Welcoming the idea of a novel, all pervading consciousness means accepting a life of non-violence, non-conflict, non-resistance, and non-suffering. This is the philosophy of the Next Human. Upon the conclusion that you are not and haven't ever been separate from the divine, you should also notice that nobody Else can be separate from the divine. The cosmic force that ties the universe together is inside all of us. A common term used today to describe this realization is nonduality which isn't anything new but an especially traditional idea originating from Advaita Vedanta, the philosophical branch of Hinduism. The word “advaita” interprets from the traditional Sanskrit as “not 2″ or “having no equal.” Scientists today still cannot prove that there is anything “out there.” In other words, everything that we identify as “the material world,” are only perceptions translated by the brain.

The traditional sages were already aware of this truth, that the world is actually inside of us, everybody of us. Hence what does this mean to us on a higher, spiritual level? It implies that there's only One, nondual reality, that no one is separate from it, that we're all interlinked, interconnected—each soul a droplet in a never ending sea. From the viewpoint of boundless Consciousness, everything that's got a beginning must moreover have an end. This is the ultimate truth behind the mystery of mysteries. Our very nature is beyond ephemeral things, beyond form, objects, particles, gases, or maybe beyond energy itself.

This is the pure singularity, the Source of All. It is the void, the vacuum of no-thing-ness. This is the unmanifested anomalous point of nonduality, the invisible sun of consciousness. It is at this point where there's only One of us. Petty differences between folks and countries dissolve in this place. Clemency does not even enter into the mix because from here, there's nothing to forgive. From here, there isn't any beginning and no end. There isn't any “was” and there is no “shall be.” There is only Now.

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