oneness
many paths · one question
Hindu Advaita Vedanta, Christian mysticism, Sufi Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Taoism, and Sikhism each describe, in their own words, a felt dissolving of the boundary between self and world. These traditions developed independently, with little to no contact with each other, yet they keep landing on a similar shape of experience — even though they disagree sharply on what it ultimately means. Scholars still argue over whether that overlap points to something shared in reality itself, or just something shared in human brains pushed into similar states.