The connection between Oneness and Dives…

Could there be a link between my own "Moments of Experiential Oneness" and dives? Let's find out together.

I’ve recently been having some wonderful conversations with Colin from Oneness Awareness. Those of you who follow him are likely familiar with Colin’s concept that he calls “Moments of Experiential Oneness.” These are often ecstatic experiences where something within you opens and suddenly you feel the inter-connectivity of...everything. The aliveness of nature, of plants, animals. An awareness of spirits and the forces of nature. You feel the inter-wovenness of it all. Of the harmony as each goes about their own business in a way that contributes to the whole. The relational connectivity that stitches it all together…

If on the other hand, you are familiar with Interviewing Angels, you have probably heard me use the term “dives.” Dives are what I call my visionary conversations with angels, dragons and other spiritual beings. My posts are excerpts from my dive journals where I record these experiences.

Is there a connection between the two? What might one have to do with the other? That’s what we’re here to explore… I suspect there is a link between both of these types of spiritual experiences. That one might be a gateway to the other. So, let’s see what we might unearth together…

I recently had a conversation with my spiritual mentor who is an open eyed seer. He has interacted with angels for decades, but he told me something interesting. “Angels have been helping me do deliverance work for years, but my relationship with them was very militaristic. We both were here to do a job. We respected each other, of course, but we were relatively cold with one another. We weren’t sociable. When you came along, you broke my grid open. You had such loving, relational interactions with your angels. Honestly, it had never occurred to me that an angel would want to be friends with a human! I thought of them more like soldiers sent in from overseas to help us fight a battle. Here on a mission, nothing more. Since I met you, my own interactions have changed and I have met many angel and dragon friends. I’ve never had so much fun before!”

But I’d like to let you in on a little secret... I have a hunch that my own MEOs (Moments of Experiential Oneness) were part of the key to my unique interactions with the spiritual realm.

When Colin first asked me about my MEO I had to stop and think about it. He was using language to describe things from a different angle than I had previously considered. Several days later I realized that some of the experiences I had in childhood might fit into his description. I’d always lacked language for what in the world it was that I felt many times as a child. I certainly confused the adults in my life when I spoke excitedly about my ecstatic, spiritual experiences. After the first few times, I quickly learned that it was better if I kept these moments to myself.

Children often want to make friends when they engage socially. I can’t help but wonder if the fact that I had these awakenings while I was a child, helped to shape my response to them. When I felt that aliveness in nature, and the inter-connectedness of it all, I wanted to reach out to it, to be part of it…. I wanted to be friends with the things that I felt. That desire for friendship never left. It seemed I was forever shaped by those early experiences.

Decades later, I was finally able to connect to that realm in a way I could somewhat understand. That desire for friendship rose up in me again. It didn’t matter if a being was huge and intimidating, I had felt the relationality of everything. I intuitively understood that I didn’t need to fear someone who was my friend. Teeth and claws are for enemies, not friends.

Later, others had to inform me that this deeply held attitude that I possessed is not a common belief. So why was I so unorthodox in my beliefs? I cannot say for sure, but I suspect it was partly due to the love I had felt coursing through everything during my early spiritual experiences.

There is a beautiful quote in the Bible that says “perfect love casts out all fear.” I can say from experience that this is true. When you have experienced that kind of love, fear leaves you. Maybe the fact that I was a child meant that I hadn’t accumulated as much fear and baggage, so it was easier for me to experience love in an unquestioning way… But regardless of the path, I knew that love would protect me. This love shaped the core of my interactions with my personal angels and the rest of the spiritual realm. I was able to trust their love and to extend an open palm of friendship to the beings that I met.

I believe many of us miss opportunities for spiritual experiences because of fear. The spiritual realm can be intimidating, it is unknown and filled with powerful, mysterious beings. A common lesson among humans is that power can be used to harm, manipulate or control. So when we feel power some of us have learned to become uncomfortable or even afraid. So what then happens then when a powerful, benevolent being walks into our life? Their power makes us feel uneasy and take a step back.

Much of my success seems to lie in the fact that I am willing to stay when I feel a powerful presence. I become still. I observe them. I can sense when a creature is evil, I’ve had many a brush with them, especially as a child. There is an unmistakable vibe I have learned to recognize that emanates from such creatures.

Evil and power are two different things. They operate independently of each other, meaning the presence of one does not indicate the presence of the other.

I am quick to dismiss evil creatures, I don’t mess around. But a powerful creature who is good, this is not something I fear. If a being is aligned with the light and our interaction goes well, then I metaphorically extend an upright palm in greeting, opening a bridge. This is my invitation for us to get to know each other better.

What I’ve found on the other side of the veil, has been the the greatest wonder of it all. My personal angels are some of the most noble and loving beings I have ever met. Their affection toward me has left me speechless on more than one occasion. I have learned more about love through my dives than I have about anything else.

My angels have become a source of comfort and encouragement. They have helped me face inner-wounds and heal from them. I am more grounded because of them, and I am more present in my relationship with other humans. They are true listeners, and have taught me by example how to truly connect with another. How to interact from a place of love and peace, rather than ego, selfishness or mental ideas that we’ve been taught. And of course, they have also connected me more deeply and directly to the very source of it all, the one who is called Love…

Perhaps experiencing the world in an expansive way gives us the opportunity to find our place within it. Finding our place, seems to inspire trust. And trust is the bridge that brings the divine into the physical plane.

So perhaps it is possible, that oneness is a early step in relationally connecting to the spiritual realm in a deeper way. Maybe it’s the moment of “oneness” that enables us to discover the love that runs throughout the natural world, connecting everything. Discovery is the first step to living by the ways of love. And maybe, that’s where it all begins…

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