The Duel With Duality

by Dan Thomas -

White hats and black hats, heroes and villains . . . the forces of good against evil. Throughout our history we have been bombarded with the concept and existence of moral duality.

The endless ebb and flow of engineered oppositions and social irrigation draw from dramatic examples a conceptualization of these polar frequencies.

It spreads them through the channels of culture and control mechanisms to then be saturated in our hearts and wills and understandings. 

A grid is made, displaying a field of managed parameters, that remains self-sustaining by our unknowingly orchestrated actions.

In gross contradiction to the very infinite nature of our souls, we become compartmentalized away by definitions that reveal only a partial truth to us while remaining convenient for the engineers. 

With some awareness achieved of this cosmic mechanism, we are inevitably brought to question and seek a fuller truth . . . a truth built off of what foundations may be sound yet able to reach higher than, and hopefully beyond, the warring patterns of the past.

Here are the questions I ask: 

• what truly is good and evil? 
• What are we to learn from duality? 
• Where do we go in our next step of spiritual evolution?

Good and evil are often defined for us from many sources. There is religion, media, family . . . science which tells us it is irrelevant, history which tells us it’s relative . . . practicality, necessity, laws and governments.

With so many and so complicated a list of factors it’s no wonder that the issue of morality can be a fine-line subject. 

I feel that such a task can only be covered with generalities in an article of this size, and as well given the assurance to others that what is said is purely a matter of opinion.

My attempt here is to be objective in the analysis of my own perspective, and by publishing it present it for consideration.

In my personal experience and observations, the most common societal subconscious program that we face might use some of the following descriptivism for defining good and evil. 

Good

Good, despite its long and necessary sufferings, is always passive and without anger. It has no strength but to endure and no honor but in self-sacrifice.

It is limited by rules which forbids the crossing of a boundary that would transform us into evil. Good does not judge, does not fear . . . loves all, but really isn’t much fun.

Evil

Evil, on the other hand, is aggressive and takes what it wants. 

It is clever, mysterious and a powerful force that allows the few to dominate the many. It is often fearful, but yet is also prosperous and seductive.

Evil is fun because it allows you the exercise any primal ambition without guilt, and therefore provides for more freedom than good. The choice we make between the two is simply a matter of style and image. 

It’s just a matter of preference between the balance of wants and the unwanted. If you choose good, things will be difficult now, but worth it in the end.

If you choose evil you can have what you want now, but it might cause hardship in the end. What color do you like more- black or white -it’s as simple as that. Right?

There is surely far more that could be added to the descriptions in the above paragraph, but I feel it sums up this popular subconscious perspective fairly well.

Some of these descriptions I would agree with, much of it I wouldn’t, but what I see is a perpetual game of circles, suffering, and conflict that ultimately only serves the engineers of this epoch by stifling any chance of true progression beyond this idea of “necessary” duality. 

To hold rigidly and forever to this narrow perspective will ensure nothing more than a continual repeat of the hard lessons of history.

What are these lessons? 

• Is it that nice guys finish last? 
• Is it that we “little people” are only here to serve as pawns to the kings and queens that mold our societies? 
• Is it that this is simply the way things are and so we had better get used to it? 

I’m being cynical with these questions and yet many of our personal experiences will sadly suggest that there’s some truth to them. Unsatisfied with these depressing prospects, let us try to look a bit deeper into the subject.

In my opinion, one of the primary lessons we are to learn from duality is the responsible wielding of that powerful teaching aid known as freewill.

The key word in that statement is “responsible”.

What does responsible mean? 

It means that we need to be accountable for the effects and outcomes of our choices, thoughts, and actions. We, as human beings, are all connected by the invisible tether of our mass reality.

We are multidimensional, holographic, and inter-connected in the way that one effects the whole. 

Although for most of us these effects may hardly seem perceivable, they are actually far more profound when we realize the infinite nature of our soul’s existence.

With empathy, with respect, with an unyielding will . . . with love, with patience and understanding and righteous anger for injustice . . . with hope and faith in the reality of a better future we can as individuals help create that life that all should be blessed with.

Duality teaches us that progress requires effort. Duality teaches us the vital importance of self-sovereignty . . . the value of freedom in its most positive sense, and it inspires us to reach beyond it to the realm of light without shadows.

I don’t have all the answers . . . god knows I wish I did. I, like everyone else, am still trying to piece together this huge and confusing puzzle called truth.

In all likelihood it’s something that nobody in mortal form will ever fully understand, but that shouldn’t dissuade us from continuing to try. It’s one hell of a journey we’re on, and one full of surprises. 

My hope is that in time with the joining of wisdom we each gain from our experiences, that perhaps we can achieve a collective reality that can finally be prosperous to all.

I dream of a life where hard lessons are no longer needed and where unity can bind us through a common good, regardless of our creative differences.

Perhaps it is a lofty ideal, but if we never try we will never succeed. In the deepest sincerity of my heart I ask you all to share this dream with me, and have the courage to act to create it.

