Truly, we are all one, a single consciousness presenting
itself in an infinite number of variations. Meeting itself; playing
games with itself; studying itself through other eyes. Within the
single, unified consciousness—the primary identity—not
only are there a vast number of individuals (the most segmented of
awareness) that we see in our world (and beyond what we can see),
there are also an infinite number of larger subsets of the primary
identity. Some people refer to these larger groupings of consciousness
by names such as “soul families” or “soul groups”.
There are subsets within these intermediary subsets, down to pairings
of individuals—“spirit mates”, “soul mates”,
etc.
Only a few people seem to develop the awareness necessary to frequently
perceive the full interconnectivity for extended periods of time:
saints and adepts. Some of us, if lucky, experience a flash of awareness
of some degree of expanded identity within or on the periphery of
a particularly deep meditation. These days, many more people are
fortunate enough to shake the illusion of the distinctly separate
identity when first encountering a certain individual with whom our
union is so instantaneous and overwhelming that we are forced to
re-evaluate our definition of self and the world as we have seen
it.
These events are the most personal confirmation of the philosophies
and beliefs that tell us that our lives are an interconnected web
of individuals we may never have met, or sometimes cannot ‘meet’ in
the orthodox sense of the word. Are you one of the people who have
had an experience of being completely certain of an unnerving intimacy
with another person on your first encounter with that person? Were
you unable to deny the union the two of you have, even though such
an acknowledgement might thoroughly disrupt the life and view of
the world that you were comfortable with at that time?
Maybe you were not in a position to even share a word between you,
though that probably did nothing to diminish your certainty of the
bond. Perhaps the relationship was mutually acknowledged, but both
knew there should be nothing more explicitly expressed in this world.
Stephen Simon, in his book The Force Is With You, shares a story
of a friend who was driving through a part of the country she had
never been in. At a stoplight, she “recognized” a man
that was crossing the street. Just at that moment, he stopped, turned
and looked at her. She knew that she had never seen this fellow before,
but was equally certain that she knew him. He came around to the
window of her car and said, “We’re only supposed to say
hello this time.” He smiled and then continued across the street.
She never saw him again.
My wife says that when she first heard my voice (her back to me,
in a class) it struck fear in her for she knew this was the ‘familiar’ that
she had expected, even sought, since she was a little girl, but the
timing was completely wrong.
My appearance frightened
her. My lifestyle and hers were largely in conflict. Many of our
values and views of the world seemed thoroughly incompatible.
At that time in my life, I cannot say how I would have responded
if that class for our jobs had not provided the consciously acceptable
structure to come to terms with what was first experienced between
us. However, almost twenty years of life together has reaffirmed
to Kathy and I, over and over, there was a bond before there was
a meeting.
It is very likely that you are in contact with intimates that you
are as of yet unaware of, interacting at the higher self level without
need of your rational knowledge or understanding. Undeniably, our
world is not as one-dimensional as we once assumed or would sometimes
like to believe for convenience sake. The evidence of these unexplainable
ties should cause us to consider just how interconnected we all are,
and how our choices affect each other, thereby doubly affecting ourselves.
Perhaps the salvation of our world today lies in the growing number
of individuals experiencing this expanded awareness of interconnectedness.
How else shall we come to unity with perspectives so vastly differing
from our own that it simply can not otherwise fit into a strictly
schismatic perception of reality? One thing is for certain: from
ancient times, a standard ploy for preparing a populace for conflict
is to vilify the anticipated adversary by defining the opposed as “separate”, “the
other”. That way, an illusion of disconnection is created so
that the sufferings of “the other” are made to seem as
something less painful than suffering would be for oneself.
For me, truth is personal, and the consciousness that created the
world before us is so complex that it can and does simultaneously
manifest an infinite number of realities that sometimes appear to
the human mind to be diametrically opposed to one another. This is
truth for me, but may not be truth for you.
C.G. Walters primarily writes fiction that focuses
on the mystical, metaphysical, and mythical insight that we all possess.
He does not see fiction as something less than truth, but as a means
to induce the reader into comfortably ‘allowing’ their
personal truth—a living, ever progressing truth, fit to their
need at any given time—as opposed to a truth dictated outside
themselves. This perspective and his philosophy is evident is his
new novel, Sacred Vow—a journey toward our one true love .
. . in its infinite expressions. For more information about Sacred
Vow or the author, please go to www.cgwalters.com Email
atkathmandau@cgwalther.som
Sacred Vow, Fiction: Visionary/Metaphysical, 0-9774271-4-5, $13.95,
paperback, available in local bookstores.
