Retrospective thoughts
Oct 2021: The great together
Being a loner by nature, I never considered myself to be lonely. But digging within, a deeper aspect of this emerged. Something causing a sense of insufficiency in normal human interaction.
Oct 2021:
“Loneliness
Yes actually I, or a part of me, is very lonely. But it’s not lonely for a conversation or typical companionship, it’s a kind of intimate communication that is apparently impossible in this world: group telepathy – something I’ve apparently never experienced. It makes me wonder if I have.”
I’ve come to think of this state as ‘the great together’. I realized I’d been experiencing it in dreams.
In that context, it’s the sense of being surrounded with friends / family / comrades beyond who is actually in human form.
For example, you may dream you are at a gathering, among a group of friends and family; but when you look back at it while awake, there were maybe two or three people you can actually say you interacted with or saw directly. The rest were a cluster of presences more or less undifferentiated from the environment itself.
Along with this, there is often a sense of working on things together.
It is rich, warm and light.
It has since broadened and deepened, and I feel wider aspects of it in meditational states in waking life.
It can be exceptionally beautiful.
