Oneness VS Oneness
by Douglas Melloy

Personal evolution is a curious process; it is not only personal, but it is also both relational and social. Evolution is the development of consciousness over time through space using catalysts, like pain, fear, darkness, and anything else we feel, think, and aspire to humanly. There are two ways oneness can be explained - as either an individualized understanding of something specific, or from an understanding that oneness is a collective state of existence. This appendix is the explanation of oneness versus oneness.

If an individual is focused solely upon him or herself, he or she will seek to find that state of oneness that is specific, like bliss, nirvana, or perfection. Specific states of being and knowing are only possible consciously when an individual considers him or herself an entity unto him or herself. This leads a person to seeking to discover an it or absolute of some kind, matching or mirroring his or her ideal about what oneness is from a perspective that is considered an entity unto itself. The aspirant seeks to find that state he or she considers an absolute. This requires exclusion, negation, and aversion to anything else. The statement made is, “I am it, therefore, there must be something that is also it.” This perspective is only possible from belief that there is distance, isolation, differentiation, and other-than-me-ness. What a person states, to quote Chuang Tzu, is, “I am not you, and you are not me.”

Individuality, treated in isolation, will only seek for an absolute of some kind considered it. The ancient Greeks, Hindus, and Buddhists sought for one state, giving rise to all states. Today physics use the same pursuit to discover the smallest particle, giving rise to the Big Bang and differing states of organization, like planets, stars, moons, and galaxies. What this tells us is, all of our knowledge is based upon individualized perspectives and interpretations about what exists as a collective. This version of oneness exists, due to individuality seeking to know from that perspective alone.

Contrasted against individuality and its interpretation of oneness is, collective consciousness knowing what oneness is as a single unified state of being that knows. This can be understood through mathematics. If an equation has several parts composing it, then the sum of the parts, its collective state, equals what it is as a single unified statement or equation.

Everything in existence is a collective of some kind. Everything has a composition to it. God has a companion to it giving it the ability to exist as a single state of reality or being. God is centered within the heart, surrounded by a state that is the exact opposite of what it is. Nothing within the universe exists independent of anything else. The universe is a binary vibrancy between what it is and what God is.

Built upon this state are several superimposed states existing, not only as us, but everything else in the universe. The universe is a single state. The parts composing it give God the experience it is varying forms of I am-ness. This means understanding oneness is actually only done through collective consciousness. This requires activating the entire brain to accomplish. The reason only 6% of the brain is active is, that is the part that pertains to and involves individuality. The other 94% pertains to and involves our collective state of being; this is no different than the universe existing as one state of being. Oneness as an absolute, or oneness as a collective, are the only conflicts that exists within the universe. Each person decides whether he or she is an it of some kind, existing as an absolute, or as part of a larger collective involving opposite sex, society, the environment, and the universe.

Oneness versus oneness is ofen misconstrued as good versus evil. There are other versions of this conflict: as either/or; perpetrator/victim; greater/lesser; right/wrong; and true/ false. This type of conflict can be thought about in the context of individuality versus all else. Individuality can be thought of as what is connected and integrated into a larger collective of some kind, beginning with the self existing as a collective state of being, extending and expanding into and through the opposite sex and society. The opportunity for wisdom about oneness lies within each of us. Some people choose to be an entity unto themselves. Others choose to be part of a collective.

Ascension also involves both individuals and collectives. Individual ascension is negative, while collective ascension is positive. Individuality is the active and negative aspect of the self. Collective states of being are positive by nature and design. Personal evolution is a person choosing to be and know him or her self, either as an entity unto him or herself, or as a collective state of being existing within larger collectives establishing and composing the entire universe.

Oneness versus oneness is the perspective one chooses to be and know and evolve as and through. For some, oneness is an absolute state of existence. For others, oneness is a collective state of consciousness. These two ideals evolve side by side. What one becomes conscious of as the self is the path. Collective consciousness is infinite, eternal, complete, and total, as-is as a state of oneness. Individuality considers itself to be the one and only - an absolute unto itself - and lives accordingly, while seeking for that state that confirms and validates its ideological point of reference and empowerment. Individuality requires adepts who blindly follow edits, rules, or laws needed to insure conformity and unwavering allegiance that the one followed is it.

There are several traditions built and based upon oneness according to an individual perspective. Any tradition where one person is the focus and source for knowledge is based upon this. Science, religion, politics, business, military, and education are the greatest culprits of oneness as a form of it. Collective states rely upon intuition and people, places, and things are not considered greater or lesser. Value is not given to inanimate things, like gold, jewels, money, or personal possessions.

As long as people only think of themselves as their identity, and nothing else, oneness will only be a single state considered and the brain will only be 6% active. Oneness as a collective is the true nature of existence with everything composing the universe. My mind, body, spirit, and soul are collective states. The only way I grasp whom I am collectively, is letting go of the idea I am an entity unto myself, and moving my awareness into what I am as a unified ideal of many differing states of being. This requires my letting go of the idea I am an entity unto myself existing only as and for that.

Douglas H. Melloy - Author of: The Nature of the Self and the Social Evolution of Humanity