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====5. Identifying with all known "external" systems====

[[File:Artistic_depiction_of_unity.png|thumb|right|upright|200px| This symbol depicts the universe as a "self-excited circuit". It was originally created by the late theoretical physicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler] in his 1983 paper [http://psychonautwiki.org/w/images/3/30/Wheeler_law_without_law.pdf Law Without Law].]]

The fifth of these differing levels of identity can be referred to as "''identifying with all known "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''.”

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 ====5. Identifying with all known "external" systems====
+[[File:Artistic_depiction_of_unity.png|thumb|right|upright|200px| This symbol depicts the universe as a "self-excited circuit". It was originally created by the late theoretical physicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler] in his 1983 paper [http://psychonautwiki.org/w/images/3/30/Wheeler_law_without_law.pdf Law Without Law].]]
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 The fifth of these differing levels of identity can be referred to as "''identifying with all known "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''.”