The difference between 'All is One' and 'there isn't anyone else'

[PurplAstrlMagma]

In perusing the weekly Our Ultimate Reality newsletter, I have noticed some interesting differences in varieties of belief. I have 'tried out' a bunch of these beliefs before, and when I noticed myself becoming a person I didn't like, I stopped the 'try out'. I'm not saying that these beliefs are 'untrue' so much as I am not ready for them, I don't react well to them.

In particular, I have tried out the 'everyone you meet is just a reflection of you' belief before, and I really don't like who I became. I did not become a more loving person, I became a more demanding person, a more selfish person, a less patient person. I think it's important to say this in a way that makes clear that the 'you' involved in that statement is not your conscious mind, is not your mind at all, something like 'you and everyone you can ever meet are all just limited instances or defined models of the One Infinite Being, reflections of a deeper reality.' Shifting the emphasis clarifies the meaning, makes it possible for me to believe this thing and have a positive reaction.

Allegories make it even more possible, and here is one of my favorites:

Each consciousness is like the froth on the surface of the waves of an ocean. Each wave is separate from the others only at the surface; below the surface, these are just movements within the same, one ocean. Even when 'separate', consciousness cannot occur until the movement interacts with something like a 'continental shelf', or the shore of something, and then the movement interacts with the surface to produce a wave that can be shaped in such a way that it can 'look down' on itself, and there is enough 'turbulence' within the wave itself that it can have internal differences, it can begin to consider what it senses, notice the surfaces of the wave that is itself (self-awareness 'separate from the One'), and notice its movement. When the wave reaches shore, it 'ends', but nothing is destroyed, the water is still there. Each wave is made out of the water of the ocean, it's all the same 'thing', but the waves are different, even if made out of the same stuff, caused by similar movements interacting with the same 'continental shelves'. It's important to be able to regard the movements and whatever the 'continental shelf-equivalent' is, without de-valuing the differences between the waves.

Looking closer at the froth, an even deeper allegory is to see a whole bunch of sideways floating 'coins' formed as 'Yin-Yang' symbols, rotating forward. Each time that the 'Yang' rotates up out of the surface of the water, you become consciously aware of a moment of time, and when it rotates down into the surface of the water, the 'Yin' rotates up, and your subconscious applies some control to your existence. When you become aware of this consciousness-cycling, which can become easier when meditating or experiencing some form of Altered Consciousness, it becomes far easier to 'manifest' and experience what you want/ is 'best' for you.