Have you ever met a lovely lady or a gentleman for the very first time, perhaps in another state, or even another country, and felt certain that you had already seen her/him before... perhaps gone out with her/him in another lifetime?
This may be more than an idle fantasy.
Déjà vu is French for having seen someone or something before. It is a disquieting feeling that you have been somewhere before, despite having no evidence that this is the case.
It is not a trivial feeling, but an overwhelming feeling. You know with every fiber of your being. When you see that woman/man or see that place, you feel totally at home without being able to explain why?
Over 60% of us have had this feeling before in one form or another. It has been recognized as such for over 150 years.
What Causes Déjà Vu?
One theory or another has been advanced to explain it, from the occult to neurophysiology. Yet no one seems to have arrived at the definitive explanation, despite dozens of highly sophisticated attempts.
The most popular explanation is that we have many lives, and that this situation is a flashback from another lifetime, much like a time warp. Hmmmm. Possible.
In the West, we find the notion that we have life after life highly comforting. Ironically, in the East, this is not welcomed, as the whole thrust traditionally has been to transcend the phenomenal world, rather than being caught in maya, or illusion.
A more profound approach is the realization that each one of us is all of us. That we, as individuals, reflect one another.
Everyone you meet is your mirror. Everyone and everything lies in the sphere of our consciousness. This is true, not only of apparent space, but also of apparent time. I AM everything that is, everything that ever was and everything that ever will be.
Each one of us is a context, or space, for everyone and everything that we experience. Ultimately, there is only the Context of All Contexts, Whom and What we call God (the Supreme Intelligence).
Constant Déjà Vu
Actually, all time and space is happening right now, in the eternal NOW moment. It is moving slow as Now…Now…Now, as the eternal pulse of being, much like a dance.
In order to fully relish this dance, this story, this play, this movie, we chose to incarnate, to take on a body and accept apparent limitation.
We experience this as a lifetime. We build a whole world around our choices. The world isn’t ultimately “out there,” but rather “in here.” Within.
Just like virtual reality, it is a lot more fun to be immersed in the drama. When things get too scary, we can choose to wake up.
However, from time to time we can remember a certain set of possibilities that we have already seen or experienced.
In truth, it is all happening right now.
There really is no past or future. Yet, in order to function, we need to experience changes in a linear fashion.
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The Déjà Vu experience is a delightful validation that we are more than we take ourselves to be.
From time to time, we need to wake up in order to have perspective in our lives. This a very romantic and enchanting way to do it.
As the Nobel prize-winning poet, T.S. Eliot put it in his Four Quartets:
Words move, music moves...
Only in time, but that which is only living can only die.
Words, after speech, reach into the silence.
Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in it stillness.
Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,
Not that only, but the co-existence,
Or say that the end precedes the beginning,
And the end and the beginning were always there
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now.
Have you ever experienced Déjà vu? Share your story in the comments area below.
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