Peace.

[Iamit]

Originally Posted by Ground

I do not perceive 'Feeling disconnected' being negative nor do I perceive 'feeling totally connected to all' being positive.

your view is similar to buddhist view in that there is the claim of one phenomenon being utterly negative. Buddhists call it 'suffering', you call it 'Feeling disconnected'. But what buddhists call 'suffering' isn't appropriately called suffering because it isn't necessarily negative and what you call 'Feeling disconnected' isn't necessarily negative either.

Be that as it may I think your view is just an appeal to believe in what you call 'oneness' and referring to yourself it is a kind of auto-suggestion.


From my perspective - and here I am close to buddhism - feeling as such is the issue and 'feeling' here is the emotionality of liking or disliking. So it is one's emotional response towards phenomena that causes unease or emotional turmoil and therefore the contrary to peace [of mind].
In this context a kind of disconnection which then is called 'detachment' is not negative but conducive to peace.

So the fact that you are saying 'feeling disconnected' may hint at the actual issue which is just feeling as disliking.
And the fact that you are saying 'feeling totally connected to all' may hint at the actual issue which is just feeling as liking.
Feelings come and go and are utterly transient. If you are after certain feelings but reject other feelings that is an issue.

If feeling disconnected is felt as suffering by the person feeling it thats accepted by me. Likewise with feeling positive about connection to all.