People, right? I think so, in lots of practical ways, and more. Non people, yes, too. 

I think this is where we need to consider paradox. Here is my understanding: we are all the same and yet entirely unique, both at the same time.

We are connected through consciousness, but, not everyone has awareness of the existence of consciousness. People may have had connection to consciousness then lost touch with it to varying degrees (childhood to adulthood). This connection can return with life experience, especially cosmic intervention. Those with awareness may have been learning and evolving through this consciousness for varying periods of time and experience, time and experience that we can't measure or know about fully, although some people have more memory of previous lives in various incarnations and there are ways to explore it.

I believe evolving your awareness of consciousness is a collective offering because it can create gradual change in collective awareness, which is much needed to solve human created dilemmas, especially regarding resources. So, when I'm struggling with the tasks at hand - which means learning to live via a completely different and often conflicting mode of experience (ie, conflicting with human-materially based perceptions, beliefs, matrix) - I think of the younger generations who will benefit. I guess it's always been this way, and we can thank those who went before us, attempting to live and share knowledge of consciousness during particularly dense, materially focused times (often with the threat of persecution) to allow us more options. Some of those people were ourselves, going around and around! 

While acting as one, humanity has brought about civilization. Also disaster! In all of that, I don't think anyone is aware that they're doing it. I mean, do you think Martin Luther said to himself, 'By nailing these 95 theses to the church door, it's going to lead to the info revolution and the creation of AI!' But somehow or other, that is where we are. Also, you say the veil drops. But drop on what? Sure, your buddy could be lying about something and when you find out, it's like, 'the veil drops'. But at the system level, it's meaningless. There are things we do as a system that we can't predict the outcome of. Did X cause Y? Who knows? It's too complex to say. So, yes, we are connected to one another, but we will never know by how much. The best thing is to share in the goodness and contain the bad, on a rolling basis.

I’m pretty sure there’s a unifying principle that underlies everything.