“We Are All One” ~ The Feel Good BS Statement
I get it, I get it. Spiritual leaders and various aware, awake and enlightened groups of people are quick to tell us that the answer we are searching for is that we are all one and I believe that, to some extent.
What I call bull shit on is that it doesn’t apply to this human experience.
Isn’t it more important to figure out how to be a human than trying to figure out where we came from or where we go when we die? Isn’t living in the present, not the past or future, really all that there is?
We experience this human life as individuals. Sure we are social animals and seek companionship with others but NO ONE has the exact human life experience that you have. Not parents, siblings, spouses, children…no one. Because we can only view our world through our own eyes, thoughts and experiences, we can never truly understand how someone else sees, thinks and experiences life.
Orson Welles stated it so simply, “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
Being alone or individual is not our problem (we were made for it!) so therefore coming to a conclusion that we are all one, is not what we are seeking. It simply feels good to us to hear it because we have been taught that feeling and being alone are not good things.
Children don’t care what other people think or do, they live for themselves. They don’t care if you are hungry or tired when they are hungry and tired. They don’t care if they are alone, expect for when they need you to fulfill a roll that they can’t themselves. Being ourselves and living for ourselves is conditioned out of us.
Why?
Fear. Fear that if everyone lived for themselves (lived there lives the way they wanted to) that the world would be destroyed and that we would be reckless and harm others.
Ummm, isn’t that what we are doing now?
I think a statement like “we are all one” perpetuates the fear of living this life (which is probably the exact opposite of what it is intended to do) but we really need to pay attention to the reverse effect so many feel good statements have on us. Tell us something often enough and as if it is fact and we believe it but that doesn’t make it true.
PLUS…what we are outside of this experience (this life), is nothing more than what we want to believe. Heaven, hell, energy, all one, dust, fertilizer, reincarnation, other worlds, call it anything you want but you won’t know until you get there and once you are there, you won’t remember being here. Or if you do remember being here, you won’t care because you are there.
Accepting we are alone, having an individual human experience, right now is what allows you to enjoy this life and all it has to offer. Embrace your aloneness. Enjoy your relationships and the illusion of oneness but remember to return to the life you, and only you, are here to experience.
