In this six minute video, A.H. Almaas tries to shed some light on the importance of individuality within a world where there is truly only one universal consciousness.
A.H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali (born 1944), an author and spiritual teacher who writes about and teaches an approach to spiritual development informed by modern psychology and therapy which he calls the Diamond Approach.
I get very confused about this subject. He seems to be putting a spin on it that I don’t understand. Because if the individual is an illusion how can he be a conduit for consciousness? I understand that consciousness doesn’t need the body to exist so how would the body be it’s conduit?
It “needs” the body in order to embody or to become aware of it’s existence, since it’s infinite nature cannot be anything other than itself, making it impossible for it to divide itself into subject and object. You might say that the multiplicity and diversity of apparent objects is the exotically incomprehensible and miraculous aspect of existence rather than it’s indivisible nature.