We live inside Water

We are born in water. Shaped by it. And yet, we live as if we were in air. What if reality was never solid to begin with? What if we’re already immersed in a fluid, responsive field—and just forgot how to swim?

Augusto Schneider

Do you know how to swim?

I heard one time that babies already born knowing how to swim; they lost this ability over time sometimes, but it amazed me when I first heard about it.

There’s actually a childbirth “style” which the baby comes to the world inside water. It’s called water birth and happens when a woman gives birth in a warm bath or pool.

Somewhere of her choice that envolves water.

This one thing always made me get in some deep reflection.

How do babies swim freely as the “fist act” of their lives and mostly how do they breath under water?

Maybe all that existis is indeed water;

…or maybe the natural flow of human being in reality is to live/breath/move inside water.

“When we are born, we are almost 80% water. By the time we reach our first birthday that number drops to about 65%.”

It’s a lot of water, don’t you think? Even when this number drops by the 1st birthday…

How doesn’t all this water kind of fall from our “skin body bag”?

How can we constrain all this water in our bodies?

Those are weird questions, I know, but they make a great starting point.

I’ve never experienced, in my existence with this body of mine, a loose balloon full of water king of feeling when I’m waking, exercising ou even sleeping.

For most of my days, there’s no such a thing as being in a extremely relaxation state of being that could bring me the gelatinous or gluey sensation.

I’m always, by my eyes and perception, firm. I’m always experiencing the solid and endured aspect of my body.

And, validating my sense of making part or belonging to the world, I cannot perceive other people as walking bags of water. Even more than that, when touching, hugging or interacting with people around me, there’s no sense of water at all and sometimes is more like steady rock or something like this.

I’m constantly living the separation of what’s my recipient of water and what’s the recipient of water from another.

Probably is the most common way of be experiencing Earth and Human: protecting what’s ours or who we are and defining or projecting what the outside happens to be, including other people and places.

We’re programed to experience reality like that.

We live the separation so we can understand what’s individuality.

We stand to ourselves to create the whole particular “my world”, inside our minds where we can give the meaning we want to whatever we want and base the rigid structures that secure our sense of being.

We kind of create our own mind cages. Not as a prison, but as a very protected home.

“Fluid as Water”: The path of existing

I keep harping on about this and makes a lot of sense to the fundamentals which we’re building this way of seeing the world and also existence:

Reality isn’t solid, it’s fluid.

Our own awareness is the cheat code.

How so? It’s as if we could type the klapaucius invented word on the top of the screen and change everything all the way up?  (people from The Sims 1 Era will understand it better, but you can Google it)

Not too much like that.

Think of that cheat code as manipulating waves in the sea.

Whatever you demand, the waves will follow. To the right, to the left; bigger, smaller.

Choose the command and the sea will behave just as you want.

This is almost like hacking your awareness (or literally).

You can bend the sea structure of the waves and you can manipulate **how you are perceiving things.

You can acknowledge everything from a totally different perspective.

You already do this all the time, there’s no news here. The game changing attitude is to acknowledge the power that emerge out of doing that.

I brought it in the Dimensional Understanding post from the Flatlander book (if you didn’t read yet, now is the time) and how Edwin brings to awareness the shift of our way on interpreting reality.

Actually, through the book’s point of view, he brings up how we’re probably stuck in some kind of limited reality perception which we were programmed with throughout our whole lives.

Everything is suppose to be the same, static, in our lives and nothing has the capability to change with or without our “help”.

It is as we were taught to aiming the everything keeps the status quo and all we know should maintain that frequency of mind where any kind of disruption is not allowed.

The A Square in Flatland can swear that he lives in a ultimate reality and all around him is air.

It’s all the he knows. It’s all that was always delivered to him as reality.

As a fish, he cannot see the water (even realize that). He’s a loyal believer in the structure of what he perceive as true.

Question that perception is way out of sight. It’s just not possible.

We, as humans, are in the same path.

We were taught what to believe.

We were indoctrinated in how perceiving the reality around us.

We are kept in a state of being that doesn’t allow us to break through what’s possible.

And, that’s the main thing here:

We might be already inside a higher-dimensional reality but are not able to see it.

Maybe because of fear.

Maybe because things are better (in a day to day life) when they’re familiar.

Maybe because we keep running away of what could be the truth (or run way of some dense reflections).

Either way, I believe, if we want it we would be able to see beyond.

We would be able to slightly touch another kind of consciousness that bring a little more flow to our lives.

By the way, it’s not just me that is believing in waterrealityseeforyourselfhowyourlifecouldflow.

There are two great guys I want to introduce that talk about this water-reality-way-of-exeprience-awereness.

Maybe they’re not very alike each other but (in this one subject) they use the same terms.

Jesus

Jesus says we must be born again of water and Spirit—meaning a new way of perceiving reality.

“Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b]gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[c] must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” — John 3:5

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee says “Be Water”adapt to reality rather than resist it.

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” — Bruce Lee

We’re about to bring a whole new reflection on what this could mean.

I hope it’ll be fun and (better yet) it will be a new way of reflecting about those speeches.

Don’t resist… flow.

