There is a practice in the Evolutionary Collective that is called a Mutual Awakening Practice (MAP). This is done weekly for about 8 weeks with a partner, randomly assigned, after which partners are changed. I typically do one or two additional practices each week with partners that I’ve had before or friends that I’ve introduced to it. It is a thirty minute exercise with each person answering the question “What is present?” followed by “What are we experiencing?”
In this practice my words often seem to arise of their own accord, without any intervening mental assessing occurring. The experience is very immediate. These resonances are often very deep and intimate. The energy of one space had “me” say “I can’t imagine anything more intimate than this”. It was exquisite.
It feels to me that the space we are transiting through/creating has something to say and we have chosen, by our commitment to each other and the practice, to allow it to have its say. As a listener, I feel the space from which the other’s words arise and deliberately allow my fluid self to become entwined in the energetic flow that is being offered. The words act as an invitation to find where our common path is leading us. We follow each other’s lead, in this back-and-forth, in a kind of playful dance. The dance that we “are” seems to delight in the space that is being generated and also in the pleasure of having a partner with which to enjoy it.
In the energetic world that I live in, it is clear to me that my body – gross, subtle, causal or perhaps all three – familiarizes itself with a particular tuning and, thereafter, some aspect of this “I” knows inherently how to return to the resonance which was experienced with this person in the last practice. Each MAP starts with a very short meditation, typically 3 minutes or so. Within that short period of silence, I feel myself being energetically drawn in the direction of the other person towards, it seems, at least the general depth of where I last “felt” them. What I notice in my typical practice is that after the meditation there is a period, varying from a minute to a few minutes, in which I become fully re-tuned.
In a recent practice, however, I was aware that I was immediately re-tuned when the meditation began. There was no distance to travel. We were already together in a serene and quiet harmony. The practice was with someone who I truly love and yet I noticed that the experience of love was not present, as it usually is when we start. What the space had to say was that love occurs in an experience between distinct selves but once a certain depth is reached, and the proximity feels like we are entwined as one, there is not enough separation present for the experience of love to exist. There is no “two”, no distance for the energy of love to arise between. Perhaps love is displaced, squeezed out in process of merging but in this case the merging occurred too rapidly to be experienced. There was simply an immdediate presence, an I/We.
What then came to mind was “Who Are WE?” Back in my ashram days, the primary question to hold in mind was “Who am I?” The Hindu’s ultimate answer is, I was told, “I AM”, as in the experience of ultimate Oneness, nothing exists except consciousness itself. But I saw that a blended WE offers an entirely new perspective along the pathway to that “I AM”. It is a journey with the pleasure of a shared path, of “the Many” delighting in finding each other and dancing our way back as a merging – and emerging – “WE” towards that “I AM” in blissful play. 
Only by being separate is merging possible. We went out to explore and are now returning and sharing our discoveries. In each merging, each gathering-in, we enjoy it and then can ask anew “Who Are WE?” In the reuniting, WE can enjoy the ecstasy of the ever-growing I/WE dance.
We may want to drag this out as long as WE can in order to savor every bit of the dance.