About Author: Dan Thomas is the author of Inner-Tech, a metaphysical, spiritual science fiction novel that takes the reader on an incredible adventure through space and time in a quest of questions and answers upon awakening to a desperate message given by a mysteriously ancient and alien library. Packed with action, symbolism, and an inspiring determination, the reader is engaged in a fascinating look at society, morality, and the mechanics of the cosmos. Download a free sample of this new and engaging novel here.

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Inner Tech

Spiritual Evolution in the Technological World

by Dan Thomas -

The creative nature of the Human species is an astounding thing. 

I find it mind-boggling to try and think of everything that we have created. From cooking to concepts, from chemistry to communication, our daily lives are saturated with the vast variety of our creative expressions. 

Many of our creations are surly meritorious but should some of these pieces to the grand puzzle of reality be examined with more scrutiny? 

“The horrifying deterioration of the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives; a disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality.” --Albert Einstein

How has this 24/7 existence of prolific material dominance affected us in terms not of technological evolution, but rather spiritual evolution, and what can we personally do about it?

I think the best way to begin answering these questions is to seek some understanding of the subject. There needs to be a deeper examination of the issue of technology in relation to our spiritual progression and movement forward on what conclusions we may then reach.

In the philosophical sense, what actually is all of this technology?

Mechanization and the technical mentality is a dominant force in our modern experience. It sometimes quite subtly acts to control every aspect that it can by having us place in it our trust, our labors, our enjoyment, and even our well-beings. It seems to have become integral, even essential to the very function of our lifetimes.

Our very gauges of what is “primitive” or what is “advanced” is often based not on any spiritual or moral quality but rather on external complexities and an item’s ability to act in our stead.

Televisions tell us what is “truth” so why use our own minds . . . chemicals tell our bodies what is “good” so why should we doubt our sense of taste . . . and the “professionals” tell us not to bother because they’ve already done your thinking for you. 

The interferences to our emotional, mental and physical well-beings is staggering. Synthesized sustenance is fed to our minds and bodies and souls, and invisible walls made of everything from electromagnetics to economics attempt to block us at every turn. Over-reliance on technology has, in many negative ways, tamed us. 

Just as trammed animals lose some of their inherent abilities of self-sufficiency due to their providing and controlled environment, we too risk losing those traits inherent to us.

Chief among these traits, I believe, are not only the ethics that Einstein mentioned but also our psyches, our responsibilities, and our self-sovereignty over the choices we make . . . our free and individual wills.

Another way to examine what we create as technology is to see it as a reflection of who we are. 

Perhaps a classic example of this reflection is in computers to our minds . . . artificial intelligence and our own genuine intelligence. Starting with the introduction of computers our collective intelligence has rapidly come to rely more and more on the artificial, pushing the genuine farther and farther from use. 

Our image of who we are is often one that was provided, not just from what other people have told us, but what artificial intelligence has told us. This intelligence is artificial, in the reflected sense, because it is external and void of any personal intuition, spirit, or compassion . . . it is the “scientific and technical mentality”. 

That’s not to say that nobody but yourself has any answers, simply that sometimes the answers we are given should be questioned.

There is more to the function of life than just simply logic. We can not allow ourselves to become like the computers we make (like far too many people already have) so stop allowing yourself to be “programmed” like one. 

We are beings with emotion, soul and logic. 

Think about it. Instead of mastering computers, what might be if instead our efforts were for, say, mastering our compassion or wills or fears or our responsibility in what we create?

The good news here is that it is not too late to develop our “inner technologies”, just more difficult the further we become engulfed in the matrix of false and preconceived reality.

The start of this development has to do with cleansing ourselves of the fears and other emotions that stem from them, that keep us from facing the knowns and more so the unknowns of our true potential as spiritual beings. 

The locks we metaphorically make with the intentions of our security, convenience, and comforts can easily become the locks against our true progression if the key of understanding is as lost as the key to our cars.

The vehicles of our experience can no sooner run without the keys than the vehicles in our driveways. The key . . . the understanding . . . is seeing beyond the blocks which prevent us from truly looking inward. 

Free yourself from distractions, as much as practical and start exercising your mind. 

Meditate. 

Use visualizations and affirmations or whatever other method feels right for you to connect to that higher source that is free of ego and automated reactions.

Practice compassion, monitor your thoughts . . . there are many things you can do to cleanse your fears if you simply choose to have the determination to do so.

Life is far more than a machine, be it metal and gears or flesh and blood or the mechanisms of mind. Life and our spirits are an ever-shifting, flowing, and malleable experience that by very nature “breaks the rules” of any method or system that attempts to confine it. 

Our evolution calls us to turn off the television, turn on the ignition . . . start the motors running on who we really are and what we can make within ourselves. 

Have the will and honesty and bravery to drive the roads of possibility, the internal unknowns and the qualities of our “inner techs”.

Our potential as human beings is not so much what is outside but rather what is inside, same as a person’s reflection in a mirror is not the person himself.

Reach for your true potential and rest assured, we really will go places far more interesting and valuable than any technological world could take us!

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