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The analogy of living in one's own space station, if it's the experience of being transformed, could convey a suggestion of being isolated, or cut off. I prefer to suggest a different context for being alone. Try this on for size: when I articulate the experience as being "alone", the emphasis in my pronunciation imbues it with the possibility of being "all ... one". I can say transformation is being "all ... one".
Listen: clearly, by any stretch of the imagination, it would be a truly awesome accomplishment if you were living in your own space station. In fact if you were living in space at all ie if you were being transformed, and you were not living in your own space station, you'd be in big trouble. And if you are living in space, look around you. You may just start noticing there are many, many other people just as accomplished as you, living close by in their own space stations near you.
Now, at the risk of being on the receiving end of some good natured (and of some not so good natured) ribbing for any "space cadet" and "rocket man" associations which the analogy of global transformation as each of us living in our own space station, is sure to elicit, I do like it. It teases out a model for a way of being which is really apropos these Conversations For Transformation. We are, both as the whole human species and also as the entire human family, totally interdependent on each other, yes? There are many ways to view the possibility of this interdependence. One way you could view the possibility of this interdependence, is as if it were an interdependence of individuals who aren't independent ie as an interdependence of individuals who don't (yet) experience themselves as being whole and complete.
