Mastering Duality*

Isn’t duality puzzling?

Here we are, living in a world of opposites,

individuality, differences and separation.

Not just opposites like up and down or right and left.

But also—and especially—opposites that come

with an added ingredient of morality.

With this more challenging addition,

we start to view some of these opposites as good or positive,

and others as bad or negative—or even downright frightening.

You and I are surrounded with these morality-viewed opposites daily.

Usually, we wind up choosing one side or the other.

Indeed, each side of any moral equation seems

be begging for our attention, our loyalty.

As if imploring us to “Choose me!”

In this context, let’s take a good look at ourselves.

For most of us who claim a spiritual nature,

morally-tinged duality is especially challenging.

In the bigger and grander light field, whence we come

(and which our mighty spirit still calls home),

there’s no such thing as duality.

Yes, in our prized spiritual and light-filled world,

we see everything only through the eyes of oneness.

There—and in our light-filled soul as well—

Individuality and separation are actually foreign concepts.

They’re simply not there. Nor is the concept of morality.

Consequently, you and I—now clothed in our human skin—

tend to feel a bit less comfortable

with this morality-oriented duality concept than many others.

How do you relate to duality and its moral undertones?

Most people, I sense, deal with them by making choices—

choosing what they perceive as the “good” (positive, right, fair, etc.)

and rejecting its opposite (the “bad,” negative, unfair, etc.).

Such choosing leaves them feeling that they’re doing the ‘right’ thing,

being loyal to the ‘right’ truth and having the ‘right’ beliefs.

It’s quite satisfying in the short run, one could argue …

But, in my view, often only in the short run.

In the long run, that approach has a significant downside:

Specifically, it doesn’t free us from the lure and grip

of this convincing concept called duality.

With each choice we make, we’re reinforcing our habit

of choosing one side over the other.

Also, we strengthen the vicious cycle of perceiving opposites

as morally right or wrong, good or bad, safe or dangerous.

As a result, we re-invite ourselves to push

half of life’s experiences away from our experience,

to feel in opposition to half of the human story,

to look for relationships only with those

who believe in the side that we’re more comfortable with.

In short, we lock ourselves in a persistent, ongoing pattern

of making moral value judgments about presumed opposites.

Do you really want to stay locked in this cycle of me vs. them,

right vs. wrong, truth vs. untruth?

Most people do, of course, simply because, as they might express it,

“That’s just the nature of life here on earth”

or “Hey, that’s just being human!”

After all, many religions tell us that choosing good over evil

is the sure-fire path to heaven

and that choosing evil is ... well, we all know how that ends!

Likewise, many philosophers and psychologists tell us

that making morally healthy choices

will surely lead us to increased happiness,

inner peace and personal fulfillment.

Are they right ... or wrong?

(Get the duality-filled irony of the question?).

I’m about to give you a radical invitation.

First, though, I offer you an important interpretation:

This cycle of perceiving earthly life through a lens of duality

is not at all a requirement for successful human living.

It’s merely an option—albeit a pervasive and mentally convincing one.

For context, compare my interpretation to the seeming ‘reality’

of time and space—

two phenomena that we all have historically claimed as real.

First, Albert Einstein, and now most quantum physicists, assure us

that space and time are mere illusions, phantasms—

convincing perceptions, yes,

but experienced as real only because we believe that they exist.

Could the same be true of our morality-fueled approaches to duality?

I deeply believe so.

Are you ready for my invitation? Good. Here it is.

How about letting your soul take over your approach to duality?

Why? you ask. Precisely because your powerfully present soul

is your personalized light—the bigger light field alive within you.

It’s your spiritual truth center.

It knows and sees the bigger truth:

that of the innate oneness that unifies everything and everyone.

Where your trained mind might see differences and separation,

your soul sees interconnectedness and oneness.

While your mind might call you to choose good over bad,

your soul calls you to not even relate to the concept of good and bad.

