Matt Struve - Star Gazing the Right Way Will Heal Your Spirit

Not many things that can fix the soul like laying on your back on a dark night and looking straight out into God.

I remember standing in the middle of Yellowstone state park back in, must have been Febuary of 2000, during a meteor shower. Just standing there, looking at all the shooting stars flare off overhead. All of the sudden of one of the biggest meteors I’ve ever seen blazed into the atmosphere right in front of me. All the colors of heat were visible and I could actually hear it burning away. It was absolutely breathtaking. Soon after it was consumed, I remember being hit by an intense progression of sensations I hadn’t remembered ever feeling before. Just out of the blue. First was an awkward feeling of my body sticking out like a sore thumb on the surface of the planet. It was such a strange yet intriguing feeling! It felt like my body was sticking out like a pin on a sea mine.



I felt gravity pulling me toward the planet’s epicenter far below me. Interesting. I was this pin sticking out held in place by this force of energy, pulling me toward its center. I felt the people on the other side of the planet the same way. Pins sticking out on the other end, suctioned into the ground by the same epicenter. How I could've missed this sensation over the years?

Then a number of feelings started racing through my awareness at once. I remember looking up and realizing I was looking OUT not up. I remember smiling at my own ignorance, how my sense of direction has been so two dimensional the whole time. Up, down, left, right, front, back, but hardly any time feeling the depth of ‘inward’ and ‘outward’. What hit me was a feeling of directional relativity, a new spatial outlook. No matter where one looks out at space on this planet, they are simply looking out, and if you let your mind reflect on this, it starts to feel quite surreal.

That time in Yellowstone, I was standing on a vista. I could look out and see a pretty wide horizon line. It really hit me at that moment. The “feeling” of the roundness of the planet I stuck out from. The feeling that just beyond that horizon, it gradually curves downward over a vast distance! Wow, it really felt more round like a huge ball I was standing on, than ever before. Even more intense was the feeling of spaciousness that lay beyond its curve. I felt this ball of a planet zooming through this MASSIVE open space!

The thing that really brought it all together was the bright meteor. It’s fiery tail indirectly made me feel a sensation I hadn’t felt before. The depth of our atmosphere. From the moment it lit up, was the moment it entered the biosphere. I watched it slow down through the thickness of what we call invisible air. Like a bullet shooting into water. It’s supersonic at first, but the liquid’s thickness slows it down fast. Same thing. That triggered this new range of depth perception I had always missed before.

It was absolutely amazing. How can things so obvious to all of us remain so overlooked!? I remember reeling at how such a simple observation could start such a chain reaction of epiphanies.

I also remember star gazing with a few friends one clear night a few years back. As we gazed into and felt space’s visible depth in front of us, one friend suggested, “The answers we are *really* looking for lie behind that blackness between the stars.” It lies beyond the visible threshold. Maybe the human eye can’t see that far, but the mind’s eye can.

This really made sense during a weekend hiking trip to a place called Serene Lake out beyond Mount Hood. It was a monstrous hike on the way up. At one point we lost the trail under a huge snow blanket. We had to use intuition to find the trail again. Haha. Good times (in hind sight).

The hike back on the other hand, was excellent. At one point we took a break by this brook. It was so peaceful. That perfect summer day. The evergreens swaying in a gentle breeze, bugs lit up by the sun flying in the distance, fluffy clouds floating by. It was perfect. All of us were quiet, taking it in. I pulled out a clif bar, sat on a stone near the brook, took a bite and looked into a big patch of peat moss near my feet. At first, I only saw the peat moss. But as my eyes defocused, all the movements of the bugs came into view. So many of them! Now the peat moss was HUGE to me. My mind zoomed into one of the bugs, crawling through the various peat moss tunnels. The twig next to it felt like a huge fallen redwood!

Then I turned to a fly that landed nearby. As it rested, mindlessly rubbing its front legs together, I wondered if it could see me. I wondered if any of them could see me, my arms or head. I was about 5 feet away. How far could they actually see? I raised my hand and slowly brought it toward the fly. About 3 feet away, it flew away. Who knows if it saw my whole body the whole time, but what I wondered was what the blur beyond its eyesight looked like? Was it a solid grey, or white? Maybe some other blended non-descript colors? Haha, I bet that fly took it for granted though. I bet it thought the grey, blurry, “vision boundary” was a ceiling in its narrow reality. Hmm, the same way most of us reduce the blackness of space as a ceiling?

