Let's further consider the implications of experiencing "instantly familiar strangers":

Truly, we are all one, a single consciousness presenting itself in an infinite number of variations. Meeting itself; playing games with itself; studying itself through other eyes. Within the single, unified consciousness--the primary identity--not only are there the vast number of individuals (the most segmented level of awareness) that we see in our world (and beyond what we can see), there are also an infinite number of larger subsets of the primary identity. As mentioned in my article a couple of weeks ago, some people refer to these larger groupings of consciousness by names such as "soul families" or "soul groups". There are subsets within these intermediary subsets, down to pairings of individuals--"spirit mates", "soul mates", etc.

Only a few people seem to develop the awareness necessary to frequently perceive the full interconnectivity for extended periods of time: saints and adepts. Some of us, if lucky, experience a flash of awareness of some degree of expanded identity within or on the periphery of a particularly deep meditation. These days, many more people are fortunate enough to shake the illusion of the distinctly separate identity when first encountering a certain individual with whom our union is so instantaneous and overwhelming that we are forced to re-evaluate our definition of self and the world as we have seen it.

These events are our most personal confirmation of the philosophies and beliefs that tell us that our lives are an interconnected web of individuals we may never have met, or sometimes cannot 'meet' in the orthodox sense of the word. Are you one of the many people who have had an experience of being completely certain of an unnerving intimacy with another person on your first encounter with that person? If so, are you certain that the expanded awareness was just coincidence and that it had no impact except the exclusively personal one?

Even if you have never been aware of such an experience, it is very likely that you are in contact with intimates that you are as of yet unaware of, interacting at the higher self level without need of your rational knowledge or understanding. Science and ancient philosophies are colliding into agreement that our world is not as four-dimensional as we have once assumed or would sometimes like to believe for convenience sake. The evidence of these unexplainable ties between "strangers" should cause us to consider just how interconnected we all are, and how our choices affect each other, thereby doubly affecting ourselves.

Perhaps the salvation of our world today lies in the growing number of individuals experiencing this expanded awareness of interconnectedness. How else shall we come to unity with perspectives so vastly differing from our own that it simply can not otherwise fit into a strictly schismatic perception of reality? One thing is for certain: from ancient times, a standard ploy for preparing a populace for conflict is to vilify the anticipated adversary by defining the opposed as "separate", "the other". That way, an illusion of disconnection is created so that the sufferings of "the other" are made to seem as something less painful than suffering would be for oneself.

Note: For me, truth is personal, and the consciousness that created the world before us is so complex that it can and does simultaneously manifest an infinite number of realities that sometimes appear to the human mind to be diametrically opposed to one another. This is truth for me, but may not be truth for you.

C.G. Walters primarily writes fiction that focuses on the mystical, metaphysical, and mythical insight that we all possess. He does not see fiction as something less than truth, but as a means to induce the reader into comfortably 'allowing' their personal truth--a living, ever progressing truth, fit to their need at any given time--as opposed to a truth dictated outside themselves. This perspective and his philosophy is evident is his new novel, Sacred Vow, is a journey toward our one true love . . . and its infinite expressions . . . bringing together two individuals from disparate realities--but of one spirit--to heal the rift in the Collective Consciousness . . . a breach that threatens us all.

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C.G. Walters primarily writes fiction that focuses on the mystical, metaphysical, and mythical insight that we all possess. He does not see fiction as something less than truth, but as a means to induce the reader into comfortably 'allowing' their personal truth--a living, ever progressing truth, fit to their need at any given time--as opposed to a truth dictated outside themselves.