The Mistake

The source of most, if not all, all human problems is based on a misunderstanding. Normally, we perceive the world as consisting of discrete entities. There is you. There is me. There is a dog. There is a rock. There is an oak tree, and so on ad infinitum. We have learned to perceive a world of separateness.

This is a mistake.

Reality, if I may be so bold as to use that word, consists of consciousness or spirit. There is only one of these. It is inclusive of all entities as well as all time and all space. It exists in the eternal now, the only time that is or can be.

I am this. You are this. my cat is this. The planet is this. The universe is this. There is no alternative because this is all there is. No alternative is possible.

The ramifications of this realization are immense. There is no distinction between animate and inanimate if there is nothing but consciousness / spirit. All humans are not merely brothers and sisters but, in fact, the same self. If I hurt you, I hurt me. To quote the Beatles song, "I am you and you are me and we are all together". Now, expand the scope of this idea and realize that it encompasses all that is! This is the basis of a true ethics.

The challenge with attaining this realization is that, being essentially spiritual, it can be accessed primarily through feelings, emotions, intuitions - what we humans call "heart". The intellect can process details, after the fact, but it cannot grasp the global reality of this core truth. That means that language, as a tool of communication and a child off the intellect, is relatively useless in any attempt to share this insight. It must be found, discovered, known in the silence of one's own self.

This realization of oneness provides the way out the horror show of history to a new maturity in human consciousness. Eventually, all humans will attain this realization and a new epoch will begin.