Absolute knowledge–knowledge that is whole, complete and perfect—can only come from actually becoming one with that which one wishes to know. Therefore, perfect knowledge would be knowledge that embraces, not only the circumference, but the center; not only the outer, but the inner; not only the object, but the subject. Otherwise it would continue to leave the inner nature, essence, spirit or heart of the matter it sought to know out and remain ever partial. In this regard, while I have the potential to know myself inside out, and thus perfectly, I can never hope to know you to the same degree. At least, not so long as I continue to maintain a bedrock conceptual assumption that you are fundamentally other than I am. For only if I were to become one with you, identified with you as me and, thus, come into full conscious union with you, could I ever hope to know you perfectly (inside-out) even as I am known. As such, only knowledge based on essential unity and oneness—the knowledge of identity–can or ever could become absolute, whole, complete and thus perfect. The catch, of course, is that to know anyone or anything absolutely, I would first have to die to myself— as one who presently believes himself to be separate and apart — completely.

 

(OOMM Appendix F Intro)