by Ben Gilberti, H.W.,M.
 
Chapter 14 ~  The Hallucinations of Duality
 
Failure, it would seem, would be to have spent most of one's life running away from the pains, and running towards the pleasures, that constitute the fabric of the universe of duality --- in other words, to live a life enmeshed in the fabric of duality, to have poured your time and energy into all manner of devices to protect you from pain and increase your pleasure.
 
The duality is not between God and what is not God. Because what is not God, isn't. The duality is between good and evil, pleasure and pain. To evaluate anything as good or evil is to do that which creates the illusion of Something other than God. But that something is the good/evil DUALITY itself, not just one side of it. That which is appearing as a universe that it less than God, is not just the "evil" in the world, but also the "opposites" to that evil, that which we call "good." That which is appearing as a universe that is less than God, appears that way only because we have been evaluating everything as good or evil. It's the belief in duality, the belief that the universe is good and evil, and we have to figure out what part is good and get as much of it as possible, and we have figure out which part is bad and avoid it as much as possible.
 
It is an insult to God to presume that a universe He created is split into good and evil. Then we become as gods, because God Himself didn't get it all right, and WE are the ones now who are going to do a better job than God did by destroying, or at least ostracizing, the half of His creation that is evil, and arranging to acquire as much of His creation that is good.
 
It isn't that the good things are divine and the evil things illusory appearances. God is not all that we have labeled "good" excluding all that we have labeled "bad." We're not in the business of nothingizing all the "bad" stuff so that we're left only with the "good" -- and to the extent we are we find nothingization a never-ending chore. We're in the business of nothingizing the entire good-bad illusion so that we're left only with God.
 
And we cannot nothingize the bad and the good separately as though they were, as they appear to be, two separate things. Good and Evil ARE THE SAME THING -- the hallucination of duality. The belief that there IS good and evil is what must be nothingized, not the good things or the bad things that arise from that belief. OUR LABELING everything good or evil is the source of the illusion, the illusion of a world half of which we desire and the other half of which we resist with aversion. And so, living a life pursing desires and avoiding aversions is, it would seem, to be a failure.
 
And success, it would seem, would be to be living the life of Grace, where God is your supply, not money; where love is your motivation, not greed or hunger for power; where inspiration and intuition is your guidance, not crafty scheming; where peace is your feeling, not turbulent emotional reactivity to all your duality evaluations; and where God is your being, not a limited and vulnerable self who has to scurry to get good and avoid bad. Such would seem to be spiritual success, for indeed it would indicate having avoided spiritual failure. Notice the duality again! We now have just gone ahead and applied our belief in duality to the spiritual world! We are now reaching for holiness and avoiding wickedness!
 
Spiritual wickedness is man's idea of the attempt to use intellectual concepts about spiritual principles in order to achieve greater success in the duality game. Spiritual holiness is man's idea of what's involved in the immersion of oneself in the spiritual principle that only God is. But both wickedness and holiness must also be seen to be two sides of the same coin -- another instance of the belief in duality. Whereas good and evil were general terms, holiness and wickedness represent the application of our belief in duality to the spiritual world. We presume the spiritual world is dual just like anything else, and so we get busy labeling this wicked and that holy, and then of course we have to become very busy avoiding the wicked and pursuing the holy. Our belief in duality makes us slaves of duality. Our belief in duality becomes a relentless taskmaster, whipping us continually to make a greater effort to pursue good, and avoid evil. And when we first enter the spiritual path we inadvertently enslave ourselves to our dualistic version of spirit. We work hard at self examination and spiritual study and countless meditations and seminars and tapes and books and writings and conversations --- all of it in an effort to ATTAIN more God and ELIMINATE more hypnotism, not realizing that in doing so we are acting out our having hypnotized ourselves into enslavement to our dualistic version of spirit. We would always be straining to attain more of a realization of God and we would always be having to become ever more and more vigilant, alert and skilled at more and more elegant techniques for nothingizing the unending parade of appearances that would inevitably issue from our premise that spirit is dual.
 
And so it is that we often conceive of the path to enlightenment as something requiring epic proportions of heroic effort, concentration and discipline. None of it has the slightest thing to do with the nature of spirit. All of it is itself the illusory appearance of our having hypnotized ourselves into believing that the world of spirit is also dual, and so we have to work just as hard to make sure we don't end up on the wrong side of spiritual duality, just as much as we had to work hard to make sure we didn't end up on the wrong side of physical duality when we used to think that the world was material.
 
The solution, of course, is to nothingize the entire notion of spiritual duality by realizing that being God is not a project to be achieved with heroic execution of a carefully designed strategic plan, and that there are no perilous consequences to imagining that God is not all there is, both for one absolutely simple reason, simply because God is all there is. There is not God AND the glorious execution of the path to attainment of God. There is not God AND that zenith of vigilant and disciplined attention that avoids the consequences of imagining that God is not all there is by rigorously avoiding any thought of such a thing. All of that is just hypnotism, and hypnotism is nothing.
 
All there is is just God. God is all. Hypnotism is nothing. That's all you need to know. Nothing else. God is all. Hypnotism is nothing. As you contemplate that you begin to realize it. As you begin to realize it, you begin to relax all the anxiety, worry, confusion, fear, resistance, urgency, lust, need, guilt and all the other turbulence stirred up by the belief in duality. You begin to rest in God. You begin to Be in Peace. And that's when you begin to "feel what it feels like" to be in a universe consisting only of God. Moses leads away from the slavedriver, Pharoe, the belief in duality. Moses leads you away from the turbulence of duality. But it then is in the peace that remains that you enter the promised land. Without Moses. Why without Moses? Because Moses disappears too. Moses was part of the hypnosis too. There isn't God AND a spiritualized intellect that leads you out of the dream of duality. There is just God. Nothing else. Just God. One.
 
Duality is not the opposite of oneness. Believing that duality is the opposite of oneness is just the belief in duality all over again. But here is where the buck stops. Duality is not the opposite of Oneness because duality isn't. Only Oneness is. Duality isn't evil and Oneness isn't good. Duality isn't wicked and Oneness holy. Oneness simply IS. And duality simply ISN'T.
 

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