Last year, while in Bali at a spiritual retreat I encountered the Oneness Blessing. This blessing is a transmission of energy that creates a neurobiological shift in the brain. After forty years of meditation and years of spiritual disciplines, I found this shift to be quite profound and decided to follow up with a visit to India last December to attend a retreat and meet with Sri Bhagavan – the founder of the Oneness University and the initiator of the Oneness Blessing www.onenessuniversity.org.

The idea of separation is the cause of all suffering. It has become second nature to us to judge ourselves and one another; it is second nature to us to see others as less than, or more than, us; it is second nature to us to react in habitual ways; it is second nature to us to believe in certain things; it is second nature to us to feel a particular way and even to label ourselves as a feeling: ‘I am scared; I am sad; I am depressed’ rather than ‘I feel scared; I feel sad; I feel depressed’.

You will often people hear people – or yourself! – say, ‘It is second nature for me to react like this/to feel this way/to think like this’ and yet, no one ever seems to question, what is my first nature? The purpose of humankind is to relinquish everything that has become second nature to us so that we reveal and experience our first nature; that we leave aside judgement, our desires and attachments so that we live and act as if every other person were our self. This is the path to liberation from fear and from all suffering.

Just as you can only see the colours of light by using a prism – thereby refracting the seven colours of the rainbow, likewise you can only perceive this creation through the prism of the human body.

It is this first nature that experiences a profound sense of union with all creation; that sees no separation; that sees the other as our self.

• Posted on Monday, June 28th, 2010
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