“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, 1670.

“The words ‘We are ALL One’ have reverberated through the hearts and minds of Humanity in one form or another since the beginning of time. They do not express a lofty platitude or a sweet cliché even though our lower human egos have often perceived them as such. They profess a profound Truth.” — Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

This concept of Oneness is one that I’ve always wanted to believe in, but never really understood.  I’ve sometimes felt ‘at one’ with the world in lofty moments, sometimes I’ve found a kind of oneness with my mate, I’ve experienced a sense of being at one with great teams I’ve played on, and I’ve certainly felt a kind of oneness with God in true healing moments.

But I have to admit, most of the time I walk around in an individual state, lost in my ego, trying to find my way back to this concept of oneness, trying to scramble back up that mountain of daily doings to the heights of Mind.

For the first major portion of my life I considered only my oneness with God.  This was often confusing because my concept of God often changes (hopefully evolves) and so becoming ‘at one’ with a changing thing that is not always easy to grasp can be confusing and elusive.

Lately, however, I’m beginning to see the world in a different light.  Instead of seeing my oneness with God (that’s a pretty big leap), the study and findings of quantum physics and the fascinating development of the internet have perhaps pointed out certain intermediate steps in this quest for understanding.

I’ve spoken often in recent postings about quantum physics’ recent discovery of oneness and how that might or might not relate to God.  I’m certainly not ‘on top’ of this concept, but find it a fascinating development very worth consideration in this day and age.  I know that most physicists are really having a tussle with it all now and we as a human race are at a very interesting point in our growth of understanding regarding our being.

As American physicist, Barbara Brennan, states in her book ‘The Hands of Light’:

“Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows ‘tendencies’ to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realize that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.”

Interesting here that she uses the phrase “a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns”.  This got me to thinking about our world wide web and its stunning collection of knowledge and potential intelligence.

Now I know that the web is not all a lofty invention of man.  Pornography, for one, and the proliferation of it on the web, is a sad comment on our mortal existence.  As in all this mortal existence there is the ying and the yang, the good and the bad.  The hope is that some day we will all grow wise enough to leave the false behind and turn our lives more and more to the brighter side of all things.

But I digress…

The web today and its exponential growth of knowledge is simply the invention of this age.  All the libraries in the world pale in comparison.  Here, for the first time in human history, we have a growing central virtual library of the knowledge of this dimension.  Also, the accessibility of this       knowledge is becoming fairly instant – as long as you know how to google.

My point is that here is an example that I can tie my string to.  Here is a collection of ideas so vast and so readily accessible that in it I can see a potential oneness – a oneness of knowledge and consequently the potential of the oneness of intelligence if used right.

If used right…  I make a huge differentiation here between knowledge and intelligence — intelligence being more the positive use of knowledge.  We humans sometimes have the ability to screw this up royally.  But the potential is there, the potential for a database so vast that it contains the whole of human knowledge.  A oneness of knowledge.  What we do with it is another thing.

The following is a quote that I found somewhere in the above database.  It’s from an article I read called Quantum Physics and the Undivided Whole.  Unfortunately, I’m embarrassed to say, I lost its author, but suffice it to say that the thinking behind the quote seems sound and the quote is one that I’ve read, re-read and pondered often.

“If, as quantum physics says, we are all interconnected at some deep level, then information technology is allowing us to interconnect in a basic and primitive but perhaps necessary way—building towards a more substantive spiritual interconnectedness. Information technology is so powerful today because it is allowing us to interconnect, to synthesize, better understand and become the one global economy and the one whole that we are. Perhaps information technology is a bridge necessary for those like ourselves obsessed with the need for empirical evidence of something before we will believe it.” – from Quantum Physics and the Undivided Whole.

Bridges to the future… bridges to the whole.  No longer is it all a total mystery to me.  The gaps, though still wide and elusive, are slowly filling in.  The sum total of human knowledge is coming together in interesting patterns and revealing a greater spirituality.  Whodah ever thought it?  Can we evolve to our true spiritual oneness through our greater understanding of the unreality of matter?  Seems logical.

Stay tuned…