Today we take a closer look at what this all means – and we’ll follow up with the XI solutions to live in proximity to center, where the source of all power, harmony and abundance is.
Sit back, relax and read on!
Finding Your Center
You are a dual being made up of your consciousness (or spirit) and your body, and your objective is to fully integrate the two so your timeless self can live out its brilliance in space and time through a human vehicle (Space-Time Part 2).
Your consciousness can travel outside of your body to understand creation from different perspectives, or reference points. But only when your body and consciousness are fully integrated, or blended together, can you be whole and complete, and feel in balance, harmony and abundance. This is the real happiness we’re all after – and the deeper reason for your existence.
When you’re off-center, your consciousness is not fully in your body and you’re creating your reference point of yourself displaced from your body or center. In other words, your consciousness has a miscalibrated coordinate for where your body is located in space and time. Not knowing accurately where your body really is causes all sorts of issues!
Let’s illustrate with the three examples of the figure below
Physical Body and Spirit Body
A) Fully Centered and Integrated B) Miscalibrated & Displaced C) Disconnected
The composite of body and spirit that you are is represented by the white human form (physical body) and the blue oblong sphere (“spirit body”) which surrounds the physical body. Your spirit body is the direct projection of your timeless essence on the space-time matrix. The physical body includes the physiological, emotional and mental layers of yourself.
Example A. This shows our ideal: body and consciousness/spirit perfectly centered or coincident with each other and fully integrated, or “clicked-in”. This is called the “singular” or “I AM” state.
Example B. This case is much more typical: your consciousness has partially separated from your body (either voluntarily, through distortions or external stressors) and its calibration of center (the cross) is displaced from the real center in the physical body – there is now a displacement of your consciousness from your real center.
Our unique ability to separate our consciousness from our body is also the source of all our problems: because we haven’t learnt how to control that separation at will, we get stuck with our consciousness “hanging out there”, partially outside and uncentered in the body.
This being “off-center” manifests as imbalance and incompleteness in all myriad of physical, emotional and mental ways: not paying attention, daydreaming, difficulty walking or hitting the target when you sit down, lack of clarity, emotional instability, separation and loneliness, fear, worry, always missing something, etc.
If you imagine your dual self as a driver and its vehicle, the car would be your physical body and the driver your consciousness. Miscalibrating your true center would be like maneuvering the car from the passenger seat, or the roof! – your driving will always be off. But being dead center (Example A) is driving fully strapped in from the driver’s seat, as one with your car – then you can safely “race in the racetrack of space-time” without crashing or getting lost in life!
Example C. The rightmost figure shows an extreme case: here the separation, or miscalibration of center, is so large that the connection or overlap between spirit and body begins to fade. This person would be suicidal, extremely uncentered and unstable or barely functional as a human being. The spirit is what animates the body and if the off-center distance becomes too large, the connection to life is severed – and this is what we call death.
The figure below shows the same three examples as they would appear in the space-time grid (Space-Time Part 2). The blue dummies represent the location of center as calibrated by the consciousness (the crosses in the spirit body above), or where that consciousness thinks its body is.
Some relevant points about the figure:
The red star at the bullseye center is the “crossroads of space and time” (Space-Time Part 2), the direct connection to Source (the Death Space, or Void) where all energy, power and abundance are – the “campfire of the campground”.
The crossroads is at the present moment and the one true reality, our original state of limitless power and abundance. Anywhere else requires a sacrifice of your energy or essence – or “making your own fire”.
However, you cannot be exactly at the crossroads – the fire would burn you. An expert like Mas can learn to dip in and out: “I live from the Death Space but I’ve learnt to control it. I can come back here and not be disoriented or uncentered.”
The goal is to be in its vicinity or proximity: the zone represented by the gray circle. This is where your physical body is always rendered and where your center really is. However, distortions in your consciousness or the inability to recenter your consciousness in the body miscalibrate the location of that center.
Example A is inside this virtuous zone – the center is well calibrated by consciousness, spirit and body are coincident and in proximity to the crossroads, able to access near limitless possibilities and abundance in all areas.
Example B is typical of where most people would render themselves in space-time: their consciousness is off-center or partially outside their body. You would need to spend your own energy to maintain this location, or reality. In this particular case, that energy could manifest as depression, feeling left behind, trampled on or not-enough, lack of vitality, overwhelm, immaturity... This is how we truly “waste our energy” in life.
You can see that the most important question to ask yourself is, “How close am I to center?”
Your center is that state or reality where you feel most naturally at ease and balanced – we all have a sense of where that is for us. Become aware at any given moment of how far your present state is from your center – notice that distance. Then you can apply XI’s centering tools, such as Spatial Referencing, to bring you back into your center. Your center will refine as you advance and expand in your awakening journey, coming closer and closer to that absolute center. This whole process is what Mas calls “understanding how you’re rendering yourself in space-time”.
A calibration error, a displacement between spirit and body, is the source of all our troubles! We’re simply running a mis-tuned instrument, or vehicle, for navigation in space-time. Once you learn how to recenter spirit and body and blend yourself back in at will, you will inevitably feel whole, complete, balanced, safe and abundant – ready to race your Formula 1 car!
“Picture a race track... To keep your car precisely on track and go as fast as you can it's pretty amazing but pretty intense, and you have to understand the principles of it. It's not just about stepping on the gas and going round and round in a circle, you have to understand the physics of the road, the physics of the car in every detail - all those things to be your best on the track. Life is the same - if you don't understand the physics of life, you're going to crash. Simple as that.”
In upcoming XI-Pedia articles we’ll cover two closely related XI concepts that hold the key to staying centered: Reference Points and Spatial Referencing. Stay tuned!