My husband and I were recently watching the movie Paul, the 2011 movie starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogan. Rogan voices the animated alien, Paul, and Pegg and Frost are Sci-Fi geeks touring America’s famous UFO sighting areas. Paul asks the two humans to drive him from the UFO landing sites in the Southwestern states to Wyoming in order for him to be picked up by his fellow planet inhabitants. My husband was willing to suspend his critical thinking regarding the possibility of an alien living in the United States for 50 years, helping Steven Spielberg to write movies, create the characters for the X-Files and advise the government on a host of topics. However, Pat had to step up his willingness to suspend his logical thinking regarding how fast the characters were able to drive from the Southwest to Devil’s Tower in the Northeast corner of Wyoming. I love when it is the practical aspects of movies and stories that are the hardest for us to suspend our disbelief.
“Suspension of disbelief” is the term used to describe when story tellers use the audience’s willingness to overlook improbable situations in order for the audience to enjoy the narrative of the story being told.
While we were watching Paul, I realized that our relationship with the Experiment in Duality is actually very similar to novels and movies where we have to buy-in to the facts and circumstances presented in order to participate and believe the narrative being told. But, unlike with novels and movies where we suspend our disbelief, when we joined the Experiment in Duality, we needed to suspend our BELIEF. We suspended our belief in ourselves as limitless, as love, as powerful, as forgiving and compassionate. We suspended our belief in our oneness with all beings. We suspended our belief in ourselves as Source.
Like a favorite movie, we need to allow ourselves to enjoy while we are here in the Experiment in Duality and just like in movies, we need to remember this is just an illusion. We need to step out of the narrative whether we are enjoying it or not and remember what is really true. We need to remember and believe that we are Source.