ONENESS, LOVE, EMPATHY, AND PANORAMING

Oneness, Love, Empathy and Panoraming. These four words have a fundamental connection. They all describe a state of being, where the subject is intimately involved in an object; where the clear dividing lines between subject and object, vanish.

Most religions acknowledge the mystical experience of oneness. This is often described as a state where subject and object are no longer separated.

Two owls kissing. Love is a common experience of a feeling of unity between two people; sometimes a group, or with a beloved pet. Often the beloved is more important than self.

Human cultures have long recognised feelings of compassion and sympathy. However since around 1870, various cultures have developed the new word 'empathy', to describe a state of imagining how it feels to be, another person or animal.

Presently, these are the few, rare, special words, describing a state where the subject to some extent merges with the object.

And now i'm suggesting a fourth state, the least of these but maybe the starting point for all of them : the panorama senses – panoraming. The active receptive watchfulness which every animal must practice in order to survive.

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