On the Totality of Consciousness
Like a point on the surface of water, we may feel like we move up and down uniquely and individualistically, while our position is most obviously dependant on all other points around. Trying to imagine such a point as independent is nonsensical: it forms a wave, an undifferentiated element of a gestalt – The Ocean.
It is neither by accident nor natural inclination that we see ourselves as independent agents. Individualism is a central tenet of Capitalist indoctrination; Christianity is founded on our free agency. Thus, our Western hegemony creates a belief system that opposes the possibility of its own operation.
Where can we find this imagined separation? The delineation between our body and clothes, the air and the skin of others is arbitrary. The nature of quantum interactions between our skin and the air is no different from those between the neurones of our brain, which in turn exhibit nothing more magical than the currents in a hot cup of tea.
Fathom that our delineation of our “soul” from a totality is artificial, and recognise that a totality is not a single consciousness. A single implies another possibility, an outside to this against which consciousness is set. While in fact the totality expresses the impossibility of anything else. All is consciousness.
We reach some obvious questions: How and why and on what basis are we subjectively perceiving ourselves as single entities? Why do we not have “access” to everything else?
Would we presume to believe that an individual neurone comprehends the nature of a man’s thoughts, as we presume that an individual man can recognise the consciousness of a system in which he is part? Yet still we have a glimpse of the beautiful truth. Our own physical experience can on no accounts be said to end at our body’s delineations. Others exist in our minds to a greater or lesser degree. Is the degree that they are accessible to us arbitrary? Why do we have an affinity to other parts of the world that share our physical mode of being?
We are aware of a Greater, and share a level of communication based on Resonance. As in physics, this is the ability for a complex system to introduce changes and sympathetic resonance in another - Our empathy operates through attunement. Like the string of a harp, we are physically determined to respond to certain frequency that at the same time is the frequency at which we contribute. Human civilization operates on the basis these harmonic resonances.