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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''”. | 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 not a separate agent approaching an external reality but is instead the entire universe as a whole experiencing itself, exploring itself, and performing actions onto itself through the specific point in space and time which this particular body and conscious perception happens to currently reside | When experienced, this effect creates the sudden perspective that one is not a separate agent approaching an external reality but is instead the entire universe as a whole experiencing itself, exploring itself, and performing actions onto itself through the specific point in space and time which this particular body and conscious perception happens to currently reside within. | ||
====5. Unity between the self and all external systems==== | ====5. Unity between the self and all external systems==== | ||