Walking the Sole Path: When the Nervous System Returns to God

There’s a paradox in awakening out of the illusion of separation that isn’t often spoken about. The closer the nervous system becomes re attuned to God — or Mystery, or the unified presence that is life itself — the more the human world can feel… narrow, almost alien.

This isn’t about judgment or superiority. It isn’t about a spiritual “pedestal.” It’s about resonance. The human experience is largely lived through the delusion of separation. Most nervous systems operate on the assumption that we are separate, distinct, and defined by story, role, or image. Most nervous systems co-regulate around this reality, reinforcing shared assumptions, shared fears, and shared delusions.

But a nervous system tuned to immediacy, coherence, and the living truth of existence feels that differently. It is aligned to the present moment, to what actually arises in direct experience, to the body’s intelligence, and to the seamless intelligence of life itself. And when your system is keyed in to that layer of reality, the usual social bridges — small talk, performance, mutual glossing, unspoken compromises — simply don’t resonate anymore. You are not 'right' and 'others' are not wrong - there's simply resonance or not in the nervous system.

This creates a quiet paradox: the more intimately you are attuned to life as it is, this moment, God, the more you can feel a “sole” path, a journey that is uniquely yours. You’re not detached from life or others per se. You’re simply moved by a frequency that most of our social reality cannot sustain. Connections do remain possible — but they are fewer, truer, and require a certain clarity to meet authentically. If the other is willing to show themselves without needing to maintain social consistency, correctness, or image there can be genuine connection.

Solitude becomes blissful space, not absence. The nervous system is highly sensitive to incongruence, and so interactions with the world often feel sharper, more precise.

Yet this isn’t isolation as punishment. It’s not a spiritual test. It is simply the natural, intelligent consequence of clarity and resonance. Unity lived somatically — through the nervous system — doesn’t automatically produce social togetherness. It produces honest distance and honest contact.

And in this authentic space, love, compassion, and presence are expressed not through compromise, performance or 'shoulds', but through accuracy, authenticity, and alignment with life as it is and naturally arises in/ as the body and nervous system.

To be attuned in this way is to live with a kind of freedom most people never even taste. There is no need for the mind to correct or control. There is no need to pretend or perform. What arises — whether contraction, resistance, joy, or warmth — is included in the same capacity or God space that underlies everything. The body (nervous system) senses effortlessly, directly, what is safe, what is aligned, what is true, what is resonant.

This path can feel “sole” because it is guided by a nervous system that cannot lie to itself, even silently. And yet, it is a path of such intimacy — intimacy with life itself, with Being, and with the divine in all its appearances. The journey may be rare, but it is real, grounded, and profoundly alive.