This step is about understanding that you are not disconnected from anything, and everything is ONE. This step is more or less an intellectual understanding, but I also believe that once you start to truly love yourself and unlock your subconscious beliefs you will start to remember this Truth and use it to your advantage. Knowing that you are the ocean in one drop will become a feeling beyond just an idea. No matter what we call it… the Universe, Source, Creator, or God… it is all the same, and we are connected to that unified force. We live in a world of matter, where everything appears solid, so you may be wondering why I would suggest that you are a part of everything, everyone, and even a part of God. I am saying this because (even if it feels strange to you now) the science shows us that if we examine the atoms of supposedly solid objects microscopically, we’ll find they’re mostly empty space. If you think about it, if space is empty, then what follows is ‘there really isn’t a point where I end and you begin’.
Quantum Physicists tell us that everything is the Universe is energy, vibrating at different frequencies. Ice, for example, is at a different frequency when it becomes water (when the particles speed up with exposure to heat). Water only feels less solid than ice. If the particles speed up even further, they become vapor. We feel humidity in the air, but we can’t see it. Radio waves are similar: we use cell phones to help us pick up fast moving frequencies we can’t hear without a device to help us pick up those signals. Since we can’t see these waves, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Because we are physical beings, our beliefs tend to come from our 5 physical senses. Many people think that if they cannot hear something, feel something, taste something, smell something, or touch something, then it is not real. In many ways, it is only natural for our brains to make these conclusions without processing all of the evidence available to us. Science shows us, though, that there is a whole world we are unable to see, and, within that world, we are all connected through space and waves of energy.
I would even suggest that for the same reason we perceive that particles disappear when they speed up (like ice into vapor), many of us believe our deceased loved ones are not among us. They literally no longer appear before us, so we reason that they must not exist. However, I believe that, just as with ice, their energy has sped up and they are simply taking on a different form. We use mediums, just like a cell phone picking up radio waves, in order to “tune into” their new frequencies.
Through my journey I have come to intimately know what it means to feel a sensation of oneness beyond just understanding that I am connected to my fellow humans, animals and plants. To me, it also means that in shadow there is light, in suffering there is joy, in pain there is gratitude, in up there is down, and in wrong there is right. One of the highest aims of man in spiritual traditions of the East is embodying the idea ‘Be in truth eternal, beyond earthly opposites!’ as Krishna advised in the Hindu Bible, the Bhagavad Gita. The same advice is given to the followers of Buddhism; D T Suzuki writes, “The fundamental idea of Buddhism is to pass beyond the world of opposites, a world built up by intellectual distinctions and emotional defilements, and to realize the spiritual world of non-distinction, which involves achieving an absolute point of view.” Christianity cannot be left out, though, for it also teaches this concept. While the Bible tells us one story of Jesus, other gospels have been found and translated which have led many people to wonder if there is more to Jesus’s message than originally thought. In one gospel, it was written that Jesus himself said “The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you… There is nothing hidden which will not become manifest.” (As recorded by Didymos Judas Thomas from the Nag Hammadi library.) As you can see, many different traditions have this idea that we are everything and there is no duality. It is all one, and we are one.
While you might start to understand these concepts with your mind, my hope is that eventually you will start to feel the feeling of oneness as well, even if for a moment. Everything on this philosophy page is aimed at helping you raise your frequency and tune in to that sensation. Ultimately, you are creating a perfect vessel with your body so you can live in a frequency of love here on earth. Toxic foods, mindlessness engaging in our modern day world, and subconscious fears will lower your frequency. Healing foods, exercise, and meditation will open you up and keep you in a space where you will have access to high frequencies. As Marianne Williamson says, “God’s love is the electricity, but we must be the lamps.”
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