You're Equal

By Samantha Standish

KNOW YOUR EQUALITY
Once upon a time, a woman had an out-of-body experience where she learned that the whole universe was combined as a single unit of existence. Everything and everyone was equal. The experience was breathtaking, brilliant, and familiar. Each day thereafter, she worked to translate that unique perspective into terms that could be understood by people who had never had occasion to experience such a thing. She labored for a decade with great intensity, and like a treasure hunter, striking a cache of gems, she found jewel after jewel to elucidate the pristine beauty of that experience. Those treasures then turned into a book that contained a definitive, and unassailable, explanation of the mechanics of equality. That book is "You're Equal."

The secret to a secure life is to know that your equality isn't relative to someone else's opinion. If you've ever felt disrespect, excluded, or demeaned, if you've ever had doubts about your value, worth, or importance, let this book release those doubts forever. Come to understand the magic behind the mechanics of equality. See equality in its most rudimentary form without the cloak of politics, philosophy, or dogma. Like a trusted guide, "You're Equal" will remind you of the immortal nature of your status. 

Walk confidently into the future by knowing your equality from the ground up. Get the book right now and taste the brilliance that's you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Samantha Standish
• Release date: Aug 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386398776

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Introduction

EVERYTHING IS EQUAL, but nothing is the same. The human mind is capable of understanding this. It can comprehend paradox. It can move beyond superficial understandings of reality. In fact, I’m counting on your ability to do just that.

I’m not being bold when I say that you’re equal to everyone and everything that has, does, or ever will exist. This is a mechanic of reality, and it can’t be changed. My certainty stems from an unusual experience that I had many years ago. Experience is a unique teacher because it gives you a visceral perspective of the subject matter. It’s more persuasive than just thinking about something. For example, no one has to tell you that you’re human. Your experiences tell you that you’re human, so it’s more than a concept to you. My experiences tell me that all beings are equal. My experiences make it more than a concept for me. I know that all beings are equal because I experienced the structure of it firsthand.

Here’s how it happened. One morning, after a completely average night’s sleep, I woke up not attached to my body. I was in that condition for about an hour, and while I was in that state I experienced the structure of reality itself. The experience then ended, and everything returned to normal. Nothing like it has ever happened again.

The out-of-body was instructive, to understate the case. Originally, I thought I’d put to use what I’d learned from the experience, and when I got good at applying the material, I’d write a book about it. However, it’s much more challenging to change all of your habits and behaviors than it might seem at first glance. It may take me a few more decades to achieve my original intent. I give myself an A for effort, but my hope is that you’ll be more adept, or at least quicker, at implementing these concepts than I’ve been. I’m going to give you that chance, in any case, by sharing what I know. In other words, don’t let my ineptitude deter you.

Every day since the out-of-body, I’ve thought about how to reconcile what I knew and experienced there with what I know and experience here. There and here are related and intertwined. That’s because there isn’t a there and here. They’re both the same place. But that’s another book.

This book is the distillation of more than a decade reverse engineering what I experienced that morning. However, you don’t need to have an out-of-body experience to reach the conclusions I elucidate in this book. All you have to do is listen to your natural feelings. It’s all within you, and I mean that literally, not figuratively. I don’t mean to imply that it’s all within your body. I mean that it’s all within your being, which is something quite different from your body though the two are connected.

Now, the most shocking thing about having an out-of-body experience is that you learn that the universe is psychological. It’s imaginary. You might say to me, Go get a hammer, and put your hand on this table here, and I’ll show you the difference between imaginary things and physical things. But I would have to counter that the only difference between physical things and psychological things is the state of motion. You can think of physical things and psychological things as the same things at different speeds. The rate at which an object moves determines your relationship to it, whether that object is visible or invisible.

Things that we consider mental aren’t solid to physical senses because they’re moving at speeds that the physical senses can’t perceive. Physical things move at speeds that are solid to the physical senses. But both are imaginary. Both are built from images or ideas or aware patterns of motion. Their baseline energetics are psychological or intelligent, incorporating both will and action. Everything is alive, you see.

This isn’t the way that it seems. The universe doesn’t seem like it’s psychological. It seems like we’re living in a world full of solid stuff, completely and totally unrelated to psychological processes of any kind. You don’t look at your couch and think that it’s intelligent, for example. You don’t sit on it, and know that its form and existence are related to your feelings and beliefs and perceptions. You think that your couch is an object that you use to rest your body. That’s all. But that’s not all. In fact, I would venture to say that the perception of solidity is a very clever deception and an astonishing accomplishment because, no matter how solid it seems, matter isn’t solid at all. Nor is it separate from you or anything else. It’s busy, being in continuity with everyone and everything. The whole matter of matter is more sophisticated than we’re led to believe.

We’re taught that the universe is composed of solid objects that are separate from one another. Objects are viewed as inert forms that have no inherent relationship with anything other than the material from which they’re made. So, it’s a bit of an eye-opener when you experience the physics of matter and discover that it’s all alive, connected, interacting, and in motion. Mental activity has properties that propel, form, organize, and deconstruct matter. If you want to get to the center of things, I’ll make it simple. Energy is psychological in nature. Perhaps there’s a better word than psychological, but it’s precise enough in its generality for this discussion. Awareness, intelligence, focus, and attention are forces that move and create form without having form themselves. To get a handle on these ideas, you have to allow yourself to think in expansive ways.

