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Originally Posted by Anagogy  Ariel, from your perspective, why does duality arise?
I really like asking people this question because it usually yields interesting and thought provoking question/answers. |
Duality arises with the creation of a sense of self, of "me."
My thoughts, my actions, my creations, my reality, my consciousness, my awareness, etc.
Thoughts, actions, creations, reality, consciousness, and awareness can be experienced dualisticaly or non-dualisticaly. What matters is if there is a buying into the thoughts of if there is "someone" here to experience all of it. Even a someone who is "one with all that is" is still another someone with a sense of identity of this as opposed to that. It's a "unified me" as opposed to a "separate me." No, it's about dropping the me altogether, not simply changing its identity to a more spiritual one.
It is only when there is an energetic contraction around something which arises and an identification with that contraction as the "me" that the world of duality arises yet again. When you separate yourself from All That Is, the world of duality is born.
I've written about this separation process in more detail here, looking very closely into the creation of the self.
Watching a Separate Self Be Created | You Are Truly Loved
It is by undoing the illusion of self, not by silencing the mind, that the world of duality vanishes.