Introducing the Container of Presence (Container Series, part three)
Through the Container of Space we have experiences of place.
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I began this Container Series a few months ago to write about the metaphysical framework of reality that my guides have shared with me. In the first post of the series (which you can find here), I talked about my experience of coming to know the torus as the primordial pattern of the universe and how every single thing in the universe has (and is) a torus. I wrote, “Everything from the tiniest particle of energy to individual cells to entire organisms to Divinity itself exists within a toroidal pattern. It is fractal and holographic.”
I usually see us inside our toruses looking something like this:
As is usually their way, however, my guides don’t seem to like to leave well enough alone and often enjoy giving me more and more information. Sometimes I suspect this is a way to ensure that I never actually know anything. In this specific case, they showed me a vision of this single torus morphing into a multi-part container. They said that this is called The Container of Presence. It limits infinity to give us (and everything) an experience of life.
Here is the quote about it that my guides told me to write down:
Everything that blinks into form, collapses into a Container of Presence.
They showed me that whenever something moves from a field of infinite possibility into this realm of physical manifestation, it is surrounded and held by a Container of Presence.
What exactly is Presence?
I suppose it would have been possible for me to simply understand that my guides were saying that the name of this torus that surrounds each of us is Presence. But because I, apparently, can’t seem to leave well enough alone either, I asked a bunch of questions instead.
How is this different from the torus you’ve already shown me? Are you calling it Presence because it has something to do with time? What is Presence anyway?
What they told me is that the Container of Presence is actually made up of three sub-containers: the Container of Space; the Container of Time, and the Container of Being. I saw an image of myself in the center, at the convergence point of these three sub-containers.
I knew I’d opened up a can of worms and jumped into rabbit hole all at the same time. This was going to push my brain into realms I wasn’t sure it could handle.
“It’s okay,” my guides reassured me. “We’ll take this one piece at a time.” Thankfully, they also brought visual aids.
My guides began by teaching me about the Container of Space.
The way they showed this to me is that the Container of Space is a static structure. We could say that it is what gives Presence its shape, sort of like the scaffolding of the Container of Presence. It is the “where” of Presence. Through the Container of Space we have experiences of place. We can relate with it through things like the cardinal directions. It is also through the Container of Space that we are in relationship with the perception of distance and other space-based experiences like being lost.
My guides showed me this Container of Space as a vector equilibrium, much like the image below:
Next, my guides taught me about the Container of Time.
The Container of Time is a torus that is always moving—ever unfolding—between the poles of beginning and end. It is the “when” of Presence. Through the Container of Time, we have the experience of duration and also of the now. It is through this container that we are in relationship with the past too. It is the sacred realm of memory.
Finally, my guides taught me about the Container of Being. This is what I’ve been calling it, but it could also easily be understood as the Container of Meaning. This is the “how” and “why” of Presence.
This container is also a torus whose energy perpetually flows between two poles, but the names or labels of these poles are quite changeable. The poles reflect the dualities of life experience and we can label these however we wish, depending on our current circumstances. For example, it is through the Container of Being that we have the experience of pleasure and pain; life and death; or of sovereignty and slavery, etc.
Together, these three make up the Container of Presence, and at the point where they converge is me in my torus. In this way, every experience is informed by Space, Time, and Being.
So the way I saw the whole Container of Presence is something like this:
And just like when I first saw the torus, I saw that the Container of Presence is fractal and holographic. Every single thing—from subatomic particles to galaxies to entire universes—is held in its own container of presence.
Fun side note: my guides told me that there are many other ways we can view the Container of Presence if we’re not fans of the vector equilibrium/torus model. They showed me a chariot with the body as the Container of Space, and the wheels as the Containers of Time and Being. They showed me a human uterus as the Container of Space and the Fallopian tubes/ovaries as the Containers of Time and Being. One of the ones I liked best was the image of the human body as the Container of Space, the mind as the Container of Time and the heart as the Container of Being.
Why does this matter?
I thought the Container of Presence was a really neat image and I liked it as a framework for reality, but I still didn't quite understand why I needed to know any of this. What was the real significance of this? Was this knowledge helpful to me in some way?
My guides said that one of the most important things about the whole thing is in coming to understand Space, Time, and Being (and Presence as a whole) as sacred living entities themselves. They’re not merely esoteric ideas, but conscious beings that we can be in relationship with. We can get to know them, tend them and love them, just as we would with a loved one, good friend, or even our face of Divinity.
In fact, I had quite a profound experience the first time I connected with the Container of Presence with this understanding of it as a living entity. Here’s what I wrote in my journal afterwards:
I sensed Presence all around me, and its faces of Space, Time and Being. I felt centered like I’d never known before. I said, “Hello, Presence,” and instantly heard what I can only describe as bubbly singing in reply. I could feel Presence as lightness and joy and effervescence. I had a full awareness that Presence was delighted and excited to be noticed; that there had been such longing there to be seen. Above all, what I felt most was love. Such deep, sacred love.
As if that wasn’t enough, my guides then told me something that really blew my mind. They said that the Container of Presence is a creative force. It’s not that I’m just hanging out, existing, in my torus in the center of Presence. But, rather, the Container of Presence is in an ongoing process of creating me.
Each of us is always being created by the Container of Presence.
If you’re like me, the tendency is to think that we are “having” an experience. But what my guides have shown me with the Container of Presence is that, in reality, we are the result of the ever-changing, always unfolding nature of experience.
The story definitely doesn’t end there. Stay tuned for the next installments of The Container Series as we explore ways to respond to Presence and how our containers overlap in relationship and participation.
Before I sign off today, and in case it’s helpful, I want to share an example of some of the ways I’ve been speaking to Presence.
I’d LOVE to know your thoughts about the Container of Presence! Please reply to this email or leave a comment below. Blessings to you all!
Jenna,
I am following Julie's comment, admitting that in reading others, I have had the hope that words will come. Still, they have not. As I offered in my comment to Julie's comment, I have read, re-read, contemplated. I have sat still inside the images, and I have waited for something to surface in response. There is something of the experience of reading that wants to turn and say, and of saying to give over what is enlivened having come to this Container. All that comes is that to 'enter' is to abide in Silence, Stillness, but this within is not self-ish; it is Luminous, Radiant Being, which is everywhere effusive. Thank you for ushering us into the Container of Presence. Thank you.
(Echoing Julie, the images are transcendent and transporting.)
With endless worlds of love,
Renée
Jenna, what you write here reminds me of something I read years ago in the Pratyabhijna-hrdayam, a Kashmir Shaivism text of 20 sutras. I will have to go back to see which sutra it was but it blew my mind wide open. I could not see life the same way again. Basically, It talked about the breath of the cosmos, of presence. On the inhalation we/life are breathed into universal presence. No form, no space, time or matter. Then on the exhalation we are breathed out into life with form, space, time and matter. As we live our lives this ongoing breathing is happening so fast and because our brains produce a sense of continuity we see this world and our lives as solid and continuous. When I first read this I paused and reread it, contemplated it, reread it again and again. I stayed with it and had a tangible experience of it. I sensed this is where possibility and potentiality live. That my body and being are completely fluid. That I am both held in grace and autonomous at the same time. Spirit and human. The body as a sacred gift with its three main centers, the mind, heart and belly. That I create my life, not as some new-age positivity, but my actions, thoughts, intentions matter. As well at the thoughts, intentions and actions of life around me. It shapes my future.
Thanks Jenna, I love what you wrote here and how you broke it down. The pictures are great, did you do them?