One is All, and All is One. Just some thoughts.

 The concept that we are all interconnected, that we are all one, is something I'm being confronted by quite a bit lately. It makes me think. Not just about how yeah, we're all stuck on this big rotating ball together and how everything on this big ball is connected and has the power to influence each other.

When a message keeps reappearing, keeps coming back, it makes me think that I need to do something with it. 

All = one

One = all

One. Me. An individual. 

All. Many individuals together. Together as individuals. But also together as a whole, as a bigger 'one'.

One person in a country of many people. The many people make a bigger country of ones.

One individual in an aeroplane. Many ones make the all of the aeroplane. And everyone in the aeroplane is again a bigger 'one' with a similar path, a shared destination, the shared wish that the aeroplane will arrive safely and that the passengers will get to their destination.

But it is more than that, less mundane and more spiritual. The all also being a one, that goes beyond something as 'pedestrian' as the shared destination of an aeroplane crew and passengers.

It is more. So much more. In a metaphysical sense. In a spiritual sense. We are all one. All of humanity is one. All life is one. All of creation is one. We are all connected, interconnected, interdependent.

Some of us, humanity, we may experience life as an individual, may be a one, but even so, apart from our experiences on this material plane where this is how we learn and experience and grow and change, we are one with the whole.

Because here on the material plane, in this physical realm, we are separated from the whole, that means that we also need to learn on our own. We can't all learn from the other members of the group, from what the gestalt thinks, feels, experiences. It's not a group thing here, we don't learn by osmosis, by processing power of the whole, by being able to learn from experiences and insights of all the parts that make up the whole. We separate the whole into individual parts so that the individual parts can learn, experience and grow, thus adding to the collective learning, knowledge, experiences and growth of the whole. When one grows, the whole grows. 

What was first, the chicken or the egg? 

The chicken, growing whole knowing the whole needs individuals to grow so it separates itself or part of itself into smaller parts that experience on an individual level, or the egg, the growing individuals who, due to becoming connected, interconnected, by growing, together, are growing into a whole that can learn from the experiences of the individuals? 

If 'the whole, the all', on some level of existence, lives/experiences/exists outside of the material plane and the world of time, of action and reaction, of consequences, of linear time, then the 'whole' on that level can benefit from all that the part of it on the material plane is learning, has learnt, will learn. Because away from, outside of time, all time could theoretically be experienced, known, simultaneously, without there being a progression from a beginning to an end. Is there then even the need for a chicken and an egg?