Navigating Intense Periods of Oneness and Resistance?

"I struggle with something I’ve experienced especially this week. I have prolonged days sensing deep oneness, where thoughts and feelings arise without someone behind them, but after several days, the pull of a separate ‘I’ returns with intense resistance. Is this normal? Rupert says: ‘Yes, Lukas, it’s completely normal. Because you’ve had this recognition of who you essentially are, it’s uprooted the separate self, but the separate self hasn’t completely come to an end. The old habit of thinking and feeling on behalf of a separate self continues through force of habit. There are two explanations: First, as you rest in your being more, you suppress feelings less, because you understand no feeling can harm you anymore. Second, the more you rest in your true nature, the more the separate self feels threatened and has to come back with a vengeance to reassert itself. The fact that you see the mechanism clearly enables you to remain in being and not be pushed and pulled by the antics of the separate self.’"

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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