being, for lack of a better word.
In the past, there have been human cultures which seemed to have certain understanding of this Law of Unity and saw that everything in our word, though separate and different in many regards, is actually all part of one unit. Most of those cultures were what people today would call primitive in nature and this might have been true regarding their understanding of technologies. However, when it comes to perceiving and comprehending the true nature of our world, they were anything but primitive. Most of them showed this deep understanding in the wisdom of their actions. For instance, they tended to live closely in harmony with nature and only took from it what was needed. There was no greed involved, no exploitation of resources. Also, most of those wise cultures had genuine respect for other lifeforms and revered them as gods or spirit guides, depending on their respective attributes. Some cultures even built temples in all different shapes and sizes which incorporated in some way a natural element, force or celestial body.
All this shows that those cultures knew both about the principle of balance and the Law of Unity. Unfortunately, almost all of them have disappeared by now and what is left is only the buildings and temples, and sometimes even written documents which can tell their stories to us.
We as a human species are very advanced nowadays when it comes to fields of technology but it also seems like we have had to pay a hefty price for it. In exchange for our technological knowledge, we have mostly given up the hard-earned wisdom of balance and unity that our ancestors put a lot of time and effort into living and preserving for future generations.
It is time for us to find our way back to that wisdom and start making it part of all our lives once more for the sake of both Earth’s and our children’s future. Fortunately, it is possible find the wisdom hidden behind the Law of Unity by approaching it step by step. The first step would be to realize that every human, every individual – though often perceived as a single organism – is actually made up of trillions of cells, each of which is made up of an even higher number of atoms. So, in actuality, every one of us is in a way a living unit, composed of many different individual parts.
With this in mind, taking the next step toward realizing that all humans – no matter what size, skin color or gender – actually also form a unit called species is not such a big challenge. Once this realization has become integrated into the minds of people, they will start to see that waging wars, as well as harming and exploiting others is in reality quite an insane way to treat other members of the human family. For what you do unto others, you also do to yourself.
This is the way the Law of Unity applies to us humans and shows us that there is really no difference between people of different nations, or people with different skin colors, or between people of various sexual orientations. They are still all part of the human family and, consequently, should be treated with the same respect and appreciation that we all have for our own selves. This is the true meaning of what In Lak’Ech means. You are another me.
However, this is not where The Law of Unity ends. If taken to its extremes, this universal principle actually encompasses all of creation as we currently know it and beyond. Because everything that exists in creation in one way or another is also part of it, and all those different parts together form a unit as well. No matter what part of creation we focus on – be that the physical part manifested as matter or the energetical part which is not in a state of materialization – all this is still part of one creation, one complete whole. This is also why the universe is called universe. This word literally means “turned into one”. It is truly amazing, considering that an old Latin word can hold such a deep truth.
As can be seen, the Law of Unity plays an essential role in the universe and, by extension, also in our own lives. This inherent union of everything into one whole is always there and all it takes is a change of perspective in order to see it everywhere. Furthermore, the understanding of the Law of Unity is not just an abstract mental exercise but it can and needs to be used in our daily lives if we really care about making a better world today and in the future.
You are another me. We are all one. This is the truth and this is what counts.
THE LAW OF FREE WILL
We all have free will,
Every choice in our lives,
Nothing can force us.
The Law of Free Will is one of those universal principles which is not easily spotted in our daily lives. Yet, it is always there, just like all the other principles upon which our whole universe is based. In fact, it can be best seen by looking at all the situations in our lives where we don’t seem to have any choice.
Nowadays, there are people who feel like they have no choice in how to live their lives anymore. They have responsibilities, need to take care of children or elder parents, take care of the household, spend time with friends and go to work. Hobbies or other activities that are liked are almost always a marginal part of people’s lives and only get a few hours a week of dedication, if at all.
All this might make it seem like there is no choice but to keep running inside the hamster wheel we call our daily lives, but that is actually not true. If we only decide to look at our lives more closely, we can find that we do in fact have a variety of choices to pick from on a daily basis. For instance, we can choose whether to get out of bed in the morning, brush our teeth, have breakfast, what clothes to wear and so on and so forth. If we think about this more closely, we even have full control over our decision-making when it comes to making choices involving more serious consequences. We can choose whether to do harm to another being or not, we can choose whether to steal items from a store or not, and we can choose to take on a dangerous job or not.
As it turns out, we do actually have a wide variety of choice that we can make on a daily basis in our lives. The thing is that most of the time we stick with a certain set of choices because the consequences of the opposite choices keep us in check. For example, we don’t kill another human being cutting us off in traffic because we know that this will probably mean having to serve a prison sentence – or in some countries even the death penalty. Also, we don’t take goods from a store without paying for them because this will probably have negative consequences, too.
So, in truth, we have an almost infinite amount of choices available to us at any given moment but we only consciously select a few of them, preferably the ones leading to consequences of a positive nature. The rest of the choices just remain in what may be called a state of potentiality. Those unselected choices are always there as a potential which might be made into a reality, but often isn’t because of the types of consequences that come with them. Next time you have a negative encounter with a colleague or friend, just observe the many different ways your mind then starts conjuring up ways of hurting them back, taking revenge or giving them a taste of their own medicine. All those choices of taking action remain a potentiality of the mind until they are actively selected and turned into reality.
Making choices is closely related to the Law of Free Will because free will or the freedom of will is expressed through the selection of choices. This universal principle is also called the Law of Free Will because, technically, we have absolute freedom in making our choices. We have the freedom to kill, to steal, to hurt, to destroy, but most of us generally tend to limit our set of choices based on certain moral values and societal rules put in place so that the selection of choices with negative consequences are kept at a minimum.
There are some people who would argue that there is always the middle way, the way of passivity or taking no action. However, there is never a middle way when it comes to taking choices, this is an illusion. Choices are always binary in nature, meaning you either make a choice or do not make it. Either you kill or you don’t, either you love or you don’t, and so forth. When taking the middle way or the way of no action, then you are actually choosing not to
