Because each of us partakes of this world, we partake of the energy which constitutes its very substance. The world is our source and sustenance. And the boundary between each of us and the vastness which surrounds us is not as solid and impermeable as we sometimes believe. The energy which flows through and between us carries our feelings and reactions, creating an interactive climate which we've learned through conditioning to shut out and ignore. Because we've learned to think of ourselves as separate and centered in our individuality, we overlook the ways in which we partake of the unity of which we are only a fragment.

Recognizing and experiencing our own etheric bodies helps us to reawaken to our true nature -- our interconnectedness. We can in this way learn -- or relearn -- to sense the world with the wholeness of our being. Instead of relying only on the recognized physical senses which we've come to accept as the only valid avenues of apprehending the world, we can feel what's going on around us in the very depth of who and and what we are. Rather than depending on the narrow channels through which sensory information enters -- and is in turn filtered by our prejudices and predilections -- we can plunge headlong into the ocean of a greater reality from which we once sprung and to which we are destined to return.