Spiritual Unity – Where Is It?

Spiritual unity and oneness may be things we believe in and aspire to, but how manifest are they in how we think, feel, behave and live? Do these ideals of spirituality effect the way we view our moment to moment lives or are they abstract ideals that we share in like minded company? When things don’t go our way, or when we see suffering and destruction in the world, how do we reconcile them with spiritual unity and oneness?

Here is a classic example of the paradox of absolute truths and relative reality. Our relative experience is of separation consciousness, the absolute truth is unity, oneness. The egoic mind is a fractured consciousness and as such experiences itself as separate from all else. It is fractured by pains and fears that remain unhealed, incomplete or unresolved. The pure awareness of unity and oneness is filtered through

the fractured egoic mind because we mistake it for who and what we are.

As a result how we think, feel, behave and live is from the degree of our identification with the egoic mind. we manifest it as the world.

The way we treat the earth reflects the way we internally treat ourselves and treat our bodies, and externally treat each other. The world we have created is an out-picturing of our internal condition, individually and collectively. Lets be honest about it, the consciousness of separation and the reality we create from it, will ultimately lead to our destruction and possibly that of most life on the planet if it continues unchecked.

It is separation consciousness that allows us to toxify the earth, water and air; to destroy eco-systems that sustain life; to build, sell and use weapons of mass or any level of destruction. These things are not separate from any of us. Separation reality says “Well I’m not doing it myself, so I’m not responsible”. But we drive cars, fly in airplanes, have gas and electricity in our homes, buy huge quantities of plastic and chemical products, eat foods produced by chemical and factory farming methods and so on and so on….., and along the way all these things produce vast amounts of toxic and environmentally damaging waste. So, we are in conflict within ourselves, as we are in some way always part of what and why the world is the way it is – separation is the great illusion. 

For those of us that eat organic food, buy natural organic clothing, use solar power and drive non oil burning cars might think we are absolved of responsibility, even taken to the extreme of living an isolated self sufficient life, it still isn’t so. Why? because we are not separate.

The point is, how is it that all these basic aspects of our lives became manifest, all these ways in which our world is operating in the reality of separation? It is because it is the reflection of the separation within ‘us’.

We do the same thing in our own bodies, in our own minds. We abuse the balance and harmony of life and choose to turn a blind eye to the ever increasing symptoms of our willful destructiveness. The ways are innumerable; how many people reading this had a cigarette today, got drunk, overate, did something that they knew was not good for them, dishonoured themselves, said “yes” when they felt “no” ? The ways of separation become subtler and subtler.

Why is it possible? Because we have become so de-sensitised to our bodies that we do not feel the effects of what we do to them through our diets, medical systems, and way of life or how we think. We are so disconnected, we don’t feel the separation and its effects – and when we do, we mostly deny it.  The denial is that it’s us, or anything to do with us. But the fact is reality is created, it isn’t something that just happens. We create it.

The separation is ours all of us. Our internal realities manifest as the external reality we live in. We are all responsible. The upside is we also have the power to change the world. We can all play our part in the healing and unification.

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