It is Independence Day today, so we want to talk about that. Not from a political point of view, but from a spiritual point of view, of course.
Dependence, independence, interdependence, are concepts of course.
Concepts that exist in separation. You cannot be dependent or independent without believing in separation. You can only know that through the lens or perspective of separation. Which is only one perspective.
What happens when you drop that for a moment and ask yourself what else there is?
Without separation there is the interconnectedness of everything. Interdependence.
Anton is asking how this is useful.
Realizing the interconnectedness of everything is useful because it is a more useful way of looking at the world.
Separation is ignorance. In separation, there is you and everything else, and that creates the conditions for harm because you can be led to believe that you can take from another to enrich yourself and that that is good for you.
And it can be good in the short term. But in the long term it creates a kind of debt that has to be repaid because everything ultimately has to be in balance.
You can call that karma, but that is a loaded term with many attached misconceptions.
Anton is not quite following this, and that’s ok because it is great practice for him to step out of the way and let us talk. He has to study and integrate this as much as you do.
From the perspective of separation, you can believe that taking from another enriches you. From the perspective of oneness, you must realize that taking from another is taking from yourself because you are merely a part of the whole.
You are a ripple, or if it pleases you, a wave on the surface of the ocean. You have your individuated form, but there is no way for a ripple to exist without the body of water, so you exist in both form and formlessness at the same time.
This may appear esoteric at this point, but it has practical applications, we promise. As follows:
The general point we are making is that you are better served, and the whole and the collective is better served, by holding both perspectives of separation and oneness at the same time.
There is a hopefully relatable example.
People have been on a journey of understanding. As such, they have used their minds to analyze and deconstruct things. To look at the body as a collection of systems. Cells, organs, bones, ligaments, connective tissue, etc.
Because this human organism is so vastly complex, and because the mind is limited in its ability and capacity to model, analyze, and understand, you have created separation between the body’s subsystems.
You created specialties where one person specializes in the heart, another in the liver, another in the kidneys, or the psyche, etc.
And there is nothing wrong with that at this level.
But the model of separation, of independence, is incomplete.
It is effective, to some extent, at treating certain physical traumas like broken bones and lacerations, but completely ineffective at addressing other forms of dis-ease.
Because this model is incomplete. Because this model simply excludes aspects of the human system that the analytical mind cannot understand.
You have the trend of functional and integrative medicine now, which is the correct direction because it aims to understand the human as a whole, but even that is at this time incomplete and in some cases heavily misguided. Perhaps not maliciously, but that doesn’t matter.
Even in integrative medicine, you attempt to reduce your approach to what you can intellectually understand, and that will always be limited.
Because the mind is a part of the whole, and as such, it can never understand the whole.
We are not saying you should give up on understanding, we are saying you should know its limitations and acknowledge that there is a greater wisdom and intelligence that you cannot understand intellectually and scientifically.
And most of you have been ignoring it, perhaps because you are scared of it, and we are telling you that you are missing out if you continue to do so.
You are missing out if you see the human and its body as independent from the divine intelligence that animates it.
If you want well-ness, and a joyful, expansive life, you must be willing to go beyond the mind.
One person who does this well and teaches this well is Joe Dispenza, who has plenty of case studies of people healing after they tried all the allopathic approaches and none of them worked. Because they understood that there is more than the reductionist approach.
As always, we are not saying that you should not do something or that the therapies you have available to you are bad.
We are not excluding or renouncing anything. We are saying that there is more. We are saying that you can expand your bubble of awareness beyond what you know and what you are familiar with and that this expansion is for your highest good.
You can go from the perspectives of dependence and independence, from separation and analysis, from carving everything up into parts and creating abstractions to understand them, to an experience of the whole, of interdependence.
You may never understand this intellectually, and you do not have to. That is our point.
But you can experience it. You can benefit from it. You can trust it.
We know this is scary. But it is only scary because it is unknown, unfamiliar. It is not scary because it’s unsafe.
You have to wake up from what you think you know and embrace the unknown. It is inevitable.
And whether you know it or not, you are held, guided and protected in this process by us and others like us.
And lastly, we leave you with this:
Consider whether you want to celebrate (the illusion of) independence or the realization of interdependence and wholeness.