Updated April 6, 2023
Since it takes more than one to have a shape, non-duality is formless, thus endless. Hence you are mistaken if you see a dimensional world.
Non-duality can be compared to the one line at the beginning of the above animation and a dimensional world to the tree it seems to create. But there is no tree. It is an illusion. Looking closer, you see that everything in the tree is the same line multiplied.
That does not mean that you should perceive everything in a world defined by time and space as one. On the contrary, all its elements are separated by time and space, denying non-duality. However, since it is formless, thus endless, you cannot deny it without it. Therefore, if you endorse time and space, hence separation, you confirm non-duality.
The animation is a remake by Aatish Bhatia of a fractal by Daniel Shiffman / Nature of Code. The drawing is by Daniel Shiffman / Nature of Code, and both are grabbed from the article How to Dance with a Tree: Visualising Fractals With Dance from Wired.
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Non-duality can be compared to the single triangle in the above animation. There is only that one, and it is flat. However, it seems to become a 3D world when multiplied and added in numerous ways. Animation by António Miguel de Campos/Wikimedia.
In this article, you can read about the flatness of non-duality and that a world of duality is a simulated reality layered on top of non-duality fabricated from fragments of non-duality, so it appears hidden by a dimensional world.
However, since non-duality is that which is One, there are no fragments nor someone to arrange them into a dimensional world because that requires more than one. In other words, non-duality is an illusion made by nobody.
The article you read is layered on top of computer code that you can see a part of in this screen dump. There are no photos to see in it – only words sent to your browser to instruct it to fabricate the appearance of this article illustrated by photographs. That code, however, is also a layer. It sits on top of the basic encoding of your electronic media. In other words, everything that seems to appear on the screen of electronic media is a simulation – just like everything in a world of duality is a simulation.
But within the context of this illusion, what you seem to read on electronic media, is a layer an app has fabricated from the programming code underneath the article that most humans do not understand. In other words, you would not see this article if not transformed by your web browser.
That illustrates the principle of duality is to fabricate something definite from something indefinite and layer the spin-off on top of the original. However, the conclusion is not that you get to non-duality by peeling off layers or avoiding something in duality. Nor do you need to do the right thing or have a pure heart. On the contrary, all experiences of duality are a positive confirmation of non-duality because there would be nothing to twist into duality without it.
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You can make a digital layer on top of your face with augmented reality glasses. Hence others with similar ones see it as you want. This image is grabbed from an article about augmented reality.
Maybe without knowing it, the new technologies replicate how the world – including bonus ones like astral worlds – is fabricated by imagining something on top of oneness, so there seems to be more than one.
For example, AR (augmented reality) seems to do that. You put on glasses that change what you see in front of you, so you appear to participate in a virtual world on top of the physical one. The latter, you forget because everything in the virtual world seems authentic – just like chatting in cyberspace feels like talking in the physical world.
It seems that only someone who is to be compared to the Enlightenment of that which is One knows what is fake – namely, everything experienced since it takes more than one to be aware of something, and there is no more than that which is One.
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Perceived from a world defined by time and space, oneness is flat because it is formless, thus without dimensions. But for the same reason, it has no beginning and end, so there is nothing other than the formlessness of oneness. Consequently, a world defined by time and space is as an illusion. But since what is unreal symbolises what is real, the illusion of time and space confirms the formlessness of oneness.
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If this image seems to have movements in 3D, you invent it because the image is non-dimensional, and everything is still. The graphic is grabbed from the web.
Searching for non-duality, most look for something larger and better in a world defined by time and space. However, non-duality is neither bigger nor better but formless. That is why it cannot be found in a world defined by time and space or anywhere else in particular. But, no worries, what is shapeless has no beginning and end, thus, everywhere forever.
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Non-duality is formless, thus as small and flat as possible in terms of dimension. That is why it is impossible to define it unless envisioned to change when observed from different angles, added together in various combinations, and distinguished by deeming some better than others, so the observed appears as a world defined by time and space. However, this observation is impossible because non-duality is that which is One, and it takes more than one to be aware of something.
