We Are a Continuum

THE idea that we are biologically finite beings separated from the Absolute, means that many spiritually-minded people feel somewhat incomplete and spend their days yearning for that great ‘reunion’ which is said to occur at the moment of death. For many, this is something that is completely impossible to achieve during the course of one's actual lifetime.

It is similar to the way raindrops first descend from a cloud and then have to endure the temporary stages of the water cycle prior to returning to the skies from whence they came. When condensation builds up in the heavens it leads to the ‘birth’ of precipitation and, after the rain has assembled in the swirling seas and rivers of ‘life,’ the journey ends with the symbolic ‘death’ of evaporation and thus a ‘reunion’ among the gathering clouds of the Absolute.

Whilst this sounds like a typical metaphor for the cycle of life, death and rebirth, in reality our eventual ‘reunion’ is only symbolic because we apotheosised segments have always been part of the Whole. The raindrops were never truly separate from the cloud and neither are we separate from the Absolute. It is merely a question of perspective and there is no ‘separation’ and no ‘return’. Everything arises out of nothing. It springs ‘out’ of the void, before making itself ‘back’ to that very same domain. Not a void in any bleak or desolate sense, as my negative use of language may suggest, but the source of a divine fullness and richness that we humans cannot fully comprehend.

The cloud - not to mention the boundless sky in which it appears and the wider universe that sustains it - serves as both a foundation and justification for the appearance of the raindrop in the way that each human spirit acts as the ground of consciousness. Everything in nothing and nothing in everything.