The Illusion of being

The ancient Hindu texts describe the oneness of being and the illusion of plurality. Essentially all beings belong to the same being, that is the highest state of consciousness that a being can reach. Therefore the individual objects of sense data are an illusion, we are not separate objects we are all the same. In these texts there is also the notion of a single eternity, which would go against my notion that the substances are divided and that everything revolves around a duality. But at the same time the Hindus talk of the right and wrong path, the infinite and the finite, reality and illusion, and also, form and formlessness. So I would say that this is a contradiction in concepts, either divide everything or divide nothing, but I'm not looking to falsify their texts, rather I'd look to merge their ideas with my own.

There is an amazing experiment in physics that shows matter is both wave and particle, the matter behaves as a wave when allowed to and when one tries to observe the wave it becomes a particle. This is the modern day equivalent of the ancient understanding of illusions, objects are changed by being observed, the question is, is it mind manipulating matter of matter manipulating mind. The Bishop Berkley had the view that all was made of mind, that the only reason matter stayed in it's visible form was because God was observing everything. His idea was idealism, that appearance is as it is, because everything is made of the same substance, 'mind'. It's my opinion that physical matter and mental apprehension are on a divided scale, as humans we are more physical than the spiritual world and more mind than the animal world. And my belief is the God creates these categories of form.

If I were to speculate further, upon the duality, I would say that the Void is infinite space and God is infinite time, or that the Void separates beings and God causes change, or becoming. Therefore eternity is the separation of the two infinites, and this duality generates all the dualities of existence. For me the oneness the Hindus spoke about it that all beings are connected to both the Void and God, and it is this connection that causes the immortal soul to visualize all the individual beings. Maybe the Void is about looking after your own being and God is looking after others, I have little doubt that empathy and compassion are what these ancient texts are talking about. The feeling that every being is connected to every other being and when we help other beings we are helping all beings, that the oneness they speak of is morality. My own experience of delusions and hallucinations, leads me to believe our sense can be manipulated by the mind, and at times these manipulations felt like they were coming from something that was 'not me'. Maybe Christs miracles were just God causing group hallucinations, maybe every object perceived is different to the object 'in-itself', I believe these questions are called transcendental Idealism.