What Would Happen If Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?
Belief in oneness has broad implications for psychological functioning and
compassion for those are outside of our immediate circle.
“We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from
the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.” — Albert Einstein
“In our quest for happiness and the avoidance of suffering, we are all
fundamentally the same, and therefore equal. Despite the characteristics that
differentiate us – race, language, religion, gender, wealth and many others –
we are all equal in terms of our basic humanity.” — Dalai Lama (on twitter)
The belief that everything in the universe is part of the same fundamental
whole exists throughout many cultures and philosophical, religious, spiritual,
and scientific traditions, as captured by the phrase ‘all that is.’ The Nobel
winner Erwin Schrodinger once observed that quantum physics is compatible with
the notion that there is indeed a basic oneness of the universe. Therefore,
despite it seeming as though the world is full of many divisions, many people
throughout the course of human history and even today truly believe that
individual things are part of some fundamental entity.
Despite the prevalence of this belief, there has been a lack of a well
validated measure in psychology that captures this belief. While certain
measures of spirituality do exist, the belief in oneness questions are
typically combined with other questions that assess other aspects of
spirituality, such as meaning, purpose, sacredness, or having a relationship
with God. What happens when we secularize the belief in oneness?
created a 6-item “Belief in Oneness Scale” consisting of the following items:
Beyond surface appearances, everything is fundamentally one.
Although many seemingly separate things exist, they all are part of the same
whole.
At the most basic level of reality, everything is one.
The separation among individual things is an illusion; in reality everything is
one.
Everything is composed of the same basic substance, whether one thinks of it as
spirit, consciousness, quantum processes, or whatever.
The same basic essence permeates everything that exists.
Those who scored higher on this scale were much more likely to have an identity
that extends beyond the individual to encompass wider aspects of humankind,
life, nature, and even the cosmos. In fact, 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! Also, while a belief in
oneness was related to actual experiences of oneness (“mystical experiences”),
there was no relationship between a belief in oneness and feeling closer to God
during a spiritual experience.
In their second study, the researchers looked at values and self-views that
might be related to the belief in oneness. They found that a belief in oneness
was related to values indicating a universal concern for the welfare of other
people, as well as greater compassion for other people. A belief in oneness was
also associated with feeling connected to others through a recognition of our
common humanity, common problems, and common imperfections. At the same time,
there was no relationship between a belief in oneness and the degree to which
people endorsed self-focused values such as hedonism, self-direction, security,
or achievement. This means that people can have a belief in oneness and still
have a great deal of self-care, healthy boundaries, and self-direction in life.
People who believe that everything is fundamentally one differ in crucial ways
from those who do not. In general, those who hold a belief in oneness have a
more inclusive identity that reflects their sense of connection with other
people, nonhuman animals, and aspects of nature that are all thought to be part
of the same “one thing.” This has some rather broad implications.
First, this finding is relevant to our current fractured political landscape.
It is very interesting that those who reported a greater belief in oneness were
also more likely to regard other people like members of their own group and to
identify with all of humanity. There is an abundance of identity politics these
days, with people believing that their own ideology is the best one, and a
belief that those who disagree with one’s own ideology are evil or somehow less
than human.
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