Hello All,

What about these thoughts?

You cannot divide the infinite. There is no division. This is the awareness we must trust. As we trust our intuitive selves, beyond our intelligence, we trust God. Perhaps this sounds a very frightening prospect, the possibility of losing our unique special human identity, our security and certainty, our very selves as we know it, yet our energy, our life force cannot die but change in form as energy cannot be destroyed.

We are all separate, but all inseparable, all distinct but all connected, all different yet impossible to be undifferentiated from what we ourselves are part of, the earth, each other, the environment, the universe and the one divine life force, the spirit, of God, the unseen energy of wisdom within us. To see this force all around us, this must be found within ourselves, as close as our very breath. It is our shifting of awareness that allows us this knowing

The energy released at death never dies. Energy does not die, it simply changes form. If our energy is that of fear and unawareness, "will it gravitate back to the same fear and unawareness at our new birth" If our energy is calm and aware, without fear, perhaps it will gravitates to the same awareness at our birth?

Does the energy of the human life, at death, blend in and dissipate with the energy of all that includes non-human life? Energy does not die, but changes form. Yet does it retain any realm of distinction within itself?

"Just as rivers flow from east and west
to merge with the one sea,
forgetting that they were ever separate rivers,
so all beings lose their separateness
when they eventually merge into pure Being".
-Chandogya Upanishad

"I dont like this idea and am convinced we retain our unique identity forever".

The power of mental pictures in meditation plays a powerful part in our thoughts that is our creative energy, that we project out into the universe, which manifests itself after we let go, relax and trust both in ourselves as far as our connectedness, and in God to bring forth the power of our creative thoughts. Our meditation and mental picturing are tools to activate this energy within us and make it work for us. Use the ability of our creative power to convert the energy of our thoughts into a newly materialized form-- manifestation. The principal of all life being, energy creates matter. This is true of all things, including both our thoughts and speech.
alan

In the Beginning, all is One,
Adrift in seas of opportunity, probable waves and patterns form, and then perhaps dissolve.
The winds of karma lift a drop of ocean to the air, and it experiences wondrous things.
There is the cycle of the tides, the power of storms, the gentleness of calm evenings.
Each instant passed brings novelty and recreates anew the wonder of it all.
Like an explorer back from finding distant lands, the drop returns and joins its kith and kin.
It brings them tales, insights and understandings, all the knowledge it has gained.
And from them it absorbs their multitudinous experience in return.
A drop within the ocean, still itself, yet dissipated through the volume of the sea.
The drop is not undone by sharing Self with its companions, nor its companions any less.
Each learns to be at one with all the rest, identity expanded, universal in extent.
In the End, as the Beginning, all is One.

dave ;-)