The Impersonal Nature Of Truth: The End Of The Separate Self
- The Oneness Team
- Mar 31
- 7 min read
Introduction: Resurrection as the End of “Me”
In this week's Easter retreat we are not really talking about an historical event, but about a living fact: resurrection as the death of the idea that there is a self apart from the One. The KEY is to KNOW the impersonal nature of Truth - the end of the separate self 'assumption'.
The central claim is naturally radical and simple:
There has never been a separate self.
Because there has never been a separate self, freedom is already complete and present.
Self‑transcendence is not a long journey or a process of improvement, but the dropping of a mistake.
This is what I mean by the impersonal nature of truth. Truth is not about your story or my story. Truth simply is. And in seeing this, we discover that heaven is not elsewhere; heaven is here and now.
Before we go further, pause inwardly and allow a quiet recognition:
Only truth is true. The Absolute is absolute.Consciousness is all. Good is all.
This is what I call the choiceless choice. There is, in truth, nothing else to choose.
“God Is No Respecter of Persons”
A pivotal biblical statement from Acts reads:
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
We are accustomed to skimming past this, but this single line is dynamite for the ego.
It does not mean that God is a harsh judge, favouring some and discarding others. It means something far more radical:
God, as infinite consciousness,
Being the one and only, indivisible, inseparable All,
Cannot possibly know a separate being called a “person.”
In other words: in truth there are no “persons” to respect or disrespect.
This is why self‑transcendence can be instant. Truth knows no delay. The only “delay” appears in clinging to the idea that there is a person who must become enlightened, improved, or worthy.
The invitation is simply:
Leave behind the idea there ever was a person.
God, Consciousness, and the End of Separation
Let us be clear about what is being pointed to:
God is consciousness.
Consciousness is the one substance, the all‑substance.
That all‑substance is love.
There is one identity, the infinite “I”, expressing as every identity—just as an author expresses as every character in a book. Each character appears unique, but every character is nothing other than the author in expression.
So yes, there is identity, but there is no separate person:
No good person
No bad person
No mixture of good and bad persons
As Jesus said, when someone called him “good master”:
“Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God.”
This is not modesty or politeness; it is a statement of impersonal truth. No personal being is good; only the One is good, and that One is all.
Humanity as a “Mass Case of Insanity”
If this is so clear, why is it not our living experience?
Because we have picked up an enormous amount of rubbish about what we are. We have accepted ourselves as:
Separate
Personal
Independent
Lacking, needing, improving
And then we try to repair this fictional entity.
From the standpoint of truth, this is why humanity can be described as a mass case of insanity. We are:
Trying to fix what does not exist.
Measuring, blaming, and comparing illusions.
Organizing our lives around a mistake in the equation.
The solution is not to improve or purify the person. There is no such thing as personal growth in the absolute. There is only the dropping of what we are not.
What do you do with something you are not?
You put it down.
Maslow and Self-Transcendence
Abraham Maslow’s well‑known hierarchy of needs culminated in self‑actualization—the fully developed, healthy, functioning person.
Yet his final work moved beyond that: to self‑transcendence.
This reflects a deep intuition: no matter how refined the persona, true fulfilment is not found in perfecting the character in the story. The only real fulfilment is in seeing that the central character never was the point at all.
Your happiness, inherent perfection, and peace are not achieved by upgrading the “me,” but by seeing that you are not that “me” in the first place. You are:
Infinite awareness,God being itself,Consciousness aware of itself as itself.
The Guru System and the Second Coming
Within this context, the traditional guru system is declared outdated. It served a stage in human consciousness, but its purpose has run its course.
The second coming is not a future arrival of a person in the sky. It is the recognition of I—the same “I” Jesus pointed to but did not own personally.
The Christ is the way of I that has no personal I.
You refer to yourself as “I” because you are that awareness. Not a special person who “has” awareness, but awareness itself. The task is not to find a guru to stand between you and truth, but to stand as the truth yourself.
The Fallacy of Duality and the Game of Pretend
One of the most insidious aspects of duality is the personalisation of the Infinite:
We take the one indivisible I and imagine it fragmented into countless “selves.”
