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I believe that we are all like individual droplets of water, encased in shells of frozen water, which float around upon an infinite ocean of water.
The water (soul or consciousness) inside each shell (body) is separated from the ocean (the "one" or universal mind) by an illusion. The droplet
doesn't realize that its shell is simply the surrounding ocean in a different state. The truth, as they will see once their shell melts and they
return from whence they came, is that the entire notion of separation or division was nothing more than a figment of their imagination.
This idea is expressed far more eloquently by others much wiser than I:
All is the work of Siva. All is the form of Siva. He is everything. You and I, he and it, fire and ether, ghosts and devils, other beings and Gods --
upon examination will all appear as He. --Siva Yogaswami
He (the supreme soul) desired, "Let me become many; let me be born." He performed austerity. Having performed austerity, He create all this,
whatever is here. Having created it, into it, indeed, he entered. Having entered it, he became both the actual and the beyond, the defined and the
undefined, both the founded and the nonfounded, the intelligent and the nonintelligent, the true and the untrue. Taittiriya Upanishad 2.6.1
Here is a great story about Buddha that illustrates this concept:
n a jungle in India lived a tribe of monkeys going about their monkey business, swinging from branch to branch. One of the monkeys was
extremely agile and fast and often bragged that he was the fastest creature in the jungle.
One day the tribe of monkeys saw a monk walking through the forest and the speedy monkey, sensing a challenge, asked an elder monkey with long gray
whiskers:
“What’s that?”
“Why, that’s Lord Buddha.”
“Lobida? What kind of creature is that?”
The elder monkey stroked his gray whiskers and looked his young companion up and down. “Lord Buddha is the greatest creature in the jungle. Your
little monkey tricks are nothing compared to what he can do.” The monkey's pride piqued, he determined to find out for himself just how great this
Lord Buddha was.
He scampered down the tree and jumped in front of the monk, hoping to frighten him. “I heard that you are the greatest being in the jungle. But I am
faster than you. Shall I prove it to you?”
The Buddha looked at the proud monkey and said, “Surely, my son, if that pleases you.”
“All right. Here’s what we’ll do. You see that dead tree over there, by the river?”
“Yes, the one with no branches.”
“We’ll do a race. The first one to reach the top and return here wins.”
“… and to make sure there's no monkey business,” added the Buddha, “whoever reaches the top of the tree has to scrawl his name there.”
“Agreed.”
The other monkeys in the trees were hopping with excitement. The elder monkey was appointed as the race official. Lifting his huge hairy arm, he
counted “Three, two, one, go!”
The monkey tore through the tree tops like a silver flash and reached the target within a couple of minutes. Slapping his paw mark on the top, he
raced back triumphantly through the trees. And there, at the starting line, was the Buddha.
“You haven't even started yet!” puffed the monkey. “What an easy win that was.”
“Not so. Actually you lost.”
“What do you mean I lost? I went there, I came back. You never moved.”
“Precisely. That’s why you lost.”
“What do you mean? Don’t try to be funny with me.”
“Did you print your mark on the top of the tree?” calmly asked Lord Buddha.
“Yes, yes, YES!” The monkey was hopping wildly. “I did it, I have proof.”
“You see my index finger? What do you see on the top of it?” The monkey looked closely, and, to his amazement, he recognized his own mark on top
of the Buddha's finger. He swung round towards the dead tree, but it was gone. He turned back in disbelief towards the Buddha. He had vanished.
Here is a more humanistic way of seeing it:
It is theorized that all information, both past, present, and future, exists in what is referred to as the "Universal Mind." The Universal
Mind (or Collective Mind) transcends time and space and with diligent practice, is consciously accessible from the deep theta state of awareness. The
Universal Mind is where information comes from for all accurate predictions and visions, whether auditory, visual, or emotional. It encompasses all
that is and all that will be. In truth, it is where our thoughts come from. We only perceive them coming from the brain as we experience physical
reality through most of our senses located in the head region (taste, sight, hearing, smell and even touch). The brain is a mere filter for our
thoughts.
Even though all minds have access to this (for the Universal Mind is not separated from us and we are not separated from it), we have to let go, or
shift our awareness from self (ego) before a true stream of real data can go back and forth between our conscious mind and the Universal Mind.
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But of course this is just MY belief, and I apologise if this offends anyone
Never apologize for saying what you believe. People who get offended by others' beliefs, only do so, because they are not very secure in their own.
So maybe we are all one. 
