On Dido, the Thunderstone communion learns of the vaster universe: beyond jungle and mountains, there are sea, stars and strangers with single bodies.
"How shall we achieve oneness with the whole world unless we understand it?" (p. 519)
Suggestion: oneness is not to be achieved because it already exists but remains to be realized.
Didonian units make oneness by uniting into a single self-conscious Didonian. Oneness with the world is something else but Kathryn mentions ceremonies, contemplation and hallucinogens. A Didonian concludes that understanding is also necessary. On Earth, previous generations have been able to intuit oneness while believing that myths were real but now we can combine meditation with scientific understanding. The Didonians are on their way.
14 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I still disagree because "oneness" is not something to be realized, it is impossible to be achieved. And is not something to be desired.
Ad astra! Sean
Testing.
I would disagree with "oneness" as submergence of individuality. We need to be clearer about what we mean.
Combox problems.
Testing.
Two people having sex become one without losing individuality.
Two people having sex become one without losing individuality.
Testing.
Kaor, Paul!
I was too brief. I would dislike and oppose any "philosophizing" advocating the morphing together of all individual self aware beings into some kind of impossible hive mind. IOW, a submerging and loss of what makes us individuals, good or bad.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Of course. I mean oneness that incorporates differences, not that negates them.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And my belief remains that any hive or collective "mind" necessarily leads to negating those differences, our INDIVIDUALITIES.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Of course it would. Mystics intuiting oneness with the universe do not merge into a hive mind.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I am suspicious, wary, and skeptical of any kind of talk about being "one" with a "conscious universe."
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But we are one with the universe. We are completely continuous with our environment, not ontologically distinct. Remember the universe is conscious only through conscious organisms and you need not call it "conscious" if you see no point in this.
Paul.
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