Andrew Cohen: The One & The Many

God is one without a second. So who and what you and I and all of us are the level of consciousness could only be that one without a second. But one without a second of course appears as the many. But the degree to which the individual parts that appear as the many awaken to the fact that they are that one without a second. They meet in the deep you know liberating knowledge you know direct knowing that they are that one without a second and yet at the same time because this recognition has emerged in and through this material evolutionary creative process you know which we're experiencing as human beings as one engaging with itself as the one a creative friction happens one engages with itself with it the self engages with itself creatively then there's a frictiction friction and that friction uh makes it possible for for for a new potential to emerge and that's right. So, so there's the appearance of difference and the difference relatively speaking exists. But when it's the authentic self that is meeting through the appearance of difference, this creative friction emerges giving rise to a to a new and higher potential. And I I and I firmly believe that that that's what this next leap is going to be. It's going to it's going to be beyond individuality in this manifest in you know beyond individuality in this manifest domain. Okay. Okay. And as we meet in this higher state of consciousness beyond the trapped ego, we don't lose all the gifts of this highly developed capacity for individuation, but we're no longer we're no longer trapped and limited by it. But then but then but then we're meeting in a place where there are no ego boundaries. Those boundaries are gone. And yet we don't lose our our individuation at the same time. So it's kind of a it's a paradox. It's kind of a very extraordinary paradox and and and and the implications inherent in this kind of awakening for culture, for the leading edge of culture are quite are quite dramatic because it's it because then we have to really start all over again.