What could be achieved by thinking about nothing? In the space between existence and nothing is the shape of the body of existence. Only the nothing can give existence its shape. Without the nothing, existence can’t have a shape or a form. Like the negative space in a drawing, it reveals the shape of whatever is there. When the light from existence touches the nothing, it fades into a deep dark blue. That is what I see in my visions of existence and its interactions with the nothing.

I’ve seen existence from the outside. It’s a beautiful wall of universes in a spherical shape. I looked at their structure and the space between them. I was fascinated, but I couldn’t help but realize that seeing this meant I was viewing existence from the outside. I was standing in the nothing, and the impossibility of that positioning challenged all of my assumptions about the nature of knowledge. How could I possibly see existence from the outside when it is an experience that no one can ever have?

At first, I wondered whether the spirit world was theorizing about what existence would look like from the outside, since such information could never be tested or falsified. No one can stand in the nothing.

I didn’t realize how many pathways there are to knowledge. Each universe stands on the edge of existence. That long, blissful life spent observing its position and every connection it has. Knowing the shape of existence means knowing the position of every universe. Each universe holds a piece of that knowledge, but when you combine the knowledge from multiple universes, the structure and shape of existence become comprehensible.

You don’t have to be able to stand in the nothing to see the shape of existence. The vision of existence from the outside could convey a sense of separation that feels almost haunting. However, that isolation is an illusion because the knowledge and the gift of this vision are the result of profound acts of connection.