Quote:I understand and I posed an argument why it made sense to me. Can you tell me why we would be biologically intertwined but not otherwise?
Even humans here in the biological world, ar'nt as connected as you would expect... we are all born, into similiar, yet very different bodies. We each grow into different people.. some small, some big, some fat, some skinny... big nose.. small nose.. big ears...small ears. The mind... has infinite, possible variable's.. When someone gains enough experience.. they are almost 2 seperate race's.. which become so far apart, they are no longer able to communicate. would a 50 year old man, have an understanding of what joy a baby gets from crawling? or a baby from looking at a sunset? Our bodies... and our minds.. make for greatly different beings.. though, you are correct we can share some basic experience's - and i am sure we could do on the other side, but fully mingled into a vast consciousness, would be like having a 2 trillion people speaking different languages.
Quote:Well, me neither, but like I said, I believe you (we) don't have a choice - we're all quite connected. If you become disconnected, it will be your illusion, not everyone else's. (imho)
Well if it's anything like it is here, then it would'nt be to bad, i would pay my astral tax - so the greater consciousness would'nt repo my house.. and seek out spirits i can connect with.. while avoiding the parts i dont wanna speak to, and maybe create a new race... and divide the parts of the great consciousness i dont like.. maybe a few astral wars later, i would have a nice place to figure out the meaning of existance.
Quote:Ever study Buddism? I have only read a little bit. I think the lifelong pursuit of nirvana deeply involves our understanding of our ego and our place and how it relates to oneness. Might be worth a look. I need to read more about it.... seems to me the last time I did, the idea of oneness wasn't attractive to me either. And I'm not debating it because the idea is attractive to me, it's not, it just seems to be the most logical to me given what we can observe.
I don't necessarily think oneness is instant and automatic, I think we spend a good deal of time experiencing things with a distinct awareness of our identity. The thing that nags at the back of my mind is A) everything that has a beginning has an end, and B) in the beginning, we were one vast expanse of possibility - key word "one."
I like yourself, only know the basic principles of buddisim, everything that has a begining has an end, or is this mearly something our human brains can comprehend? i mean, were did the universe come from, before the big bang? perhaps we are all very seperate beings.. who decided to put a house together, aka the universe.. and when it's finished a family can live here, and we all go back to our own reality's. Question b, is the limit of our human understanding.. and there must be more to existance, then human understanding.. as human understanding, cant understand very much.