Duality V Polarity

[Ernie Nemeth]

Changing one's point of view does indeed change everything.

Maybe that is because we are consciousness and we perceive this world as our point of view so that, as individuals, reality becomes what we believe it is. Change what you believe and reality changes right along with it.

In our world, dominated as it is by the dogma of science, we have two realities - the one we experience and what we decide that means to us as individuals, and the unwavering 'true' reality of mechanistic forces that propel the universe ever onward... These two realities never actually ever meet, as everything that happens to us is colored by our perception of it - it is not deterministic at all, but rather involves evolving and growing, extending and developing, a personal wisdom that ever more approximates 'true' reality.

What we struggle with is the two opposing view points of the subjective, that rules our internal world, and the objective, that designates reality as it truly is. To us, as living beings, whatever that might actually mean, reality is never purely objective because death presents a disconnect that cannot be breached. Death stands as a fire wall between what reality truly is and our subjective experience of life as a short ride through a handful of years only to be snuffed out, erased, and perhaps reset.

And if, as some of us suspect, our realities continue after death, what vehicle will color our experience then? Do our spirits have energy boundaries so that we are aware of our limits and sensors with which to perceive the difference? And if we perceive will we not still be interpreting a something, larger than ourselves, that we will still collectively label 'reality'?

Wouldn't we then still, in an effort to grasp the true essence of our experience, just like in life, find it necessary to change our view point to reflect our expanding awareness?

And when would that process end? How other than when the 'true' reality and our reality are One - and the same?

[pueblo]

"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers and sisters. They are inseparable."

- Gospel of Philip

So if we understand that both good and evil are just opposite sides of the same coin then we see how easily we are tricked into following the illusion of 'good' as we perceive it contrasted against the backdrop of evil rather than following the True Light which has been purposely hidden from us and which, at times, we ourselves have wilfully refused to recognise.

"Absolute light is absolute darkness and vice versa..... Good and evil are twins, the progeny of Space and Time, under the sway of Maya (Illusion/Deceit). Separate them by cutting off one from the other, and they will both die. Neither exists per se, since each has to be generated and created out of the other, in order to come into being."

- Blavatsky H.,P., 'The Secret Doctrine' (II-95,96)

The result of this deception is that we mistake the lower good, or the less good ie. 'duality good', for the true 'good' which is not actually good at all but is something that transcends all duality and could be referred to as 'Absolute Truth'.

There are fragments of this truth/light scattered throughout texts both ancient and modern and in ideas and even in material creation (as above so below). These 'occulted' nuggets of knowledge are not the truth itself but rather they serve as a compass to orientate us in the correct direction to follow to find the truth; that compass reading is always pointing the seeker inwardly.

"All therefore Tat that is found on earth are not real, but only imitations of the truth and yet not all of them, but only a few...The rest is lies and delusion, Tat, and conjectures, constructed like the pictures of imagination."

- Hermes Trismegistus. Hermetic Texts, Vol. II

Only when we let go of the illusion will the illusion let go of us.

[greybeard]

Its all the play of consciousness.
Potential realizing.
Its cyclic -- the darkest before the dawn.
The Yugas -- the Golden age possibly comes next -- but not tomorrow.
We come we go.
Death an open door.
Chris