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ThoughtBroadcaster
USA
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 Posted - Jan 23 2015 : 11:47:04 PM
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| anyone ever had a oneness experience? if so what was it like? if you do not mind sharing. |
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kumar ul islam
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 24 2015 : 06:37:15 AM
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hi yes many times more frequently now my practice is stable i could not describe it or exsplain it its just an exsperience but with a lucidity of mind that does not want or need . |
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margaret1958
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2015 : 12:37:26 PM
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Originally posted by ThoughtBroadcaster
anyone ever had a oneness experience? if so what was it like? if you do not mind sharing.
Yes I have. I was driving down the road and suddenly KNEW oneness and that I was not separate from the source. No doubts. I KNEW it. It was the first time that I ever felt like all my efforts to find the source and connect with the source were rewarded. It was an amazing gift and I knew when it happened that up to that point in my life, it was the most important thing to ever happen to me. I will never forget it. |
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ThoughtBroadcaster
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 02:32:07 AM
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| also i get different opinions about oneness. some people say its all me in existence and that there is only god nothing but god and i am basically all alone. can someone give their opinion on this? also i find it scary to think there is no other. |
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Charliedog
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Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 04:21:40 AM
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Hi TBc,
I am sure that everyone and also you has moments of oneness, for instance if you watch fully aware a beautiful sunrise or sunset.
Watching animals in nature, a flower, butterfly or just gazing to no matter what.
Its nothing to be scared of, its a mindset, in fact it is leaving your mind alone for a while... Be who you really are and that is only peace, no fear. 
Just awareness....be-ing in the moment.....
Regular yoga and meditation can help you to be more aware  |
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Anthem
1608 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 09:32:56 AM
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Originally posted by ThoughtBroadcaster
also i get different opinions about oneness. some people say its all me in existence and that there is only god nothing but god and i am basically all alone. can someone give their opinion on this? also i find it scary to think there is no other.
Hi ThoughtBroadcaster,
The only way to know is to experience it first hand rather than worry about what other people say. The thought "I am basically all alone", is just that: a thought and the fear that is associated with that thought is one of the little barriers (distractions) that keep your mind focussed on something other than what is here and now. Rather than worrying about that thought and what it could mean, could you let it go and just be here and now?
Oneness is found in the here and now and the pathway to that is the deepening peace felt by being present in the here and now. It's an intimate sense of connection with all that Is. |
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Dogboy
USA
2202 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 5:20:46 PM
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ThoughtBroadcaster
anyone ever had a oneness experience? if so what was it like? if you do not mind sharing.
It was "mind sharing" with the All  |
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juan
Spain
34 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2015 : 07:57:43 AM
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Originally posted by ThoughtBroadcaster
also i get different opinions about oneness. some people say its all me in existence and that there is only god nothing but god and i am basically all alone. can someone give their opinion on this? also i find it scary to think there is no other.
The way you put your question suggests that, for you, oneness conveys a sense of loneliness. This was also my case, but the funny thing is that, at the same time, I feel in company as I had never felt.
As I see it now, the key concept to explain this paradox is the question of “who am I”. In my case, as the idea of “I” dissolved, this feeling of loneliness, kind of homesickness, appeared. The feeling that we are basically alone, and someday we have to part, leaving our loved ones behind, never to see them again, at least in their current form. I never had this problem before, when I plainly rejected the idea of anything surviving death.
But… my perception now fully agrees with Dogboy’s answer: “It was mindsharing with the All”. As an atheist, I will not give the name “god” to this “All”, but names don’t change anything. Anyway, this naked “I”, stripped out of thoughts, hopes and fears, just being in the here and now, can be perceived much more clearly as part of this All; even as being also this All. The silent mind does not leave much room for worldly company. But now, for the first time, I don’t feel alone inside my head.
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ThoughtBroadcaster
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - Mar 15 2015 : 7:34:18 PM
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| if oneness is mindsharing with the All than do you have to be careful of who you tell about the experience? |
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Anthem
1608 Posts |
Posted - Mar 16 2015 : 7:50:41 PM
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Originally posted by ThoughtBroadcaster
if oneness is mindsharing with the All than do you have to be careful of who you tell about the experience?
It's not about "mindsharing" with the all, oneness is intimate experience with the self. Knowing yourself here and in all things. Any thing that anyone says will only at best create a mental picture and a concept for you but the experience of oneness isn't about that, it is found in the absence of all that in the here and now.
The experience of oneness can begin in small ways, true compassion for another or simply really listening and understanding without judgement. |
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juan
Spain
34 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2015 : 04:54:23 AM
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“Mindsharing” started as a word game triggered by your question (…if you don’t mind sharing…), and may be used to explain a bit this sense of oneness, but only up to a certain point. At least in my case, oneness starts where mind stops, so what is being shared?
Definitely, what is not meant with “mindsharing” in this context is anything like “sharing thoughts with God”, as there are no thoughts. You may feel in the presence of God, if you want to conceptualize it this way, but intellect has nothing to do here. |
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Dogboy
USA
2202 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2015 : 06:13:57 AM
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Thank you Juan, the pun was growing legs... |
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