Christians cringe when hearing the words "oneness" "unity", when in reality...The principle of oneness is explicitly expressed within the Holy Bible!
Acts 17:28- "For in him we live and move and have our being"
Romans 11:36- "For from him and through him and to him are all things"
Ephesians 4:6- "One God and father of all, who is above all and through all and in all"
John 17:21-"...that all of them may be one, father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me."
John 14:9- "...Anyone who has seen me has seen the father...Dont you believe that I am in the father and that the father is in me."
John 15:4- "On that day you will realize that I am in the father, and you are in me, and I am in you."
Oneness is inevitable. Oneness is inescapable. To say that you are one with God does not mean you ARE God, But to understand this concept you really need to understand what God is. Every single one of those passages aknowledge our inseparability From Gods all permeating essence. God is a label for a transcendant reality, in which all is connected and interrelated into one unified whole. This reality is intellegent; is aware...Thus it creates because it can. It creates to know itself and what it is, and what it can do. It was all that existed and will ever exist, so it used its essence as the material in which to construct itself(creation) so it could experience itself.
If you are still reluctant to aknowledge the oneness of God and creation, think about this...
If God was all that existed, but the universe is not of God, then what did God use to create the universe?
Because of new discoveries in modern science, zero point/quantum physics is inevitably sloooowwly forming a scientific basis or foundation for religion...Surprisingly, the radical ideas that are found in quantum experiments seem to focus on our ONEness with all, the interrelation between mind and matter, and how much power we all have over our environment. Each scientific principle seem to defend the authenticity and Truth within Buddhism and Hinduism! You have to realize that all religions are only different paths to the One and only source of all...You call it God, Taoists call it the Tao, Hinduists call it Brahman, Buddhists call it the dharmakaya but they are just different "labels" for the same principle.
Imagine a dark, empty, boundless void. God stands peering into the boundless darkness and longs to create...To experience something in order to spend eternity being active, learning and understanding its own perplexing existence.
He begins to tear of pieces of his clothing, fingernails, hair...any activity what-so-ever is sufficient, for he has previously spent an eternity doing nothing. He then tries to construct something, and realizes that in order for a structure to be stable it needs to be symmetrical. Symmetry is natural, when there is a up, their is inevitably a down. Thus the rise of opposites; Yin and Yang. Dark and light. Up and down.
This analogy is not totally accurate, because God transcends clothing, fingernails and hair so we must rid of the idea that God is an old man with a white beard, sitting on a throne up in the sky somewhere...We must open ourselves to higher truths.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" Is so much more profound and filled with meaning within the Hebrew version: "barasheet bara Elohim..." The first letter starts out with a B, known as Bet...The numerical value of B is 2...Why would the bible start out with two, not one? Because before Creation, which is comprised and sustained by the interaction of opposites(two) was ONE...Just God existed...
It says "barasheet bara Elohim" Which actually means "In the beginning God created God"(Elohim is another name for God). Actually Elohim in kabballah is a label for all the forces God had divided himself into, to create the universe. He polarized and divided his essence in order to construct the world of duality; our universe! Everything is interrelated and connected by God! And we forgot our oneness with God (repent in Hebrew means to return) which was the fall of man.
So using this new information we could use a better more accurate analogy: imagine a being whose essence prevades and expands all of space for eternity. A shadow of nothing, a formless presence of pure awareness and mind. It is all that exists...What shall it do? It dreams the universe, it imagines the stars. "In the beginning" (Barasheet bara Elohim) could also be translated as "In the head". Much like vast distances have no meaning outside of a dream...Outside of this dream, is pure nothing...Pure God. When you dream of talking to people, interacting and socializing...the seperation is an illusion, because they all still come from your mind, your essence. We all still come from Gods mind, we are all still composed of Gods essence. During his dream, he decided to give his characters in his dream free will...Each being could work, think and move independant from the control of the God-mind. They were seperate, but one at the same time.
Every one of us contains a divine seed, an individualized unit within a sea (scientists can call it ether) of unity and all that is...Like a drop within the ocean...The separation is illusionary but is very "real" in this world of duality and illusionary isolation. This drop is our authentic self, it exists deep within the shadows of our psych. We are separate from this sea because of our divine seed, but at the same time unified.
Jesus indicated of his oneness with God, and paradoxical separation which lead to the mysterious Trinity, deemed "incomprehensible" because of the ignorance of this concept of oneness and separation. God, the origin of all, is multidimensional; he is the embodiment of creation and its limitless facets, the totality of all that exist... he exists within all possibilities, all probable timelines and particles. He is within the bright light at the end of the tunnel, he is the darkness of the tunnel, he is the love that spiritual beings and physical beings can express as well as the love that transcends all and unifies all, to have a loving relationship with God is to have a loving relationship with your mom, dad, siblings, people at work etc. to help God is to help the poor and needy...God is all, and we can can tap into this unity by becoming aware of our divine seed.
How does this formless God express himself and interact with a world of form? Through us, we are his hands and feet. The divine seed can pass information down to our unconscious and into our conscious to hug someone who needs it, or smile at someone to brighten there day etc... The bible is often called "the word of God", the word "God" is durived from the latin word "Guth" or old Norse word "Goth" which both mean "voice", perhaps this wordplay is indicating that the authors of the bible were writing from an inner voice or something within their unconscious.
Thank God this is a universe of oneness; because of this, the universe is inevitably a universe of love. Love is an expression of unity; love is the aknowledgement that all forms are just different manifestations of the same whole.
Love is natural, its healthy, it heals.
One should express it to itself. :)
Its not natural or beneficial to your mental or emotional stability to hate yourself, so it is, in a transcendant way, the same when you hate another. For we all came, and will end in unity. To hate your neighbor is to ultimately hate yourself.