From outside the box

"There is no evil in the world, only lost disconnected souls."

"disconnect".....to sever or interrupt the connection of or between; detach:

Western thought and Christian doctrine is based on the idea of separation and disconnection. We are separate from God, we are separate from each other, all things are separated by space and time. It's hard to let go of ingrained belief's, even after they've been dispelled. The illusion of separation will be a particular hard belief to shake from our collective consciousness because, although things are not always as they appear, we tend to believe what we see. And when we look around, we see "over there" as a separate place from "over here". But in reality, is it really separate? Could it be that over there and over here are but different "expressions" of the same thing?

Separation would be a reality if there were such a thing as a finite particle, but there isn't. As science delves deeper into the world of sub atomic particles they are finding that the smallest particles, ones that they once thought were solid mass, are nothing more than wave's that are vibrating at different frequencies. And these "waves" are interwoven and connected thru out the universe, without a break, making up the "fabric of creation". There is no "solid" anything in the universe. We are all, everything is....a mass of vibrations....pure energy! Different wave frequencies create different particles which create atoms. Every atom is different. Atoms combine to make up molecules. Molecules, depending on their atomical structure, combine to make up different elements, and different elements....well, in the end this is what makes a rock something different from a flower.

This idea that everything vibrates fascinates me. I spend about half of my waking hours thinking about it. The implications are endless. What is it that is vibrating? Where does the vibration begin? What powers this energy? Of course the obvious answer would be God (although there is a religious connotation to this word, I'm going to use for lack of a better word)....But what does this say about God? What does it say about our relationship to "God"? Maybe the bigger question should be....What does God say about us? You could almost say that when God speaks, the universe vibrates. When pure energy (God) vibrates, things happen. One of the things that happens is....us.

So if we are all connected by this universal energy, then the idea of separation is just an illusion. Could it be that we are an extension of God? Could it also be that everything in existence is but an expression of God? If this is true, then one has to ask the question....What is the difference between us? What makes you different from me, why does everybody see things so differently? I believe the answer lies in "consciousness". Consciousness may be the underlying force, the "Godness" that motivates energy into vibration and vibration into "stuff"....the stuff of the universe.

Maybe consciousness individualizes itself which produces the many awarenesses we call you, me, that tree over there, that rock, or that furry thing running around. So if all of existence is but different levels of consciousness, and consciousness is the force behind all vibration or creation, then it would be possible that we are all taking part in creation. Quantum physics is discovering, as well as proving, that sub atomic particles react according to how they are viewed. Science has discovered that you cannot separate the consciousness of the viewer from that which is being viewed! If the universe is responding to how we are viewing it, or even thinking about it, then we must come to terms with the fact that we may be affecting everything we look at, think about, concentrate on, or wherever we chose to direct our awareness. The implication here is that we just might be responsible for what we experience because we might be creating that experience weather we realize it or not! It's like there's a dance going on and everything in creation is dancing with everything else in creation. The name of the dance could be called "Action and reaction".

I see these as realities that we are all aware of to one degree or another. The greater our awareness to this "connection", the greater our capacity for compassion and empathy. We empathize with something because we relate it to ourselves. When we see a part of our self in somebody else, other creatures, or even the planet for that matter, we know that what we do to each other, we do to our self. When we lack all awareness of connection, we lack empathy. It's easier to harm something when we have no awareness of our connection to that thing we are harming.

There is no Satan running around causing us to do terrible things to each other. There is only the lack of awareness to "connection". The good part is that consciousness, like all of life, is in a constant state of becoming something more. To me, this is what evolution is. What we do not understand today, we will understand tomorrow. Life appears to be designed to give us the experiences we need to evolve, to become more, and in that process we come to understand connection. First, our connection to each other, then our connection to all of existence, and finally, our connection to God or "the source".

Nothing is disconnected. Nothing can ever disconnect, the universe was not set up that way. There is only the illusion of disconnection. This happens because we lack the awareness to see what really is. We might partake in the illusion of separation, of being disconnected from everything else, but "everything else" never disconnects from us. "God" being the source of all that is and having infused it's own Godness into all of creation, cannot disconnect from anybody or anything anymore than the clouds can disconnect from the rain. I believe that mankind is in the process of realizing this connection on a grand scale. If enough of us come into this awareness, we just might survive our technology phase. War and environmental destruction would slowly be eliminated as we promote greater cooperation, understanding, and compassion between ourselves as well as nature. On the other hand, we can choose not to realize the truth of connection and we will continue down this path of self annihilation. We can "come together" or we can "fall apart". Love and understanding connects us. Power and fear separates us. We have free will, it's up to us.