What is One is One

"Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams." -- A Course in Miracles; Manual for Teachers, 12. 6:6-10

"As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the body's function is but to let God's Voice speak through it to human ears... to let the thought of unity come in, and what is One is recognized as One. The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances." -- A Course in Miracles; Manual for Teachers, 12. 4:2, 5-6

Oneness seems the simplest of concepts, and the most easily disproved by the ego. I remember arguing with my sister after reading Allan Watts in the late 1960's. How can we be one? You're there and I'm here. Ridiculous concept! Then I had my first psychedelic experience and reframed that opinion. I discovered, with and without hallucinogens, that Oneness has nothing to do with concepts and everything to do with Reality. I remembered.

It has been many years since that experience of remembering, and there have been many benchmarks along the way. None of them matter. What matters is what is revealed as old ideas and self-concepts fall away. I remain as God created me, One with God and every aspect of creation, and have never been anywhere but safe and whole and free in the Field of intelligent, loving Oneness that we call God. I dream a dream of separation and judgment. I Awaken, and remember. Perhaps I seem to dream again, but I remain Awake in the dream. And so, all that enters my consciousness Awakens, too. It's my dream. As A Course in Miracles reminds me, "My mind is part of God's, and I am very holy. There is nothing my holiness cannot do."

What is One is forever One. No dream of fear or hate or separation or even misguided human love and attachment can change our Reality of Oneness with God and All that Is. Peace and Joy and Freedom and true Love without limits or boundaries is our Reality. It doesn't shift and change with circumstance, and isn't dependent on bodies or imaginary human laws and supposed limitations. What is One is One. And nothing else.

"Truth must be All-Inclusive, if it be the Truth at all. Accept no opposites and no exceptions, for to do so is to contradict the Truth entirely. Salvation is the recognition that the Truth is true, and nothing else is true." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 152, 2:6-7, 3:1

"As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the Truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the Truth, as what it is." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 152, 5:1-3