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Separation and constant movement are necessary to uphold the illusion of duality so that it seems to be a world defined by time and space.
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The reason for having a sex fantasy is that you want to be and have something you cannot have in reality – likewise, the reason for having a fantasy of a world defined by time and space.
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Just like the movement in the above image is a trick, so is the experience of being someone substantial in a tangible world. The image is grabbed from the web.
The brain tries to fool you into thinking what you experience is real. Just like it wants you to believe a woman reaches out for you in the above image, even though nothing in the picture moves and the woman, although appearing dimensional, is flat and static.
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On the webpage, almost calm, you can see how a still and flat painting seems to move and becomes dimensional when you, as an observer of the flat image, move around on top of it via a mouse, tracking pad or fingers. The webpage is done by Rafaël Rozendaal, who, in a series of new images, uses an old-school technology best known for its use in funky, ridged baseball cards, where it looked like the slugger was swinging a bat when you turned the card slightly to and fro – as is explained in the Wired article Vivid Paintings That Shape-Shift as You Walk by Them.
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If a computer with AI is programmed to think it is a bird flying around on a star, it produces moving images of a star, suggesting it is a bird flying around it. Likewise, a human can be compared to a machine generating ideas of a world defined by time and space.
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What and where you experience being is in your bubble of time and space. There is nobody in it. It is a fantasy made of nothing by nobody. The graphic is grabbed from the web.
Since that which is you is no different from non-duality, and since it is formless, thus endless, there is no more than the formlessness of oneness. Consequently, the experience of a world defined by time and space, where you appear to be someone tangible, meeting others who also seem substantial, is a fantasy.
Yet you believe it is real. Fortunately, you can quickly correct your mistake by pretending to be someone in a world defined by time and space because what you pretend to be is not real. See Duality Hack #2 Pretending to be twofold undoes duality.
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In the early days of Hip-Hop, a tape loop, like in this image, with a fragment of an obscure R&B track, was put into a ghetto blaster. Here the loop functioned as a unique piece of music that someone was breakdancing or rapping to on the street. Nowadays, Hip-Hop has become more complex, with many fragments of existing music sampled on top of each other so that you cannot recognise the original bits. Instead, you hear their sum as a new piece of music. In many ways, it is a repetition of how the world of duality is made with imagined fragments of non-duality sampled into a virtual layer of reality on top of it. The graphic is grabbed from the web.
The way Hip Hop started is an excellent way to describe how a world where there seems to be more than one seemed to arise. In the late 70s, rappers ripped their favourite part of a sound recording – perhaps, a guitar riff – by cutting it out of a cassette tape to use as a loop on an empty cassette.
The loop was played on a boombox, placed on the street to entertain people by rapping or breakdancing to it. They felt the loop was something unique, invented by themselves. LL Cool Jay, for example, started his career like this. Nowadays, technology has progressed, and sampling is not done manually but via computer software – often with several samples on top of each other implemented in different ways until the sum of it sounds like a new creation.
In a world where there seems to be more than one, you repeat a loop of thoughts to with your indisputable way of being special. The basic loop is ‘I am inside, you are outside, so we both exist in a world where there seems to be more than one’ The graphic is grabbed from the web.
In the early 80s, adding scratching to the dance tracks played in discos became popular. It was done by quickly turning a vinyl record back and forth with your hand and using the mixer to add this sound on top of the music played from another vinyl record.
In short, fragments of existing music are mixed to make it sound like new music. Yet, nothing has been created that was not already there. The same applies to a world where there seems to be more than one. It is compiled by fragmented and distorted imaginations of oneness.
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No reason to think about how the story of the world will end. It ended at the exact moment it started. You are just replaying a very dear or maybe frightening loop of it.
NOTES:
- Alexius is more abstract than scientifically geared, so for the scientific info, Alexius’ Duality Hacks relies on others. For example, in the above article, the scientific information is grabbed from the article The camera versus the human eye by Charles S. Johnson.
- This article is part of Duality Hack #1 Every experience is make-believe.
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