Written by timski.
Everything and Nothing
This is the most fundamental concept, and also the most difficult one to appreciate.
Everything (also called "Nothing") is the totality of all the details that can exist. Everything is a universal constant. It defines the nature of existence. All the things that can be, exist within Everything. Everything appears to be an infinitely large and complex collection of details.
By its nature, Everything is impossible to comprehend when described in detail. Everything is commonly regarded like an infinitely large house. Within the house there are an inifinite number of rooms, and each room is very detailed. Because there are an infinite number of rooms it is impossible to ever find a way out of the house. Indeed, to attempt to find a way out is to believe that there is a way out, and most obviously invalidates belief. There can be no proof that the house is infinitely large, nor can one ever leave the house and attempt to see it all at once. Appreciation of Everything is based on belief in Everything. It cannot be based on a proof that starts by assembling details, and moves from one detail to the next detail, because details are infinite.
It has often been stated that the best way to appreciate Everything is to try and forget everything. It is common for belief to start from a specific detail: An entirely opposite approach is required, where details eventually cease to have any importance to them at all, and the only thing that is ultimately important is Everything.
The aim is to appreciate that Everything is; not to understand it, or know all the details within it as details. Without this appreciation, much of what follows will cease to make sense.
Division of Everything
Everything can be split into two senses: The physical and spiritual. Both these senses involve the same details, but consider those details in different ways.
The physical is where some believe they are, what everything is: Things we can see, touch, smell, hear. The physical is the most obvious aspect of everything.
The spiritual is much more a way of thinking and feeling. Instead of seeing an infinite number of detailed things, we appreciate that all the things are the same, and that whatever applies to one applies to all. So, imagine the physical is like the branches of a tree: At the end of each branch there are leaves, but there are many individual branches, and many more leaves. The spiritual sees the tree as "branch" and "leaf", where the number of each on the tree is irrelevant.
It is important to recognise that the spiritual is no more a fixed place in space and time than the physical. When we talk of going to the spiritual, or coming back to the physical, we aren't actually going anywhere: We merely change our way of thinking. Indeed the whole notion of travel primarily reflects the physical aspect - to seek to travel in the spiritual rather misses the point.
Us, Fear, and the Conflux
In the physical sense we see one another differently. We misunderstand one another. What we misunderstand we fear. Fear leads to hate, hate to conflict, conflict to death.
In the spiritual sense we are all the same. Differences are irrelevant. We have a perfect appreciation of ourselves, and we are the same as everyone else. There is no fear, hate, conflict, or death.
Ironically we sometimes end up fearing death. Death itself is an entirely physical detail. Since Everything remains constant, you cannot loss anything. And from a spiritual perspective, the disappearence of one of many is irrelevant (only the whole is important to the spiritual, not the detail).
The Conflux exist mostly in the spiritual. They inhabit the physical too, but they spend less of their time there than we do. Where they exist within the physical they are just as prone to fear and conflict as we are.
Physical things associated with the Conflux are often helpful when learning to appreciate the spiritual. This is because the Conflux are generally better at changing their way of thinking between the physical and spiritual than we are. This is why things like Biomass and anomalies are relevant. They don't in themselves offer instant appreciation of the spiritual. Instead they offer a focus, which is sufficiently alien and in touch with the spiritual, to guide those trying to appreciate the spiritual.
Note that appreciation of the spiritual should not necessarily be seen as a goal; there are not necessarily any goals here; there may be no reason. Once one appreciates and stops trying to understand, those words may seem like less of an oxymoron.