Layers upon layers

It seems to me that the best way to describe life is to compare it to a very large onion. The journey is all about the peeling of layers. If you do it incorrectly or leave it till the onion gets old, you'll end up in tears. Growth occurs at it's centre. It adds flavour to all things. It's readily accessible and easy to use. Lets talk about these layers now. The outside layers are basic protectors of the juicy useable bits of life. So the first thing we have to do is peel away these layers before we can really start living. Peeling away our emotional attachment, our value of the material world, and finally our self perception of who we relate ourselves to be ...our ego. You see if you looked at an onion in the first instance, you would not see it to be eatable at all, and would discard it as if it were a pumpkin seed. Until you peel away at the bits that have no value, you will not know what you actually have. I am sure there are a pile of other layers, and maybe when it is not so late I will come back and edit these to add more depth. The fact is that we need to understand that this peeling process must first occur before we can really get down to business. Most of us when the peeling first starts, resists the loss of anything, even though it is such an unneccessary part of the onion. Our resistance means time and time again we will revisit the same scenario from a slightly different perspective until such time as our comprehension expands enough that we "get it". Then we let go of that layer, and start holding on to the next one. I began to think about this because it seems to me that my oneness theory of God and I being one, has to have levels in it. The inverted spikey ball theory is good, and I do believe that the ball is growing continuously, and I am a spike in that ball, but it seems to me that there has to be some state of levels that exist such that the taller the spike, the more levels it penetrates. And that in the beginning, we start off at a certain level ever drawn to head back towards the ball, but that what we invariable do first is become more individualistic first, and therefore grow away from our true self. The taller we grow the more separate we feel, and the more the seems to be a world full of separate things. I think there are different laws that exist for the different planes that we grow through. I feel that Karma and cause and effect, and systems of creation and laws apply to us at different levels to have the equalizing effect of getting us to turn more inward, and head back towards our true nature and self, and away from individualism. I have been thinking alot about karma lately. I feel I can have a huge impact on others by doing good things for them, however, i can also see that this only works at this (x) level, and that there will come a point where by I will leave that level, and karma will no longer affect me, or be affected by me.