Reader,
There's a wound so deep in the collective that most of us don't even know that we're bleeding.
It's the wound of separation. The lie that you are alone. Cut off. An isolated fragment spinning through a hostile universe, fighting for survival, love, and meaning.
This is spiritual exile.
And it destroys our capacity to love, lead, and live fully.
The Great Forgetting
Somewhere along the way, we forgot the most fundamental truth of existence. We bought into the story that we are separate beings, competing for limited resources - love, success, pleasure, power.
We learned to see others as foreign. To see nature as separate. To see our own emotions, our shadow, our desires as something "other" that needed to be controlled, rejected, or conquered.
This is the root of all suffering.
When we believe we are separate, we become a refugee in our own life. We chase external validation to fill an internal void. We perform. We seek love from others because we can't recognize it as our very nature.
But what if I told you this separation never existed in the first place?
The Law of One: Your True Nature
Ancient wisdom traditions have known this truth for millennia. The Vedas call it "Tat tvam asi" - Thou art That. Buddhism speaks of interdependence. Indigenous cultures know we are all related.
There's a great series of channeled transmissions from the 1980s that I revere deeply called the Law of One, and this is the core teaching of those transmissions.
"You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are."
You are not a separate wave fighting the ocean. You ARE the ocean, temporarily experiencing itself as a wave.
How Separation Shows Up in Your Life
When you live from the illusion of separation, it creates specific patterns that you might recognize:
In Relationships: You seek completion from your partner instead of offering wholeness. You try to possess love instead of embodying it. You create drama to feel alive because you can't access your own aliveness.
In Purpose: You chase external achievements to prove your worth instead of expressing your innate value. You compete instead of create. You burn out because you're running on empty instead of flowing from fullness.
In Sexuality: You use sex to escape loneliness instead of deepening intimacy. You perform instead of surrender. You seek release instead of connection.
In Emotion: You push away difficult feelings instead of recognizing them as sacred messengers. You judge your shadow instead of integrating it. You spiritually bypass instead of feeling fully.
All of this stems from the same root: believing you are separate from what you actually are.
The Liberation
When you begin to see through the illusion, everything changes.
That person who triggers you? They're showing you a disowned part of yourself that wants to be reclaimed.
That fear you've been running from? It's your own life force asking to be felt and integrated.
That emptiness you've been trying to fill? It's actually the spaciousness of your true nature - not a void to be filled, but the very awareness in which all experience arises.
Your partner isn't separate from you - they're the universe loving you in a particular form.
Your purpose isn't something you need to find "out there" - it's the natural expression of what you are.
Your body isn't a vehicle you inhabit - it's the very consciousness you are, temporarily playing in form.
Living from Unity
When you embody this truth, separation becomes impossible. Not because you force it, but because you see it was never real to begin with.
You stop seeking your other half because you realize you are already whole.
You stop competing because you understand that another's success is your success.
You stop pushing against life because you recognize yourself as life itself.
You stop performing because you know your worth isn't earned - it's inherent.
You stop hiding because you realize there's nowhere to hide from yourself.
This is the deepest soul work there is. Not building a better ego, but seeing through the illusion that there was ever an ego to begin with.
Not becoming someone else, but remembering who you've always been.
The Invitation
This understanding doesn't happen through reading alone. It happens through lived experience. Through practice. Through having your illusions lovingly shattered by someone who has walked this path.
It happens through relationship - with yourself, with another, with life itself.
If this resonates and you're ready to end your spiritual exile, I have a wilderness vigil that I'm leading in the Salt Mines of Maras early next year. It's co-ed, and you'll be immersed in a beautiful part of the sacred valley, doing some deep nature based work. This isn't therapy. This isn't coaching. This is initiation into your true nature.
We'll work together to dissolve the patterns that keep you feeling separate, and to establish you in the truth of what you are. We'll use your relationships, your purpose, your fears, and your desires as the very vehicles for this remembering.
This is deep work. Sacred work. The work of returning to yourself.
If you're feeling the call, respond to this email with "UNITY" and I'll send you details.
Live fully so you can die complete,
Ish
P.S. The separation you feel isn't your fault, but ending it is your responsibility. The world needs humans who know they are not separate from love - they are love itself, in form.
🍵 x 🐉
