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Notes on ‘the duality flow’

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

The basic self does not need to edit the experience of the world into something that complies with concepts of being together in harmony, balance or whatnot. On the contrary, since everything experienced is created by the brain, the basic self is together with everything, regardless of appearance. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

You constantly seek somebody to ratify your significance when you see yourself as special. But as closeness may reveal your need for others is egoistic, you substitute genuine feelings of togetherness with conceptualised ones. For example, you adjust to the table manners of a traditional dinner party to appear close without being intimate – or you get popcorn and a classic movie to rewatch with someone, thus looking close.

On the other hand, the basic self is not definitive but relative. Hence it automatically adjusts to the present as it is – also, if that seems frightening because fear is defined by calmness, which defines fear, so by experiencing them interacting, you feel the moment completely.

Practically speaking, you go with the interaction of these opposites by not seeing fear as a specific feeling. That is not done by avoiding it but by acknowledging it so you can perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals fear is not alone but constantly interacts with its opposite, calmness to define each other. And since twofoldness is the nature of dualism, this establishes you as someone in a duality world so you can hack it. Fortunately, going with the interaction of opposites, called the duality flow, you have fun hacking duality.

That said, when you are not interested in being special, thus going on automatic gear as the basic self, you do not have to perceive specific feelings as ‘it is what it is.’ The brain automatically does that. Maybe it does not perceive them using those words. But you know specific feelings are exposed as twofold because you cannot help laughing, feeling the duality flow.

However, you do not laugh when out of the duality flow because being stuck with specific feelings makes you nervous. Maybe it is as if you feel shaky somewhere in your body because, to feel specifically positive, you suppress your negativity by projecting it onto a vulnerable part of the body. But you do not need to know what you have hidden or where to solve feeling confined. If you perceive your reaction to it as ‘it is what it is,’ you see your response is twofold. Since that makes you feel complete, you have nothing to be upset about.

Read more about the basic self in Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

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Comparing the desire for something with the drawback of getting it is a typical interplay of opposites in a world of duality. Going with this interaction, you feel complete, thus indifferent to the outcome. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

You must judge something as inharmonious to know that you experience something else as harmonious. But since most people after that exclude the inharmonious, there is not something to define the harmonious experience. Consequently, what they get is an intellectual idea about harmony.

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The special self expects others not to question its story of greatness but to adapt to it so that they appear ordinary and the special self original. It is its way of hiding that it feels inferior. However, if not hiding that, feeling worthless can be perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ Thus revealing it is coupled with feeling extraordinary to define worthless and vice versa, so you get genuine feelings, not conceptual ones.

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In a world of duality, everything comes in pairs of opposites that interact with each other. Therefore, since nothing is definitive, you only appear empathic if you construct an image of yourself where its counterpart, hatred, has been left out. But without it, there is nothing to define empathy. Hence your empathy is a show.

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When you disassociate yourself from one of the elements in a duality pair by imagining dumping it in your body onto your body or seeing it as describing someone else, it becomes substantial, thus enduring instead of fleeting when in your psychological sphere. Thus you feel imprisoned. Fortunately, as you already know, perceiving your reaction as ‘it is what it is’ sets you free.

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Being with duality is easy when you stop holding onto something specific. That does not mean you cannot have a particular spouse but that your reaction to the relationship is twofold.

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You either breathe in or out. One excludes the other. Yet, they pave the way for one another. That is the way of the duality pairs.

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If you want positivity, you must also welcome negativity because everything comes in pairs of opposites in a world of duality. In non-duality, you can neither have negative nor positive vibes because it requires more than one to have anything. Since that also applies to having a shape, non-duality is formless, thus endless, so a world of duality is an illusion. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

When your attitude to something is single-minded, you get a specific experience. But it does not last because everything comes in pairs of opposites in a world of duality. Therefore, feeling on top of it is soon replaced by feeling down. However, if your approach is dualistic, you do not aim for the top to avoid depression but go for the constant interplay of up and down. Although it may not feel as exciting as being at the top, there is no fear of falling because you are in the duality flow.

