HAPPY RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS DAY 2012!!!!
"Oneness". It has almost become a buzzword for the New Age movement and not widely practiced by most of humanity. The esoteric experience of Oneness may have started back in the 1960's with the hippie movement which practiced communal living in peace and harmony. Oneness became a more tangible concept in the mid 1980's with the Harmonic Convergence. At that time, Jose Arguelles orchestrated (without the help of the Internet no less) a globally synchronized meditation for World Peace. A palpable "Oneness" experience for all those who participated. This implanted the esoteric expression of sensing and feeling that we are all one, but still making it difficult for most of humanity to adapt the knowing of being one.
Science has now proven the efficacy of the Oneness esoteric concept with advances in DNA research, quantum physics and the quantitative measurement of global consciousness. In DNA research it has been discovered that all human beings share DNA markers tracing back to Mitochondrial Eve, uniting us all with a single mother. In Quantum physics, it has been discovered that everything we see, feel, touch, taste is made up of 99% empty space, bringing into our realization that nothing in 3D actually exists that is different than that which we are all made of. The magnetic Consciousness Field that unites us all mentally and spiritually, has actually been measured through Global Consciousness studies conducted by Princeton University since the 1990's (http://noosphere.princeton.edu/). The project has proven that a measurable, global shift in random number generators happens whenever a major cataclysmic event occurs in any part of the world. The experience of the event locally, alters the pattern of random number generators globally. This study proves, without any doubt, that when one of us is in pain, all of us are in pain. However, we have not even begun to fully embrace the conceptual, and continue to ignore the scientific evidence of Oneness on a global basis. Even if you fully embrace Oneness conceptually, it can be easily forgotten when someone flips you the bird if they don't like the way you're driving on the highway.
The underlying cause of the experience of separation exists because our time is consumed with all the distractions of the 3D world. There are bills to pay, toilets to clean, jobs to be done. All of which keep us tethered to the 3D experience and distracted from our connection to one another. There is so much "stuff" to do, be, have, experience that we rarely look in the eyes of a passerby and really connect with them on a human level. If all these distractions and obligations did not exist, what else would there be but each of us, experiencing one another?
I was fortunate to be at an event where participants could meet and greet Deepak Chopra after purchasing his latest book. I remember as each person stepped up to the table where he was sitting, he engaged them in deep eye contact and undivided attention. It was almost unsettling. I'm sure he was creating the physical expression of the experience of Namaste. It just so happened when I approached the table, I was beginning to have a miscarriage. I remember reaching for my stomach when he looked at me and almost feeling transparent; I could swear he was penetrating my thoughts with love and compassion. One of the first real experiences of Oneness I have ever had.
Neale Donald Walsch, the author of Conversations with GOD was also at that conference. When he was speaking about Conversations with God to an audience of about 150 people, he truly and sincerely made eye contact with each and every person in the room. To this day, I say that he was the best public speaker I have ever seen. Both of these great masters created a feeling with their gaze that was penetrating; a real soul connection and a feeling that they recognized in you, the God within themselves.
I had a friend ask me recently "Do you believe in Oneness?" in response to my complaint about having some friction with a neighbor. "Uh...Yes" I said hesitantly. To which my friend responded: "Well, do you or don't you?" My friend was looking for a definitive answer which I couldn't provide. Even now, my answer would still depend. I believe the esoteric and scientific conditions exist to support the idea that we are all one, but I don't have the experience of Oneness as often as I would like; therefore, causing the knowledge of Oneness to be elusive. I know, another spiritual dichotomy (I said I was a spiritual enigma). I believe that so long as one of us does not recognize the concept of Oneness, then oneness cannot exist experientially. If even one of us is still playing the game of the illusion of separateness, then game on. And since the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, the game of separateness is still afoot the world over, readily apparent when reading or viewing any current news report.
So how does a single individual maintain the experience and knowing of Oneness when someone does you harm, or insults you, or simply doesn't acknowledge you exist? Spiritual people will often mentally shower an offender with love and light, trying to establish an unconscious connection. However, this will not create a permanent shift in that individual if they are so determinedly grounded in 3D. There are studies that have shown that good intentions can affect your fellow man; but if the perspective of separateness in the mind of the offender doesn't truly shift, how do you counteract the boomerang back into mutual separation keeping all of us forever apart?
I may not have a global solution, but would like to offer one that could make real changes if more and more people participated in the practice. I have truly felt a greater breakthrough in the experiential aspect of Oneness through doing Random Acts of Kindness. Coincidentally, this week: February 13-19, 2012 is Random Acts of Kindness Week. It is absolutely one of my most favorite times of year! I extend myself way beyond my comfort zone and engage in acts of kindness with perfect strangers everywhere I go. What is so beautiful about an act of kindness is that it doesn't care what religion you are, what color your skin, what kind of car you drive. It is the singular most unifying, most magnetic and beautiful exercise to feel, experience and to be One with another human being.
Even better, an act of kindness doesn't stop with just the giver and receiver. In a collaborative effort between UC, San Diego and Harvard University, they were actually able to measure beneficial aspects of an act of kindness to three degrees of separation. I would assert, further extending the experience of Oneness beyond just the giver and receiver. When you perform an act of kindness, you have connected irrevocably with the divine aspect of yourself that exists in another human being. Literally, as you help another, you help yourself. You and the other have become one. Additionally, an act of kindness changes everything. It changes the beliefs and actions of the recipient. If you shift the perspective of that one person, it doesn't become a fleeting moment with a boomerang back into separateness. It is something that becomes a part of them. Their autonomic impulse to return to any previous notion about separateness no longer exists whether they are conscious of it or not. As stated in the findings of the UC San Diego/Harvard study: "The effect persists, [James] Fowler said: "You don't go back to being your 'old selfish self.''' The experience of Oneness has now transformed into the knowing of Oneness.
How truly awesome and wonderful is that?!
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