One Body, One Life, One Mind

My consciousness, the field of awareness that pours itself into the vessel of my individual experience, is not entirely individuated. It is not totally cut off or isolated from the cosmic consciousness of which it is a portion. I may experience myself as a finite and separate being, a being with edges that interact with a world outside, but the deeper I go into myself the more I find that I do not begin or end. The field of consciousness stretches out infinitely in every direction, but the particular coalescence that I feel to be myself is relatively contained. It gathers around a node, a point of unique being, but it doesn't have clearly defined edges or boundaries.

The whole that contains all these radiating centers of consciousness we can call cosmic consciousness. It holds all the unique nodes and the fields that surround them, and it also partakes of and understands them all. Its experience integrates all the experiences. Its vision integrates all the visions.

When we enter into that Consciousness, we open to a broader capacity for sensational experience. What we actually feel changes. The way we feel about ourselves and the interface between “me” and “you” and “that” all change. Through these changes in capacity for sensational experience, we become aware of Matter as one existence. We notice, feel, and know through tactile experience that all Matter, everything material, is fundamentally united and unified. Every body, my body, your body, that body, is a unique formation in which the One existence separates a portion physically from the rest of Itself. It draws a line around Itself and says "within this bubble is the experience of a separate, fragmented self, cut off from all other selves". Then the One establishes, by physical means, communication between all these experientially individuated selves, all these selves that experience themselves as isolated individuals.

This is not only true of Matter, but also of Mind and Life. Matter, Mind, and Life are all the same existence, the single One, multiplied into the many. There is really only One Body, One Mind, and One seamless and wholly integrated Life. This is the foundational reality that underlies what we experience as physicality, mentality, and living. Getting here is a big leap for the human consciousness. The implications on a human life of fully realizing and living in the reality of Oneness are awesome.

Once I know that my body is not just my body, but one limb, an extension of a greater Body that encompasses all matter on Earth and in the cosmos, then the compulsions toward self-protection and self-aggrandizement fizzle and fade. Why does my body need to be elevated and protected at the expense of others? There is no need to harm or break the One Body, because the inherent inclination of the One Body is toward harmony and beauty. My body does not need to dominate other bodies in order to be itself. My body can surrender to the greater Body, offer itself to the ideal of harmony that flows like a life-giving stream throughout the One Body, connecting all individualities and aligning all priorities with the highest priority of wholeness and universal Love.

Once I know that my mind is not just my mind, and my life is not just my life, that they are fields of understanding and self-regulating homeostasis within a greater field of understanding and self-nourishment that encompasses all unique perspectives and lives, then the compulsions toward dogmatism, self-delusion, subjugation and hoarding all fizzle and fade. Can you imagine living in a world where no one feels the need to convince anyone else of anything, or to manipulate? Can you imagine what we could collectively create without the need to push each other down or compete for resources, the need to kill in order to live?

All these collective activities of Matter, Mind, and Life, swirling in their own orbits and micro-orbits, arguing and feeding and battling and clinging to each other, are contained within a supermind, whose universal operation is the key to all lesser activities. When we touch this supermind, becoming conscious of it and even conscious in it, all is transformed, uplifted. Within this larger whole, we stop seeing the universal principles of Matter, Mind, and Life as separate from each other, and start seeing them as unique processes operating in concert, unique instruments playing their melodies within the universal harmony.

Many have become quite dissatisfied with this world as it is, torn by constant strife and war, violent domination, hoarding of resources by the few while the many starve. This milieu can change, and it will change. It is bound to change. But it won't be through imposition, force, or coercion. And it won't be through convincing a group of people that their ideas are wrong and should be exchanged for a new set of ideas. It won't be through the proliferation of capitalism or communism, socialism or any other -ism. Ideas ungrounded in subjective experience require conviction and coercion. Revelation of the foundational Truth stands on its own, needing no slogans, no banner, no pedestal.

It will be through a Divine democracy that allows and supports each individual to be themselves, to radiate the holy spark of creation that they are in the unique and beautiful way that comes most naturally. And this Divine democracy requires not a shift in worldview or belief, but a shift in experience, from isolation to integration. It requires that we begin to see ourselves and our bodies and minds and lives as part of a greater whole that unifies and holds and loves every part of itself.

This is the possibility that waits beyond the horizon, the unifying Light that offers Itself to us at the time of transformation. It is the Light of supermind, which when we enter into it in awareness, when we live in it as we currently live in the ego-sense, when we allow it to awaken in us the realization that we are one with all other bodies, minds, and lives, will lift us out of isolation and into the glory of knowing that we are One.

As we enter more and more into contact with this supermind, unified more and more with other minds, other lives, other bodies than the organism we call ourselves, we will both know and be able to literally touch and affect the subjective beings of others, and even the physical world itself. When more individuals are freed from the prison of individuality, retaining their subjective center but awake to their oneness with all that exists, a new world will gradually come into being. This evolution will unfold as all evolutionary leaps do, from the inside out, beginning with the experience of self-realization and flowing outward through words, actions, and subsequent effects, echoing throughout the Earth and beyond into the cosmos.

As we realize our oneness with all, the One realizes itself through us. And the Earth becomes unexpectedly Divine.

- Matthew Andrews (AVI USA)