All One!

So, I've been focusing a lot on and about "all one."  So far my conclusions have been this:

When the earth was being formed, there were chunks of rock that solidified out of the matter left over from the suns formation.  These rocks clumping together literally contained all of the matter and atoms that make up everything on earth, - life, rock, water- all from those initial rocks.

So we are all connected.  We are all earthlings, OF THE EARTH.  Every tree and every human and every cloud and every ant.  Earthlings.  So it makes sense that we are all connected.  Our atoms came from those rocks.  Those rocks formed and cooled... everything that exists on earth today.

Reincarnation kind of works with that if you asks me.  Our consciousnesses  came from the earth, just like all other consciousness in other animals and life.  Wy shouldn't they be linked?  When we talk about spirits and see and feel the interconnectedness of things we are seeing and feeling that we are the same stuff.

Analogies are though here.  It's like pulling apart cotton from one clump into two.  There are still strands connecting the two clumps.

My body is just an ape shaped vessel that my earth consciousness inhabits.  It defines the abilities and limitations of my physical life and my ability for abstract thought, just as a whale's body defines its abilities and limitations of its physical body and how it thinks and interacts with the world.  Both our physical bodies and our consciousnesses came from earth, the same stuff.  A chain of humans coming out of humans, back and back until the thing coming out of the other thing is only a single cell splitting from its twin, back to just atoms.  Whales too.  And trees.  All one.

So if when I die and my physical body and my consciousness separate, it feels right that my earth consciousness would go back to the earth and my earth body goes back to the earth and gets reused by other earth things.  Nothing disappears.  The same protons and neutrons as before when the earth was just rocks clumping together.  Consciousness doesn't disappear either.

Living things are physical vessels for consciousnesses of different kinds.  Animals, plants perhaps?  Still, all earth.  All one.

So to live fully to the potential of my consciousness I need to keep my physical vessel as healthy as possible.  Why limit my body, that body which defines my physical limitations and abilities.  Why limit my human brain that determines my level abstract thought?  Instead, nurture and grow my body and mind to be as human as I can be.  Whales are going to practice singing and swimming and breathing to the best of their ability.  If there was a whale that didn't do a good job eating, it may die relatively young for a whale.  If a human is not good at maintaining its body, it may die relatively young and not reach its full expression of humanness.

Now, I thought I'd just mention that not only are we all from the same atoms from earth, but everything in the universe comes from the same atoms as well.  All one.  ALL one.