Oneness in the Universe
A blog from the Scientific American imagined a world in which people had a different worldview.
What if everyone adopted the Hindu, Buddhist concept of universal Oneness. The idea that everyone and everything is one. All physical matter, consciousness, and realities, merged as one collective entity.
As an agnostic, I am tempted to dismiss this concept, as it has the distinct stench of religion.
But many religions, especially Abrahamic ones, vehemently reject a concept that lumped their god with any mortal being, but Hinduism agrees with just that: That we are all god and god is all of us.
And as the old saying goes, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Any perspective rejected by popular faiths piques my interest, and this is an idea supported by logic and reductionist reasoning.
If you remove pieces from a car, starting with the engine, the tires, doors, how long before it stops being a car? It is difficult to tell, suggesting that a "car" is simply a concept attached to a cluster of matter resembling a certain form. At its base, the car is made of metal, rubber, glass, fiber, and gasoline. Those pieces are made of atoms, which are made up of subatomic particles, a rabbit hole that eventually, according to quantum physics, ends in quarks. But everything else is made of quarks, you and I, the synapses which form your consciousness, your laptop/phone/tablet, the earth and all matter in the universe. Black holes are simply the lack of matter, like the silence between the notes of a piano piece, which are just as much of a part of the music as the sounds are. So the universe becomes one. A sea of quarks that vibrate in different ways to form different things.
If the world believed in oneness, we would break down walls and see each other as an extension of ourselves. When we hold a pen, our brain thinks of the pen as another finger. Imagine if we thought of other humans as an extension of ourselves, of the Earth as our flesh and blood, of the universe as our own consciousness infinitely and precisely. We live vicariously through everything, and everything lives inside of us. We take care of each other as we would take care of those we love, we take care of our planet as we would our own abode, we define ourselves as "everything" instead of "mother, father, brother, sister, child, employee, citizen, man, woman, winner, loser, rich, poor", or even "me". What a world that would be.
** I thought I'd post a few long entries of things I believe might help one or two people out there. These are my opinions and my opinions alone, no one has to like them, read everything, or agree with me. This is for those who are like me, and not like the others. **
@EastAfrique
I think this is helpful, but for an agnostic, you do a lot of religious research. I have to disagree about the JudeoChristianMulsim universe rebuffing the idea of collectiveness, but I don't have the time to make that academic argument.
One of my favorite guided meditations centers around this concept: In the guided meditation, the hypnotherapist says 'and on this mountain side with the wind blowing, the colorful flowers, the rivers, the streams, and you. They are all the same. Things have not evolved around you. They have evolved with you because they are part of you.
@Darkseed
I was raised with religion, I did a lot of learning before I broke away completely
When things started to crumble to me, I only could think about Oneness. Therefore, I realised how divided I became, since I obsessed with recovering that feeling. It's already present. I think, if you make a parallel approach to depression, you can see it as a lack of connection to the world around you, or being overwhelmed by it. What do you think?
@SaneSerif
Yes I agree, a lot of us seem to tell ourselves that we are alone in our struggles, when we actually share our troubles with everything around us. I certainly don't feel connected to the world around me, and I feel overwhelmed and outraged at existence itself.
@EastAfrique So do I. It's been weird, the thought "I exist". I feel half here, half "there", if you know what I mean. I just wanna go to the astrals and look for answers. Should I? Or should I ground myself and work against that will?
@SaneSerif
Unfortunately, no one's got the answers, even if they believe they do
@EastAfrique well, have u read about Albert Einstein ?
@EastAfrique
"God is a mystery. But a comprehensible mystery. I have nothing but awe when I observe the laws of nature. There are not laws without a lawgiver, but how does this lawgiver look? Certainly not like a man magnified."
"God is not playing at dice."
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
"Everything should be simple but not simpler."
"GOD did not create evil. just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of GOD."
~ Albert Einstein
I'm sorry to said this but...
are u not realize that now day in this world everything using the name of science? they can fake it especially if u think logically that link u give was a freaking blog...
@GhostBunnywhite
What on earth are you on about
@GhostBunnywhite what differs science from religion so much? I mean, we're made of atoms, atoms are energy, etc., etc., right? so, you're saying that Science fakes things using a logical pattern of thinking, is that correct? and by those quotes, I realise that God is not a uni-structure, however, it is. see, I look at God as it, not an individual entity, like a magnified man, as you say. God, for me, is the Whole, and by that I mean simply the whole existence. there's no light without dark, there's no dark withouth light, how would you be blind if you weren't able to see? light also blinds, if you notice. just something I remembered. I feel there's a point you're trying to get, isn't it?
@EastAfrique oh yeah one more:
" science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind ."
~ Albert Einstein
