The Power of One

When two or more people bond to each other, a synergistic consciousness arises that has the power to take over and direct the lives of the individuals who comprise the bonded unit. We normally take this for granted and seldom realize the extent that this higher consciousness dictates our lives when we are a member of such a unit. Instead we continue to perceive our thoughts and actions as our own. But if we question the source of our motivations, and if we question them honestly, such as through deep contemplative meditation, we soon find that strikingly few if any of our thoughts originate in our own mind. They are the result of our extremely complex unconscious experiences, which are determined by the groups or units that we are bonded to, such as family, community, world, and ultimately the universe. This process of unification occures on all levels of nature and consciousness. Quarks bond to form mesons, mesons (electrons, protons, etc...) bond to form atoms, atoms bond to make molecules, molecules form compounds, compounds (proteins, amino acids, etc...) become cells, cells bond to make organisms, and organisms bond to create us. But it doesn't stop there. We bond together as families, and families form communities, which make districts, states and nations. Nations bond (ultimately) to form hemispheres... which comprise the world. Actually, all bonded units are polorized into what you might call hemispheres. Male-Female, The Left and Right, and The East and West. Of course, it is what the Chinese have long called yin and yang. All bonded entities have yin and yang.

All bonded entities have yin and yang.

The synergy of bonding is so common that the language of every culture, even the most primative, revolves around it. Our most important and meaningful words reflect it. When we speak of love, we speak of this bonding force that any poet knows has a life and will all its own. All religions attempt to appease it by honoring it. Whether we call it love, or God, or life force, it is all the same. I call it consciousness, but only because that word best expresses my own experience with it. (I actually call it many things: “The Living Truth” was my favorite for a while after the first time I directly experienced it.) But it does not matter what we call it. It only matters that we recognize it, and acknowledge its devine soveriegnty.