Non-Duality Messes with the Mind
I don’t have all the answers, but maybe together we can reach closer to the truth of it
Once we reach the point, on a long road of progressing spiritually, where we’re ready to consider non-duality the whole game changes for good.
It’s not really a game of course . . . or is it? It’s like a game in that we have a challenge that seems epic, there is mystery involved, strategy, defeat, and even success.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. All the mystics and avatars have told us that life is a journey not a destination, that progressing along spiritual lines is for the purpose of progressing, not reaching a point where we say, Yeah, I’ve reached the top of the mountain. I’m good now.
As soon as we proclaim or even think that we’ve reached some specific place then our future progression becomes constrained by the mere fact that we think we have all the answers.
But then here comes this pesky little concept called “non-duality” to throw us for a loop. It means there is no separation, no distinction, no here or there, us or them, me or you.
Right! I get it. God is in all things, animate and inanimate. Even in the air we breathe. God is essentially everything, the connecting thread. Which means we are a part of that connecting thread. Which means we are God. Not the overlord. Not the judge and jury, but the Oneness.
But you don’t like the word “God” you may say. Many don’t. The word we use doesn’t matter. It’s just a linguistic definition crafted by the minds of humans. We can use any word: Oneness, Allness, Spirit, Creator, Universe, Essence, Espiritu Santo, etc.
So, once we’ve gotten pass our linguistic hang up and arrived at a definition we feel comfortable with it’s time to give real consideration to what non-duality actually means. It’s like one of those enjoyable SciFi time travel flicks where the protagonist would never have existed if he didn’t travel back in time to make sure his mother and father meet. But if that were true, then wouldn’t the future invention of the time machine have to happen first? But how could something in the future happen before that event in the past takes place? And around and around we go.
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