An Inconvenient Truth

Mysticism suggests that we are all connected somehow, and it made me think how? The answer Mysticism gives is that while God is a part of every individual, every individual is a part of God. Now that statement is misleading because it provokes the question who is God, or who is your God?, but that is not the point here. The key to understanding this is not looking at it from a spiritual point, but looking at it as it is. In our reality, we are all dependent on one another, and that dependence connects us all. 

In the United States of America, we strive for independence from an early age, and have a common goal to be self-sufficient. The truth is, we are not designed for independence, we are critically dependent animals. We are dependent on food, we are dependent on our clothes, our homes, most of all our families and friends. Show me one single study that shows a healthy human behaving normally after 15 minutes of absolutely no human contact. That means no music, no phones, no television, radio, nothing. It is just not natural. We are designed to be dependent on each other.

That is not a negative aspect. Look at how far we have come in technology. Tell me, was the iPod invented by one person? No it took a whole corporation to come out with each and every version. It is not just our technology, each nation is dependent on another for supplies and alliances, all adding up to safety in numbers. Proving the point that even if the whole religion topic is not your cup of tea, Mysticism does not have to apply to just God, one could even interpret it as we, together are God since each of us is a part of Him. To agree with this idea of mysticism is to understand that our dependence on each other is what has kept us dominant for so long.