What separates you from others?

What doesn't separate me? Us vs. Them is the norm: parent vs child, teacher vs student, employer vs employee, girl vs. boy, government vs citizen, producer vs. consumer, gay vs. straight, democrat vs republican...ad infinitum. There is comparatively far more effort to squash ulterior viewpoints than to include or allow them. 

What binds us might be a better question? Name one thing that we can all agree on? Maybe seeking agreement is our mistake. Maybe it is wrong to think that in a universe of infinite possibility we would all choose the same one. 

About a week ago i asked the universe to show me how we would bridge this divide that keeps us from really being one, how would we cure the  Social Dis-Ease that keeps us apart. 

I was shown a vision of  a round flat bottomed, clear, empty vessel, much like a petri dish settled in a golden environment, in which tiny droplets of water began to condense. The tiny droplets formed larger droplets as they joined and were drawn into each other. In short order the droplets were one calm connected sea of tranquility and in it a four petaled flower grew and blossomed. Its petals were balanced with an inevitable, but manageable, black dot that spoke of the beautiful darkness present in a part of everything. It grew balanced and at its core it embodied the many aspects of existence and expressed this harmoniously. It's essence was love. This picture is my drawing of the vision.

The Blossoming of Global Love and Harmony

There is a certain social dis-EASE that keeps us from really being cooperative, it's a sort of desire for companionship but need for identity. Some brush it off smoothly, calling it ego demands. I think it runs far deeper than just the individual, because it's more a collective individuation: a sort of love-hate duality that keeps us desirous but defensive. Desiring closeness, but preventing it from happening. Inviting entry then slamming the door. At heart we are timid creatures one and all, yet desperately in need of love.

The closer we get to being one, the farther we jump. I wonder if at the edges where the guru's sit on their mountaintop blissfully joined with 'all in all', if some of them aren't so far removed from all in all that they are really blissfully basking in the glory of their own private universe and not really the collective.

The collective experience is so utterly foreign to us that examples of successful cooperative living are almost non-existent and attempts at such are all fraught with problems. The core of the difficulties lies in the use of competitive or conquering or dominating or subbordinating frameworks to build a cooperative society, which results in resentment and finally reverts to the conquering, competitive, dominating, subbordinating behavior posited by the framework. There is a new cooperative framework embedded in this vision.

For earth day I added the Apollo Earth photo to the mandala. Many point to this first glimpse of the tiny blue ball we live on as the point of our awakening. Soon there will be a blossoming. A blossoming that will come from each of us healing, and sharing that ability and in the process we will discover that we are all struggling with a different piece of the same puzzle and that in the process of healing ourselves we are healing each other. We will become a multitude of healers incredibly grateful for the amazing health and happiness we are living but without knowing who to thank, we will only be able to say: "Thank We"