Everyone on the so-called “spiritual” path (as if any human path could possibly not be “spiritual”) is aware of the concept of oneness. We are all one. When you hurt another you hurt yourself. When you help another you help yourself. And so on.
Up until last night I had only a slight grasp of the concept. Oneness was a belief to me, something that seemed true, but I had never fully pondered the idea, never fully experienced it, and it remained just a concept to me.
But last night I had some interesting dream experiences, the details of which now completely escape me, but the impact of which I retain. I will try my best to find the words to describe my experience, but just know that as with all profound ideas, words can only begin to scratch at the surface of the true meaning, no matter how expertly the words are chosen and organized. The true meaning comes with the feeling, with the inner knowing. The extent to which words can evoke such feeling and knowing is wherein lies their power.
I’ll start with the concept described perhaps differently than you’ve heard before: you, dear reader, and I, are, underneath it all, the same being. Call it Source or God or Consciousness or The One or All That Is, whatever term you like. I am living my human life over here with my perspective, my beliefs and layers of past experiences and judgments and traumas, and you’re over there doing the same. But that inner awareness we share, Source Awareness if you will, the fundamental consciousness that perceives all, and that further composes all that is, that is what you and I really are at the deepest level. It is the same consciousness, or being, in both of us.
Try your best to imagine existence without time. There is no past or future, there is only now, everything that has ever or will ever exist is all right now in this moment. The now is the only thing that has ever existed, the only thing that has ever been real. The past is memories, the future is potential, and the now is like a point that travels from past to future, but we can only ever experience now. Now is what always occupies our conscious awareness. What if we could, as God, which we are at our foundation, consciously switch our focus of now into the seeming past and future? So even though you and I are consciously focused on now, which for me is writing these words, and for you is reading them at some future date compared to my now, those are two different nows. And as God, we could choose where our now is, which to you could be far in the past, or far in the future. What if past and future were equally fluid, and the idea of now moving along a timeline is just an illusion?
What came to me regarding the concept of oneness is directly tied to the concept of time, and when you can extricate yourself, even mentally or conceptually from immersion in time, then you can start to really understand oneness.
The idea is that you and I and every other human who has ever or will ever live is the exact same being. I like the term God, so I’ll use that. You are God, I am God. Not our layers of beliefs and experiences and memories that only cloud our true Divine nature, who and what we really are, but underneath it all – that base awareness. The Inner Stillness. That is God. That is who and what we are at our core. All of the rest of the human stuff we tend to identify with and as, those are just different distortions of God’s Awareness. And so God experiences Himself through us humans…but we are God. Again, not our human selves, but that inner awareness.
As long as we identify as our human selves, we can claim and experience separation. But when we start to identify just with our inner awareness, with God, then truly, we are all the same. We are the same being experiencing itself in all of these different ways, ways we humans would judge as good or bad or whatever, but underneath it all, there is only one being, one consciousness, and that is God.
With that in mind, imagine shedding all of your human awareness, and returning to being The One, The Only. The only being in existence.
Imagine how utterly lonely that is.
And so you, and I, and all of us, we create these games into which we immerse, the current one being the Earth Human game, and we experience our Self as many separate beings. Friends, lovers, foes, it doesn’t matter. It’s all exciting, and although it can be lonely at times, it cannot even approach the ultimate Divine loneliness of God Himself outside of the games.
Think of your child, your friend, your parent, a stranger, or anyone you know, and imagine that’s you. You’re looking at another version of yourself. You’re living a different life from a different perspective and interacting with yourself. When you love him, you are loving yourself. When you judge him, you are judging yourself. You are looking yourself. You are one, you are the One.
What I wonder is if this Earth Human game has reached its end. If there is any more need for suffering. I believe we, as Earth Humans, collectively, have experienced more than enough suffering, and that any more is unnecessary since it wouldn’t result in any more learning or expansion, which seems to me to be the only purpose for suffering. We’ve already done it all.
Maybe that’s what this wave of enlightenment and ascension in human consciousness is over these past decades, which seems to be accelerating exponentially right now. A returning to being The One. A shedding of all distortion. Could it be the end of this game, this realm? And next, on to new things?
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