Now you’re a fly. All of the sudden, a big strange looking object slowly emerges out of that grey blur ceiling! And as it takes visual shape like a huge space craft, with a large center body, five smaller cylinders protruding in different directions, it continues forcefully moving closer and closer. Better fly away! Now imagine if that fly could not only conceive of what that huge object was attached to beyond it... a human body, but that there were others sitting nearby. Not only that, there was a city called Portland about 70 miles further away! And it was only a small section on a huge planet, held in orbit position by a giant nuclear ball of fire!

So what about our own vision boundry? We can see pretty far away, comparatively, but not that far. Sure we can make things like Hubble telescopes, but even it still reveals a ceiling of blackness between the galaxy clusters it CAN see. So what about Hubble’s vision boundry? Is relying on vision a boundry in and of itself? Hmm.

“What’s behind the blackness?”, it makes you wonder doesn’t it? If Portland lies beyond the fly’s vision, what lies beyond ours? Certainly not something related to our human world. That’s human reductionism. What lies beyond is assuredly more of the body of God! The spiritual proof that drives me forward! Higher complex structures inconceivable to any relatable pattern our senses have experienced on this petri-dish of a globe. So amazing.

Below is a picture of the known universe. What you are looking at is a massively “tele”scopic illustration. Strings of galaxy clusters, none of their celestial boundaries physically touching, yet bound together by forces still mysterious to the best of scientific minds.



Now, here is a picture of a cluster of nerve cells. A “micro”scopic photo of strings of cells held together by forces still theoretically analyzed by our most brilliant minds.



As you can see, there are obvious pattern layers in how God’s body has stretched out through this dimension.

So again, are you only looking up? You would be if the world was still flat like it was 600 years ago *wink*. But it isn’t. It’s round. Remember, you are looking “out” each and every time. Up = out. And down = toward.

Ask yourself, when you look out into space, do you feel its depth? If I went 25 something years before it really dawned on me, I have to imagine how many others haven’t felt it. Perhaps conceptualized it from movies, but I’m talking about really feeling it. I believe only a few people really do, perhaps most astronomers. To the majority of us, s[ace has the same feeling as a domed ceiling, with white dots speckled all over it. Seriously, how many people do you know that really FEEL the depth to space.

Remember those days when you can see the moon and the sun in the same sky? Have you ever felt how the moon is closer to you than the sun? Yet they’re both about the same size? That’s because the sun is that much bigger, and that much farther away! Same realization and feeling for the stars behind the sun. You can really see them, but they’re there. What about a clear night when you can see the Milky Way? Did you realize you were looking edge-wise at one of the spiral arms of our galaxy? AMAZING! This photo below is a 360 degree compilation photo of our milky way taken from an observatory. It captured the galaxies nucleus in that photo! There are only a few places left on the planet that you can see the Milky Way’s nucleus with the naked eye. How exciting is that? How inspirational would that be??



How amazing is that photo?! How 3Dimensional! You can feel how much further away that spiral arm of the milky way is from the planets horizon line!!

So, how exactly can star gazing spiritually heal you? It can if you gaze out with enough of an open mind, with enough open sensory, and allow the elegance to emotionally resonate within you. Though insignificant in the size of what our eyes see, we are vastly significant in the grand truth of existence. You yourself are a infinite universe to intelligent life within you. Feel it! Your existence itself is the admission ticket to enter the infinite mind and soul of God. What spiritually heals your mind, is the same thing that can physically heal your muscles. Stretching them. Star gazing, space feeling, or what I like to call God feeling, stretching the muscle fibers of your soul -- vibrationally moving your mind, in a dimensionally intimate manner, closer to God’s own. Reflecting on and ‘feeling’ it’s size, how it stretches out, pushing your governor’s limits.

It heals the spirit when you truly realize you are looking outward into the body of God.

All of this is to help you unlock what holds your sensory back, so you can *really* feel the Body of God you exist within. That’s what this is all about. AWAKENING!

I just LOVE this stuff!

Ahh, and last but not least, comedian Joe Rogan, a really cynical guy, but quite hilarious at the same time. I think we can all relate with him. Here is his humorous look into how we all take space for granted.



May the Force of this amazing multiversed body of God be with you,

Matt Struve

PS - I think one of most amazing ways of entering this state of cosmic appreciation is meditation! Not just any old relaxation though, a technique to open the doors beyond ego and human perspective, to enter a realm of heart centered awareness and intuition driven sensory expansion... The meditation I use does just that. Message me if you want to know more.