– updated September 2026
Our experiences are built on duality pairs. Opposites like compassion and brutality work together as a duality pair to mould what we go through. When we accept this interaction, we feel complete. However, if we disrupt it by favouring one aspect over the other, we feel incomplete.
Duality Hack #6.1 from the free eBook Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
In a world of duality, compassion and brutality complement each other. They are one of many pairs of opposites that mould our experiences and make us feel connected. But if the parts of a duality pair are kept apart, they lose their collaborative effect, leaving us feeling disconnected.
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When we’re in sync with the duality pairs, for instance, compassion and brutality, one validates the other, like two sides of a coin. Thus, we feel complete. That’s the way of duality.
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Engaging with the interaction of contrasting elements in a duality pair, such as positivity and negativity, makes one feel complete. However, the special self, insisting on being solely positive, excludes the assumed negative side of a duality pair to maintain a singular perception of itself as solely positive.
Although choosing only positivity makes the special self feel incomplete, it avoids the negative part of the duality pair, fearing it will consume it. In other words, it splits duality pairs into distinct elements, keeping the supposed negative part at bay even though it feels off.
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The brain architects our experiences. It claims to process them from sensory input, but this is an illusion. The brain creates all our experiences from nothing, making them seem real. This is why, even with our eyes closed, the brain can conjure images of something that seems to be outside us. Thankfully, when we accept that all experiences are make-believe, we can enjoy them like a video game. [Photo: Alexius]
As the brain’s duality pairs sustain our self-image within its duality-based fantasy, we feel complete when in sync with this twofoldness. Conversely, when we insist on one-sided feelings rather than twofold ones, we feel incomplete. However, regardless of how we perceive ourselves, we progress according to the brain’s preset script, which cannot be changed.
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The special self likes to say it has realised something that has changed its life, as if the special self, rather than the brain’s script, is the cause of those changes.
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When you’re in tune with the brain’s vision of a world founded on duality pairs, such as love and hate, you feel the completeness of the duality flow. But if you try to feel love without hate, you cannot experience this flow. Then, feeling incomplete, you seek fulfilment, such as a child’s unconditional love, to regain a sense of wholeness. [Photo: Alexius]
Whether we reject or accept the brain’s script, we’re in a relationship with it. Since this confirms the script’s foundation, namely that there’s more than One, the brain is grateful. Therefore, it rewards us with bursts of happiness. However, we don’t notice them if we conflict with the brain.
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If we do not fabricate a perception that seems to alter the brain’s script, we confirm that the brain supplies us with everything we need to appear as someone, thus feeling secure and safe.
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The basic self does not always get what it wants. If it did, it wouldn’t know that happiness doesn’t come from a particular person or situation, but from having a dual perception of the experiences the brain generates, thus staying in sync with the brain’s dualistic world.
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Being the basic self is like being in intensive care in a hospital, except that you are not sick, yet someone is still watching out for you. The same applies to the special self. However, unlike the basic self, the special self resists the brain’s care, perceiving itself as independent.
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For the special self, happiness is derived from having the best. But for the basic self, it comes from having a perception in sync with the brain’s script.
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In role-play, everything is make-believe. Nevertheless, when you follow the game master’s instructions, it’s fun to be in a made-up world. Similarly, being in a world of duality is entertaining when you don’t try to rewrite the brain’s manual.
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The basic self neither gets afterwards nor before. But not because it lives in the now. It doesn’t get that either. All it gets is the brain’s flow of thoughts. Since this constitutes the basic self’s experiences of the world, and the brain is its best friend, everything is fine as it is. This doesn’t mean the basic self doesn’t assist others. They, too, are part of the brain’s thought flow.
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The brain sees no difference between you and itself, because you’re everything in the brain. It even makes you breathe. The medulla oblongata, part of the brainstem, controls the rate and depth of breathing by sending signals to the respiratory muscles..
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Some consider the basic self Enlightened. But since the brain fabricates our experience of being someone, and the Enlightenment of that which is One erases all experience, whatever we experience in being cannot be Enlightened.
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The happiness experienced when in sync with the brain’s script is comparable to the joy of singing along to a favourite song, where every note feels just right. Conversely, being out of sync is like being distracted by the same song because you want to focus on something you consider more important. [Photo: Alexius]
Although the brain creates your experiences from nothing, you have to treat them as something, because believing in something is why you appear as someone in a world defined by time and space. Therefore, you must acknowledge this belief to undo it.
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Experiencing a world of duality is like seeing a mirage in the desert. We think we see something, but it is not really there.
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You can’t realise anything in a world with more than one, except that your experiences are nothing converted into something, because there’s no more than the formlessness of Oneness.
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The special self always looks for something that lasts. But in a world limited by time and space, everything has a beginning and an end. Fortunately, when our perception is in sync with the brain’s script, the ending is as exciting as the beginning. That’s why the basic self doesn’t seek anything permanent. [Photo: Alexius]
You may ask where the facts behind Alexius’ Duality Hacks are. However, there are no facts in a world of duality because non-duality, being formless and thus endless, is all there is. Consequently, a world of duality is nothing, including Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
Thankfully, these hacks do not try to hide that they’re nothing. Instead, they expose it. That’s why you can use them to realise that what and where you believe you are is nothing, disguised as something to hide that only non-duality is real, as it requires more than one to be something.
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