Have you ever been told that we live in a world of Duality?

Positive and Negative (Oh, we’ve been talking about this one a lot), Up and Down, Good and Evil, Tall and Short, Black and White, Sweet and Sour, Hot and Cold, Clever and Dumb, Sharp and Blunt, Dark and Light, Me and You (that’s a good one).

Learning is a strange process. We start off knowing everything, then we forget everything, then we learn something, then we find out we were missing something, then we add the missing bit, then we realise that the thing isn’t really true, then we redefine what we know about it, then we realize that we don’t really know anything about it.

So, you learnt that we live in a world of Duality and that You and Me are different and separate from each other. You are smart and I am dumb, You are female and I am male, You are short and I am tall, You are hard working and I am lazy, You dress well and I look a disgrace, You are loyal and I am a traitor. Don’t worry, I’m not believing all this about “me” J

Because you and I are separate and different, we can justify the things that we do to each other. After all, we have to look after our selves first, then our families, then our friends and may be our countrymen, but the “other” folks are way too far away and mixed-up in their beliefs for us to waste energy on them. It is the survival of the “fittest”, isn’t it?

We have been told that there is a shortage of everything that we all need and we better get “ours” first, right? As we kill the last fish in the sea, we better make sure it’s ours. Then the last tiger, the last whale, the last rhino, the last bear and the last whatever. They all go to the highest bidder.

Are we getting away from the topic of duality? Is the opposite of True, False? This must be the most obvious and clear-cut opposite, don’t you think?

You know that “Nothing is True”, isn’t that true?

I prefer the option that says “Everything is true”. If anyone believes “it”, then “it” is true. It’s only a little “truth” though, not ultimate Truth. Ultimate Truth has to explain ALL the little truths. Is that possible? Well, if it is Ultimate Truth, it will be.

There must be things that everyone agrees are true, surely? How about the height of something, like the Eiffel Tower - 324 metres (1063 ft). Try it, type it into Google and see what you get. Is it to the roof or the spire? Is it from the ground or sea level? What level of accuracy? What units? What time of year or day and how hot was it?

What about Good and Evil, there must be a clear line here? Everyone thinks it’s bad to kill another person, right? Well, obviously not. Millions of people are killed every year. Are they always killed by an Evil person? What about Canadian and US troops? Are they Evil? What about killing for a “good” reason, or by “accident”?

I know we are looking at the most difficult end of the subject. Let’s take a look at something easier, Tall and Short. A 4ft person is “obviously” short and a 6ft person is tall. We can measure these against an “average” person. But in which culture or population. A 6ft basketball player would be considered tiny. So, we can make “relative” statements that we would all agree on – a 4ft person is shorter than a 6ft person, but what use is that, it’s obvious, but pointless. It’s like saying 4 is less than 6.

We know all this, John, where are you going with it?

Let’s make the statements that we know to be “true” –

Duality is an Illusion. It is created by our Perspective and Point of View.

On the continuum of position, things on the left and things on the right, need a reference point. Change the reference point and left becomes right or vice-versa.

On the continuum of temperature, things that are cold and things that are hot, need a reference point. Change the reference and hot things appear cold.

On the continuum of behaviour, what appears to be good to one person will appear bad to another. Can you put yourself in the other persons position and change your perception?

Any measurement is really an assessment, based on a perspective and some rules. This is a judgement. When we say this is good or bad, we are making a judgement based on “our” current understanding. When we learn more about the topic, we open our minds to a wider perspective, and our view may change.

We got here from my talk about positive and negative energy and considering whether or not we need to have both in equal quantities and how this relates to Yin-Yang (Female-Male) energy and our two centres. This all seems to be referring to duality. Is this True? May be energy is the only True example of duality?

Do you remember the magnet story and our example circles with plus and minus signs. If we cut the magnet in half, we get two new magnets, fully formed, with their own North and South ends. If we keep cutting, we eventually get to the single atom. The atom has a positive (proton) and negative (electron) charge. The positive is at the centre and attracts the electron to hold it in orbit. Using an external energy source (such as a battery charger) we can free the electron from its orbit and send it off to the negatively charged terminal of our battery (similar in concept to a magnet).

When the external force is removed, the natural tendency is for the electrons to rush back to fill in the “holes”. This is just the way it is, tending back to equilibrium. To make the battery design work for us, we have to create a big resistance between the positive and negative terminals. Then, when we put the battery in an appliance (a toy) and switch it on, the electrons flow back to the positive terminal, but through the circuit in the toy. If the toy has multiple electron pathways through its circuit, the electrons will travel each path based on each paths resistance. Less resistance equals faster flow, quicker return to equalisation and to a “dead” battery. A dead battery is in a stable-state, apart from all the pollutants that man used to make it.

Very interesting John, but what’s the point?

We can only stay “out of balance” if we create internal resistance and add external energy. This takes effort, as does everything that we are not “supposed” to do. There are plenty of things that we “can” do, that we “shouldn’t” do, that cause us stress and put us out of balance. Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. And, just because we always did it, doesn’t mean we should continue to do it.

This is true for us as individuals and as groups. We are out of balance big-time and “doing” things to try to fix it won’t work. The Government can’t fix the problems they caused, not only because they can’t think of a way, but because they always want to “take-action” and fight the problem, adding more external energy.

Both you and I and the government need to STOP trying to fix things. That doesn’t mean just carry on doing the same things as before. That’s what caused the problems we have. We need to STOP doing all the crazy things we do. I haven’t got enough space here to list all the things that are crazy, but here are a few examples.

Stop using “everlasting” materials to make temporary packaging.

Stop manufacturing things we don’t need.

Stop subsidising the production and transportation of goods around the planet.

Stop clear-cutting forests.

Stop polluting our rivers and seas.

Stop dredging the seas of everything edible.

Stop feeding us with poisons and man-made chemicals.

Stop the obsession with growth and profits.

Stop the “war-on …” mentality.

If “we” have a task, it is to make our governments more accountable and to stop them killing us (slowly). The profits that “we” take out of the system come from the planet and life itself. We are part of that Life and we are suffering because of our obsession with converting Life in to Paper Money. We can not turn paper back into life.I know, we can use money to plant trees, create electric cars, make solar panels - the problems is, we will only do these things if there is a Profit in it, and where does the profit come from?

John