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A sense of self and the concept of separation i think are two different ideas/concepts.
Most of the outer sources that i've come across that my intuition has told me was very expanded, more correct than not, and from the more universal and purely creative levels, all say the say thing about our destiny (my guidance has also confirmed this for me the following).
That the gift from The Source, and the Co-Creator Consciousness (which Bruce labels the Planning Intelligence), is that of knowing self to be an individual, yet fully One with the Whole at the same time.
To understand the deep importance of this, you have to go back to the very beginnings of Consciousness.
At one point, Consciousness was One Being or point of reference unto itself.
It was very dissatisfied with this original state of being, and so it changed within itself. That change was the creation of individualized, free willed parts of itself, yet while the original Consciousness or point of reference was also still there as an entity and level unto itself. So, it both changed and yet remained the same. There was no "physical" at this point. Much, much earlier.
On a human like level, you could say that The Source or original Consciousness was intensely and indescribably lonely. It ached for both companionship and to creatively express itself.
Why, if original Consciousness, and The Source was dissatisfied with this state, would it want to go back to it?
My very deep sense of this, is that it never wants to go back to being just one being alone unto itself--hence there will always exist the Whole and the Oneness, but also the many parts that make up the whole of same.
As Albert has said, this is not something you can figure out with our intellect, but something you have to feel.
Sometimes what happens when people experience the Oneness and The Whole, it's so different and foreign to their conscious minds because all their life they have attuned to a very separative consciousness, that when they come across the other side of the truth, they extrapolate that it's the whole truth.
Also because awareness of Oneness and connection feels so good. Love feels good, but there is no Love and sharing of same without the reality and existence of the many, of the parts, of individuals in some form or manner.
It's interesting to note again about the Yin-Yang aspects of Consciousness.
Yin relates to Oneness. Yang relates to Individuality. They are both equally and simultaneously important and real and true.
It is limiting to put one above the other. Sometimes here, because there is a very strong separative collective consciousness, it is helpful to temporarily stress Oneness, but it can be taken too far, even here, and again oft times it relates to our own inner imbalance of the Yin Yang within.
Those overly Yin attuned, or temporarily in a strong Yin phase, will overdo, over stress the Oneness side of reality, and vice versa with the Yang people will over stress and over do the Individuality side of reality and truth.
(and again, inner Yin and Yang attunement is not always directly related to the gender of one's body. Some men are more Yin imbalanced and some women are Yang imbalanced. What's rare is for individuals of either sex to have a more consistent balance and integration of both. It's a hallmark or indication of a very mature consciousness and there just aren't that many very mature consciousnesses in the Earth).
At one point, i went through a very strong Yin phase. It's interesting to note that the Planet Neptune was extremely highlighted in my transit astro chart at the time (transiting Neptune was conjuncting my Sun, which is also the ruler of my chart). During this cycle, i thought a lot about Oneness. I started to read some sources which said that the ultimate goal was to lose a sense of self and become the Oneness. That any and all sense of self was an "illusion".
I bought into this for a little while when i was in this very strong Yin phase. Thankfully, i remained open enough to inner guidance and was shown that i was missing the mark some, and that a sense of self and individuality was an eternal process. Will our sense of self and individuality be as strong and as distinct later, as it is when we are human, no course not, but it will still basically be there.
Later, i had sort of a ROTE download that has many similarities to Bruce's exploration of the Planning Intelligence and what he perceived about the beginning. When i first read Bruce's Voyage to Curiousity's Father, i was a bit blown away because the amount of similarity.
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