Oneness

There are a lot of people and things out there. Some of them we find enjoyable and others we wish to avoid.
So how is it that we are one with all of these things how is it that we are one with people such as murders,
and sex offenders. You might say that it is impossible that you share any similarities with any of these people.
You would be mistaken if  you truly believed that.

How can I make such claims? Well first of all it is a matter of science and the Law of Conservation.
The Law of Conservation states that you cannot create or destroy matter. Matter can only be changed
from one form to another. As it is changed, matter releases energy as it releases bits of the more
complex form becoming simpler in form ; or it requires energy to add bits as it goes from simple to
complex. This Law of the natural world shows that there is a finite amount of the stuff called matter.
Matter is what makes up our physical forms. It is also what the foods we eat, the water we drink, the air
we breathe, the planet we live on, and the stars in the sky are all built from.

So we are all built from the same stuff called matter; Matter that has been recycled through every physical
form that can be found on this planet. You are air, water, fire, earth, dog, cat, bird, and people.
On the physical level we are the same. You might say, but that is not the same as being one with something else.
Just because our bodies might have the same bits making them work does not mean that I Am the same as they are.
That is on a physical level, I don`t think like they do, I have too much compassion to harm another, I have a
different soul than they do. You are correct this is not the same as being one with something or someone else.
I think differently than other people. I feel differently than other people. My perspective is unique because
of my experiences. These are arguments that many will make meaning that because of our thoughts and experiences
we are separate beings with no connection. For all of our similarities in our atomic and molecular make up, each
of us is unique in our specific physical design.

There is another level we are seldom aware of. It is the level of Universal Consciousness.
This Level of being has been talked about in every major belief system that exists on the Earth at this
Time. This is the realm of Mystery. The realm Where we as humans lose the ability to understand with our
human minds. This is the Tao that Taoist say can Not be known. This is the Chi that Flows in Chinese
medicine. In Hermetic teachings this is the Mind of the Unknowable all. The essence of these thoughts when they
are boiled down is that we are all part of and inseparable from the Universal Consciousness. It can be
said that Creator and Creation are one and the same.

The ALL could be viewed as an ocean and we are the waves. We are water, Inseparable from the ocean until
suddenly we find that we have form,we have consciousness,we have physical characteristics. We soon learn to
Identify with our form and differentiate between our form and others. We begin to say” I am taller than
that wave.” or “I am faster than The other Wave.” We become so engrossed in the world of form that we
forget that we all started as water. We are all still water. and as we rush towards the shore and we see
the other waves disappearing we begin to worry about what will happen to us when we get to the shore.
Being so Identified with forms that we now have forgot our origins as water and part of the ALL. Finally
we hit the beach and our form dissolves and we return back to the water and settle into the peace of being
simply the ocean, the ALL once more.

It is this Identification with the world of forms that causes us to forget our origins as part of the
Universal Consciousness. This Identification brings us so much suffering as we attach ourselves to the
world of forms all the while forgetting that we Will eventually return to the peace of the source.

We are truly One we are the waves on the ocean who have forgotten that we do not exist separate form the
ocean. When we are still and our minds are quiet we begin to sense our true being as part of the Divine
Whole.

The mind emphasizes these differences. In fact the Mind creates all of these differences.

The Formless

Well I have been Thinking  a lot lately about Mystery. I have always considered myself a bit of a mystic or student of the mystery school. In the process of researching Ascension for my up coming class I came across a lot of material that reinforced that feeling.

Mystery is the unknown formless aspect of the Universe. In many of the major Spiritual belief systems in the world Mystery is accepted as part of the way that the Divine works within our lives.  I like to take this a step further (as does Eckhart Tolle ) and say that not only is this part of the way the divine works in our lives but is truly the purpose of our lives moving to reconnect with the formless or the mysterious.

Many people believe that a mystery is something that needs to be solved, analyzed, and explained away. It is through this process of Intelectualization that we move not closer to understanding but further from experiencing the true mystery.

The Tao De ching says the Tao that can be Spoken about is not the Tao. This means that it is not the formlessness that lies behind all of creation. The formless conscience that is the creative force that is the true essence of form.

How is it that understanding a mystery moves further from the true understanding? It is that the formless can not be understood by our mind and put into words. When we begin to try and say that the formless or mystery is this or that; or that it behaves this way or that way in our lives we are no longer speaking about the formless we are speaking about mental forms that are created by our mind. For example when we say that god is a jealous god we are speaking about the mental construct that we have created about god. In it`s very essence God is beyond the comprehesion of our human minds and our ability to descibe it.

When we build mental Contructs and forms and try to intelectualize the mysterious we actual begin to limit the ways that we allow the formless to act in our lives. we begin to believe that the formless is seperate from us and be haves only in predetermined ways. This Idea of seperateness is another form created by the mind. It says that we are seperate from creation and creator. The formless is the Creator and is a part of all. It is truly our purpose in this life to return to the consciousness of the formless. To disolve the The identification with forms(Physical, mental, social, emotional) and live our live in the present moment.

Now this probably is leaving many of you saying to yourselves…”Um what?” Thats alright this little article is not meant to tell you exactly how to go about doing that it is just meant to bring you to a state of mindfulness about our beliefs and the Systems that we incorporate in our spirituality. Are our beliefs moving us closer to our purpose or further away?

As I have been developing the Dream Path I recieved a message about what it should be. The mesage was that it needs to be “Simple, Organic, and Grounded in the present Moment” .  This means that if the system is to complicated it is a mental construct and does not truly bring you closer to the Divine. It should be Organic Meaning that it can change and grow as our present situation changes. And finaly it needs to be grounded in the present moment meaning that it can not be overly concerned about the past or what will happen when. We can truly only act in the present moment. this is where we are and where we connect with the formless. Not in some future where we have evolved past our need for Bodies or have Moved to another Dimension of existance.