Disconnection

What are we supposed to do when we feel disconnection from each other, ourselves, or nature? I’m not sure I have an answer for that. Nor have I heard an adequate one that I can recall.

We are here all the same, plodding through different kinds of existences from each other or sometimes with each other. Are those feelings of disconnection all in our head? Or do we feel them as real because they are? Is that the central paradox of this moment in space-time: where we can prove scientifically that there is vast interconnection and interdependence in the universe, and yet we can feel completely disconnected? That may be a rabbit hole to go down. But will we ever come out of it? Or is that feeling of disconnection something that we as a species has invented and passed down for centuries? Was there a period in the past when earlier humans or proto-humans did not feel this disconnection? Before The Great Separation? Or maybe the disconnection is an internal issue? Maybe not just in our heads, but that we prevent ourselves from connecting with others and the natural world due to some fears or insecurities? Or because we perceive our selves as individuals? Could it be both?

Maybe the disconnection is all because of the way we think based on our perceptions? That we are individuals? That we each have a self? That we are separate from each other and separate from nature? Or that we tell stories about ourselves and to ourselves that we are better than those people?

Maybe the practical consequences of how we think and what we believe are the source of our disconnections?