Returning to Oneness: Christian Nondualism

“Every adventure allegorically retelling the same essential truth, which was that we are all so much more than we have been led to believe. We are the random spark in the vacuum and the eternal ripple that spreads infinitely from its serendipitous source. We are all of it. Everything that has been, will be, or ever could be.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

Before there was separation, there was Oneness. Before there was striving, there was stillness. In the beginning—and even now—there is only the I AM, in whom we live, move, and have our being.

Nondualism is the remembrance of this truth: that God is not somewhere far beyond us, but within us and around us, breathing through every cell of creation. We are not apart from God—we are expressions of God. Each of us, a reflection of I AM in flesh, just as Jesus revealed.

The gospel of Jesus is about direct awareness of the Divine. Evangelicals talk about a personal relationship with Jesus. Pentecostals talk about a personal experience of the Holy Spirit…Jesus did not come to set up a new religion with its own scriptures. He pointed people to see the Divine for themselves. “Come and see” he said. “Follow me…” Nonduality likewise goes directly to the Source. It does not accept truth secondhand or third hand through religious professionals who interpret sacred writings and tell the rest of us what they mean.—Marshall Davis, Biblical Nonduality

To live nondually is to awaken from the illusion of separation and return to the wholeness that has always been. It is to see through the eyes of Christ, who knew himself not as apart from God but as one with the Father—and who came to show us that the same is true for us. “I am in the Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” (John 14:20).

Jesus also spoke of this Oneness through the parable of the vine, saying, “I am the vine; you are the branches” (John 15:5). It is a picture of inseparable life—sap flowing from source to stem to fruit, one continuous movement of love. The branch does not strive to be part of the vine; it already is. In the same way, we do not earn our union with God—it is the reality of our existence. When we live from this awareness, we bear the fruit of divine love naturally, as extensions of the Living Vine itself.

I was not separate from God (not-two), but neither was I God (not-one). God and I were Vine and branch; I could not tell where the life of the Vine and the life of the branch separated.— Philip St Romain, Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality

Nondualism is not an abstract idea; it is an embodied awareness. It is knowing that the ground beneath your feet, the breath in your lungs, and the light in your neighbor’s eyes all pulse with the same divine Life. We do not have to reach upward to find God. We awaken inward, remembering that we are Imago Dei, made in the image/likeness of God.

This way of seeing transfigures everything. The veil between sacred and ordinary dissolves. Washing the dishes becomes a prayer. Silence becomes a cathedral. Every moment becomes communion. Oneness does not erase our individuality; it illuminates it. Each of us bears a unique hue of God’s infinite spectrum—distinct, yet inseparable. Like sunlight through stained glass, we refract the same radiance in our own unique way.

This is the heart of the nondual way that Jesus taught:
to remember that we are in God and God in us,
to rest in the unity that has always been,
to live as living reflections of Divine Love, like Jesus.

In this Oneness, there is peace. In this peace, there is freedom. And in this freedom, there is the remembering of who we really are.

Reflection Questions

1. When you pray, do you imagine God as separate from you—or as the Presence breathing within you?

2. What areas of your identity still feel divided instead of One with Christ?

3. How does it change the way you see yourself and others when you remember that we are all expressions (unique flavors) of the same Divine life?

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