How Practically Are We to Take the Idea That We Are Not Separate?

"How literally are we to take the idea that we are not separate, that you are me and I am you?" "It seems almost schizophrenic or I don't want to say psychotic, but wildly devastatingly counterintuitive if we've been born into a society based on separateness," he says. 'We can slowly but surely ease up our grip on that point of view and open up to a much bigger point of view' It's like learning a foreign language: You have to do some total immersion before you get fluent.