The Useful Fiction of Being Separate: What is The Wholeness I Speak About

Human awareness often begins with a sense of total independence. An individual perceives their thoughts and actions as self-derived, believing that they exist as a separate and autonomous entity. This perspective is a functional reality based on a specific, limited frame of reference.

However, as consciousness expands, it becomes clear that this independence is a useful fiction. Every part of a system depends on a larger structure, and each level of understanding serves as a foundation for the next. What appears to be an independent unit is actually a component of a much larger totality.

The limits of our understanding are often hidden from us. When a person operates under specific constraints, they tend to view those constraints as absolute laws of existence rather than temporary conditions. For example, if a vehicle is preprogrammed with a maximum speed due to a speed limiter, an unsuspecting driver might assume that the laws of physics prevent it from going any faster. In the same way, human perception is governed by biological and intellectual boundaries.

We often mistake the limits of our own minds for the ultimate limits of reality. We assume that if we cannot perceive something, it does not exist or is impossible. A significant shift occurs when we realize that the distinction between an illusion and reality depends entirely on our perspective.

If our entire experience is shaped by our internal mechanisms, there is no objective way to separate what is authentic from what is perceived. Without an external, absolute truth to serve as a reference point, our subjective experience carries the full weight of reality. The sense of being a separate individual is just as real as the sense of being part of a universal whole, because in either case, the lived experience is the only foundation available.

This understanding allows us to bridge the gap between our daily lives and the broader universe.

We are the creators of a reality that is defined by our limitations, yet the act of recognizing those limitations is what allows us to integrate with a larger context, and just as equivalent.

By accepting our immediate perception as a valid truth, we find that the most expansive concepts of existence are not distant goals to be reached. Instead, they are the very substance of our daily movements and thoughts. The universal is present in every localized action, and the realization of our constraints becomes the path to understanding the whole.

Ergo, the Wholeness I speak: Everything is like me, but in its own expression; or from a diametrically opposed perspective, everything is its own metric, not the same size if comparing with each other, but the same: full.

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