Oneness Our experience is always only oneness. It is pure Being, Experiencing, Knowingness, Consciousness. Experience is always Oneness in which there is never a subject that experiences and no object, place, person or world that is experienced. It is only a thought that seems to separate Oneness into a perceiving subject and a perceived object, and this thought is itself the shape that Oneness takes from time to time. With this dividing, separating thought, Oneness becomes identified with a fragment of itself, a little cluster of bodily sensations and, as a result, seems to become located in and as the body. The ‘I am’ that is inherent in Oneness, becomes ‘I am this body,’ and everything else, that is, the part of Oneness that is not the body, ie. the world, including all others, becomes ‘not I.’ It is as though a crowd of a thousand people were to appear on a TV screen and the screen were to say to itself, “I am only present in one of the people that are present.” However, even though this apparent separation of Oneness into two things seems to be very real, it is in fact only an appearance within Oneness itself. Oneness is both the apparent separate ‘I,’ the world from which it appears to be separate and the imaginary dividing line that seems to separate them.
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