“The words ‘We are ALL One’ have reverberated through the hearts and minds of Humanity in one form or another since the beginning of time. They do not express a lofty platitude or a sweet cliché even though our lower human egos have often perceived them as such. They profess a profound Truth.” — Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

This concept of Oneness is one that I’ve always wanted to believe in, but never really understood.  I’ve sometimes felt ‘at one’ with the world in lofty moments, sometimes I’ve found a kind of oneness with my mate, I’ve experienced a sense of being at one with great teams I’ve played on, and I’ve certainly felt a kind of oneness with God in true healing moments.

But I have to admit, most of the time I walk around in an individual state, lost in my ego, trying to find my way back to this concept of oneness, trying to scramble back up that mountain of daily doings to the heights of Mind.

For the first major portion of my life I considered only my oneness with God.  This was often confusing because my concept of God often changes (hopefully evolves) and so becoming ‘at one’ with a changing thing that is not always easy to grasp can be confusing and elusive.

Lately, however, I’m beginning to see the world in a different light.  Instead of seeing my oneness with God (that’s a pretty big leap), the study and findings of quantum physics and the fascinating development of the internet have perhaps pointed out certain intermediate steps in this quest for understanding.

I’ve spoken often in recent postings about quantum physics’ recent discovery of oneness and how that might or might not relate to God.  I’m certainly not ‘on top’ of this concept, but find it a fascinating development very worth consideration in this day and age.  I know that most physicists are really having a tussle with it all now and we as a human race are at a very interesting point in our growth of understanding regarding our being.

As American physicist, Barbara Brennan, states in her book ‘The Hands of Light’:

“Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows ‘tendencies’ to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realize that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.”

Interesting here that she uses the phrase “a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns”.  This got me to thinking about our world wide web and its stunning collection of knowledge and potential intelligence.

Now I know that the web is not all a lofty invention of man.  Pornography, for one, and the proliferation of it on the web, is a sad comment on our mortal existence.  As in all this mortal existence there is the ying and the yang, the good and the bad.  The hope is that some day we will all grow wise enough to leave the false behind and turn our lives more and more to the brighter side of all things.

But I digress…

The web today and its exponential growth of knowledge is simply the invention of this age.  All the libraries in the world pale in comparison.  Here, for the first time in human history, we have a growing central virtual library of the knowledge of this dimension.  Also, the accessibility of this       knowledge is becoming fairly instant – as long as you know how to google.

My point is that here is an example that I can tie my string to.  Here is a collection of ideas so vast and so readily accessible that in it I can see a potential oneness – a oneness of knowledge and consequently the potential of the oneness of intelligence if used right.

If used right…  I make a huge differentiation here between knowledge and intelligence — intelligence being more the positive use of knowledge.  We humans sometimes have the ability to screw this up royally.  But the potential is there, the potential for a database so vast that it contains the whole of human knowledge.  A oneness of knowledge.  What we do with it is another thing.

The following is a quote that I found somewhere in the above database.  It’s from an article I read called Quantum Physics and the Undivided Whole.  Unfortunately, I’m embarrassed to say, I lost its author, but suffice it to say that the thinking behind the quote seems sound and the quote is one that I’ve read, re-read and pondered often.

“If, as quantum physics says, we are all interconnected at some deep level, then information technology is allowing us to interconnect in a basic and primitive but perhaps necessary way—building towards a more substantive spiritual interconnectedness. Information technology is so powerful today because it is allowing us to interconnect, to synthesize, better understand and become the one global economy and the one whole that we are. Perhaps information technology is a bridge necessary for those like ourselves obsessed with the need for empirical evidence of something before we will believe it.” – from Quantum Physics and the Undivided Whole.

Bridges to the future… bridges to the whole.  No longer is it all a total mystery to me.  The gaps, though still wide and elusive, are slowly filling in.  The sum total of human knowledge is coming together in interesting patterns and revealing a greater spirituality.  Whodah ever thought it?  Can we evolve to our true spiritual oneness through our greater understanding of the unreality of matter?  Seems logical.

