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Written by Christina Margeti.
There are generally various theories that argue that “we are all one,” that our individual existence must be dissolved into a supposedly collective unity. The truth is that life connects individuals, even if only occasionally, through bonds of interaction (depending on personal choices and circumstances) to some extent. However, an obsessive attachment to the idea that “we are all one” tends to ignore the deepest mystery of the natural and spiritual world: individuality, the person.
Nature itself, after all, shows us the value of uniqueness. Every person, animal, and plant has its own unique and distinct imprint, its own way. It has its own will, its own purpose, and its own path to follow.
Individual freedom and will are not merely a fundamental, innate right. They are a natural and spiritual law. The suppression of individuality—even in the name of collective unity—has created societies of unhappy and oppressed beings. Furthermore, when the notion of “all as one” is imposed as an automatism, individual responsibility is sidelined, with all that this entails.
On a spiritual level, the value of the individual is evident. Every soul is unique, with its own light and darkness, with the ability to create and love whatever it desires, whatever it chooses. The cosmic source does not require the elimination of individuality at all, but rather its understanding and evolution.
When we follow our own inner voice, we discover our truths and can contribute to society—not impersonally, not as a faceless mass, but with a personal identity and substance. The value of the individual, on the other hand, does not mean extreme selfishness or a lack of empathy. On the contrary, it allows for absolute and authentic cooperation and connection with other beings, because only what is done consciously has real meaning and value.
Personal identity does not in and of itself stand in opposition to any connection or cooperation. On the contrary, it reinforces it. Without the freedom to choose, union becomes superficial, hypocritical, or even worse, a fascist imposition by the prevailing mass—whether political, religious, national, state-based, etc.—against the individual, their choices, their will, and their personal freedoms. Freedom also does not mean—and must not be transformed into or equated with (whether intentionally or not)—harm to other beings, lawlessness, or chaos. On the contrary, it is the oxygen and blessing for all beings and for humanity.
Anyone or anything that denies the individual, the right to free will and choice, in the name of a vague (or not so vague) and often spurious unity, denies reality itself.
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