WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS

The Mystic Christ - Chapter Preview

Both read the Bible day and night.
But thou read'st black where I read white.

- William Blake

We are all brothers and sisters bound like pearls on the same string of light bulbs connected by one wire and illumined by the same electricity - the same "one living" Supreme Being. There is absolutely no one who is excluded. Love is another name for this unity. This is the true core and the central issue of the life and teachings of Jesus. The goal of our human existence is to experience this directly in the depths of our own being.

Discovering, experiencing and then practicing this unity is the beginning of the end of human mental and emotional suffering. From the point of view of one who is merged in the reality of this unity it would make no sense whatsoever to steal, lie, murder or covet another man's wife, property or oxen. It would be the same as committing these acts against one's own self. Who would find it reasonable to steal one's own car from one's own garage? To a person who is merged in the awareness of our divine unity, the ideas and emotions of greed, jealousy and hatred are laughable and invoke a sense of compassion and sadness toward those who are prisoners of these afflictions. Like prodigal sons and daughters, most of us have somehow wandered away from the awareness of our connectedness. Our own conscience and our sense of compassion toward others are echoes of this long forgotten unity.

The truth of our connectedness is no longer available as a topic of speculation. Our unity has been clearly revealed in quantum physics. Bell's Theorem, which has been scientifically demonstrated, states that objects (and that includes us) have no local existence of their own (source: Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert). Rather, everything is connected and everything simultaneously affects everything else. A butterfly flapping its wings on Jupiter will affect us even though the effect will be minute. In other words, the universe is not a lot of separate objects. The universe is a bowl of gelatin and if you poke it on one side it will wiggle on the other. If this is true, then our notion of being a separate individual is an illusion.

It is this seeing of "nothing separate" that Jesus refers to as single-eyed seeing.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22-23, KJV

Here Jesus is not talking about the two eyes in our head. In this scripture he only uses "eye" in the singular form. By this he means our understanding, our vision, our mind's eye if you will. If our "eye be single" then we have the vision of the unity of life. We see the unity of all that exists which is seeing with a "single eye". When we have the "single eye" of non-duality then we see as Jesus sees. In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus again expresses the concept of non-duality:

Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away." Gospel of Thomas, Nag Hammadi Library, verse 106

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