Well, If You dont believe it its okey, I will not attempt to change Your believes, every experience is different.
But elaborate, sure.
In fact, I dont ‘‘believe’’ it either.
The way I see it is:
Material Perspective:
Before Universe began expanding, we all existed in one point, as a singularity. If You believe in BigBang Theory, for example, its really hard to argue that, in fact, everything that is, was at some point condensed into one point, aka Source, Primordial Spark, You name it. Then, ‘‘It’’ exploded, and began to expand, after some time different Galaxies, SuperGalaxies, Stars, Planets etc. were formed. And so was everything alive, and everything on Earth too.
I dont know If You even felt this, but, when I think,see,talk with some blood relatives of mine, I have this deep, subconscious feeling that they are me, and I am them, at some level. Of course its stronger with closest relatives, like Mother and Father, and weaker in cousins etc, but it is always present.
The other day I saw an article, that Sciencist speculate that they might know common Ancestor for ALL living things on earth, it was some bacteria or amoeba, I dont precisely recall it right now.
Now, that would mean that all living things, almost on Earth, are related on some level.
But lets take it further. How do we define live? I am aware of the current definition, that if something is alive, it should have the traits like: metabolism, reproduction, growth etc.
But thats ‘‘only’’ from our limited, human perspective, we define life as something, that have at least some traits like us, because, we consider ourselves as a living beings.
But lets take something different, like Fire for example.
Does it burn, use something to maintain itself? -Yes, and thats metabolism if You ask me.
Is Growth a trait that You can ascribe to Fire? Yes, as long as it have good conditions and enviroment, it will grow bigger and bigger, metabolising things it could to expand and survive.
Does Fire reproduce? Well, can You light one candle from another? If the wind is favorable, it can even happen without Your interference. So again, yes.
We can conduct this thought experiment and what we would find is that, everything, in fact is kind of alive.
You are probably aware of occurence called ‘‘Entropy’’ it basically means that everything, Stars, Planets and ‘‘death matter’’ included will sooner or later face its own destruction, aka death.
Now, Is it possible for something that is not alive to die? My logic says its not so at this point we Can risk a bit and state ‘‘Everything is Alive’’
Now, with all of above being said, We could say that this ‘‘Source’’ ‘‘Singularity’’ or whatever existed before Big-Bang is common Ancestor of Everything in the Universe. Or maybe its more like an ‘‘Egg’’, fetus of some kind, and the Organism that came out of it is well, Universe.
Whether We consider the Source as an Universe Ancestor, or some sort of Primordial Egg, its really hard to deny that, at the end of the day, We are All one.
Spiritual Perspective:
How would You define Spirit? If You believe (or know) You are something more than Your body, that there is part of You that was in some sense ‘‘alive’’ before You were born, that there is part of You that existed, before Your Parents even met, and finally, that there will be some part of You that will remain ‘‘alive’’ or will be born again after Your death - Thats something most of us would define as a Spirit.
I guess we could say that, Spirit is something that percieves, something that experiences things.
Now, perception and ability to experience something, is also how, at least me, would define Consciouseness.
Even if Spirit and Consciouseness are not the exact same thing, its really hard to not se similarities between them, and a deep interconnection between both.
In the other thread:
https://forum.enlightenedstates.com/t/as-above-so-below/13793
I explained why, in my POV everything is conscious. @SammyG even agreed with me and said:
Of course, there are many factors that affect our Consciouseness, aka society, genetics, upbringing, traumas, health, past incarnations(If You believe in reincarnation) etc etc. And all those factors made our perspective different. Its like everyone of us watched a different movie, or played different game.
But then again, everyone of us is an ‘‘Observer’’ ‘‘Watcher’’ or even better ‘‘Player’’ of some kind.
This observer/player awareness was a big milestone for me. We just got so involved in whatever game each of us is playing, that We forgot that , in the end, its just a game, and everyone’s game is different, Player is the same, just playing many games at once.
I said before I dont believe this either. Why? Because it feels more suitable for me to say that I know it, or at least agree with it. When I contemplate on topics like this one I try to do so from both ‘‘physical’’ and ‘‘metaphysical’’ perspective, or some would say ‘‘left brain’’ and ‘‘right brain’’ and if the outcome is the same in both cases, I accept this as a truth.
Of course, Im always open to change what I consider to be ‘‘Truth’’, so, If You would like to elaborate on why You believe that the ‘‘All is One’’ statement is false, please do! Its not very wise to cling into opinion, even after recieving information that disprove it, changing perspective is the essence of learning, I would say.
Everyone have different experience, so what is true to me, can be false to You.
Best of Luck @RomeMaryland !