To be is to be perceived

 Cloud Atlas is a movie featuring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry that shows our intertwined relationships over the lifetimes. The goal of evolution is depicted as overcoming the boundaries of separation one step at a time—slaves, races, sexual preferences, etc.—on our way to Oneness, kindness, and love.

 

All drama and conflict is this higher dimension making it painfully clear to us what our choices towards separation and Oneness imply. Apparently it takes a little pain and good counsel to become the lion-hearts that stand up to the illusionary dictates and conventions of the masses.

 

Says the Oracle from the future, a reborn bio-engineered woman from Korea who becomes a martyr in the movie:

 

“To be is to be perceived. So to know yourself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal life is in the consequence of our words and deeds.

 

Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. Past and present, and by each crime and kindness we birth our future.”

 

Halle Berry asked in one of her modern day incarnations, ‘Why do we keep making the same mistakes?’ Our ego longings and perception of separation are hard to get rid of. Unfortunately, it takes a repeated running into the imaginary wall to see the bigger picture and the opportunity at hand.

 

There is one layer the movie didn’t mention. Besides the mechanical accounting of karmic connections over the lifetimes there is a ‘stop it’ button God embedded as well. The moment we perceive this Oneness, all other countless incarnations adjust as well. We become free in the here and now, and no imagined crime of the past will stand in the Way.