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People who experience near death often report back that they’re told, on the other side, that our purpose here on Earth is to love, or failing that, to learn to love, and that one method for learning to love is to realize that we’re all connected, that we’re all one. In addition, most say that, on the other side of the veil, there is a profound sense and experience of pure, complete love.
And this prompts the question, why would souls need to visit Earth to learn how to do something that everyone has mastered on the other side?
But if it’s true that we’re here to learn how to love and to recognize all other souls as collectively “one,” it might be a good idea to explore love and oneness from a greater understanding than simply feeling good about everyone.
When many individuals seek to enter into the connectedness of being “one,” that’s essentially the collective process of incorporation. The task of learning to connect all as one may have more to do with learning integration, but not the integration of one human being with another. Instead, Carl Jung saw integration as occurring in one individual as the process of integrating his or her conscious mind with the subconscious, the ego with the shadow.
Jung called this process of integration individuation. “By [individuation] I mean the psychological process that makes of a human being an “individual”—a unique, indivisible unit or ‘whole man’.”
I say something similar in The Next Octave:
But this belief that “we are all one” is the most beautiful and spiritual of all boundary violations, and a belief that leads people into mass psychosis.
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