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To understand the effects of dualistic vs. non-dualistic consciousness in our lives, let’s compare consciousness to a mirror. When broken and fragmented, the mirror reflects reality in divided, sharp, injurious pieces. However, if they were “re-integrated” or “made whole”, meaning, “healed”, then every shard would be restored to smooth and harmless surface once again. It is the same with dualistic, injurious shards of awareness vs. non-dualistic oneness consciousness: the person with a divided, i.e., dualistic consciousness, sees or perceives a stressful, tormented world that is comprised of conflicting slivers of existence called “entities”, which are at odds with each other, while competing for existence. This amounts to a tormenting inner mental and emotional life defined by internal, as well as external, rifts and conflicts that injure mentally and, if unresolved, in time they may manifest as physical and social diseases.
By contrast, consider the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas, 61,
(http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/gospelthomas61.html) whom many Biblical scholars believe was referring to a lost form of ancient medicine... yet, they do not know what this form of medicine was:
“It is I who come from that which is integrated [undivided]. I was given some of the things of my father. Therefore I say that such a person, once integrated, will become full of light; but such a person, once divided will become full of darkness.”
These words of Christ, from a distant culture, with little or no connection to China where, Lao Tzu lived more than 500 years prior to Jesus, clarify:
1. “Divided” consciousness, a.k.a. dualistic consciousness, is NOT JUST A sickness, but THE ROOT of ALL illnesses and forms of suffering, the “darkness” Jesus refers to in the Gospel of Thomas quote, above.
2. The integration of dualistic consciousness heals all illnesses and suffering, which arise from this state of divided consciousness.
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