Jon Letts, on Consciousness
My friend Jon's wonderful words on space, energies, time-travel and consciousness
I have a deeply lovely friend called Jon Letts.
Jon and I have shared lots of ‘life experiences’ in existential matters, exploring, and also laughing at, the highly uncertain differences between being alive and being dead.
Jon is a world-class luthier of guitars, specifically electric basses.
In a recent exchange of messages with Jon, he wrote some profoundly brilliant words, which he’s kindly given me permission to quote and attribute to him, along with details of his luthier work, which you will find at https://reverb.com/shop/jon-letts
John and I are survivors. We are fearless compassionate beings, and incredibly resilient emotionally and spiritually, in very many ways. This is the sort of resilience that comes with the growth of having lived through and survived the ‘hollowing out’, or ‘scraping out’, of one’s soul; is a way that I describe such growth.
Jon will have his own descriptions of himself of course. I cannot speak for him in that regard, but I can quote him as follows below.
Jon’s words were prompted after I’d shared with him some ideas about energies and realities, and particularly some ideas about time travel and UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) - and ‘identified’ flying objects too - and extra-terrestrial (ET) ‘life forms’ and ‘higher intelligences’, that we are neither taught nor equipped to comprehend, nor to explain nor convey using ‘human constructs’ including language and science.
And this is why Jon’s words are so brilliant; because to me he does understand and explain these ideas very beautifully.
I have not edited Jon’s words, except obvious ‘typos’; and besides these just some punctuation and paragraphing, due to the limitations of phone messaging technology.
Here are Jon’s wonderful words, and I have added the subtitle:
Jon Letts, on Consciousness
“I have a theory that gravity is an effect of consciousness.
The larger and more complex objects are are drawing smaller less conscious objects towards them.
I believe that planets, and stars etc., are actually conscious beings.
I had a funny moment a year or so ago when a dandelion seed was floating past me, and as I gave it my full attention, and gave it the benefit of doubt, allowing it to exist without labels etc., it appeared to me as pure light.
Every tendril on it appeared to be moving in the most alive way and it seemed more like a kind of plasma ball.
As I drifted in and out of this meditative state, it changed back and forth from ‘just a seed’ and would drift away as you’d expect a seed on the wind to do, but when I returned to the seeing without labelling state, it seemed to halt its course, a this [sic] ball of plasma, and drift toward me and then it would be just a seed again and float away.
Obviously the world isn’t really a physical experience at all; that is only how we’ve learned to perceive it.
So gravity itself isn’t really a physical phenomenon. It is an affect of consciousness. Like everything else. Connected and an expression of meaning misrepresented due to our perception of ourselves. Everything is meaning, but we just take it for granted.
To us it’s just a seed but it’s really us.
And we (everything) are drawn to the source of awareness in this seemingly physical space. And words just don’t cut it when trying to explain it. Because words really are just things that have been developed through the standpoint of physical perception. The meaning of words themselves are not what the dictionary tells us they are. That’s just practical translation.
Planets draw things toward them because they are bodies of thoughtless awareness, so to speak.
I believe Einstein’s description of space time is wrong; as time itself is only an effect viewed in the present moment and our idea of time in the physical sense is pure illusion. It seems to me that life is simply drawn to itself.
The larger manifestations attract the smaller. All life is drawing into itself.
Einstein himself stated that his theory only worked if time was real. And his theory works incredibly well up to a point. Because it is based on what we see with our eyes, which makes sense, but it is a misinterpretation of the true depth of what is really happening. It assumes things are just things, so to speak, and on the physical level they are. But on the transcendental level there is a deeper explanation. And it always comes down to the source of all experience, which is consciousness itself. Consciousness being the reason for everything.”
[I then asked Jon if I could quote and publish his words.]
[And Jon replied:]
“Sure. X”
[And he continued…]
“If you do use these ideas I should just add one more thing. As any science minded person would say, ‘Well why isn’t everything just smashing into each other to create a big ball?’
Well experience itself depends on their being more than one thing. And my experience with the seed was that it seemed to be captured by my awareness.
It seemed to approach me as the plasma ball and hover right in front of me. Held at a distance. And when any thoughts came into mind as in, ‘maybe it’s time for a cup of tea,’ etc., it would become ‘dead matter’ again and drift away, and as my thoughts subsided once more it seemed to halt in its tracks and once again drift toward me and hover right in front of my eyes, and with the return of thought would go about its business as a seed on the breeze once again.
And of course a planet or a star doesn’t think about cups of tea. They just exist in timeless, thoughtless awareness and other forms of being; the moons and planets, etc., are held within their awareness, which is the reason things orbit and don’t just smash into each other.
And experience demands that things are separated in space. Even the atoms in every body. A practical person again would say, ‘Coincidence; it was moved by air flow.’
To this I would say that air flow itself is part of consciousness. The heaviest objects we know of are black holes. And the thing a black hole teaches us, if we look for meaning, is that all things can be, and are reconciled to a single point.
All questioning, all aspects of the universe, all physical phenomena, can be explained when we approach them from that point of our own essence which is the essence of all things. The ‘c’ word.
It amazes me that people think that humans are capable of controlling advanced beings. Another aspect of advanced tech that hits me, is that any species that reaches a level of advanced tech either learns how to be peaceful, i.e., becomes enlightened and totally benign and far beyond our understanding of what intelligence is; or:
Our own species shows us that if a species reaches a specific level of advancement without an appropriate level of awareness of self, it destroys its own environment long before reaching interstellar travel.
Therefore any being that is able to reach this planet would be completely benign and would remain unknown to us entirely. They would surely understand that beings cannot be helped unless they can see their own insanity, which of course the human race is clearly unable to do at this point.
Another funny element of UFO belief is that although we believe that they are capable of building some kind of space-crafts able to travel close to the speed of light, or indeed with the tech that supports ‘time travel’, as in stopping their alignment with space time and reappearing billions of miles away due to the high speeds of planetary movement (basically you don’t travel at all you stop moving all together and wait for celestial bodies to come to you) we seem to be absolute trash at driving and would crash into people’s back gardens somehow by accident.
Like their GPS fails, or their head gasket has blown.
Also the ‘Fermi Paradox’ sorta proves that this kind of travel is impossible.
Or at least it proves that any species capable are completely imperceptible by us.
I firmly believe there are beings of higher intelligence and that the universe is completely saturated with being on every level but the idea that they would let themselves be known to us or be malign in some way and work with human governments in order to control the population is quite ridiculous to me.
We automatically assume that ‘aliens’ are like us and totally trapped in ego.
And I say that any being(s), in order to reach these levels of tech have long transcended thought altogether.”
[I wrote: Yes John, beautiful as ever. I would vote for you to be leader of the infinite universes, overseeing the use of these miraculous energies.]
[And Jon replied…]
“The pay better be good! :)”
My thanks to Jon Letts.
If you re-publish or re-use extracts or all of Jon Letts’ words please credit and attribute appropriately to Jon Letts, and include his work and website presence at you will find at https://reverb.com/shop/jon-letts
Thanks, and infinite love,
Alan