A great analogy popped into my head when I was debating on SpiritualForums.com, and I needed to share it. For context, we were discussing the nature of Unity and whether or not individuations actually exist....
It really depends on what we mean by "exist", doesn't it? When I say "doesn't exist", what I mean is that the individuation is perception, a point of view. Let me use an analogy....
Picture a piece of honeycomb, all those little perfect hexagons. If you choose to see the honeycomb as the individual cells, then yes, it is a whole made up of parts. But in fact, the cells are just empty spaces, and the comb is in fact an interconnected lattice, all one continuous piece that merely seems to be made of separate parts. The walls that make up one cell also belong to all the surrounding ones, whose walls belong to the ones that surround them, and so on and so forth. The empty space created by this lattice is then used by the bees for the creation of honey.
Just the same, we are the "empty space" used by Oneness, the lattice of energy that permeates, that IS, all of physical reality, to make the sweet honey which is experience.
