Definition: The World

Table of Contents for Root Meanings

Revision: 1 May 2023

The World

• The realm of all actual and potential experience.
• As reality is beyond experience, the world is unreal, though not without value.
• Creation transcends and includes the world.
• Expression transcends and includes the world.
• In clarity, the world is a conscious expression of Divinity/God/Source.
• In clarity, the world is a conscious expression of THE SUPREME.
• In clarity, the world is a realm of divine enjoyment.
• In clarity, the world is lila.
• In confusion, the world is experienced as unconsciousness.
• In confusion, the world is a realm of suffering.
• In confusion, the world is maya.
• In truth, the world is always a sacred expression of THE SUPREME.
• When confusion is present in the Mind of all minds, there seems to be an outer world and an inner world.
• In Supreme Awakeness, there is no outer world and there is no need to use the language of outer and inner.

The outer world:

• The realm of all actual and potential experience.
• Everything that is “out there” is the content of unconsciousness that can be actualized and experienced.
• The experience of confusion.
• The experience of unawakeness.
• The experience of unconsciousness.
• The actualization of unconsciousness.
• The apparent realm in which fear is experienced.
• The apparent realm in which unconsciousness is experienced.

The inner world:

• Everything that is “in here” is the content of conscious awareness.
• The experience of the transmutation of confusion into clarity.
• The experience of the transmutation of unconsciousness into consciousness.
• The apparent realm in which fear is transmuted into the awareness of love.
• The apparent realm in which love is experienced.
• The apparent realm in which unconsciousness is transmuted into the direct knowing of truth.