The Oneness Principle
Yo, people, I’ve written a lot about this already on this jawn. It’s basically another way to think about some of the ideas from ancient wisdom that we’ve lost and/or forgotten. Namely, the idea that we are complexly interconnected with everything in the universe. We are small bits in interconnected infinity. Because of infinity. From Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Shintoism, most of the indigenous cultures around the world often termed “animist” by anthropologists, and more recently, western science we derive this idea: That we are all interconnected with everything — small bits in interconnected infinity. Because of infinity. A Oneness of being with infinity, the universe, the universal soul — however you want to call it.
Call it The Oneness Principle.
Expressed mathematically and graphically, it might look like this:
∞
— which is mathematically the same as ∞, an unmeasurably large number
1
And, graphically it means that we are a small part of infinity, we are below infinity, each one a tiny part of it. We know the value of infinity because it is unmeasurably large. And we know the value of our selves is very small because there is no one in ∞.
It is ∞.
How does this work? How does each of us get our own small part of infinity? Because we all understand that we are a small part of infinity, for a short time, and we share for the benefit of all. Because everyone in infinity is infinitely small, there is plenty of our infinity to go around.
It is a system of sharing, balance, and self-sustainment.
It is the One Consistent Principle that comes up universally in nearly all human cultures, for most of human culture: that we do not own infinity, we belong to it.
We declare:
WeareonewiththeuniverseWeareonewithinfinityWeareonetogetherWeareonewitheverything
Maybe, somehow
human cultures changed, and this principle
became something that we didn’t think we needed anymore.
We didn’t want to be a part of infinity any more, we wanted to
be infinity, to own infinity, to control infinity. Each of us. Individually,
we wanted to be infinity, to have infinity, for infinity, for ourselves.
But the math doesn’t hold up. Even if you
invert the fraction.
1
— mathematically is a very small number, immeasurably small
∞
And, graphically it means that infinity is smaller than us because it is immeasurably small, we are above infinity, not a part of it. We think the value of infinity is immeasurably small, and the value of ourselves is very high. We’re on top. And we deserve it, because we are so unique, like one in ∞.
How does that work? How does each of us get to be, own, and control infinity by ourselves? Even though it is infinity, there isn’t enough of everything for everyone to have their own infinity.
It is a system of want, excess, and collapse.
It is the paradox of every one wanting their own infinity but not actually valuing infinity for its own sake thereby denying or inverting our own Oneness of being with infinity or the universe — however you want to call it.
We declare:
our selves One being by my self.
Separate our selves into individuals
Separate our world into our self and everythingthatisnotourself
This is the myth of individualism. But, it is the dualism of how we divide everything into “me” and “not me” and the way we go along to assume reality is a full set of binaries. We value some things more highly, making hierarchies of everything. The denial of interconnection and interdependence. Of complexity. We reduce infinity to something infinitely small. Simplified. The rejection of the web metaphor of everything being connected, because we think we can tell better stories, create better things, and have everything we want — our own personal infinities.
But what is the consequence of competing for infinity when there isn’t enough to go around for every one to have their own infinity?
Because there is only one infinity.
That is The Oneness Principle.
What caused us to go wrong?