Drinking From The Well

Written by Mathew Naismith

I won't, as I often do, give a preconception in relation to what is meant by drinking from the well, you must perceive this as you see fit, not what other people like me see fit. Preconceptions often lead us astray, especially other people's preconceptions.

I have drunk from the well but not within this lifetime, but I have within my whole lifetime!!

Once I remembered drinking from the well in a previous life, at the very moment I realise that we don't actually live separate lives to each life we have lived, it is simply of one life lived while experiencing different environments. I will go even further with, no life is separate to other life forms. To go even further from this, no energy no matter how we perceive that energy to be of, for example either negative or positive, is not separate to all other energy, it simply seems separate because of the different environments that exists. Yes, a presently experienced environment can indeed nullify all other environments, the act of declaring all other lives lived, in other words all other environments experienced, as invalid to the present environment being experienced.

The point of nullifying previous life experiences is to experience the present environment how it is without interference from other environments not of this present environment. Each environment experienced has it's own energy, the trick is to not perceive a separation from all other energies therefore a separation from other environmental experiences.

Yes, this can be very tricky if we are not learning from awareness and wisdom that tells us of this connection. Numerous ideologies, in their own way, work at keeping us in touch with these other environments without separating us from the experiences from the present environment. It looks to me at present that this awareness and wisdom is being completely nullified, to make other environments to our own present environment invalid for example, materialism is all of who we are.

This is interesting because this degree of stance of invalidation can lead to human consciousness as a whole drinking from the well. As an individual consciousness can drink from the well, so can a collective consciousness. In a real sense though, no individual from all other energies drinks from the well on their own, there is no individual consciousness but it can seem that way to those who have not drunk from the fountain. If one consciousness has drunk from the well, so has consciousness as a whole, it is just we simply can not perceive an environment different to our present environment.

So if Buddha and Shiva, for example, represent enlightenment, we are all enlightened. It is like not remembering a past life because you are presently within a completely different environment. Enlightenment to unenlightenment are very different environments to each other, but not separate environments to each other once one has drank from the well, or in my case remembering drinking from the well.

I live by the present environment while being aware of other environmental presents.......