Aloneness is a relative concept: if there were no outside, or community, in relation to which you were alone you would simply be everything. Metaphysically aloneness marks an essential point in a movement that subsumes it, and whether this movement leads to a fundamental, but reconciled, dualism, or to an implosion of all dualisms is immaterial. It is a singularity in consciousness, but not of any imaginable consciousness only of our consciousness, paradoxically, of collective human consciousness, a singularity out of which the individual soul is born. And does not the moment of death recapitulate the moment of birth? Can we not hear an echo of Christ's "Eli Eli, lama sabachtani" in Descartes'"Cogito ergo sum"? Only an echo, each gives rise to an errancy, patterns reconciled or dissolved only in a much larger mandala.