The rise of duality is represented both in psychology and in the Adam and Eve/Garden of Eden story.
We're born fused with our environment. Babies do not see themselves as separate from their mother or life. They know they are hungry, they cry and are fed, as one situation. As we begin growing and learning, we are taught duality. We split the world into good/bad, up/down, right/wrong, black/white. We also split the world into inner/outer. We believe that reality is outside of us, and we separate from it. This is our fall from Grace.
In order to learn and conceptualize, we must create theories, and in logic, we move into a false sense of time, creating that separation between ourselves and our universe, or what we look at. Meanwhile the seer, seeing and what is seen remains whole, and one, independent of how we see it. We create the idea of the past and the future, and we separate from where we are. With this separation, we create insecurity and fear. We do so in the name of learning. This can be great, when we can learn what we desire to, AND balance that with keeping the channels open to the Truth that we are in each moment. Unfortunately, we are for the most part entrenched in these ideas of separation and therefore duality. The vast majority believe in and perpetuate these false notions. It is entirely within our power to continue resolving the dichotomies, and to return to wholeness.
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