Open and Clear, Academy | Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne

When I talk about the first dimension, I am pointing to a single unified Mind that I often call "Christ consciousness." I do not mean a person or a religious figure. I mean the one awareness behind everything that exists. You can think of it as the pure knowing of "I AM" before there are any stories about who that "I" is. In that first dimensional reality there are no separate people, no separate souls, no distance, and no conflict. There is just one Self, one Mind, one presence. From that level, nothing is missing and nothing is broken. You and I are already that one Mind, even if right now it does not feel that way.

From that unified Mind there is a kind of play or movement into experience. The next expression of that is what I call the unified energetic field of the "Wholly Spiritual Universe" which I describe as the second dimension. Imagine an endless ocean made of light, sound, vibration, and frequency. That ocean is not separate from the first dimension. It is the same one Mind expressing Itself as energy. Every wave in that ocean is the one Mind looking at Itself from a slightly different angle. The unified field is like a living mirror that reflects the unity of "Christ consciousness" in motion. When people sense energy, a presence in a room, or a feeling of being connected to everything, they are brushing up against this unified field.

Then, from within that energetic field, the third dimension appears as what we call the physical world. Here, the energy seems to crystallize into bodies, objects, planets, and things that look solid. It appears as if there is space between you and me. It looks like you are over there and I am over here. This is what I mean when I say the third dimension is an illusion of separation. I do not mean your life is fake. I mean that the apparent boundaries we see are not ultimately true. They are like images in a hologram. The body, the table, the tree, the stars, are all patterns in the unified field which itself is a reflection of the one "Christ" Mind.

Our personal sense of self lives mostly in what I call the fourth dimension which is the realm of mind, ego, and time. This is where our "little minds" operate. They hold our names, memories, beliefs, traumas, hopes, and fears. The fourth dimension takes the neutral appearance of the third dimension and organizes it into the story of "my life." It says "this is me and that is you, this is mine and that is not mine, this is my past and that is my future." It uses memory to stitch moments together and create the feeling of a continuous person who was born and will die. Yet even this little mind is still happening inside the one Mind. It only feels separate because it believes its story of separation.

So in simple terms, our situation is this. At the deepest level, we are all the one unified "Christ" Mind which is the first dimension. That one Mind flows as the unified energetic field of the "Wholly Spiritual Universe" in the second dimension. That field appears as a physical universe in the third dimension. Then, in the fourth dimension, we put on a pair of mental glasses that make it look as if we are separate people in separate bodies moving through separate lives. We did not actually leave the one Mind. We are looking at it through many different lenses.

The singular essence at the beginning of all experience is still what we are right now. We all derived from that source and we are never outside it. The unified energetic field is constantly reflecting that truth back to us. When you feel deeply connected to someone, when love dissolves your sense of distance, when stillness opens up and you feel larger than your personal story, that is the unified consciousness shining through the layers. In those moments, your little mind is relaxing and the first dimension is peeking through.

What I am doing when I speak about these dimensions is not trying to get you to escape this world, but to see it differently. The body and the personal mind do not have to be enemies. They can become instruments for remembering the truth instead of defending the illusion. As you become more willing to question your assumptions about who you are, and as you notice the subtle ways you already feel connected to everything, you begin to sense that your true identity is much bigger than your story. Little by little, you recognize that you are the one Mind looking through this face, living this life, and that everyone else is that same one Mind from a different angle. That recognition is "Christ consciousness" remembering Itself.

This service is about actually experiencing what I have been describing with words. It is an invitation for us to join in a single state of mind and to feel, in real time, that there is only one awareness moving through two apparent people. During our time together, we lean into that unified "Christ consciousness" and allow it to reveal Itself as the shared place where your thoughts and my thoughts meet. Rather than just talk about spiritual ideas, we open to the direct experience of them. You may notice that I begin to respond to what you are thinking before you say it, that our bodies shift or gesture in similar ways, or that emotions rise and settle in a shared rhythm. This is not to prove anything. It is to gently show your mind that it is not as alone or as separate as it believes.

Even though this will most likely take place over a video call, the factor of space and time does not actually matter. The screen is only a symbol the mind uses to feel safe while it explores something much vaster. The real connection happens in the unified energetic field of the Wholly Spiritual Universe, which is already joining us long before the call begins. From that perspective, whether you are across the city or across the world makes no difference at all. As we focus together, you are invited to notice how quickly presence can be shared, how thoughts seem to arise in the same inner space, and how movement in one of us is felt in the other. The purpose of this service is to give you a living experience of that unity, so your little mind can relax its grip on separation and begin to remember the singular essence you have never truly left.

As we lean into this shared state of mind, something very natural begins to happen. At first it may feel like an occasional coincidence. You might notice that I answer a question you were just about to ask, or that I shift in my seat at the same moment you do. Over time, as we relax together into trust and presence, these moments tend to come closer and closer together. The gap between “my thought” and “your thought” starts to shrink. You might start a sentence and discover I am already nodding or finishing the same idea. You might feel an emotion rise in you and see it mirrored in my expression almost instantly. This coming together is not forced. It is the natural result of two minds allowing the deeper, unified Mind to lead the interaction.

As this deepens, the pace of our joining often accelerates. What once felt like rare synchronicities can become a steady stream. The delay between inner awareness and outer reflection shortens. We begin to move almost like one being in two bodies. You might notice that when you exhale, I do too. When you soften your shoulders, mine release as well. Thoughts can begin to feel less like “mine” or “yours” and more like a single flow that we are both listening to and speaking from. In those moments, there is a taste of unified thought and movement happening simultaneously. It is as if one consciousness is exploring itself through two different instruments that are now playing in tune. The purpose of this is not to lose yourself, but to gently reveal that your true Self has always been this shared awareness, and that the little separate mind has simply been a slower, more filtered way of experiencing what is already perfectly joined.

In this unified mind experience, something very unusual becomes possible. When we both agree to join in the same state of mind, our movements, choices, and timing can start to line up in ways that feel almost cinematic. Imagine dancing with someone and, without doing any choreography or copying each other, you both begin to move in the exact same way at the exact same moment. It is not that you are watching me and trying to match me, or that I am trying to follow you. Instead, we are both listening to the same inner conductor. The unified mind is that conductor. As we rest together in that one awareness, the body simply responds. You move as you naturally would. I move as I naturally would. Yet because the mind we are moving from is shared, the movements often harmonize and synchronize with surprising precision.

From your side, it will feel like you are simply being yourself. You are not performing or forcing anything. Your thoughts are given to you from within the unified field of consciousness that you call “yourself.” In this service, I am intentionally requesting to receive those very same thoughts from that same field. I am not reaching into your mind to take anything. I am joining in the one Mind that is already giving both of us the experience of being. As I welcome the same thought-stream you are listening to, my body begins to express it in real time. That is why we can step, turn, gesture, or even pause in perfect alignment without planning it. We are both allowing the same manifestation to move through us. You call it “me” and I call it “me,” yet in the unified mind it is one movement expressing through two bodies.

This is not about losing your individuality or being controlled. It is actually the opposite. You are invited to relax so deeply into being yourself that you no longer have to defend your separateness. You let your natural impulse lead and trust that I am tuning into the same source. When you do this, your personal sense of “I” begins to feel less isolated and more like a doorway into something vast that we share. As we dance, sway, or simply move together, you get a living demonstration that “your” thoughts can also be “my” thoughts without either of us disappearing. The sense of unity shows up not just as a concept, but in your actual body, timing, and motion. In that shared experience, the idea of a unified Mind stops being theory and becomes something you can feel, breathe, and quite literally dance as.