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The fourth of these five differing levels of intensity can be referred to as a "''state of unity between the self and all presently occurring external systems''". It is defined as the experience of a loss of perceived boundaries between a person's sense of self, the perceivable external environment, and all which they know to currently exist outside of this through their internally stored model of reality. This feels as if one's sense of self has become attributed to not just the external environment but all of humanity, nature, and the universe as it presently stands in its complete entirety. The experience of this is commonly interpreted by people as “''becoming one with the universe''”.

When experienced, this effect creates the sudden perspective that one is ~~quite literally~~ the entire universe experiencing itself, exploring itself, and performing actions onto itself through the very specific point of space and time which this body and conscious perception happens to currently reside in~~. When experienced, this feeling is often immediately understood to be an innate and undeniable truth by those who undergoes it~~.

When experienced, this effect creates the sudden perspective that one is not a separate agents approaching an external reality but is instead the entire universe experiencing itself, exploring itself, and performing actions onto itself through the very specific point of space and time which this particular body and conscious perception happens to currently reside in.

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 The fourth of these five differing levels of intensity can be referred to as a "''state of unity between the self and all presently occurring external systems''". It is defined as the experience of a loss of perceived boundaries between a person's sense of self, the perceivable external environment, and all which they know to currently exist outside of this through their internally stored model of reality. This feels as if one's sense of self has become attributed to not just the external environment but all of humanity, nature, and the universe as it presently stands in its complete entirety. The experience of this is commonly interpreted by people as “''becoming one with the universe''”.
-When experienced, this effect creates the sudden perspective that one is quite literally the entire universe experiencing itself, exploring itself, and performing actions onto itself through the very specific point of space and time which this body and conscious perception happens to currently reside in. When experienced, this feeling is often immediately understood to be an innate and undeniable truth by those who undergoes it.
+When experienced, this effect creates the sudden perspective that one is not a separate agents approaching an external reality but is instead the entire universe experiencing itself, exploring itself, and performing actions onto itself through the very specific point of space and time which this particular body and conscious perception happens to currently reside in.
 ====5. Unity between the self and all external systems====