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Becoming Aware

There are two ways in which we can navigate

our journey through life: thinking, and feeling.

Thinking - that is, the faculty of rational

analysis, the connecting of different ideas in

order to arrive at a general understanding -

works on the binary system. Its function is to

choose one or the other - either the yin or the

yang - of the inherent dualities so that it can

then be 'real'-ised by appropriate action. The

logical aspect of the human brain, like the

computer that mimics and refines it, achieves

this by the process of splitting them into two

components. In the computer, the opposing

concepts are represented by “plus/minus”: in

literature and the spoken word, they manifest

as “either/or”. During the last century, the

unravelling of the complex dynamics of the

human psyche exposed the dualism underlying

the human condition - the tension between