Change is the most misunderstood thing we can possibly experience.

Almost everyday, I can guess that you’re trying to change something about your life:

Business ideia, job, relationships… anything.

You’re always trying to get out of where you are or what you’re living for some idealistic different scenario in your head.

At the same time, you want a lot of things to be the same.

It’s kind of lunatic, I’ll tell you.

You already heard that it’s crazy when you’re repeating the same pattern and expecting to get different results (science, b**tch).

You cannot change anything in your life if you do not change the pattern of how you perceive it. You have to go further.

Could be a very interest thing if you accept that all reality is a fluid and interconnected thing. That It’s not possible for you to change something and keep others related things intact.

In order to flow, you have to think that everything will flow. Some of the things that you wanna keep the same will enter the fluid and responsive characteristic of reality.

By trying to keep some of the things that will change altogether the same, you tend to see reality as rigid and fixed when it’s actually fluid and responsive.

One thing affects the other. A chain reaction.

If you’ve touched a spider web in your life (even if you don’t, I believe it’s easy to visualize it), you know that the one movement in any point of that will reverberate in the whole thing at the same time.

Your conscious woks in the same way. But, because you can’t “see it”, you don’t directly perceive the field around yourself.

You’re inclined to believe that exists a space, a air separation between ourselves, other people, stuffs and everything else in our reality.

That makes me think of the great insight of Edwin: just like the Flatlander, we’re living inside water and thinking it’s air.

Not in the metaphorical way.

We’re living in a interconnected energy kind of web and believing there’s separation.

Speaking of it, the only constant you know by fact is change, it’s fluidity.

There’s no way anything will ever be kept the same. The illusion inside the illusion is believing that things last more than they should.

Everything will be carried by this river.

The ocean seems the same when you are looking at it, but you know that the waves are always coming and going.

Resistance to this natural flow (holding onto rigid beliefs, fear, ego) makes life harder, like trying to fight against the waves instead of surfing them.

And we have some colateral effects in be resistant:


→ The consequences of Resisting

  1. Misalignment with reality’s Natural Flow

You try to control what should be adapted and then lead yourself to struggle.

  1. Fear and Rigid Perception

Like a radio locked onto static instead of tuning into a clear signal you keep yourself stuck in lower frequencies.

  1. Drown in Resistance

Instead of realize you were always meant to float, you keep spinning around in currents underneath water.

  1. Victim of Circumstances

Without realizing the Grid is alive and interactive, you become a victim instead of a co-creator of experience.


Those who know the tides don’t resist the waves

So, have you ever felt that some things around you are more malleable than usual?

Didi you felt that something were a sure thing your life and it happens to be just another passing phase?

Or that some of your plans (maybe) happen to be a little (or a lot) different that you expected?

Water has the property of molding itself depending on the vessel they match.

Reality behaves in the same way as water. Isn’t fixed—It responds to our consciousness.

Think of ripples in the water. You touch here next to you and it’s cause a reverb effect in all the water around.

Different frequencies (HZ) create different experiences and outcomes. Because of that, things happen to have an open spectrum of how they can manifest and how indeed they will become “matter” (reality).

Imagine this:

You are living you everyday normal life when suddenly, in a blink of an eye, you start o see a lot of lines around you, through people and inside/outside the buildings.

A hell of a shock, right?

Although you’re a curious person. You don’t let that change in your perspective frightens you.

At first, hell yeah that scares you. But, as you start to be in familiar terms with this new… perspective, you start to notice that those lines move, almost like dancing. They are not rigid.

They’re not a fixed cage, but a responsive medium, it changes based on how people interact with it— which later you start to understand that what change the characteristics of this web around people are their beliefs, emotions, awareness, and frequency of consciousness.

People pass through those lines next to you and the lines change behavior. They stretch. They weaken. They soft. They expand. They constraint.

All kinds of different interaction can be perceived as other people walk by those new lines of your vision.

Super power “highline” vision stuff.

Well, you can make a parallel here with this “imaginative” scenario and the water reality terms:

When Jesus tell Nicodemus, “You must be born again of water and Spirit” (John 3:5), He’s is implying a shift in perception, a tuning to a new frequency (changing your Hz):

  • The water and Spirit are not separate things—water is a medium of change, and Spirit is the tuning mechanism.
  • Being “born again” could mean aligning your frequency with a higher state, tuning into a divine perception.
  • It’s not about physical birth, but a vibrational shift—a change in how you resonate with The Grid.

Those lines you are experiencing now, they’re the beginning of perceiving you live inside water, and everything you interact with is fluid and can change by your will, if you know how to tune with those lines.

We can make the connection here with Bruce Lee’s “Be Water” statement also:

(always intrigued me the fact of they two are talking in the same language, using the same words like a hidden meaning secret code that emerge from that symbol)

Bruce Lee’s advice “Be water, my friend” is about not clinging to a fixed pattern—which means learning to ride the waves of The Grid instead of resisting them:

  • If The Grid is fluid like water, then rigidity is illusionary.
  • Water adapts to frequency, just like how The Grid moves in response to your conscious state.

⚲ Flatlander Parallel

A Flatlander believes that everything around where he’s living is air and… flat: he perceive lines and shadows, basically.

