What Would Happen if Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?

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What happens when we secularize the belief in oneness? (via) ^rwhi816493206

6-item "Belief in Oneness Scale" consisting of the following items:

1. Beyond surface appearances, everything is fundamentally one.
2. Although many seemingly separate things exist, they all are part of the same whole.
3. At the most basic level of reality, everything is one.
4. The separation among individual things is an illusion; in reality everything is one.
5. Everything is composed of the same basic substance, whether one thinks of it as spirit, consciousness, quantum processes, or whatever.
6. The same basic essence permeates everything that exists. (via) ^rwhi816493234

a belief in oneness was more strongly related to feeling connected with distant people and aspects of the natural world than with people with whom one is close! (via) ^rwhi816493268