Stay tuned…

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In my last posting, “The Allness Of God”, I quoted David Bohm, author of The Undivided Universe, as saying, “The inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality.”
Also “Einstein said, “The illusion that we are separate is an optical delusion of our senses.” Irwin Schroedinger, the quantum physicist who developed the wave equation in quantum physics says, “If we could just measure the sum total of the minds in the universe there would be just one.”

Mary Baker Eddy says in her Scientific Statement Of Being, “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.”

The question I ask is, “If quantum physics is a study of this material world and Jesus, Buddha and those millions of others are speaking about the spiritual world, is there an interconnectivity between the two?  Or are these really two separate issues?

If matter is unreal, another crashing discovery of quantum physics, if there is, in fact, nothing there, if all that we experience through our five physical senses is an illusion, then who cares what these physicists find.  They’re simply trying to figure out the principles of nothing.

And yet something tells me to pay attention to all this. This interconnectivity that quantum physics explores is not made of matter. Perhaps all there is is the interconnectivity. Perhaps the interconnectivity itself is God linking all true substance, “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

I know, we’re getting’ a little heady here, but how else do we get this straight? I’m just trying to line up all these different thoughts in my mind and see what it all amounts to.

If God is all in all, doesn’t that mean that all there is is God? Duh. If we are all one, does that stand us separate and outside of allness? Hardly. If spiritual man is a reflection of God (Remember Man was made in His image and likeness – Genesis) and God is all there is, then where does that put us?

And yet here I seem to sit, with my blue robe on in front of my computer living this illusion as hard as I can. And yet here I sit, thinking and wondering, breathing life by the nano second, heart pounding with life, brain teeming with life – the duality of life on Planet Earth and my life as a spiritual being.

I shall not be confused by this. I shall just let it be for one more day.  Perhaps today some light will crack through. Perhaps today another pin will drop into place.

Did I get it straight, or straighter? I think not. In no way, dear reader, am I trying to get you to think like me. Please build your own concepts of God and man. It’s hard enough to figure it out for myself. If you can shed some light on my thinking, I’m all for it. If I can reciprocate, great, but this is an independent journey for each of us.  There are far better minds at work than mine.

I do know this: The last hour spent in this noble contemplation has lifted me into the day. Essentially, I have had my morning prayers. The focus on the absolute has sharpened my mental atmosphere. I’m ready to start another day.

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For a while, a couple of decades ago, I owned a funky little beach house and a parcel of land in a cove near St. John, Antigua. It was a very private place in a very exotic paradise. The cove was protected from passers by on land and by a gorgeous living reef in the bay.

I used to go there to write 2-3 times a year for a month or so at a time and wrote a number of musicals there and many songs that always seemed to come out with a distinctively Caribbean flavor. It was an idyllic time I shall never forget.

Because of the incredible beauty of the reef, the clarity and warmth of the water and the shallowness of the cove, we would always spend a great deal of our free time snorkeling.

We often went out once or twice a day and I got to know the reef like my own back yard. Actually it was my own back yard, or perhaps better, God’s back yard.

While exploring, we would often come across some pretty large fish. At those times fear was a factor because even though we were well equipped with masks, snorkels and fins and were good swimmers, the fish had it all over us in the water. It was always dramatically clear that any large fish that we encountered could have his way with us at any time he chose.

And so we reasoned that our only protection really, was to love the fish. So each time we went into the water, we all took a moment to stop and get our minds clear that we really loved the fish. We would practice this every day. It was not hard actually. They were all amazing creatures, each with their own individual beauty and grace.

I, personally, got so good at this fish loving that I had to stop fishing and never have been able to fish since. It just became antithetical to my understanding.

One gorgeous day I was on the beach alone, sunning. I had fallen asleep under the hot noonday sun and woke up mouth dry and body sweat wet. Since we were a very private cove, one did not have to necessarily wear a suit if one so chose, so when I woke up parched and hot I grabbed my old faded yellow beach towel and headed for the water. Somehow, when swimming naked in the ocean, that towel always made me feel just a little more protected in the water and modest if someone were to happen to come along and I had to get out.

I wrapped the towel around my waist and walked into the water far enough so that the water came up to my waist. As I stood in the clear blue-green water with the sun pouring down on me, I was about as happy and contented as I’d ever been. I looked down into the water and there was a school of minnows that had collected around me. They would sometimes do this in their curiosity or perhaps their love of my suntan lotion. I began to study them as they swam.

