Are we bounded to one collective experience?

Answer 1

Yes, this is how it works.


I am the ocean, you are the raindrops. We are the same. You raindrops, because of your similar size and location, see yourselves as separate, as units, as individuals. This perception of your selves has been your only reality since you were born in the clouds. You have no other perspective of your selves. As you fall through your short lives here, you see the ocean far below. On a certain level you understand that it and you are one and the same. You envy its magnificence. The thought comes,” I am water too, am I not also part of this magnificence?” Then you realize that you are but an insignificant raindrop. You can only look at that distant ocean in awe. The ocean with its timeless knowledge sees you quite differently. It sees you for what you really are. Its most precious children, bravely returning home to share the experience that ocean as a whole could never have experienced. The ocean has nothing but love for you. Because it understands that it is you, and that you are it. It knows only truth. Until the moment you reunite you can only speculate. The ocean's love for you is unconditional. It holds no foolish thought of punishing you for not falling quite right. It only waits with great patience for your homecoming.

The tiny collisions you had with the other drops on the way down, at the time seemed so significant. Often you feared that if you mingled with them too long you might get to close and in the process even lose your identity. All this because you understood your true identity not! You are ocean, you always were ocean, you always will be ocean. How you currently perceive yourself raindrop, snow flake, puddle, stream, River, or lake matters not. This is all illusion, only perception. You are ocean, you are spirit. You and I are one; we are the All That Is!

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

As long as we live on Earth, yes, wisely so -- to one or to any or to many.

But no, where we are wise and free to choose for ourselves to at least accord ourselves some measure of grounding and in any case unbind ourselves from another's wielding it so, for herewith of course we engineer it (rightly so), which in effect is a binder by default.

We cannot unbind ourselves without being in turn unbinded 'from' some state or bound, which in any case still bounds us to some complement, for which our freedom will have depended on no freedom from that state that the unbounded state can be had, free from the collective experience.

Answer 3

In what particular way?

Is all of humanity part of one big story playing out on the stage of the universe. I would say yes, but "collective experience?"

Answer 4

That is truly an interesting question. The idea of "We" is where i'm complexed. Is there a we? I've always loved Descartes meditations, maybe there is only one experiance and one person experiancing it through multiple facets.