With hypofrontality, attention is narrowing. Parts of the brain are shutting down. Oneness is the result of the narrowing of the doors of perception, not throwing them wide open. Huxley had it exactly backward. Newberg and D’Aquili also discovered that what you focus on matters. Surfers with their attention entirely on a wave become one with the wave. Meditating Franciscan nuns had God’s love in mind so their experience was oneness with God’s love. And Dean Potter, at the bottom of the Cellar of Swallows, had his attention entirely upon a dying bird so he did, in fact, become that dying bird.
