The Oneness of the Unfolding

             It happens more now that a thought will pass through this mind and then show up in the world in some way. For example, this mind will make a connection or see a pattern or simply receive information about what is going on in the world and in a day or two come across an article about it. This was just a passing thought not shared with anyone, not researched, so no algorithm picked it up. This is not new, just occurring more because this mind is quieter and clearer and so is more aware of passing information.

Coincidences and synchronicity have always been a part of this mind’s awareness, but what was occurring was not fully understood. Liz would take up an interest, say a hobby or a certain type of fiction she had not tried before, and suddenly it would explode in popular culture. This was long before social media and algorithms, so Liz was not joining a trend she was aware of, she was unconsciously moved to be on the leading edge of it.

This mind was never able to make something happen for Liz just because it wanted to or thought she should be doing something. This was true for small everyday things as well as larger life direction things. Sometimes this mind would send Liz in a certain direction but come to feel it was swimming upstreaming, forcing rather than flowing. This mind would come to understand that what it was pursuing was not going to happen and drop it. For example, once Liz started a business because this mind thought she should act on its ideas and it should also look for ways to make more money. This mind felt no authentic movement toward this business, it was pushing because it thought it should. Isn’t this what people did, they got an idea and made it happen? Nothing came of the business. This mind didn’t even learn anything from the experience except what it already knew: To follow the given movement, not push to make things happen.

Of course, there were experiences and events that were sensed, readily foreseen, or came as a surprise that brought unwanted change to which this mind had to adjust. Ego would respond with resistance and feeling out of control, but usually adjustment occurred with a sense that “this is going to happen” whether ego liked it or not. Even when ego continued to resist and grumble, there was an underlying sense that there was no stopping the occurrence that brought a sense of flow if not desire. Other times, desire that had not been there before and felt “given” would show up just before or during a change.

Once this mind would’ve said about precognition and synchronicity that it had “tuned in” to what was going to happen. This was ego’s way of maintaining some sense of autonomy because of course this mind was not “tuning in” to something else but was part of the expression occurring. Things come to this mind’s awareness because this mind is part of the whole, part of the very fabric of the story unfolding in consciousness. This mind is moved to act or is not moved to act because the greater unfolding is unfolding through it. Even this mind thinking it was apart from the whole and was autonomous (ego) and trying to take Liz in its own direction was part of the unfolding. Every thought, feeling, and action of this mind and Liz is part of the whole expression, including ego, its undoing, and its falling away and the effects this has had on this mind and Liz’s person.

The wholly interconnected nature of the unfolding is what makes the many one in the story appearing in consciousness. It is what most mean by “God”. When a football player points upward to thank God after a touchdown, he is thanking the unfolding story for the talent and drive of his person, which he is aware is given, and for the touchdown he was to make at that time. Of course he doesn’t think of it this way. He thinks there’s a father-god that has blessed him with talent and drive and gifted him a touchdown at that moment. In this there’s some idea of separation, there’s a “him” that his god has blessed and gifted, he does not see that his mind and person are part of the greater whole he senses and calls God.

When someone prays for something to happen or to not happen, they are petitioning the greater whole they sense and call God to make things go as they wish, and if it will not, at least to bring them comfort of some kind in their sense of loss. Again, there is separation in the idea that there is something greater than them that is apart from them and acting on them rather than that their own unfolding is part of the very fabric of the greater unfolding.

Last April there was an article here about the nesting truths of ego, pure consciousness, and the absolute. The article pointed out that what appears in consciousness, as well as consciousness itself, is not truth but is representational. There are, as well, nesting onenesses. For many, maybe most, who go past a father-god, the interconnectedness of everything appearing in consciousness as a single story, is the oneness, the god, that they seek and find. “God is not ‘out there’ but within me!” They sense their mind (son) is part of a greater whole (father) and that their person’s unfolding life is part of a greater whole. This is the oneness (and identity and purpose) that ego (I, me) can find. This interconnectedness-as-oneness appears in (nests in) the only (the one) truth of consciousness, pure consciousness. And consciousness itself appears in the only (the one) actual truth, the absolute. Most teachings, including A Course in Miracles, conflate the oneness of interconnectedness with the one truth of consciousness that is pure consciousness because ego’s sense of something beyond itself takes in not just the greater unfolding but the space in which it occurs as well. But what matters is not what is technically true (and most will not discover anyway) but the experience of belonging to something greater that transcends the limitation of a seemingly-autonomous ego. 

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