We imaginatively explore oneness and a world with more than one. In our tale, the ocean’s water symbolises oneness, and the water bubbles a world with more than one. At first, the bubble world is translucent. However, since the bubbles insist on being separate beings, their light gradually fades until they become substantial bubbles in a dark world.

From Duality Hack #2.4 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

Time and space are constructed of thoughts. However, thoughts are intangible, so they cannot shape a tangible world except in fantasy. So, like a dream, the material world you experience with open eyes is immaterial. Hence, you deceive yourself if you see something substantial. That is what we imaginatively explore in the tale below

Once upon a time …

… there was an endless ocean. It was content by being everything until it thought, what if there is more? But since it was infinite, there was nothing but water. So, the ocean created a wave from itself to get something outstanding. And even though it knew the wave was nothing but water, it enjoyed perceiving it as something else until the wave returned to the ocean.

Getting lost in seeing something with a beginning and an end, the ocean seemed to detect a new world of tiny bubbles in the wave’s foam. Watching the luminous bubbles, the ocean fell into a trance where bright gods radiated individual light colours and graciously mowed around a world with more than One.

In the dream state…

… the ocean got so entangled in the bubble world that it forgot it was bound to end when the wave returned to the ocean. But slightly aware of it, the ocean made more waves with new shiny bubbles. Although they were as intangible as the ocean, they appeared as individuals able to communicate tangible visions.

Of course, the separation of water into bubbles, making up a world with more than one, was make-believe. In reality, everything was water. But since the ocean wanted its vision of more than one to last, it suppressed that everything was the same regardless of appearance.

The luminous world on top of infinity is finite

The belief in separation made the luminous bubbles feel alone and icy, turning them into frozen bubbles. Hence, they no longer were lucid, non-definable entities but murky droplets shaped into something definable without radiance, like humans nowadays.

However, since time is an illusion, you can always recall the vivid godlike entities moving gracefully and quickly like dolphins, yet going nowhere. Alexius has been in their world several times. Many saints consider it heaven, calling it Shangri-la, Nirvana, or Moksha (see Wikipedia).

Maybe the early ambient music is inspired by the memory of this high-frequency world, for example, Energies (1982) by Pauline Anna Strom. Nowadays, the closest to her is probably H Takashi, for example, Body Trip (2016). But the present-day ambient music by Emily A. Sprague, such as Star Gazing (2020), also seems linked to the ancient world of transparent beings. The same applies to contemporary ambient pop music, like Out There (2024) by Helado Negro. In a jazzy way, Sediment (2024) by Air Space, Beyond (2023) by Leo Takimi and Superkilen (2024) by Svaneborg Kardyb. As art rock, N.Y.C. (1994) by Bryan Ferry. And finally, as cosmic cabaret, A Sign (2022) by Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz.

The fast rhythm, yet trancelike tranquillity of the above music, is close to the frequency of the ancient godlike entities because they are next to oneness. Nevertheless, the music is far from as fast as oneness, speedier than anything definable. See Duality Hack #9.9. That is why oneness is non-definable, and the world shaped by high-frequency godlike beings is make-believe.

Actually, believing in seeing different light beings hovering in and out of each other was the first step on a downward spiral to the present world of compact beings distanced by time and space.

Everything with a beginning and an end is fictitious

Oneness is comparable to the ocean in the above tale. There is no more than that which is One since it is formless, thus endless. Yet, it seems possible to believe there is more, like the indistinct godlike bubbles in the ocean tale. But the belief in separation quickly turns them into distinct human-like bubbles. Fortunately, humans’ problem is not that they appear separated in a world with more than one. But they believe their appearance is genuine and not something they pretend.

What and where you pretend to be, you are not, like you are not in a game you play. Therefore, pretending you are a heavenly drop of water turned into a dense teardrop, you are neither an ethereal nor a substantial bubble but their essence. Therefore, in the context of this adventure, you are water. And since there is nothing else, you are that which is One.