"What if we are actually one Self, vast and multi-layered?

Question

What if all our tragedies were as shadows on the walls of our own disheartened mind?" --Only This, pg 5.

What if we remain whole, in perfect peace, no matter what...as we create wonders...

Aphrodite: That should be "its...ideals"; No apostrophe in this case. And it makes perfect sense.

ooggboogle: My evidence is that when I practice this teaching, I have a repeatable result; I speak of perfect peace as the truth of us, not this ego that we think is us; the Bible does not speak definitely about anything, hence the many religions, and separate bodies within the same religion...no one sees anything exactly the same; I'm not talking about humanity creating wonders, but our true Self. Humanity is but the shadows we cast to hide from our true Self; the heart (intuition) is God-in-you.

Snout: Yes, let us reduce everything down to labels...pantheism, atheism...I'm not making a fuss, just quoting from my second book.

Jamesmom: ...and infinitely more...

Oh, I forgot...everybody: Go in peace.

Answer 1

You know something ?

When I read questions like this, and most of the answers to it, I have a rising crescendo of love and hope that we are finally getting there, to the point of 'Rememberance', of who we really are.

Thank you Cary, for asking it, and thanks to all of my brothers and sisters who are out there making it happen. None of us is 'alone', I know that at times we may feel like 'voices crying in the wilderness', but the truth is that we are 'One', and always have been.

Yes, we are 'One' 'self', infinitely vast, and infinitely multi-layered. This I 'know', experientially, I have been in that 'place', as, I suspect, have many here. :-)))

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Answer 2

What evidence can you present for this, aside from asking pretty questions?

I for one am almost never in "perfect peace," except for when i am close to God, and the Bible definitely speaks against this "one Self," everything-is-godhood idea. And i am never "whole," either, except for when God is all that i see and all that matters.

And i would also like to point out, as a history major, that humanity doesn't necessarily "create wonders." As a people human beings have done a lot more terrible things than good things, and i for one have experienced this personally as both victim and perpetrator.

Answer 3

As for the original question.

What if human communication is somehow evolving in this direction? Isn't your comment a metaphor for society and it's collective ideals?

As for the rest of your question, it does not make sense.

Answer 4

That would be wonderful. If we woke up to discover that "All is One, my child" was not just a corny zen-like joke, but the truth.

I suspect it may well be. Or perhaps we are two or three entities, eternally in a super-drama from which the muggle-world dramas take their pattern. Two, black and white, locked in eternal struggle. Two, male and female, locked in eternal embrace. Three, two lovers and the "blocker" who tries to keep them apart. Three, persecutor, rescuer and victim.

Stuff like that. Isn't spiritual speculation grand?

Answer 5

You said it when you say 'true Self'. But the ego makes things so confused sometimes. As appears to be the case from some of the answers here.

But when one goes 'beyond' that, well ... things begin to look different, don't they?
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Answer 6

"I am in the Father, You are in me, and I am in you." Jesus said it, but this is from the Original Gospel that Christians seem to overlook in favor of the Pauline Gospel about blood sacrifice.

Find the Original Gospel about this inner Kingdom in a free online Book... a delightful read about a couple of kids seeking this "hidden kingdom treasure" you are speaking of.

Answer 7

"We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings."

–Paramahansa Yogananda

Answer 8

well of course we are, we are all one being, born out of the 'stuff' of our planet, (whether you believe in Creation or Evolution, the fact remains that we are all made out of the same 'clay', the organic matter of the Earth.)
we are all related to each other, every plant, animal, bacteria, fungus, and human... and we are all made out of the same stuff as the stars above us, too

Answer 9

the human onion, peeling away layers to find the core at peace.

Answer 10

The one became many to experience the many becoming one