Entanglement, Love, and Union with Karen Johnson

During this talk, “Entanglement, Love, and Union,” Karen Johnson explains that because we arise from the same ground of existence and being, we are one and there is no distance between us.

Summary 

When you love someone, do they ever truly feel far away (except, perhaps, geographically)? Is there really distance between you when you are in relationship with each other?

In this talk, Karen explains that while we are all one, we also have our individual consciousness, which is a unique expression. So, we are both one being and two, not either or. Love arises between us because it wants to express itself more fully through the interactions of our individual consciousnesses. 

Entanglement in the spiritual sense is the interpenetration of two individual consciousnesses that are both irrevocably rooted in the universal oneness. There is no separation. Often, however, we take ourselves to be our bodies. Since the body is the basis of the ego, which is inherently limited, our relationships, too, can be circumscribed. The more we can understand that our bodies are actually an individual consciousness appearing as a body in this location, a consciousness “sculpting” itself into reality, the more we can experience our bodies as inseparable from the ground of being. 

We can then comprehend how the vastness that we are is making contact in this location that is uniquely us. But because we are the same nature, when we are in contact, our differences blossom into a whole field that is more than the sum of its parts.