I would like to focus on one aspect of your article, which is unity. This is perhaps the most misunderstood idea of all, even though yoga teachers and popular self-proclaimed awakened teachers like to go around claiming “we are all one.” This is something that must be realized by a way that does not relate to the sense of self, which is the obstacle to understanding and the obstacle to realizing what life really is.
You wrote, “Whatever force, principle, or plan unites nature seems disrupted by personal freedom and counter-creativity.” This statement is the way the sense of self sees things, which is erroneous, because personal freedom does not actually exist because the self does not exist except as a belief. There is no real unity at all; it is only the sense of self that wrongly believes it is the doer that is apart from all else. Unity, then, only exists as a counterpart to separation. There is no force that unites nature; there is only one force and it is holistic vis a vis the implicate order (to use David Bohm’s term). Being holistic, which means one system, it is not possible to disrupt it or unite it.
How can any of this be known? It takes a persistent and total enquiry into the self to see for oneself what it actually is and where it comes from. If this is not done to the extent that the mind becomes perfectly clear in its perception then all that people have to go on are the words and experiences of previous generations that pass down their ignorant (not in the pejorative sense) way of perceiving reality.
Nothing is actually personal. Something that is personal is disconnected from the whole, which is not possible. In order to see this as true we must move beyond the self, phenomena, materialism, attachments to the body, and even consciousness. We must take this out of the realm of intellectualization and into the realm of realization. That fact that people cannot yet see this is what causes suffering in our world; all suffering is borne of the divisiveness of the self-belief and its attempt to satisfy its own needs and perpetuate itself above all else.
