Consider the life of an electric bulb. If it perceives itself as a light source, its existence ends when it cannot emit light anymore. But what if it never saw itself as a light source but pretended to be one? In that case, only what it pretended to be ends. The electricity from the power station that enabled it to simulate a light source is still available.
Newsletter on 22 January 2026
In Alexius’ home …
… one of the bulbs is covered by a red lampshade, making its light appear warmer. Other bulbs emit different types of light in varying amounts. However, regardless of how much light a bulb emits, if it’s big or small, coloured, white or transparent, the power making it possible to emit light does not come from the bulb itself.
A bulb can emit light only because it’s connected to the electrical supply from the power station, providing the necessary energy. Without it, a bulb is nothing. Yet when its internal system fails, the bulb cannot emit light. So if it identifies as an entity able to radiate light onto something outside itself, this is the end of the bulb’s life.
Luckily, when the bulb ceases to emit light, it’s still connected to the power station, which remains unaffected. So, suppose the bulb does not identify itself as a limited entity radiating light, but rather as the unlimited energy that makes this possible: the power station. In that case, the bulb is not limited to a specific appearance. Instead, it is what makes it possible to experience being a bulb emitting light for a while, namely, the power station.
But as the power station’s unlimited energy is not in the world illuminated by the bulb, there are only finite appearances in it. Consequently, this world is unable to help the bulb shift its identity from a finite entity to the infinity of the power station.
However, if the bulb does not see the world around it as real, there’s no world to affirm the bulb’s existence. Ergo, there’s nothing but the power station.
Many believe that the Enlightenment of that which is One is about seeing everything as one. But adding more than one into that which is One requires more than one. Thus, it’s only possible in a world with more than one. However, there’s no such world, as oneness is formless and, thus, endless.
Clarifications of the above bulb metaphor:
THE WORLD IS UNREAL. The world illuminated by a bulb is an illusion generated by the electricity supplied by the power station. Without it, there is no bulb illuminating an external world.
Consider electricity illuminating a room via bulbs. The electricity is not in the room you see because of it. Similarly, the formlessness of oneness is not in a world with more than one, although oneness is what makes it possible to experience more than one.
REALITY is comparable to the power station in Alexius’ bulb metaphor. However, the power station is not in the world conceived via the light radiating from the bulb. Similarly, although the formlessness of oneness is what makes it possible to experience a world with more than one, it can’t be found in it.
You have to leave a world with more than one to return to what you never left: that which is One. The fastest way is to welcome the Enlightenment of that which is One. Alexius’ other Duality Hacks accomplish the same over time, while you have fun exploring a world with more than one.
Your physical being is not in your dreams. It’s in your bed. Similarly, since it takes more than one to be somewhere, that which is One is not in a world with more than one.
ONENESS is often misunderstood as a merging of separate appearances. But when the power station replaces a bulb’s identity, the bulb is no more. Hence, there’s no one to be at one with another. And there never was, as oneness has no room for more than One.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THAT WHICH IS ONE sets in when a bulb forgets its role in the world it perceives outside it. Immediately, the bulb is absorbed by a brilliant light, allowing its non-being to pass a black hole, too tiny for any beings, and be where it always has been and will be. As the bulb is no longer a bulb, there is no entity to realise this, nor to recognise that it is the power station.
Alexius is comparable to a bulb that forgets to experience itself as a limited and, thus, is what made it possible to experience being confined, namely, the formlessness of oneness. Yet, his Duality Hacks are not a manifestation of oneness. Just like the word ‘wine’ is not a wine we can drink but a symbol of that, Alexius’ Duality Hacks are not that which is One but symbols of it. [Photo: Alexius]
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