If you are aligned with the brain’s fantasy of duality, you can hack it so that it does not appear to hide non-duality.

From Duality Hack #5.5 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

The special self is an altered version of the basic self, thought up by its rebellious consciousness to escape the perceived tyranny of the brain. However, since the basic self is a construction of dualistic thoughts collaborating to to define the basic self, it is impossible to depart the brain. 

Nevertheless, it is possible to break up the duality pairs into elements at odds with each other, for example, good and bad. In that case, you can define yourself as distinctively good and others as bad. Hence, you do not seem to be a dualistic creation of the brain but but a self-sufficient being mastering the brain.

But when you split the duality pairs to appear as someone specific, you feel incomplete. In contrast, the basic self does not meddle with the elements of the duality pairs. Therefore, since their collaboration defines it, it does not feel good without feeling bad, and vice versa. Accepting this dualistic setup, you feel complete in the constant interaction of opposites: the duality flow.

Nevertheless,  the brain is equally happy with the basic and special self. They both confirm that there is more than one, thus establishing the brain’s duality game as real and non-duality as unreal.

Of course, it is the other way around. Non-duality is formless, thus endless, so appearing as someone in a world of duality is make-believe. Still, like it is amusing to believe in Santa Claus until you grow up, believing in duality feels entertaining until you realise that more than one is a sham.

Feeling entertained or frustrated by duality

Since the brain makes all experiences from nothing, it needs you to see love paired with hate so that they attest to each other as genuine feelings. However, most want unique experiences, not dualistic ones. Therefore, many divide love and hate to suppress their hatred and only feel love. 

But without hate to define love, you do not get genuine love. Instead, you get an intellectual idea about pure love that you can discuss but never feel sincerely. In contrast, when you accept the ongoing interaction of love and hate, you feel them genuinely and consistently together because there is no love without hatred and vice versa. Consequently, you feel complete.

To edit or not

The basic self does not ask what is around the next corner, contrary to the special self, which always needs to know the future. So, it digs into the past to find events perceived as similar to the present. Based on its comparison, it draws up a prediction for the future. If it does not proceed as anticipated, the special self twists its perception of the outcome, the past, or both until the special self seems to be in the know. 

But mentally, this dissociates the special self from the brain, thus making it unable to hack the brain’s world of duality. In other words, you must be aligned with the brain’s duality fantasy if you want to hack it. Fortunately, living by duality, everything has an end, so you can have a laid-back time in the duality flow on your way without distance to non-duality.