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Oneness is also known as cosmic consciousness. Functional explanation is the unification of consciousness with the subconsciousness to something that has been referred to as supraconsciousness.
The human experiencing of Oneness expresses itself in the unity of thought and reality. The experience teaches: thought creates reality which feels like Omnipotence. However as the consciousness grows to encompass all, the ego becomes relative insignificant. In its cumulus the seeker passes through his ego_death . This coincides with several teachings of different cultures:
Realization of Oneness is also a concept, with which Pantheism suggests to replace the word God, for increased comprehension.
For others Oneness, the characteristic of being one, is a term used to characterize God in contrast to those that believe that the godhead is a committee comprised of 3 separate persons. Christian believers believe in and worship Jesus as the Lord, not one of three persons in the godhead. They worship Him as "...the everlasting Father...", as stated in Isaiah 9:6 and do not believe He is an everlasting father as some teach. The presence of the definite article in that verse gives the meaning that Jesus is the one and only everlasting Father.
Alternatively, Oneness is a metaphysical claim that the multiplicity of beings is only apparent and that at some deeper metaphysical level all beings are really one being.