Alexius uses metaphors and examples to illustrate how delighted we feel when we see everything as symbols of oneness.

Duality Hack #3.5 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

You feel unrestricted when you tell yourself that your present experience symbolises the formlessness of oneness. Fluttering butterflies replace tensions. If you continuously remind yourself that experiences symbolise oneness, you feel free. But you probably forget. 

Fortunately, that is also a symbol of oneness. You do not have to be perfect to see that all your experiences of a limited world symbolise the formlessness of oneness. Hence, you have a good belly laugh every time you remember that the world’s apparent differences do not make a difference when you see them as symbols of oneness

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When you see everything in a world with more than one as a symbol of oneness, you cannot go wrong. Whether you love or hate someone, it is a symbol of oneness. Should you suppress a feeling, thus unable to see it as a symbol of oneness, you are still on track because denial is also a symbol of oneness. The more you see everything in a world with more than one as a symbol of oneness, the more you feel free.

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Everybody has tried to drink water, so they know the combination of the letters w + a + t + e + r will not quench their thirst. The combination is just a symbol of water. Likewise, you do not consider the experience of a world with more than one as real but as a symbol of oneness, when you know there is no more than that which is One

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Anxiety is related to the wish for more. First, you are worried about not getting it. Then, when you achieve it, you fear losing it. But if you perceive everything as a symbol of that which is One, you always have enough. That does not mean you cannot look forward to something because you are not attached to a specific outcome when everything symbolises oneness.

However, if you are attached to a specific outcome, it is not a problem because it also symbolises oneness. Whatever you think, feel, or do or do not think, feel, or do symbolise that which is One.

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You are always protected when you see everything in the world as symbols of oneness because it takes more than one to be attacked.

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You will never feel stuck by something when you see everything as a symbol of that which is formless because then forms do not matter. That does not mean feeling irritated is over, but you will not interpret it as caused by something you judged wrong. Instead, you will interpret irritation as another symbol of that which is formless.

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According to Alexius’ Duality Hacks, everything in a world with more than one is make-believe. Thus, also that assertion. However, you cannot appear in such a world without believing in something. 

Suppose you believe that a world with more than one is an illusion. In that case, you can perceive everything as a symbol of that which is One. Therefore, since nothing in the illusion is perceived to make a real difference, eventually, you forget there is more than one. Thus, it does not seem hidden that you always were and will be that which is One.

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Oneness is formless, thus endless, so it cannot comprehend that you believe in seeing more than One. Nor does it understand that you try to fix the suffering your belief entails by becoming and having more. Fortunately, all you need to undo the attraction to more is to change the purpose of appearing in a world with more than one. If it is to see everything as a symbol of oneness, differences do not make a difference. Hence, more is unimportant.

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You cannot choose to undo the belief in a world with more than one because that confirms there is more than one. Fortunately, there is nothing to decide when you do not interpret your experiences as real but as symbols of oneness.

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You can compare a world with more than one to a movie projected onto a screen and the formlessness of oneness to the projector. The movie projector is not in the projected world on the screen or your perception of it. And neither the world on the screen nor your perception is in the projector.

Hence, oneness is unaware that you experience the projection in linear time and, therefore, feel separated and fear the end. Actually, oneness does not know of separation, so it sees the movie world as a whole, where everything happens simultaneously.

You also do that if you do not identify with being a limited creature in the movie world but with what projects the film. In other words, when you perceive everything in the movie as a symbol of what generates it, namely, oneness, you are not in a world with more than one but oneness.

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A response to the above movie metaphor may be, »Who has put the film in the projector?« The question seems to prove the existence of a world with more than one. But there is no evidence of that. Only absurd explanations about an almighty god creating it in eight days. Or an explosion of nothing, called the Big Bang, became a world of something. And then there are statements like ‘I think therefore I am,’ or ‘I exist because I can feel pain when I pitch the body.’ The latter would be the same as saying, »I am the coat I wear because I can feel something when I touch it.«

Nobody creates, projects or watches a movie with more than one because there is nothing but that which is One. Therefore, a world with more than one is not there. However, if you see more than one, it is comparable to watching a movie.

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The fantasy of more than one ended at the exact moment it was imagined because there is no more than that which is One. That is why when you see something, it is after-images from that imagination. See Duality Hack #2.3. Although they do not contain oneness, their experience is empowered by oneness, hence symbols of it. 

Therefore, the more you acknowledge that a world with more than one symbolises oneness, the less its apparent differences seem to establish more than one. Consequently, eventually, there is nothing to uphold the belief in being and having more than One.

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The lamps in an apartment have only one thing in common: the electricity that makes it possible for them to light up something. Thus, the way for them to connect is to forget about appearance and join through electricity. However, it is not in them nor the space between them. So, how do they connect with other each other?

Since electricity makes it possible for the bulbs to experience themselves as something illuminating something else, they connect by perceiving each other as a symbol of electricity. Hence, the focus is not on form but on content. So when the form cannot be experienced anymore, there is still the intimacy of content.

This electric story is a metaphor illustrating that no connection between appearances in a world with more than one is possible unless you perceive them as symbols of that which is One.