Watched 3 short videos on duality stopped for a tea break and a biscuit then read this shortened paper by
Mathew Micheletti
I wanted to go over this topic of the illusion of separation again because it’s the most important thing we could learn and really accept. By understanding and accepting this fact it changes how we view every interaction and relationship in our lives. Therefore, to me it seems to be one of the most important things to grasp.
Mystics
from all various backgrounds have said that we are definitely more
than just our bodies. And in fact from a psychology perspective this
makes sense, seeing how the ego mind wants us to think we are limited
and separate. It indulges and promotes this thinking in order to
maintain its control and belief in victimization. And as we’ve
learned again and again, ego
thinking is
the root of all unhappiness through its perceptions of victims and
perpetrators, for it is the notion of separation that is the root of
all unhappiness.
The
beauty of our time now is that our technology and science has caught
up with what masters have been trying to teach us for thousands of
years now, that we
are all connected and one with
All That Is. A quote by David Bohm, an amazing physicist of our time
said this in his book Wholeness
and the Implicate Order:
“It
will be ultimately misleading, and indeed wrong, to suppose…that
each human being is an independent actuality who interacts with other
human beings and with nature. Rather, all these are projections of a
single totality.”
Albert
Einstein said, in reference to this topic of who
we really are:
“A
human being is part of the whole that we call the universe, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separated from the rest- a kind of
optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for
only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living things and all of nature.”
When
we think we are just the ego mind, we are denying the limitless
powerful being that we really are. Our True Self identity, or Spirit,
Higher Self, Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, whatever name you
prefer, is greater than we could imagine and is connected to all of
the universe. It is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, intuitive,
unconditionally loving, creative, and glorious to say the least. It
is our true nature that the ego is keeping from us. It is easy to see
that the only way we suffer is by being stuck in ego thinking and it
is certainly where all effects of self-doubt, low self-esteem,
feelings of worthlessness, and inability to be loved come from.
The
ignorant ego does this by making us believe that we are separate,
lacking, and thus powerless. It’s thoughts are that we are
ultimately victims of the universe and that everything is “happening”
to us. But the truth is that we
are the only one’s responsible for
our response to life. We are creating our realities everyday in every
way and in every moment based on our perceptions and belief systems
we adhere to.
Another
concept that scientists uncovered is that we are not even separate
when observing someone or something and that in fact the moment we
observed anything, we have interacted with it and ‘both’ of us
have changed in significant ways. This is astounding to think about,
or at least it was to me. This means that our spouse, children,
parents, boss, and coworkers are not separate realities acting upon
us, neither are all things in nature. We have influenced in various
profound ways, how everything responds to us and essentially we are
all the same and part of each other anyway, we are ALL one. We are
all interacting in an infinitely intricate dance of vibrational
energy where all is in perfect harmony and all are having the
experience they align with.
This
means that all our happiness and unhappiness we are participating in
and creating, there
are no victims or perpetrators.
Dr. Grayson from Mindful
Loving says
“Our emotional pain, our rejections, and our deprivations – as
well as our moments of happiness and love – are the results of our
states of mind rather than an independent reality that is acting upon
us.” This is what I was referring to before when I mentioned that
our states of mind are under our control and that only we
can create our happiness because
everything we want is within us and not external.
What
all this must make us start to realize is that our separateness,
powerlessness, and victimization must all be a giant illusion. An
illusion created by eons of dualistic ego thinking. We can break out
of this thinking by becoming conscious, by paying attention to our
thoughts, feelings, and speech.
They are all parts of our power to create our reality. I will discuss
how we create in later posts but for now review these things,
understand them, truly realize that we are not separate. Reject all
temptations of victimization.
There
are countless experiments that we can do to see how we are all
connected and that our thoughts do effect the outside world. First
you can think of times when perhaps you call, text, or e-mail someone
and they say, oh I was just thinking about you or vice versa. Perhaps
you can remember times when you literally call someone at the same
time they are calling you. Both of these scenarios have happened to
me several times and many other people I know say the same. This is
not by coincidence…
To
me this was fascinating, exciting, scary, and overwhelming because it
was so absolutely clear to me that we
create all the joy and happiness in our relationships.
Everything is only the result of our own inner creation. It
is clear that thoughts about our significant other is the largest
part of how successful and happy the relationship is. Yet in ego
thinking it’s always that it’s the other person’s fault. Ego
thinking is always victimizing and externalizing why things failed or
why we’re unhappy. It’s always seeking to blame and never takes
responsibility for itself. It does this because if it were to take
responsibility that would be claiming our True Self power… which is
the opposite of what it wants. With the gift of consciousness we can
perceive the universe unfolding to us as we see fit. Subsequently,
some of us will choose to see scarcity and lack and thus respond with
fear and selfishness while others will choose to see abundance and
eternity and thus respond with service, joy, and peace. There is no
right or wrong here, it is just a matter of perspective.
