Toeism is for anyone who wants live a happy, fulfilled, individual life while living in harmony with the world. Toeism’s main aim is to promote happiness. Happiness is, most wise people agree, what we are here to experience.
There are just four principles behind Toeism and one underlying principle that lies behind those four.
The underlying principle is that if we follow the way the Universe works, which we can learn by studying Nature and by listening to our own deep nature, we will be living as we are meant to. Accepting this principle implies that we accept that everything is One, that we are part of the Universe as much as the Universe is part of us. We are inextricable from everything and we are therefore immensely powerful, even when we act by ourselves.
The first principle is that if we live in harmony with what is around us and with ourselves, we will save ourselves an awful lot of hassle. The aim of living in harmony is to live easily. It means moving with change rather than fighting it, moving in step with our own natural rhythms and preserving what we can of the nature around us by living harmoniously with it.
The second principle is to live with simplicity. The aim of living with simplicity is to stop accumulating unnecessary baggage that will stop us doing what we want and need to do. It means expressing ourselves authentically rather than expressing ourselves by buying the latest fad. Living simply, spontaneously and in the moment allows us to evolve great complexity in our lives by doing just what needs to be done, when it needs to be done.
The third principle is to live freely. The aim of living freely is to express creativity in our lives. Being free means judging the information we’re presented with critically, so neither submitting to oppressive forms of control nor agreeing to oppressively control others. Living freely also means that we are free to express our own unique gifts and strengths in our work by making our own creativity a key life pursuit.
The fourth principle is to live kindly. The aim of living kindly is to help other beings and so to help ourselves. What comes around goes around and when we live kindly, we generate harmony in the world more than we generate discord. Living kindly also helps the Universe manifest creation rather than destruction.
Toeism is a personal journey (and right at the moment, it’s just my personal journey). No-one, including me, is here to tell you how to do it, it’s up to you to find out what works best for you. If you find things that make sense, put them into action. I can’t make you do this. All I can do is give some hints and try how to explain how things really work. But from there, it’s kindest to leave it up to you.
When we’re adults, no-one can tell us what to do with our lives or how to live them, unless we choose to let them. So we all think we’re on our own, even when we’re most caught up in the web of All. Feeling this alone makes us feel uncertain and anxious. It makes us want someone to tell us what to do. But telling someone what to do limits them to following your vision rather than their own.
Although Toeism draws on ancient philosophy and mysticism as much as science, it is not a religion, nor a sect, nor a cult. There are no followers and no priests and no intercessors and no-one is more qualified to tell you what to do than YOU. Yet, whether you’re of a scientific or religious bent or you’re otherwise deviant, you may still enjoy learning about Toeism. Toeism welcomes all readers and is open to all.
I hope you enjoy reading about this and applying what you find helpful in your life. I always welcome comments, so please feel free to tell me how it’s working for you.
Nick
If All is One, how can I live an individual life? How can there be an individual life if All is One?
I feel like a one-legged person kicking things off!
Hello Cherry and thank-you for your kind question, which is a good one.
The simple answer is, we can’t help all being part of One, but we are all still individual, different aspects of the One. Each of us is an aspect of the Whole, each with unique gifts & talents and a unique perspective. Living in bodies as we do, our perceptions are necessarily centred on one point, our bodies. This gives us our individual viewpoint on the Universe, but this does not exclude us being part of and connected to everything else around us.
The trap is thinking in terms of either/or, not both /and. Either I’m an individual, or I’m part of one whole. Surely I can’t be both? Well, the truth is that we are both individuals and part of one Whole. The Universe is a paradoxical place which operates on the principle of both/and, not either/or. I’ll be exploring this idea further in some upcoming articles, so please accept my apologies if that’s not apparent on here yet.
If we think of ourselves only as individuals, this is a trap. As a result of this trap, we tend to think that we’re the only thing that matters in the Universe because of our sole perspective on it. It also gives us delusions of grandeur, that we’re more important than anything else & that our species is more important than any other. This leads to our destructive greed and selfishness. Unfortunately, it also leads us into the trap of existential angst, of thinking that we are finally and abysmally alone, and that as a result we must be miserably responsible for all that we do.
It is because of our mental disconnection with everything else that we are blindly trashing the world in which we live in the name of progress and why so many of of live in desperately lonely, competitive misery chasing nothing but money. This does not make us happy, whereas a sense of connection with everything and everyone else is much less lonely, much more meaningful, much closer to the truth of things and much more likely to make us (and other living beings) happy. That’s why I’m talking about it here.
Hope this answers your question and many thanks for the opportunity to explain further.