# Oneness & Individuality > Oneness becomes individuality to experience ask and know itself while the individual is always the One expressed so unity is fulfilled individuality rather than dissolved individuality achieved when each component of personality is allowed to be its full sovereign self - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/oneness-and-individuality # Oneness & Individuality The One and the individual are not opposed but mutually informing: the One becomes the individual in order to experience, ask, and know itself, while the individual is always the One expressed. Unity is therefore not the erasure of individuality but its fulfillment — each component of the personality allowed to be its full sovereign self — and a society coheres (telepathically, collectively) by the same principle by which a single personality coheres: recognizing the one expressing as each. ## Why the One becomes the individual Asked "if all is one, then who is the 'I' that asks the question?", Bashar answers that the question itself is the clue: the One does not need to ask the question, because the One knows. To ask, the One must take itself into individuality; in the form of a question, the One becomes the individual who does not know and asks. The phrase "I am" simultaneously acknowledges the whole and the individuality — there is no forsaking of one for the other. The practical upshot is that individuality is not a fall from oneness but the very mode by which oneness experiences itself; questions, perception, and experience all require it. ## Unity is fulfilled individuality, not dissolved individuality A dream shared in the same session points to the same teaching at the level of the personality. Peeling layers off a wax safe reveals cream-coloured rods that Bashar identifies as sceptres of commandment — symbols that, once everything false is stripped away, leave a person recognizing themselves as a regal being made in the image of the infinite. There are many such rods because each aspect of the personality structure can approach sovereignty from its own direction, and each deserves to be its own king and queen. Bashar then states what he calls the secret to unity: unity is achieved when each component of the individuality is allowed to be its full sovereign self. On this framing, a coherent society and a coherent personality run on the same rule — neither requires the merging of parts into an undifferentiated mass. ## The unique facet of the multidimensional crystal The same principle is taught at civilizational scale in the nexus-point monologue on Earth, Essassani, and Sirius. Bashar moves through his progression of recognition — it isn't "this or that," it is "this and that," and ultimately "this is that": it is all one, expressing itself in all the ways that it can. From there he tells each person that they are a unique facet of the multidimensional crystal of creation, and that only by being their true facet — their true shape — do they actually support the whole. Trying to be something you are not does not support the whole harmoniously and is exceedingly exhausting; resisting the natural self wears you down. By contrast, simply being who you truly are is the best you can do to support the whole, which in turn lets you experience the support it is already giving. The acceleration across civilizations, each moving at its own rate and meeting in a shared nexus point while each proceeds at a pace it can assimilate, is offered as a living example of the same idea at the scale of worlds: many unique frequencies, one coherent pattern. ## Practical implications Treat individuality as functional, not as a problem to be overcome. The "I" that asks, perceives, and chooses is the One experiencing itself; the path is not to dissolve that "I" but to let it become its true shape. Let every aspect of the personality be sovereign. Unity, in a person or in a society, comes from each component being allowed to be its full regal self — not from blending parts into a featureless whole. Stop being something you are not. Resisting the natural self is what exhausts you; being your true facet is itself the support the whole needs. Read disagreement and difference of pace as compatible with oneness, not contrary to it. Civilizations and individuals can move at different rates and still meet in a shared nexus — "this is that" allows the many to be genuinely many while remaining one. ## Representative passages They say the answer is coming through your individuality from your oneness. You may know oneness and experience it as oneness, but to ask the question requires that you take the oneness into individuality, or no question is asked, for the one does not need to ask the question; the one knows… When they say "I am" they are acknowledging simultaneously the whole and the individuality; there is no forsaking of one for the other.— Bashar, Association Business2 (association-business2#qa-6) There are many of them because you can approach it from many directions and own your power from any direction, and because in your personality structure each aspect deserves to be its own king and queen. That is the secret to unity: when each component of the individuality is allowed to be its full sovereign self.— Bashar, Association Business2 (association-business2#qa-7) It isn't this or that, it's this and that. And even beyond the concept of this and that, it's the recognition that this is that. It's all one. Expressing itself in all the ways that it can… For each and every one of you is a unique facet of the multidimensional crystal of creation. And by only being your true facet, your true shape, do you thus actually support the whole… just by being who you truly are, you will actually be doing the best you can possibly do to support the whole picture.— Bashar, Earth Essassani Sirius Frequency Changes Bashar Nexus Point (earth-essassani-sirius-frequency-changes-bashar-nexus-point#text) ## Related - [Holism](https://sassani.app/topic/holism) - [Interconnectedness](https://sassani.app/topic/interconnectedness) - [Personality Structure](https://sassani.app/topic/personality-structure) - [Telepathy & Psychic Functioning](https://sassani.app/topic/telepathy) - [Association of Worlds](https://sassani.app/topic/association-of-worlds) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/oneness-and-individuality. The HTML page is the source of truth.