Maybe I'm not a man for my time. I don't really mind if no one reads this blog or no one even reads it. I guess that's not really the point. I don't think any of the stars in the sky need anyone to look at them for them to exist. To shine and to burn and eventually to die. After all, they were twinkling for millions of years before we oozed out of the soup.

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What has happened to poetry? Perhaps it is time for us to dismantle the ancient inklings. There's not much point in us being protective. We'll all die eventually. We have all this base concerns. To overcome the suffering. And this is what I want to write about tonight. The human mind.

Humanity prides itself on the basic idea of relation. We relate to each other through marriage. We form teams. We work at a company. We live in different sections of buildings. Some of us are richer, poorer. The other principle of humanity is timing. Everything needs time. Everything has a time. We have birthdays. Death days. We wait for events. We plan ahead. We move at certain speeds. We drive fast cars. We sleep for a certain amount of hours. Our hearts beats. And these two principles form one other - if you take the idea of relation of objects and timing, you can extrapolate that to the movement of the planets and the time that the earth spins and form something else: the idea of form. And this is where the illusion reality appears. If we are all part of the same fabric of the universe, what institutes distance and time? But form. We perceive the notion of "the other" in order to create distance and perceive the notion of "past, present and future" to give a sense of separation. What if in-effect everything that exists was part of the "one", a universal unity that connects everything together, a formless tao and then also time was one, the past, present and future were all one and everything was happening at the same time forever, as if every moment was a constant repetition?

I believe I've come here for a purpose. There is a hidden reality. I do not claim to have any facts, just thoughts. I do not claim to have any secret. It is just possibilities. A philosophical framework.

Einstein worked as a postal clerk. He was a messenger. His message was relativity. The same idea applies to this theory of one-ness, a wholeness. Let's extrapolate this a bit.

Using this idea we can assume that: if you hurt someone you are in-fact hurting yourself. If you make love to someone you are making love with yourself. If you see someone, you are seeing yourself. There is no living or dead, no individualism - just parts that make up a whole. Take the human body - can we say that our lungs, our hearts and our brains are not part of our bodies? What if we were simply the organs of the body of the universe - that we worked in tandem to maintain the whole. As human beings we are always striving for a sense of wholeness - the ideas of redemption, sacrifice, growth and love are all connected to a sense of physical incompleteness.

I do not know if I am a religious person. I cannot say that the wholeness represents God. But I can say that we are connected to one another in ways we couldn't imagine. The evil of humanity is part of us, just as the good. It all forms the constituents of the one. This is where love is so important to human beings, it is the act that brings us to wholeness including feelings of personal sacrifice, dependence and sexuality.

My message is more than that we are all together and the world is one. I'm saying that we cannot separate ourselves from the actions of the other. We are no different. The notions of racism, intolerance, persecution are invalid because they show an ignorance that we are different.

But isn't this the benchmark of human freedom? The idea of the self, of individuality. But what is democracy? Isn't it about human freedom? It's also about equality. The idea that everyone has an equal the say. The idea of a vox populi. Remember - intolerance of people that are different or have different beliefs comes from fear of the "other." If we are indeed all part of this fabric, sex has little meaning and therefore gender and sexual persecution is not only immoral but invalid.

Much of my theory flies in the face of a capitalist society. My idea is inspired by the Buddhist limitation of the self. Even in a western society where we celebrate the self, the individual, the celebrity, the personal freedom - we also value personal sacrifice, selflessness through good deeds and religious growth. All of these ideas are about the destruction of the self by giving yourself to others and to God but destruction is the wrong word - it is incorrect.

I am arguing that our perception of reality is flawed. Our concept time is human in its limitation and our concept of the "one" and the wholeness of the universe is undermined by the strive for individual self importance in order to derive power and therefore control over others. We are certainly controlled as population by fear more than ever but then that applies to this very principle - the false idea of giving our control over to our government when in-fact we are no different from our leaders. We lionize our celebrated leaders (including politicians, pop stars and religious figures) because we want to feel that there are Gods who stand above us that we can worship and aspire to be. But in-fact we are no different to them, there as human as us.

