You are doing well to get some certainty out of this business ;-) I tend to gravitate towards notions that feel right to me, but not sure whether it’s a strong intuition for truth or just an arbitrary gathering together of things that sit well with my personality.

When I get right down to the present moment, the ‘place’ feels like a new territory where nothing ‘is a given.’

When i’m thinking about things I warm to the notion of a fundamental unity. However, we are seeming separate beings and live in a world of diversity and complexity.

As you say, this is only our experience of it though.

I wonder if this separation and diversity; branches stretching out into complexity, is a fundamental part of the process. A way of the unity ‘enriching’ itself somehow.

I like Gurdjieff’s idea of ‘trogoautoegocrat’, a kind of reciprocal feeding process that purportedly staves off time and entropy.

As the original outpouring of the ‘energy’ from the ‘Absolute of His Endlessness’ (unity) branches out along the ‘Ray of Creation’, it loses ‘potency/creativity/freedom’ and becomes constrained by more and more laws. At the same time an anti-entropic flow of energy is working its way back up the cosmic scale returning to the Absolute to replenish its energy. (and even add something)

This is a kind of feedback process; descent and return; There and back again.

All our most potent mythology deals with the return home.

I like what you say about all things being equally conscious. It feels right to me that everything is part of the same fabric; That fabric being the consciousness at large. Mind is only a tool to navigate this particular world. If we roll it too high we can find it perilously easy to delve deeply into the branching process, but then struggle to even remember there is a way back!