If they feel resistance of some kind in their motion, is hard to understand why from their perspective. Like, why air would be resistant?

As you pass through the pages of the book, you start to notice that they have a rigid perception, without permitting themselves to even understand the medium they’re living in (remember the fish?).

Just as a person trapped in rigid perceptions feels stuck in life without realizing that the external, The Grid, is just responding to their internal state.

It’s water and it’s making waves in feedback response by how you’re stimulating and interacting with the medium.

Now, let’s create another “hypothetical” scenario here.

If a great being who could see The Grid and the medium we’re submerged within (like Jesus, I believe), have a look at us, He would perceive we might be just like the Flatlander who doesn’t realize they’re already inside a greater reality (”water”).

The divine reality is all around us, but we assume we’re in a “empty” world;

If we extend this metaphor to higher dimensions, then what we think is “air” is actually a form of water that we hardly can see or even fell it for what it is.

To us, this kind of water is invisible and just seems like air.

That’s one of the literal and possible meanings of Jesus saying “You must reborn to perceive the truth”.

He is instigating you to actually see what’s the real medium you’re inside and interacting with.

1. “You must be like water—formless, adaptable, flowing.”

2. “Unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.”

Both messages are delivering the same meaning: transcend your limited perspective and awake to the natural fluid of reality.

Let go of resistance.

Accept reality as not something to control upon, but something to align with and to bend as it flows through your perception.

How about the signal of your tuning?

Reality isn’t something you can change, you see?

The external aspects of the world are just flowing things that follow their own frequency.

The way a person talks to you;

That one time that your friend canceled in the last minute;

That one another time someone didn’t greet when passing you in the street;

What about when you were interrupted from someone while you were speaking?

All those situations are interpreted in different manners depending on how your filter from reality allows you to digest what is happening, and more important, how you give meaning to that specific situation.

As you change your frequency, you permits the reality around you to reconfigures itself to match your new state of flow.

I like to think that this is exactly what Jesus meant by “The Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21).

We have the really bad habit to tend to perceive this message as it is a place somewhere

A location that you should head to when you’re dead. Like, what a misconceive understanding of the whole depth of that.

The Kingdom is not a place—it’s a vibrational shift into divine alignment. Literally, know your Grid and how it interferes in your perception, your reality and the meaning to things you experience in the world.

The Kingdom is not something out there — it’s a thin layer of your perceived reality, always present but almost imperceptible.

To be seen, The Kingdom requires a sensible tuning in to it.

You have to become more aware of the daily details, you know? Really exercise the “now presence”.

Think again about the Flatlander becoming aware of the 3rd Dimension (read the book here); we live inside this consciousness water already, and it’s ready to be experience in its fullest.

The Grid is fluid, vibrational and wave-like.

We’re essentially living inside what Jesus called the Living Water.

This is a phenomena called Cross Seas and can often be seen off the western point of France’s Isle of Rhé, for example, or on the beaches of Tel Aviv, though they can arise in many coastal regions around the world.

“Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.” (John 4:14)

The Living Water was never meant to be metaphorical.

I really believe it s the only way this malleable and fluid characteristic of reality could be described. This gridlike pathwaypermit that you experience things as you experience yourself, changing the external aspects of the world as you change yourself.

The mind hack here is understanding that it wasn’t physical water, or spiritual salvation (as we always like to think about it);

He was showing how to shift awareness into the higher frequency of The Grid itself.

The true divine reality tuning in.


→ Quick “wtf do I do now?” blueprint

The next steps could be very subtle to follow but could make the total difference in the way you experience things and how you interpret what happens around yourself.

Let’s make it easy to follow through, okay?

  • Move like Water

Don’t cringe to rigid forms. Flow and adjust as needed.

  • Let go of Resistance

Accept that reality is not something to control, but to align with.

  • Shift your awareness

Just as water changes form, change your own perception to match the frequency you want to experience.

  • Understand The Grid as the medium

You are inside something great. There’s no “other place”. You don’t need to find it—it’s already here.

  • Trust the Flow

Water moves through whatever it encounters in its way. It flows and adapts. Just as a higher awareness moves through you as you stop clinging to old patterns.


The main thing here is to allow yourself to perceive differently. Everything and Anything.

Tune to a higher way of giving meaning.

Change your awareness and you’ll change the things that happen to you.

The water is already here… now you know how to swim.

It’s all a fluid and vibrational kind of experience. We live inside this “always moving” Grid that suits us as we please; or as we can understand it better.

Your awareness and Hz determine how you move within it, and awakening is the realization you can “breath under water”.

Is realizing that all around you is interactive and is mirroring your own influence.

Remember:

“You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water, my friend.”

Bruce Lee’s “Be Water” is the learning of how navigate The Grid fluidly.

Jesus’ “Be born Again” is realizing The Grid is already alive, and you must tune into it consciously.

Flatlander’s “Awakening” is realizing that what we thought was “air” is actually “water”.

Now, I hope you are little bit more ready to learn to surf the waves of reality.

At least, you have a little bit more creative way to unfold reality. ******

“May The Grid moves with you.”

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