Metaphors and imagery illustrate this story about leaving the peace of oneness to get the excitement of more than one. Then, return to oneness when you realise that more than one is frustrating.
Duality Hack #3.3 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks
That which is One …
… takes up no space because it is formless. However, for the same reason, it is endless. So, since there is no more than that which is One, experiencing a world with more than one is make-believe.
But what if oneness …
… could be divided into more than one? That is impossible because its speed is so fast that there is no time and space to separate anything.
But in fantasy, everything seems possible. So, if you imagine slowing down oneness’ speed until time and space separate it into different appearances, it looks like you are someone in a world with more than one. See Duality Hack #9.9.
The movie Lucy demonstrates that if you speed up time infinitely, any object disappears – or, in the context of this hack, everything becomes one. In a world where there seems to be more than one, it is the reverse. Oneness has been slowed down, so it appears to contain many different objects.
However, you and everything else are as flat as this hack’s images because oneness has no dimension. Therefore, your eyes function like AR (augmented reality) glasses in your fantasy world of more than one. They construct a virtual layer, making the flat world smaller and bigger when you look at it from different angles and distances.
Since this fake dimensional layer kicked off the belief in a world with more than one, nowadays, many people, by reflex, operate in layers. For example, they look at their smartphone, where a layer of digital info flows on top of the physical world. At the same time, they hear music received from cyberspace in one ear and listen to friends from the physical world in the other ear.
»This (virtual reality) is a state where you are totally transported into another world and immersed in the digital interactions of the virtual environment you’ve entered … the feeling that you are genuinely visiting another space that is wholly distinct from what you can see and hear without the platform … a platform like Oculus Rift is an alternative to reality, supplying entirely new, virtual experiences: true VR.« From Wired before Meta bought Oculus. [Photo: Alexius]
A world with more than one replaces that which is One
As mentioned above, in this story, you start seeing a world with more than one on top of oneness with your AR eyes. But to completely erase traces of reality, you upgrade your eyes to VR (virtual reality). Then, an illusionary world completely hides the reality of oneness.
Why do we want the illusion of more than one? It could be because we feel excited by the many experiences it offers. However, excitement comes with a price because your reaction to every experience of something divided into more than one must be dual. Hence, you cannot feel excited without feeling depressed. See Duality Hack #8.1-9.
Most assume they can surpass this twofoldness and be in one state of mind by having one love, one work, one purpose and so on. Others recollect memories of oneness to fence off twofoldness. However, their memories of oneness are altered by the desire for more than one, so they do not result in one state of mind. Besides, since it requires more than one to experience something, you cannot get oneness while imagining a world with more than one.
Twofoldness, the interaction of opposing elements, is the foundation of a world with more than one, so you cannot do without it. For example, you can only read this because an opposing colour contrasts the letters. Without contrast, there would be nothing to experience.
That is why, without hate, you cannot recognise love. Nevertheless, most abandon hate to get pure love, thus feeling incomplete because there is no love without hate. In other words, their pure love is speculative. In contrast, you feel complete in the interaction of love and hate. Besides, you quickly forget what and where you are in this interplay of opposites. Hence, the Enlightenment of that which is One set in. See Duality Hack #10.1-8.
Integrating the body with a presumed god or super-world has been a long-time human fantasy. Imaginative fiction, transcendental meditation, aura transformation and psychoactive drugs can be seen as early efforts to trick you into assuming you can integrate the body with something immaterial. VR (virtual reality) may be the final step in believing such a blend is possible. [Photo: Alexius]
The Enlightenment of that which is One undoes the belief in more than one
A world with more than one is comparable to the movie roll in an old cinema. And the Enlightenment of that which is One to the bright white light on the screen when the roll suddenly breaks. That is the Enlightenment, to which Alexius is comparable. But, unlike in the cinema metaphor, the Enlightenment of that which is One is not something you see because it takes more than one to be aware of something.
To see symbols of that which is One in a world with more than one
Even though you may have grasped that a world with more than one is an illusion, your conditioned belief in more than one probably makes you see more than one. No worries, you can undo this belief without giving up seeing more than one if you perceive what you see as symbols of oneness. When you see everything as a symbol of the same, the apparent differences in a world with more than one do not make a difference. Thus, the illusion of more than one falls apart.
A game is virtual and only appears real when you play it
When you play a virtual reality game, you often get nauseous because your response to it makes you feel as if you are someone in the game’s world. For example, you think that your body is moving in the virtual world, although it is in a chair where you sit with your eyes covered by goggles, an app fills with a simulated world.
If you, in this description, replace the app with the brain, it becomes a description of appearing as someone in a world with more than one. You always feel a bit off because you are not there. However, it is possible to feel fine appearing in a world with more than one when you know it is an illusion.
It may appear as if the orange circles have different sizes. But they are the same size. The blue circles make them look different. Likewise, you simulate different appearances around you to hide reality is oneness because it is endless.
That said, there is nothing real in a world with more than one, so do not mistake the words in this story for the truth. They merely suggest you remove the goggles, which display a nonexistent world. Of course, this is a metaphor. A simulated world does not cover that which is One. You cover it by believing in more than One.
That which is One
When you return to oneness, it is as if there never was more than one, which is the case because oneness is formless, thus endless.
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