It's useful to imagine a singularity. Really, I should say the Singularity, as there can only be one singularity. You can't have many singularities floating around, overlapping or bumping edges, because there are no edges to a singularity. The Singularity has no beginnings or ends, no inside or outside. It is formless, indivisible and dimensionless. Let go of the notions of time and space - they don't exist in the Singularity. There is no space or distance, no time or change. The Singularity is complete in its perfect, still, untainted nature.

Now, let's recognise what we're talking about here. This Singularity I've asked you to imagine is what was before the universe began. It's what was before time and space appeared. So really there is no 'was' about it. It's timeless. Confusion arises about this and we wonder, "How can something exist before time began?" The answer is that time is illusory. There is no 'before' time, because time only seems to appear. All we ever know is right now.

But let's continue imagining the Singularity. We're talking about the Singularity that gives rise to the apparent multiplicity of the universe here. Imagine it like a seed, completely contained and unexpressed. The opposing forces that will come into play in the universe are unexpressed, and we could consider that they are cancelled out, although really they've not split open yet.

We need to go further in understanding the nature of this Singularity. It is this Singularity that gives rise to the life of the universe. But life doesn't appear by chance. Life is the nature of existence or being. This Singularity is Life itself. The Singularity is alive before time begins. In the Singularity, this 'alive' means nothing. It just is what it is. It is only from our human perspective of conceptualising what seems to be either alive or not alive, that we can understand the Singularity as being Life itself, pure unexpressed Life.

What happens next? Well, there isn't a next. There only seems to be a next. It only seems that the Singularity burst forth into an expression of multiplicity. The universe seems to have appeared from out of the Nothing of the Singularity, dividing in two, splitting and reuniting, multiplying across the universe. This is the appearance of distance and change that we call space and time. The universe appears in the Singularity as if the Singularity opens up into a multiplicity and closes again, much like the opening and closing of a flower through the day. The universe continues to express the moment of creation right now.

It seems as if the Singularity divides itself and experiences separation and imbalance. It would be expected that the end of time and space will be the reuniting and rebalancing of the universe into the Singularity again. It's useful to understand this, because it's the reason for human life as we know it on planet Earth. But it's not strictly true, unless you recognise that the universe only seems to happen. The Singularity is right here now. It never went anywhere. It never broke. It never split. The Singularity does not change. Distance and change are illusory. There is nowhere other than the Singularity and there is no change in the timeless Singularity.

The conclusion is that there is no universe. There is only the Singularity. What we call the universe is a play of separation and limitation within the indivisible, unlimited Singularity. We must conclude then another aspect of the Singularity: that it has the ability to imagine. Not only is the Singularity alive, but it can imagine and create an illusory universe within itself.

You may think that it's not too dissimilar to the human mind, and you'd be right. The human mind is a natural development in the evolution of the illusory universe, expressing the unexpressed nature and origin of the universe. It's a development of becoming self expressing, creative, and self aware. The Singularity is alive and aware. It is the Heart of Awareness. From the perspective of the universe and beings in the universe, the Singularity shines like the heart of awareness in each being, the Being of all beings, the Heart of all hearts, the Self of all Selves. Although there is nothing other than the Singularity, the world appears as a division or stretching of the Singularity into what is close to it and what is far from it. The Singularity then appears to be the light of life at the heart of all beings. Pure Conscious Awareness.

But truly the Singularity encompasses all space and time. In the heart it is the whole. There is no far or near. There is no past or future. There is only the Pure Consciousness of the Singularity.