Suppose that I am right and that everything is ultimately part of one consciousness, that individual consciousnesses are never wholly separate from the whole – much as vortices in the stream, or waves in the sea, are visible, measurable and truly distinguishable, but not separate, from the body of water in which they arise – then the individual correctly perceives a self, but a self that is connected to the whole: wholly a self, and wholly part of the whole.