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The duality flow depends not on the specific elements in a duality pair but on the resilient energy between them – like the springy drive that makes a yoyo go up and down.

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If you feel you have nowhere to go and do not perceive it as a singular state of mind but a dualistic one containing nowhere and everywhere, you are in the duality flow. The same applies if you go with the interplay of irritation and relaxation. However, the duality flow is not about the elements in the duality pairs but their interaction. That is what makes you feel complete – just like the interplay of breathing in and out makes you feel alive.

And like the opposing elements in the breath depend on each other, so do the components in all duality pairs. Therefore, if you are not in the constant interplay of positivity and negativity, for example, what you believe in feeling when you claim to be positive is a concept conjured up by distancing yourself from negativity. But that is like separating yourself from either breathing in or out. You need them both to survive.

In short, in a world of duality, you keep the duality pairs intact to be vitalised by the duality flow.

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The satisfaction you get from being in the duality flow is unlike what you get from something specific because you are always afraid of losing it, whereas you cannot lose the duality flow. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

You do not have to choose between good and evil in the duality flow. They complement each other. Therefore, since one is not better than the other, there is nothing to judge, thus nothing to establish fear as a specific feeling. Instead, you notice that it interacts with trust.

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In a world of duality, everything comes in pairs of opposing components that depend on each other. Thus splitting them into independent elements to hold onto just one of them and disassociate yourself from the other is impossible. Yet, it is possible to imagine you can get rid of your negativity by projecting it onto others, thus appearing solely cheerful yourself. However, you feel sluggish since this mental stance is achieved by repressing part of yourself. On the other hand, you feel energetic following the duality flow because twofoldness is the nature of duality.

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If you are into being and having the best, the duality flow may be an experience of continuous movement between the best and the worst. Should you want to be spiritual, the motion is probably between that and materialism. The duality flow could also go between hope and hopelessness or between what you hold dear and fear.

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Since the perception ‘it is what it is’ reveals that your response to something is twofold, and you are in a world of duality, it brings about completeness. However, as everything comes in pairs, completeness is coupled with incompleteness. No worries, you are neither whole nor fragmented but in the constant motion between these opposites – just like when one end of a see-saw goes up, the other goes down.

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Should things not proceed as expected, when you are in the duality flow, you are not afraid of getting upset because you know everything comes in pairs. Therefore, since your concern is complemented by unconcern, the duality flow continues uninterrupted. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Accepting the constant interaction between up and down makes you laugh when reaching the top. And you cry going down, knowing you are on the way up. Thus having a splendid time going up and down in a world of duality.

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You can use unmanipulated breathing as a portal to the vibration AUM, Soham, and The Word of God symbolises (read about that here). And you can also use it to get in touch with the empty breath (see Duality hack #9 In the bliss of nothing with the empty breath). But basically, the breath is a manifestation of duality. Hence it is the easiest way to be in the duality flow. At least, theoretically speaking.

But practically speaking, most hang onto specific ideas and emotions to feel special by holding their breath, thus unable to go with its rhythmic flow, so they miss the duality flow. That is why Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings’ recommends perceiving your fixed judgments as ‘it is what it is’ so you see they are not static but very involved with their opponent. And since they do not fight but collaborate to define each other, their interplay makes you genuinely feel them, thus feeling complete as nobody special in the duality flow.

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Since everything comes in pairs in a world of duality, there is no sense in searching for something specific. That is such a relief.

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You become likeable when you do not hide what you do not like in yourself from your awareness by projecting it onto the body. That is the first step in healing a psychosomatic disorder. See Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Most of those who believe that negativity should be avoided, like using crystal stones for healing. But many of these stones, like Amethyst, heal by emitting negative ions producing biochemical reactions that create positive vibes/moods and relieve stress. And most infrared heating pads heal via negative ion generation.

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Those who assume they suffer from a psychosomatic disorder have projected politically incorrect feelings like sexual lust, power strivings, greed, envy and anger onto vulnerable parts of the body, like some project offensive feelings onto the world.

