Spiritual Counseling - Ancient Mysticism and a Nonlocal Universe

Yahoshua or "Jesus the Christ" was an enlightened spiritual teacher who said in the Book of John, chapter 10, "I and my father are One." The following ancient mystical and philosophical schools share this common thread of nonduality in the universe:

In the 13th century CE, the Kabbalah originated as a mystical movement among Jews in Provence, France. The name Kabbalah means "tradition" and as the Jewish mystics profess, its doctrine has been passed on orally from one generation to the next, going all the way back to the time of Adam, the beginning of the mystical teachings of jesus human race. Kabbalah teaches us how to listen to our spiritual Self and that the only time we have free will is when we transcend the ego. At its most fundamental level, Kabballah teaches that we are all One in Spirit.

The Buddha taught that there is no intermediary between man and the divine. In the Kegon School of Japanese Buddhism, the Jijimuge doctrine says: "All things are One and have no life apart from it; the One is all things and is incomplete without the least of them. Yet the parts are parts within the whole, not merged in it; they are intertwined with reality while retaining the full identify of the part, and the One is no less One for the fact that it is a million-million parts."

In Gnosticism, God is called the One, the Source, and Aeon. Aeon is also alternatively spelled EON which is an anagram for ONE. Aeon translates as "eternal" or "everlasting."

Nondual simply means "not two" or "having no equal." Today it is a rapidly expanding paradigm in Western scholarship that pervades a diversity of academic disciplines such as philosophy, transpersonal psychology, mysticism, spirituality, metaphysics, and mainstream religion.

A combination of theological and philosophical doctrine, Taoism posits that we gain knowledge of the universe by understanding the Self. It teaches that the microcosm is One with the macrocosm, and that the Self is One with the All. Tao literally means "the way" and it is defined as infinite, unlimited, transcendent, indistinct and formless.

The word "veda" translates from ancient Sanskrit as "knowledge," and the Vedas are a large body of philosophical texts that precede modern civilization. They constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. There is no caste-system in the Vedas. It teaches that no one is superior, no one is inferior, that we are all One through the knowledge of the Atman which is revealed as being One with Brahman--with only one distinct difference. The Atman is the individual spirit and the Brahman is the universal spirit. The word Brahman translates from Sanskrit "to grow" and is believed to transcend time, space, and reality. It is the eternal Source from where everything in the universe stems. Brahman is not a personality, but is rather the source from where personality was given birth. The Atman, on the other hand, is much like a singular "drop of water" in the endless ocean of Brahman. It is the higher Self.

Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based on the Hellenistic Egyptian writings by Hermes Trismegistus, known by the Greeks as Hermes and the Egyptians as Thoth. In the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus is a short work which coins the maxim, "As above, so below; as below so above; as within so without; as without so within." The text defines that this relationship of duality manifests the miracle of the nondual "One Thing." In Hermeticism, the supreme deity or principle is referred to variously as the All or the One.

Monad translates from the Greek monos, meaning "alone," and monas, meaning "single unit." It was used by the Pythagorean mathematicians as a term for God, the first being, the Source, or the One. Its symbol is a circle with a dot in the middle. This is also an illustration for what physicists refer to as a black hole or spacetime singularity