If this theory of reality is true. If as formless matter we are all connected and one what implications are there? Firstly, death is in-fact not a physical death as we never had a self anyway. But it has a much greater implication. If we are all part of a universal harmony, if we are all part of the one: then we are much bigger than single human beings - we are as large as the universe! This is why human beings can understand the greatest mysteries of nature - because we are nature, we are simply unaware of our limitations. With the power of an entire universe, we are capable of the greatest advances. The reason many of these advances has come through sciences is because science is the only knowledge form that understands the vastness of our reality and our universe and therefore can draw from a greater well spring of possibility.

Haven't you noticed how art (our view of the world) has become reductionist? We're telling the same stories. We're exploring the same characters. We're still worshipping the same Gods. We're hearing the same rhythms and tones. Painting the same shapes. Following the same stories through the same trials. This is because the wellspring of human knowledge on this planet has been used up. Once we realized we have the knowledge and power of the stars - we will be able to expand our consciousnesses and tell greater, deeper stories?

Am I saying we have magic powers? No. I'm saying that in order to understand the basic laws of the universe (relativity and quantum physics) - we realized that that the limitations of the human body didn't exist? That in-fact, through our collective wholeness - we could see clearly the true meaning of our reality. If we saw ourselves are more than just selves, as more than just bodies with personalities - we could understand the deepest truths of existence.

With the vastness of universes (in oceans of many universes) we reach the height of the furthest stars by expanding beyond our bodies to reach beyond the limit of minds and explore a deeper reality. But this theory is very uncomfortable for people. We cling to our notion of self, to our notion of power to overcome our child-like fears of abandonment. We cling to our hierarchies, our ladders, our power struggles instead of embracing harmony and balance.

As long as we continue to fight over individual power, we will see abuses of wealth, wars of tribes, the quest for individual power, celebrated god worshipping and individual selfishness. We will also see abuses of the planet and the natural world by humanity's quest to harness the destructive power of nature by perverting our own human nature which is the movement of the seasons, the power of the sun, the energy of the stars and the gravity of truth.

If we are all one - there is no "other." There is only connection. The observed and the observer are entangled. The stars that human eyes first set their gaze upon all those thousands of years ago were in-fact part of those very eyes, burning within.

We will only grow in our deep knowledge of the inner workings of the universe. First we became masters of nature, then masters of our bodies and soon masters of the stars but we are only mastering ourselves like a child learning to use its body. There is so much more we have to explore, to discover but the deep truth that humanity didn't truly understand its own reality has repeated throughout history.

At first we thought we were the centre of the world, that the world was made in seven human days, that the earth was flat, that the universe revolved around us and finally that there was no hidden world within us. We learn and rewrite. We write and wipe away. The truth will always be rewritten. But those of us that can see, that we are all part of the unity of the universe are no different from those that see us all as separate, as broken. Much of the human journey is about fixing ourselves, finding our place. When we love someone, we love ourselves only more. In human terms this is a form of healing but it is simply the recognition of wholeness, of everything connecting as it should.

The future isn't broken, it's one.

In past writings, I have argued that as a culture we are slowly moving to the recognition of the wholeness. By forming one world economies and one world cultures - we are slowly forming into a one world society. We are recognizing we are more than individuals but parts of a whole world. While we are proud of our independence - humanity isn't governed by isolationism but by co-operation.

I'm not sure where I fit into the world. I have the same urges all of us do for dominance, power and fame - for the gratification of my own wounded self. But I am beginning to understand I am part of a much larger being. Something wiser than humanity, something stronger than our most powerful weapons, older than our most ancient beliefs. I believe that am part of the future as much as I'm part of the past. As one vast continuum, I exist as something much larger than what stares back at me in the mirror. I am impervious to form, invisible to human sight, a perfect combination of light and the dark.

Without darkness there can be no light.

I do not think this theory makes us any less human. It will have its distractors. But it makes the most simple sense to me. That when I look at another they are not better or worse than me nor a repetition of me but a part of me. That when I look into the stars, I am part of their brightness - I give them their light and they give me theirs. I don't think we have superpowers. I don't think we can manipulate physical reality. But when you see that we are all part of the universe, a strange human question emerges:

If we are all part of the universe and yet are given the illusion of self through form - perhaps that's what we are supposed to think right now. Perhaps it's easier to acquire the dream of breaking free from our human bodies and human planet through the illusion of a human self. After all - everything about human beings has its advantage so why not then our perception of reality?