Divine Mind, Oneness, and Shared Idea

Divine Mind projects itself into and expresses itself as a conceptually infinite number of beings.

Those beings are, at their essence, therefore, Divine Mind expressing. But there is but one Divine Mind, Divine Thought, Divine Idea. So in our essence, we are one.

If I have an idea and I share it, I don't lose the idea and it doesn't change merely by the act of sharing it. The idea now exists in more than one place. In a real sense, that idea is a connection between me and those with whom I have shared it. As they experience it, think it, tweak it, add to it, and share those changes with me, we experience Oneness through the shared Idea. The Idea no longer has the notion of ownership, of "mine," if indeed it can be said ever to have had such a notion apart from Ego.

When I die or you die, the Idea does not die. It goes on forever and everywhere, though it may not be expressed forever and everywhere.

Thus it is with our lives. Our Idea essence -- the Idea expressing as us -- is eternal and divine. It survives the destruction of the body-container which is currently acting as the manifestation point for Idea. But it is not me, I, Ego, that survives; rather it is Divine Mind essence. Our essence is eternal; our personality is not eternal as an individuated thing, but rather as part of the eternal and ever-changing Divine Mind.

Idea cannot help but express. It is in the nature of Thought to do so. Therefore, Divine Mind eternally and continuously expresses and that is what is meant by reincarnation. It is not that "I" am reincarnated into some other form or time or place. It is that Divine Mind, which includes all the experiences it has ever had, reappears in another form or time or place (there being no time or place). The question we find interesting as manifestations of Divine Mind is whether, when we rejoin Divine Mind after physical death we retain individuated memory and identity sense. And the answer is yes, but not in the same sense we now think of those things, but rather as blended parts of All That Is.