We are one... People are always saying "We are really all one" nowadays. And I remember that song "They'll know we are Christians by our Love" that starts off "We are one in the spirit, we are one in the Lord." But I confess to being really bugged by new agey "we are one" pronouncements that fail to differentiate between the human level where I'm myself, I like cats, I enjoy sushi, and reading poetry, and my friend Sarah who loves dogs, hates cats, likes hamburgers and won't touch sushi, and reads romance novels. We are very different on the ego level and we are NOT the same person.
I think where this idea goes wrong is not analyzing the "we". Which we? We in spirit or we in body? We in spirit are all one. The minister at a church I used to attend had a brilliant analogy--that of the hand. There is a palm with fingers attached. The hand is a whole, the fingers are part of the hand. If God is a hand, we as fingers, as extensions/emanations/creations of God are encompassed by an omnipresent God by definition of omnipresence--but that doesn't mean that the thumb is the forefinger. Each finger is individual--yet they are one as part of the hand. And in such a way are we each members of the body of Christ, and we are one--within God--yet as individuals, we are separate and unique.
I have asked the angels for further clarification on the subject, and I have the pleasure of having Archangel Michael step forward:
Beloved, if someone asked you whether you were Archangel Michael, or Jesus or the Buddha, would you say yes--and get locked away in some institution? Or no? It is interesting that the people who you could be a little more tolerant of, will be quick to be clear on that but still be vaguely spiritual in affirming oneness. It is true that you have a low tolerance for sloppy mental/logical processes, but in this case, the statement isn't even intellectual. It is a parroted spiritual truth, not a known spiritual truth. And it is therefore used profusely, and glibly.
This is not a criticism of the people themselves. It is, however, a commentary on the state of "spirituality" in your world. In a quest to avoid the negative aspects of religion, those who insist on having a non-religious spirituality often throw away some of the things like mental discipline, a consistent worldview/cosmology, and other aspects of religion that are quite positive. Most of these people will agree that God is omnipresent--or some other name they have for God is omnipresent... and then they will say "we are one" because they read it somewhere, not because it was experienced.
When you look at modern people who have somehow had a mystical experience of oneness outside of a religious context, you often find people who have had an epiphany following a harrowing case of depression, or some other tragic situation. Both Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie developed their philosophies following experiences of deep depression, existential depression--something that came from the soul--in fact, we might call their experiences dark nights of the soul in the way that John of the Cross famously described.
For the many, then, oneness is a belief rather than an experience. Mother Teresa saw Jesus's face in everyone's face. She truly beheld the Christ in those she served. But that was Mother Teresa. You see a homeless person and cross the street more than see Christ... And most of the oneness professing people would cross the street with you.
We angels do not advocate trying to feel "one" with everyone and everything all the time. This might be distracting from the world in which you live. On the other hand, we do advocate focusing upon oneness with God. Feel the Spirit of God move you as you make decisions. WWJD may seem like a trite thing now, but the idea behind it is powerful. Trying to see from God's point of view, feeling God's life lived through your life, gives you a totally new perspective, one in which others are acknowledged as other, but also acknowledged as others within this experience of God.
It is the experience of God that will allow greater compassion as you look upon the world through God's eyes, and as St. Teresa of Avila said, become Christ's/God's hands and feet upon the earth in present time.
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