However, since these emotions are abstract, they cannot be hidden in something tangible. Therefore, projecting abstract feelings onto something substantial only conceals them from your awareness. Nonetheless, most believe their problems are gone when out of sight. Just like an ostrich, according to myth, believes danger disappears when it buries its head in the sand.

This myth, though, is not valid. If an ostrich buries its head in the sand, it dies from a lack of air. And you wither from the lack of collaboration between positivity and negativity if you hide the latter from yourself with a head-in-the-sand approach. In other words, you must acknowledged that positivity is paired with negativity, thus twofold, to have the belief in duality.

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Going with the duality flow, hate does not make you frown but smile :) Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

If you want the satisfaction of the duality flow, it is essential not to focus on anything specific. The same applies if you wish to undo the belief in duality. Therefore, since the perception ‘it is what it is’ cancels out anything specific, you kill two birds with one stone by applying it.

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Having established ‘it is what it is’ as your default perception, you are always in the togetherness of the duality flow, thus feeling plentiful and not needy as when you divide the duality pairs into separate components.

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To feel important is a single-minded notion that has been separated from its counterpart. Hence it brings about loneliness. But in the duality flow, importance interacts with unimportance, so you get togetherness.

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When you have followed the duality flow for some time, the particular state of mind you formerly conjured up to feel at ease is forever out of reach since everything is seen as twofold. What that means, you do not know. Nor do you care because you feel completed by the constant interaction of opposites, thus no need for a specific state of mind to escape feeling disturbed.

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In the duality flow, our response to something is not singular but twofold, wherefore, nothing is considered distinctly right or wrong. So it is not problematic if you appear clumsy and do not judge it as right or wrong.

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Being intuitive, you do not try to interfere with the brain. Thus you are in the duality flow.

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It is relaxing and energising not to control your appearance but go with the duality flow. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Being in the duality flow is like having an electronic calendar. The appropriate thoughts automatically pop up when needed.

However, not systematically, like when seeds are planted in rows to get the most in return, but in the creative way of nature that enthusiastically throws seeds everywhere, getting a kick out of seeing new combinations evolve. In other words, since the duality flow does not result in something totalitarian or upholds a categorical style, following the flow is unpredictable except for having fun. But please remember that as everything is twofold, you do not have fun without feeling bored. Fortunately, that is not a problem in the duality flow because the interaction of opposites feels entertaining.

Regarding planning, since the brain is always in charge, you do neither have to plan anything when not in the duality flow. But you probably assume you know better, thus dismissing the brain’s signals. However, you only seem to be doing things in your way and pace because you, in retrospect, edit your experiences so they confirm everything has turned out as planned – like you shape a chaotic dream through words like patterns, displacement activity, unity, synchronicity and karma to make it consistent with your point of view.

But editing your experiences to look like you are in the know is exhausting and limits you by your conditioned view. In contrast, going with the experiences as they are effortless and not restricting you to a conditioned view of the world.

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You suppress your reaction to the world to prevent seeing that your complaints about it are misplaced because you are not restricted by it but by your totalitarian ideas.

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The purpose of Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teaching is not to explain the truth but to show there is nothing to explain because it requires more than one to do so, and there is no more than that which is one since it is formless, thus endless. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Long ago, Alexius conditioned himself to hide his sadness behind justified anger and disgust. That changed when he did not try to hide or rationalise it but felt it so he could perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ thus seeing a little boy floating on waves of happiness inside his sadness.

In other words, when he saw his sadness was paired with happiness, he stopped fencing off sadness to look okay. Instead, the interaction of happiness and sadness became his basic experience of the duality flow.

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Fortunately, you do not need to understand the nature of duality to be vitalised by the duality flow. If you perceive your single-minded response to an experience as ‘it is what it is,’ you sense it is not singular but twofold. Hence you are in sync with duality.

You can also get there by entering a state of not-knowing because you come out of this state with your slate wiped clean, thus being the basic self dedicated to duality. Read more about that in A state of not-knowing and the after-effect.

