I've used the terms a few times, and based on the responses I've gotten (including an actual request for explanation) I'm not sure that people know what I'm referring to when I use these words.
Essentially, if we all have that special something, call it divine spark, ULFE, DKM, God, Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh, Creator, Goddess, Spirit, Universe, et. al., it usually is defined as all pervading. Something that is not just in everything, but is everything. Everything is it. This is a common concept in many religions and philosophies around the world. Even physicists are trying to find the "God" particle in CERN, Switzerland.
Even if you don't want to look at it spiritually, but scientifically, quantum science will tell you that everything is some frequency of energy. Matter is just a very low frequency (or condensed version of) energy. Yeah, that's very dumbed down by a lay-man who doesn't know much about how actual quantum science is defined. But that is how it was once explained to me.
But as such, if spiritually you believe that everything is part of a greater pattern, and that greater pattern is part of everything, then that means we each are Divine in our own right, just as the Divine is each of us. Scientifically, replace the word Divine with energy.
Where Religion went wrong, was when they separated themselves from their "God(s)" and/or "Goddess(es)" and made people believe that they were flawed in some way.
In the modern world, we believe we are separate from one another. Separate from "That-Which-Created."
It is separation consciousness that creates conflict. This is duality consciousness.
This applies to Reiki when you believe that the Symbols, the System, the Teacher, the Energy, is greater than you or is separate from you.
Wayne (sorry bro, don't mean to specifically call you out, but I need you for two examples) makes many comments that on the surface are purporting duality rather than singularity.
Then he goes and says things like, Reiki is just our Divine Spark helping our Client's Divine Spark to heal. Yeah, bad paraphrasing I know, but the gist is there. When you practice Namaste, which means "The Divine Spark in Me Recognizes the Divine Spark in You", during Reiki, you are essentially practicing Munay (a Q'ero term for dissolving the "I" into "ONE".) It is a state of innocence without egoic judgment or attachment.
Practicing in removing myself from Duality or Separation consciousness is why I find it very hard to meditate on symbols anymore. Because in doing so, I'm recognizing that there is something beyond me that I don't have that I need.
If one can study symbols without being in separation consciousness, that is beautiful, however.
EDIT: I wanted to add this as well. In my class the other night, my teacher defined separation consciousness as form. Consensual reality and our physical bodies is form. When you seek to reach Munay (one with all that is and dissolving the “I” into “ONE”) you do away with thought. Thought creates form.
Essentially, if we all have that special something, call it divine spark, ULFE, DKM, God, Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh, Creator, Goddess, Spirit, Universe, et. al., it usually is defined as all pervading. Something that is not just in everything, but is everything. Everything is it. This is a common concept in many religions and philosophies around the world. Even physicists are trying to find the "God" particle in CERN, Switzerland.
Even if you don't want to look at it spiritually, but scientifically, quantum science will tell you that everything is some frequency of energy. Matter is just a very low frequency (or condensed version of) energy. Yeah, that's very dumbed down by a lay-man who doesn't know much about how actual quantum science is defined. But that is how it was once explained to me.
But as such, if spiritually you believe that everything is part of a greater pattern, and that greater pattern is part of everything, then that means we each are Divine in our own right, just as the Divine is each of us. Scientifically, replace the word Divine with energy.
Where Religion went wrong, was when they separated themselves from their "God(s)" and/or "Goddess(es)" and made people believe that they were flawed in some way.
In the modern world, we believe we are separate from one another. Separate from "That-Which-Created."
It is separation consciousness that creates conflict. This is duality consciousness.
This applies to Reiki when you believe that the Symbols, the System, the Teacher, the Energy, is greater than you or is separate from you.
Wayne (sorry bro, don't mean to specifically call you out, but I need you for two examples) makes many comments that on the surface are purporting duality rather than singularity.
Then he goes and says things like, Reiki is just our Divine Spark helping our Client's Divine Spark to heal. Yeah, bad paraphrasing I know, but the gist is there. When you practice Namaste, which means "The Divine Spark in Me Recognizes the Divine Spark in You", during Reiki, you are essentially practicing Munay (a Q'ero term for dissolving the "I" into "ONE".) It is a state of innocence without egoic judgment or attachment.
Practicing in removing myself from Duality or Separation consciousness is why I find it very hard to meditate on symbols anymore. Because in doing so, I'm recognizing that there is something beyond me that I don't have that I need.
If one can study symbols without being in separation consciousness, that is beautiful, however.
EDIT: I wanted to add this as well. In my class the other night, my teacher defined separation consciousness as form. Consensual reality and our physical bodies is form. When you seek to reach Munay (one with all that is and dissolving the “I” into “ONE”) you do away with thought. Thought creates form.