It has been said to me, “It’s easy for you to say that we are all one when you are a privileged white male. Try telling a person of color who has been treated unjustly that we are all one!” The misinterpretation seems to be: “We’re all one, even though this individual seems to have drawn a longer straw than that individual.”
I want to be clear: we are not all one. It’s much simpler than that. There is nobody here. This individual is an illusion, and all individuals are an illusion.
When the individual momentarily fails to keep re-interpreting everything as being related to itself, reality can be revealed as it is. When this happens, there is a glimpse of all that is in its completeness and perfection. Paradise or heaven is revealed as being all there is. It is nothing-everything, wholeness, or unconditional love.
If the illusion of the individual is able to then re-establish its hold, it rushes back in and immediately individualizes reality, stitching what was revealed into its narrative: “Ah, yes. I am everything!” Since there is nothing apart from this, the individual assumes that all individuals must be the same individual and that we are all one. The false idea is that “universal consciousness” is peering out of all the eyeballs and manifesting as all of material reality. Some individuals report that they see themselves (“oneness”) everywhere they look, as…
