Quote Originally Posted by Hamlet
I don't think anyone can really escape the sense of isolation. One might come to the realization that it's all an integrated whole, but as long as we're down here stuck within our minds, that isolation is going to be a dominant factor. Interesting to speculate how far we can take it though, and what integration could mean on down the road. Maybe we'll die off and our machines will be running the show? Maybe that's already happened to somene/something else and that is going on now? Bigger speculations than my imagination can handle...lol
It's difficult, yes, but only because we're programmed to think this way pretty much from birth. Our language separates the universe into objects and symbols, and thus it is a semantic entanglement that has tricked us into viewing ourselves as something different from our environment. Now, I'm not suggesting that we abandon our language and start over... but I think that we have the potential to be much more aware of this connection, whether through meditation or spiritual use of psychotropic substances. This feeling of isolation can be escaped, as anyone who has experienced a state of ego-loss can attest to.