The Inside Out World

Written by Mathew Naismith

This actually isn't going on from my recent posts on the topic of the upside down world, this is due to the upside down world being about existing in a world/reality that has a perception of a wrong and right, however, the inside out world is different to this, it's more about the awareness in such worlds/realities without a right and wrong, not about a right and wrong which in turn turns the world upside down while becoming aware.

In saying that the inside out world has nothing to do with the upside down world isn't absolutely correct, this is due to while experiencing realities like this one in different ways, at times seemingly upside down, we are indeed becoming further aware. This I feel is mainly due to knowing or feeling their is no right or wrong way to experience such realities. In all, the upside down world means what it says, we turn the world inside out, in other words we turn our perceptions and mentalities of our perceptions inside out, this of course can only be done successfully if we firstly perceive there is no true right or wrong.

To me it's vitally important to try to perceive and know there is no true right or wrong, otherwise, all you will do is perceive what you want or desire to perceive, not what is actually perceivable while turning everything inside out. I feel this kind of perception only creates chaos within a reality, this is due to the non-acceptance or total denial of other experiences that we perceive as wrong in some way when there is no true right or wrong to start with.

Let's look at the inside out world like this, when we turn a dress/frock/gown inside out, what do we then become aware of? We become aware of different facets/aspects of what we are mainly aware of, this gives us a different perception of such gowns, by turning such gowns inside out, we are now aware of how there made, this is no different to how we turn our own reality inside out. By turning the gown inside, we become aware of how unsightly it is on the inside but does this make the inside of the gown wrong in some way? No, experiencing realities work the same way, there is a hidden factor that isn't seen until we become aware of it, does it then make this wrong once we become aware of this hidden factor?

Let's look at this way, what do we do in regards to other cultures? Once we become aware of a perceived  wrong within another culture, we in fact judge that the inside of the gown is wrong even though the inside of the gown allows the outside of the gown look as good as it does. This makes the inside of the gown unworthy compared to the outside of the gown, we tend to look at other cultures in the same way, they are not just as worthy just because they are showing to us the inside of the gown. We might also here perceive that other cultures make our own culture look good, but to do this, we have to perceive a wrong when everything is worthy within a certain perception.

Let's now take this inside out world to the next stage of development, to become truly spiritually aware or an actual spiritualist, we give up our desires and only exist for a need like many spiritualist from India actually do for example. Now let's turn this existing for a need inside out, in other words look at the other side of the coin or gown, what do we then become aware of?

The other side that supports such people living for a need is people  living for a desire, the people who supply such spiritual people with their needs, this is the other side of the gown, however, a true spiritualist is already aware of the other side where's a unaware person isn't, this makes all the difference to our perceptions. Being aware of what exists when we turn something inside out, makes a huge difference to how aware and open our perceptions are going to be, but what is most important is that we don't perceive a wrong or right while turning something inside out, we just become aware of a different way to exist and be.

Let's once again go to the next stage, can an actual spiritualist, who only lives for a need, suddenly decide to live for a desire? Most definitely, this is what I feel is the next stage of spiritual development but only after we learn to live for a need absent of all desires.

In this case the living for desire becomes quite different to someone who is unaware of existing only for a need, in other words people who know little about how to only live for a need. The biggest difference between an actual spiritualist and an unaware person is the desire actually changes, in other words it's the way we use such desires. Instead of living for our own desires serving ourselves, we actually learn to live for desires that also serve others to the extent of  serving others more than ourselves. Even though I'm not a spiritualist in any sense of the word, I saw this within myself after being aware of living for a need, I served my own desires but in turn served someone else's need as well, probably more so.

In past posts I have spoken out against desires in conjunction with spirituality, I still hold to this only because desiring while turning our world inside out only gives us perception of right and wrongs, this isn't so when we learn to turn our world inside out while having a perception of there being no true right or wrongs. Another point is, if you can't experience what you judge as being wrong, you haven't turned your world inside out to become truly aware of the other side of existence, the other side of the gown.

You get to the point of your spiritual development (awareness) that you start to again seemingly live for a desire which becomes a need for others, so in fact you are not truly at this stage of spiritual awareness existing for desires at all, not when it serves other people's needs and I do mean needs. If all you are doing is existing for desires to serve other people's desires, you haven't truly turned your world inside out, in other words you must desire to serve a need, not another desire.

Very recently I thought I was fulfilling a desire of my own without any great benefits to another person, this wasn't the case, I discovered I was serving a need for them through my own desires which are only really needs for another person, there where no true desires to begin with.

When you get to a certain stage of spiritual development (awareness), you actually live less for a need as well, however, as you develop further, you start to live for other people's needs which at first seems like you are only serving your own desires. A good example of this is the religious Dark Ages when the churches served their own and other people's desires, to do this they had to hurt others in this process, what would have happened if the churches of the time primarily served other people's needs?  The churches of the time were a need of the people of the time, what happened is the churches turned this need into a desire and of course all hell broke loose, this wouldn't have happened if the churches existed for a need, in other words exist to primarily serve a need I feel.

When you turn anything inside out, it's going to be difficult to clearly understand especially if we are  prejudging a right or wrong, this kind of judgment is of course going to make it even more difficult to the extent of denouncing such newly found awareness. It's quite clear to me why we have stayed so ignorant for so long as a species, when we turn anything inside out to hopefully become further aware, we prejudge a right or wrong to start with and then we use it for our desires to serve other desires.

It's always far more beneficial for all if we are clearly aware of our own inside out world without prejudice and lustfulness, for all prejudice and lustfulness creates is even more chaos!!