What draws us together?

With the idea that the question is really seeking an answer that provides example of some unifying elements, I think the focus should not be so on what connects us—as that is a given—but rather on how we imagine we are separate.

We fire up our ego, and conjure ourselves “separate,” isolated. We imagine we can divide—segment, disassociate—our conscious mind from our subconscious, our heart from our logic, our spirit from our secular. It is by dubious choice and repetitive choice that we create these illusory demarcations. Why then would we think that this alienation/separation would contain itself only within us? We create endless schemes of segmentation/separation: our household/not, our neighborhood/not, our friends/not, country/not, etc.

We are One, operating as “individual eyes” of the Absolute, each seeing a slightly varied aspect of a picture, all aspects coming together to create a depth perception that our human minds cannot even begin to perceive. This is the best example I know to explain the concept of each of us being a channel of perception for the Absolute: Close one eye only. Open it while closing the other.

Each eye sees a slightly different variation on the scene before it, yet the brain is able to blend two different signals into a collective view that gives greater depth perception and detail. So the greater complexity of the Infinite Intelligence is able to simultaneously perceive the “eye” of billions of individuals (and other lifeforms) in every moment through all time and realities.

We are one body, a body that encompasses all that we can perceive and then much more. As no cell within my body can be less than connected to another, so are we. The problem is that our minds seem to have forgotten (gotten confused by the elaborateness of themselves) the wisdom in the consciousness of cells.

How do we “connect?” By ceasing to imagine and enforce separateness.