What I’m really saying is that if you’re alive without a body, which is what having an out-of-body is all about, then it changes the way that you view everything. Most people wonder if there’s life after death, or whether their identity continues on after this life. I can assure you that you continue to exist after this life. Your identity is vibrantly alive without a body. But you don’t have to have an out-of-body to know this. You have an intuitive sense about it right now. Check in with your gut feelings. You know that you’re more than this body and more than this life because you have a nagging sensation about it, even if it’s just a little feeling that you’ve shoved down until it’s nearly silent. Even if you’ve trained it to be quiet, you know it’s there. In point of fact, you’re alive whether you have a body or not and whether you believe it or not. You just have to calm the chatterbox of modern culture from time to time to get a sense of it.

For me, there’s no doubt about the immortality of being. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no such thing as life after death because there’s no such thing as death. There’s just you, focusing through the expression of a body and then you, withdrawing that focus and no longer expressing a body. We call it death, but it’s not really death.

No matter how you end your experience in the physical dimension, no matter what your excuse for leaving—accident, illness, old age, whatever—what you’re really doing is removing your focus. You’re turning your attention away from this dimension and placing your attention, which is you, elsewhere. That’s all that’s happening.

Now, the title of this book isn’t random because the central aspect of my experience wasn’t random. That out-of-body experience was in illustration of something that I’d been thinking about the day before. The day before the experience, I’d been focused on the idea that desire is an action. It wasn’t my idea. I’d read it in a book, and it had captured my attention. I thought that the idea was interesting. I wondered how it would work, if it were true. What were the attributes of desire that allowed it to be something more than a meaningless blip in an infinite cosmos of thought? Because, at most, it seems like desire is an electrical charge. You have a desire, and you blink out that electrical charge from your brain or your body, and that’s the end of that. It doesn’t seem like desire is connected to anything other than your mind, and it doesn’t seem like desire has the ability to do much beyond motivating you. But this world is more complex, and in many ways much weirder, than we believe it to be.

In any case, I played with the idea of desire being an action the day before I had my instructional outing. It seemed innocent enough. I was just thinking thoughts, as you do. It was an average day as days go. I wasn’t ill or exhausted or on medication or taking mind altering substances or engaging in meditation or trying out any other form of altered state of awareness. I was completely healthy, having a normal day, performing mundane chores while daydreaming about the construction of reality. I had a regular evening with my family and a normal night’s sleep. Waking up, however, was very abnormal.

In the morning, as I was emerging out of the dream state, I found myself not attached to my body. There was no preamble. I just woke up that way. The most amazing thing about not being attached to my body was that I didn’t panic. You’d think that panic would be your first reaction to such a situation. My first reaction, however, was astonishment at how vibrant, intense, electric, and alive I felt. Not being attached to a body was a heightened state, an indescribably less restricted state, one in which you’re aware of the massive power that’s at your disposal with a mere thought. You could go anywhere, do anything, be anything, experience anything, and know anything, instantaneously. You might think that this gargantuan power would feel foreign or strange or dangerous, but it felt comfortable, regular, and nice. It felt like me.

Let me start by saying that out-of-body is a misleading phrase though that would be the way that most people would describe this experience and why I’ve used it at the beginning of this introduction. However, I’m going to rename it for the sake of accuracy. I’m going to call it a less specific focus experience because, for me, this is a more precise way of putting it, and here’s why. Imagine for a moment that nothing—the invisible, the intangible, the dimensionless—could be concentrated. Imagine that this nothing was aware and that it could be specified to such a degree that it believed that it was separate from the infinity that it is. That’s what you are in a human body. You’re intensely alive, aware, un-separated, formless infinity, focused and filtered through, and as, a physical body. You experience the perspective of the body, but you’re not that body.

It’s worth taking a moment to discuss the nothing because when I found myself not attached to my body, I felt more alive, aware, intelligent, and normal than I’ve ever felt focused through a body. It was strange to feel so alive when there was no object to point to as me. In fact, there are no words to describe how awesome and powerful and connected I felt in that state, and it was a very, very familiar feeling.

After a few moments—though moments is not the correct term because time didn’t function the way we parse it out through physical, neurological sequencing—I remembered that this non-specific aware aliveness was really me, and that my physical life was just a super advanced game played by those of us who are gluttons for an over-the-top challenge. In fact, in that less specific focus, I thought that it was really funny that we all took our lives so seriously here in the physical world. I knew that the physical experience was supposed to be fun, and from the perspective of not being attached to the physical body, I saw my life as fun. I saw it as exhilarating. That was one of the great things about that experience, remembering the bigger picture, why we’re here, and how it all works. The trick has been to cultivate those perceptions that I had without a body and bring them to life here where our habits of thinking are so heavy and immobile. It’s a little like trying to keep a match lit while you’re outside in a hurricane. I’ve had to work at it.

One of the most amazing aspects of that less specific focus was the fact that I could