Rather, your soul calls you to embrace both sides of any spectrum—

Its ups and downs, its perceived positives and negatives.

Is that invitation radical? Maybe.

Is your soul radical? Hmm, come to think of it, absolutely!

It’s especially compelling if you’ve been feeling strongly committed

to the ‘rightness’ of your beliefs or the ‘wrongness’ of others’ beliefs.

Let’s dive into your soul’s light-filled world.

Let’s ask your truth-centered soul for its wise guidance

about how it invites us to relate to earth’s moral duality.

Here’s my sense of what your all-knowing, wisdom-filled soul

might suggest to you:

1. Accept that you’ve come to this diverse planet

in order to experience everything. Yes, everything—

including both sides of any circumstance, event or person.

2. In turn, discontinue judging, labeling, pushing away

or criticizing whatever discomforts, irritates or disturbs you.

3. Then, embrace whatever you don’t like,

whatever you don’t believe in or what you don’t agree with.

Yes, become friends with whatever or whomever

you’ve been interpreting as negative or wrong.

4. Allow these seeming ‘wrong’ beliefs, persons or events

into your heart. That’s right, into your loving heart.

In fact, hold them regularly in your heart,

until you start consciously experiencing your heart’s love of them.

5. Invite your mind to experience them not as right or wrong,

but simply as a point of view, as another style of expression.

6. Now, having actively embraced the above approaches,

dedicate yourself to a life-changing project:

turning your concept and experience of duality

into one of oneness and unity!

“What?” you might be asking yourself.

“You’ve really lost your sense of reality now, Bill,”

you might be muttering under your breath.

Well, you’re undoubtedly right about that last statement,

but, nonetheless, bear with me here.

Let’s take a good look at the magical “how to”

of seeing two opposites as united,

of viewing perceived differences as unified

and of seeing moral duality through the eyes of unity.

It’s quite easy, actually. It just takes a little practice.

Okay, maybe it takes a lot of practice!

(Let’s not be too picky about the timing or effort!).

Here’s a suggested, fairly simple “How to” for you to try out,

should you feel so inclined

(and, if so, please modify it to suit your personal style).

The key of the ‘how-to’ is this: Give equal attention to both sides

of what or whom you're perceiving.

For reference, let’s recall that physicists have long preached

that “For every phenomenon, there’s an equal and opposite one.”

For example, for every particle, there’s an anti-particle;

for every space, there’s a non-space (or anti-space), etc.

Likewise, for every negative judgment, there’s a positive one.

Now, let’s apply this principle to you and your relationship to duality.

Invite yourself to view both sides of any set of opposites equally.

For example, if you’re judging someone as wrong,

unfair or having any other negative quality,

invite yourself to two views of the person simultaneously:

one of them positive and the other as negative.

Now, give each of these focuses equal attention.

For example, try mentally looking at the person positively

for 30 seconds, then negatively for 30 seconds.

Keep doing this for awhile, going back and forth.

Studies have shown that, after a while,

something amazing happens:

Each of these assumed opposites loses its earlier strength,

and both of them begin to merge together in your awareness.

Shortly, they completely merge into a unified mental state.

Yes, you’ve just witnessed a seeming duality dissolve,

lose its dualistic nature and become unified.

And, yes, your mind has the capacity to hold two opposites

not just as separate and different, but also as unified.

Congratulations!

Let’s recall that this practice is the product

of your soul’s wisdom.

It’s your soul’s way of inviting you back

into the larger truth of creation—the truth that

you have the capacity and—Could it be?—the calling

to live your human life in a state of unity and oneness.

You are not designed or called to take on the many judgments

that surround us in the human sphere.

Rather, you can be here on earth as a master

of this morally / dualistically oriented human consciousness

by letting your all-knowing soul take charge of your human life.

Welcome to yet another version

of your very own human mastery!

Quantum Source ... Quantum World ... Quantum Void ... Quantum You!