Oneness: We Are One

A quote from Einstein:

“We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense…There is no place in this new kind of physics for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.” Einstein

The term oneness is used in spiritual, religious, ecological and physics discourses. For some it means union with god, for others it is love and environmentally it is the ecosystem of which we are part, others see it as a unified field theory that is interconnected. Some say we affect the object we are observing because we are not separate. Interesting thought. We have a symbiotic relationship with all aspects of nature the fact we live within it, we interact with it, we depend on it and we come from it. So the interesting question might be what is the ‘it’?

I recall having the strongest feeling of oneness driving along a road in Canberra. I still remember exactly where I was on the road and the feeling of oneness, for me it is as if I was eternal, I felt the sense that time and space changed but I didn’t. The ‘I’ felt eternal to me in that moment. It was an experience I will never forget, fleeting yet enduring.

So let’s explore further from a range of perspectives.

The Philosophy of Oneness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneness_%28mysticism%29

In Platonism, and especially Neoplatonism, the goal of Henosis (Ancient Greek: ἕνωσις “unity, oneness”) is union with what is fundamental in reality: the One (Τὸ Ἕν), the Source or Monad.

The Neoplatonic concept has precedents in the Greek mystery religions[1] as well as parallels in Oriental philosophies.[2] It is further developed in the Corpus Hermeticum, in Christian theology, soteriology and mysticism and is an important factor in the historical development of monotheism during Late Antiquity.

To get closest to the Monad, One, each individual must engage in divine work (theurgy) according to Iamblichus of Chalcis. This divine work can be defined as each individual dedicating their lives to making the created world and mankind’s relationship to it, and one another, better. This is done by living a virtuous life seeking after one’s Magnum opus. Under the teachings of Iamblichus (see the Egyptian Mysteries), one goes through a series of theurgy or rituals that unites the initiate to the Monad. These rituals mimic the ordering of the chaos of the Universe into the material world or cosmos. They also mimic the actions of the demiurge as the creator of the material world.

The cosmos and order

Each individual as a microcosm reflects the gradual ordering of the universe referred to as the macrocosm. In mimicking the demiurge (divine mind), one unites with The One or Monad. Thus the process of unification, of “The Being”, and “The One”, is called Henosis. The culmination of Henosis is deification. Deification here making each man a God by replacing the concept of God as creator with themselves as creators, builders, craftmen of their own lives (ones’ life as their greatest work their Magnum opus). The divine unity here is a linear modalistic emanation i.e. Monad, Dyad, Triad and etc.

Henosis for Plotinus was defined in his works as a reversing of the ontological process of consciousness via meditation (in the Western mind to uncontemplate) toward no thought (Nous or demiurge) and no division (dyad) within the individual (being). Plotinus words his teachings to reconcile not only Plato with Aristotle but also various World religions that he had personal contact with during his various travels. Plotinus’ works have an ascetic character in that they reject matter as an illusion (non-existent). Matter was strictly treated as immanent, with matter as essential to its being, having no true or transcendential character or essence, substance or ousia. This approach is called philosophical Idealism.[10]

Mathematical Oneness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneness_%28mathematics%29

The Collatz conjecture is an unsolved conjecture in mathematics named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937. The conjecture is also known as the 3n + 1 conjecture, the Ulam conjecture (after Stanisław Ulam), Kakutani’s problem (after Shizuo Kakutani), the Thwaites conjecture (after Sir Bryan Thwaites), Hasse’s algorithm (after Helmut Hasse), or the Syracuse problem;[1] the sequence of numbers involved is referred to as the hailstone sequence or hailstone numbers,[2] or as wondrous numbers.[3]

Take any natural number n. If n is even, divide it by 2 to get n / 2, if n is odd multiply it by 3 and add 1 to obtain 3n + 1. Repeat the process (which has been called “Half Or Triple Plus One”, or HOTPO[4]) indefinitely. The conjecture is that no matter what number you start with, you will always eventually reach 1. The property has also been called oneness.[5]

Physics interconnectedness http://www.starstuffs.com/physcon2/science.html

Albert Einstein, with his general theory of relativity, opened the doors of science along with the mystical realities. Einstein theorized that space and time are intertwined and that matter is inseparable from an ever-present quantum energy field and this is the sole reality underlying all appearances. This theory challenged the basic assumptions about the universe and what it contained.

Physicists found that the most basic atomic particles in the cosmos comprise the very fabric of the material universe. An electron, for example, can be shown to be both a wave and a particle depending on the observer’s perspective.

Physicist David Bohm, in his plasma experiments, at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, Bohm found that individual electrons act as part of an interconnected whole. In plasma, the gaseous electrons more or less assume the nature of a self-regulating organism, as if they were inherently intelligent.

This scientific discovery of Non-Locality, the wave/particle duality, meant that everything is joined or connected together. Space and time is composed of the same essence as matter. Bohm found this to be a conscious atomic sea and extending out from this sub-atomic reality, all of material creation may also be said to be conscious. Since all matter and events interact with each other, time (past, present, future) along with space and distance, all is relative to the observer and operate as one under the law of Non-Locality.

“A principle related to nonlocality is called Bell’s Theorem. This is a quantum physics law that says that once connected, objects affect one another forever no matter where they are. Following the principle of Bell’s Theorem,…an invisible stream of energy will always connect any two objects that have been connected in any way in the past.”

This meant that everything is connected to everything else and that physical reality is BOTH waves and a particles. This model birthed the “holographic universe” idea, the powerful conscious energy that the whole can invariably be found in the tiniest particles: an atom of a blade of grass to the most distance galaxies. The building blocks of atoms are merely, “parcels of compressed energy, packed and patterned according to certain mathematical formulae.”

“Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Program at Princeton University, ..refers to quantum concepts such as the principles of complimentarity (the action in one system can effect the actions of another system at a quantum energetic level, free of the limits of time and space) and wave mechanical resonance (matter and energy exchanging manifestations as vibrating waves and particles)”
(excerpts from the Heart’s Code see Links)

Matter and Energy are two poles of the same unity. Shamans and Mystics call this Oneness or Interconnectedness.