It was amazing how they all would be going one way together and then suddenly all change course at once and go in a group the other way. Who was sending the signal? Which fish was the leader?  Did they all have fish headphones and fish walkie-talkies? How did they know?

I stood fascinated and watched them in their choreographed dance for several long minutes and the more I watched, the more I appreciated their timing and grace and communication – and the more I loved the fish. For whatever reason, being alone, having just woken up from sleep, being at home with these splendid creatures, that day I became riveted on these fish and experienced them like never before.

While I watched and loved, suddenly I noticed that around me had also gathered another school of fish, each about  3-4 inches long. I have no idea what kind they were, but they were silver and, you might even call them ‘cute’.

The minnows (about an inch long) were closest to me and as the circle expanded, the ‘cute’ little 3 inchers swam around the outside of the minnows in about a six foot radius around me. They did not mix. They kept to their own territory and stayed together each in their separate families or schools, but all began to circle around me.

I was dumbstruck, elated, thrilled, and in awe of the moment all at the same time. I put both arms out to the sides of me and carefully placed both hands gingerly into the water fingers first. I could feel the 3 inchers brush past my fingers as they swam ‘round and round. Then they began breaking the water and splashing in the otherwise calm of the ocean.

They were playing with me! I began to love them more. How could I possibly not? I did not move an inch. My feet were planted in the sandy ocean floor, my faded yellow towel still wrapped around my waist. I wanted to hold this moment in time forever.

This went on for several minutes – enough time for me to know absolutely that these guys were not just passing by, this was not just some happenstance – they had absolutely come to play.

And then into the cove, as if drawn by some joyous energy, swam a school of blue nosed gar (6-8 inches in length). They simply joined us, expanding the circumference of our circle to about 10 yards out. They too began to swim ‘round and round, leaping into the air as if to take a peak at this weird human who was by then crazed, awestruck and totally in love with the fish.

I felt no fear. I remember thinking that I was way out of my league here and that I needed to be careful and super sensitive to the moment, but I was never afraid, only respectful and totally involved in this magical, once-in-a-lifetime moment.

This went on for another couple of minutes or so – the minnows closest, then the silver 3 inchers and finally the blue nosed gar – literally hundreds of fish swimming in circles around me. I believe they were simply drawn to my love for them and the more they swam, the more I loved, and the more I loved, the more they swam – and so on.

They did not eat one another. They did not eat me. They did not mix with one another. They respected me. After all, I was man, the fisher man. And I respected them. So we all got over our fear that day and connected somehow as we played together there off the coast of Antigua.

I don’t know why I did what I did next, but it just came to me that I should try to swim with them. I slowly unclasped the towel from around my waist and even more slowly lowered the rest of my body into the water up to my chin.

Then I slipped the towel off, pushed off of the ocean floor and pulling the outstretched towel along behind me in the water, I began to sidestroke through the water. The old faded yellow towel undulating behind me in the water as I swam was like a six foot yellow fish and I became the Pied Piper.

I swam, and as if transfixed on the towel, they all began to follow.  I swam for the next 5-7 minutes around the cove, the head of a fish parade. They never tried to pass me and I could see them splashing and frolicking up to ten to thirty yards back.

At a certain point, (who was watching the clock?) they all either got bored, hungry or just needed to do whatever fish need to do, and they moved on, leaving me alone with my towel, alone with my thoughts and memories of that magical time out of time.

I have told this story many times over the years. I’m glad to have finally written it down. If asked, I’d have to place it in the top 3 experiences of my life. I learned more about love that day than I had ever learned with another human being.

We, the fish and I, were careful with each other, respected each other, were certainly curious about each other and, I think, fell deeply in love – I know I did. Maybe they, in their natural innocence, were just playing. I don’t know.

But I do know this: It’s a true story. It happened to me. It’s as vivid today as it was back then, decades ago. It’s proof of things far beyond what we think of as the norm. I shall never tire of trying to understand it more deeply. It is the meeting of minds and souls.  It is the oneness of all God’s creatures. It is the grand possibility brought into focus.

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