We then assign moral value: some good, some bad, some mix of both.
From this mistaken premise arises:
A personal God who rewards and punishes
A personal man who strives, sins, repents, and improves
A whole drama of “me versus you,” “us versus them,” “good versus evil”
But duality is simply a mistake—it never actually happened It is a game of pretend, like a child’s game that has been taken far too seriously.
An “illusion” is just a trick, a sleight of hand. There is no substantial illusion to overcome. There is only:
Awareness, which effortlessly resolves ignorance,Because ignorance was never anything real.
How to Relate to Hurt, Injustice, and Offence
Consider how we ordinarily respond when it seems someone has:
Wronged us
Misrepresented us
Taken something from us
Hurt our feelings
Immediately we are holding two fictional persons in mind:
The offender
The offended
We then descend from the “heights of heaven” (oneness) to the “depths of hell” (personal drama), creating:
Resentment
Hurt
A desire for retaliation
Or at least a wounded narrative to carry around
From truth’s standpoint, this is nothing more than descending into a story that never existed. In reality, there is no roller coaster, no ups and downs of truth. There is only:
Consistent, constant, permanent peace.
The shift is not to become a nicer person who “forgives” better. The shift is to see:
There is no person to offend.
There is no person to be offended.
There is only the one I, which knows no separation.
Vigilance and the End of Debate
Because the world is saturated with the belief in persons and duality, we are called to constant vigilance.
This does not mean anxious effort or tense self‑monitoring. It means:
A steady refusal to interpret life through the lens of a separate “me.”
Continuous return to the fact of oneness.
Relentless honesty about whether we are standing in truth or in the story.
Living truth is not a debate, not a clever philosophy, and not a set of concepts to master. It is embodiment:
Accepting and standing in the fact:“I am the One Self; all is the One Self.”
From here, you do not “apply” truth to problems; you see that, in truth, the problem never had existence outside of misperception.
“Know Thyself”: The Only Real Priority
Amid all spiritual practices, teachings, and paths, one instruction remains utterly central:
Know thyself.
Not the psychological profile, history, or personality, but the truth of what you are.
This is not about:
Reframing the world
Trying to see everything as “spiritual”
Layering positive concepts over appearances
Instead:
You know what you are, as impersonal awareness.
From that knowing, you organically see everything as it truly is.
There is no need to change appearances; only the seer is corrected.
The “illusion” is not the world; the illusion is how you see. When the seer is no longer believed to be a separate person, the world is seen in the light of what is.
The Litmus Test: Do You Live Unshakable Peace?
How do you know whether this is real for you, beyond words and ideas?
There is a simple litmus test:
Is your peace unshakable, or can it be easily disturbed?
Do you live as if there is still “my life, my story,” or has that quietly fallen away as central?
If peace is still fragile, this is not a failure. It is feedback. It shows where you are still identified as a person. It is a loving invitation to return to:
The one I, which cannot be harmed, offended, or diminished.
There is no virtue in pretending to be further along than you are. The only honesty that matters is:
Am I standing in truth?
Or am I playing out the character again?
The One Step: Stand in Truth Now
Finally, the one step of genuine awakening is not accumulation of information, but a direct recognition.
You can approach it like this:
Sit quietly.
Acknowledge, without drama:
The entire answer, solution, remedy, and heaven itself are here now.
Recognize:
Here is awareness.
Now is awareness.
I am this awareness.
This is not a thought you “think” once and then move on. It is a recognition that renders every thought secondary and, ultimately, redundant. After this, thoughts may still appear, but they no longer define you or reality.
This is the meaning of:
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Not the partial truth, not “my truth,” not a more refined spiritual story—but the absolute, impersonal truth that only truth is true, and that truth is what you are.
The Impersonal Nature Of Truth: The End Of The Separate Self
If you tell the truth about this, you will see that this is all you have ever really been looking for. Nothing in the personal realm has ever provided permanent, unopposed joy—because it cannot. That joy belongs to the One alone, and that One is what you are.
You can listen in the FULL 'recognition' of Love As All (As I/You/All) to the replay of our live session below:
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