My journey for the truth: a somewhat unremarkable story

[Diana]

However, all life, all matter, comes from God and as such we are all part of The One.  Therefore, when you do evil or negative to any other thing/person/being, you are doing negative to yourself as part of The Collective.

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i. Ref: Gen 1.1
ii. Ref: Do unto others as you would do to yourself. Matt 7:12
iii. Ref: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Mark 12:31

I would like to comment on this concept. I'll preface with admitting I have a difficult time articulating my thoughts on this subject.

I think this idea is a step toward connectedness and compassion. The problem eventually becomes that there is still a perceived separation (between self and others); and derives from self and self concerns. I'm not sure how to articulate this latter idea, but the way I see it is that I never have to think I hurt myself by hurting others—this idea does not motivate me at all. It is enough to just know I am causing harm or hurt for the sake of the other—and this includes even infringing upon free will. I don't have to weigh in at all, like karma does and its concept of cause and effect, that actions must be balanced with reciprocal events.

And yet there is empathy, which immediately informs one of another's suffering or any feelings. So the feedback is immediate and in this sense because one may feel another's pain, and one realizes through one's own empathy what one has done to help generate this pain in another, it may be said that when you hurt another you hurt yourself. So the concept to me removes from the personal consideration to the collective consideration, or the underlying cosmology of interconnectedness.

In addition, speaking to the collective matrix of being, I am aware of what I generate and that it adds to the collective. So in this regard, what I do to others would in a sense reflect back on me from the collective. As I interact with this world, there is a sense of the beingness of all at the same time. When one walks in nature one will generally get this feeling of interconnectedness, which is one reason why humanity is so separated from other life forms and centered around self and self concerns, while living inside cities, behind walls, on digital devices, seldom touching the earth or feeling the sun's caress and a gentle breeze while a butterfly flutters by.