Suffering a bewildering sense of separation

Carlin once complained that all you ever hear about in this country is our differences.

That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about. The things that separate us. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people, they keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the money. Anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other so that they can keep going to the bank.

Meanwhile, we don’t put up much of a fight. The human ego hates experiencing anything more powerful than itself, and so, the powers that be essentially have us by the caveman balls.

Our responsibility, then, is to overcome that claustrophobic and competitive sense of separateness. To uncover the bond that transcends whatever perceived differences we think we have. To gather more evidence each day that everybody is actually the same everywhere.

One helpful practice for accomplishing this is through the fundamental human act of worship. Nothing religious necessarily. Rather, the humility of paying reverence and ritualizing our devotion to something that’s bigger than us. Ritualizing our communion with the larger stream of life that holds us.

And the good news is, whatever it is that we worship doesn’t care what our faith is, or if we even have faith at all. As long as there is an intentional activity that tranquilizes the ego and enables us to ignore the sense of separation that we feel in the other times of our life, it’s worship.

And it’s a last line of defense against the idea that we’re different.

If it’s true that the fallacy of separation is at the core of all the suffering in the world, then perhaps it’s time to reach by our side and touch the most high.

Musk, the finest modern inventor of our time, says that humanity is not perfect, but it’s all we’ve got.

May we awaken from our deep sleep of separation and remember that we’re not as divided as the world tells us we are.

Because no matter how many different names are there for that which is larger than us, there is only one name for us.

LET ME ASK YA THIS…
If you allowed yourself to relax your sense of separation, could you become one with whomever or whatever you are encountering?