20. Reflecting on LIVING IN WONDER

Hello! Welcome to this sacred space … to this quiet moment …

and to our reflective, meditative time together!

I’m Bill Bauman … and I’m deeply honored

to be spending these few precious moments with you.

Let’s reflect now on … LIVING IN WONDER!

Alice in Wonderland has nothing on us!
As you recall, after she fell down the rabbit hole,
she came upon a strange-looking, weird-feeling ‘other world.’
Well, you and I also have a “Wonderland,” one that we can claim

and that has a bunch of ingredients that Alice’s world didn't have.

In contrast, our Wonderland is filled with indescribable wonders.

Let’s spend these few moments together
visiting, and living in, our very own Wonderland—
an internal realm or world that actually doesn’t even look like
the human world around us, the familiar one we see with human eyes.
Come to think about it, our Wonderland isn’t typically human at all.

Join me, if you will, as, together, a mighty force is leading us down

the invisible hole that exists in our consciousness,

the gentle pathway that ushers us into another world—

into an internal realm living in the underbelly of our humanness:

a Luscious Land of Whimsical Wonder!

What is this Land of Wonder, our very own Wonderland?
Now that we’re here, newly arrived in its embrace, look around it.

What do you see … or sense … or feel here?
What is this mysterious world that only a small handful
of human beings have ever experienced?
How is it that this enticing, exciting world,
intricately hidden within the folds of our shared humanness,
has opened itself for you and me to discover …
and not only discover, but explore … and even inhabit?

Again, I ask you: What do you see, or feel, or experience here?
Allow me to share with you what I see, if you will …
but please give yourself permission to have your own experience.
I first see a world filled with light—

a penetrating light that shines everywhere,

illuminating everything around it.

Then, my gaze shifts and, as if with new eyes,

I see a vast, soft, peace-filled space—where nothing disturbs the peace
and where everything exists in harmony with everything else.

Then, as my gaze shifts once again, I open seemingly even newer eyes,

and I see complete emptiness—
an emptiness where nothing at all is present, where nothing exists,
but where sheer potential fills the empty space.
It’s a world teeming with possibilities—millions and billions of them—

and each of them captivates my sense of curiosity and wonder.

What a remarkable world that lives so mightily within us,
seemingly waiting for you and me to ‘come visiting’ and discover it

What a thrilling treat to host such a three-fold world—
one realm of infinite light,
another of pure essence and peace,
and a third of quantum nothing-ness and possibility!

What an enormous blessing—
to experience our human limitations so refreshed and enhanced
by such extraterrestrial wonder and entertainment …
to have our human hungers and needs fed and nourished

by such endless internal power and authority …

and to experience our human wants and desires fulfilled,

perhaps not always with a humanly satisfying response,

but always with the response of spiritual and quantum gifts!

Again, if I may, I invite you to roll around in the light-filled grass

of this magnanimous Wonderland,

to drink in the gifts of tranquility and peace that are offered you here,

to relish the infinite possibilities that shower you

with their endless expressiveness

and to enjoy the totally empty realm of pure quantum nothing-ness,

the very void that can create you anew at the blink of an eye!

Thank you for joining me in this exciting Wonderland today.

Thank you for sharing this world of magic and miracles with me.

Thank you for sliding down this invisible hole in your consciousness every day.

And thank you for celebrating your human-ness by observing it

through the eyes of

your spiritual light, your infinite essence and your quantum source!

Finally, thank you for being you—

the ‘you’ that has been both destined and invited to live in this Wonderland,

and the ‘you’ that, at this magical moment of your life,

are “Wonder” itself!