Making One of Two
Why is it so difficult for us to imagine ourselves as One with the divine, with each other and with all of nature? Why is it that we struggle so hard to repeat those rare unitive experiences in which we have found ourselves as One with the light, one with the divine, One—not two?
The reason is that we have all accepted as part of our human journey a hypnotic trance state called duality. Our very finite natures seem to prove to us that we are not One at all, but two, a duality—separate and distinct from all else. We are born and we die—thus proving to ourselves that we are not divine beings in a human experience—rather we are separate from the life force—i.e., we must be born into it, and die to it.
Our suffering also seems to prove to us that we are not One with the divine. How, we say, how could the divine allow such suffering? We don’t know that we could ask that question of ourselves in this way: Why am I, as a divine being, allowing this suffering in my life right now? What gift does it have to give me? What piece of my Self, left behind, does this suffering remind me to bring home?
The duality trance state is actually a part of our journey to wholeness. It will allow us to finish the creative process begun when we decided to take physical form. What we are trying to do is bring physical form and the formlessness of soul together into One entity. But as Carl Jung reminds us, we must differentiate before we can integrate.
We must begin to see and clearly understand the distinctions between the false and the true. There is only one way to do that: We must experience both. Like any other experience in life, once we have experienced it long enough, examined it thoroughly and begun to outlive the experience, we know what was false and what was true about that experience. We know, for example, that we talked ourselves into marrying someone we actually knew on an intuitive level was not going to work out for us. We know that our naiveté was misleading us into all kinds of false assumptions about the character of a boss who later turns out to be quite unethical. We know these things on a deep personal level, because we have experienced them. And we will come to know duality and Oneness in the same way.
We will experience the seeming separation of the human from the divine in enough incarnations to come to see that duality was a state of deep hypnosis—in which we totally believed an absolute falsehood. There is no actual duality. We only believe that to be true and, therefore, we act as if it is so. When we get that, really finally get that, we will have finally finished the creation we started eons ago—the creation of Oneness.