Therefore, since you do not attempt to pull apart the duality pairs into independent elements fighting each other but comply with their synergy, the collaboration of love and hate, for example, gives you the complete relationship experience.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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Notes on perceptions

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 2, 2023

When experiences are not seen as something, there is nothing to be excited about. Consequently, there is no expectation of something to prevent the bliss of nothing. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings in a particular order. But regarding the below notes, you may benefit from reading Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

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When you perceive your reaction to an experience as ‘it is what it is,’ you are in sync with the brain’s script. But if you start analysing your response and conclude, ‘I know what it is,’ you are out of sync. You cannot know anything because you do not know what you are and never will because you are a fantasy of the brain. Nor can you know what is real because everything is unreal in the brain’s fantasy. Read about the brain’s script in Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

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Your experiences have no meaning, nor are they yours. It is an illusion created by the brain, which thinks up experiences that make you believe you see, hear, feel and taste something interesting from outside you. It is easy to deceive you into believing that because if not, it is obvious the brain also thinks you up.

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The image you have made of yourself only exists in the impression you imagine you make in the world. And that only seems real because of what you imagine it does to you.

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The experiences you believe in having will continue as scripted by the brain, regardless of how you perceive them. But since the brain out of love injects you with shots of happiness, it is in your best interest to have a perception in sync with the brain because otherwise, you do not notice the shots.

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Non-duality is one perpetual present, which, in a world of duality, is simulated by a state of not-knowing where experiences are not perceived to make a difference.

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Since non-duality is formless, thus without a beginning and end, it is everything. However, that does not mean it includes the experience of duality. On the contrary, formlessness cannot be experienced, so everything experienced is fake. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

You do not have to use the exact words in the perception mentioned in Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teaching regarding the duality flow, denying, taking a break, or forgetting duality. Instead of saying, ‘it is what it is,’ you can say, ‘Shit happens,’ or ‘So what.’ As long as the essence is alike, the perception works the same. That said, the perception ‘I know what it is’ only works in the context that you appear special. You are still what and where the brain wants you to be, which you do not try to change when you go with the perception, ‘it is what it is.’

You leave the brain’s script momentarily or for good by choosing the perception’ dunno what it is.’ Although you are still what and where the brain has planned, you do not perceive experiencing it as something, so you are in the bliss of nothing.

Read more about these perceptions in Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

To uphold the perception ‘I know what it is,’ you got to suppress your actual response to an experience. But it never works as intended because you are not all-seeing. The two other perceptions do not involve denial. On the contrary, your response to something cannot be perceived as ‘it is what it is’ or ‘dunno what it is’ if you deny it. Yet, those perceptions do not work when you intend to get something over and done.

However, that can be solved by perceiving the response to your plan as ‘it is what it is.’ It flushes out any idea of achieving something specific. And if your response is perceived as ‘dunno what it is,’ there is not something to accomplish because you are in the bliss of nothing.

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Since every effort to improve yourself is based on the belief in being wrong, doing something about it enhances this belief and therefore suffering. But it suits you perfectly because it manifests you as something instead of nothing.

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Do not hide your reaction to something by making a story in which you are unimpressed or detached. Instead, feel your response, so you can decide what it means and perceive that as ‘it is what is.’ Since this expands the interpretation of your reaction, it is not limited to being singular. Instead, it is twofold, making you feel fulfilled in a world of duality. Therefore, since you do not search for anything, the Enlightenment of that which is One set in. Read more about that in Duality Hack #10 The Enlightenment of that which is One. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

The more you perceive your responses to your experiences as ‘it is what it is,’ the more carefree you feel. Perhaps so much that your perception automatically changes to ‘dunno what it is,’ which may bring about glimpses of the Enlightenment of that which is One. Read here how to see, hear, feel or taste glimpses of Enlightenment.

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Your perception syncs with the brain’s script when you do not feel something specific.

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You feel fulfilled when a duality pair, such as love and hate, dynamically interact. However, since the interplay takes away the sense of control, many people choose to separate love and hate from each other by projecting romanticised love onto one person and iron-fisted hate onto another. But insisting on this division, they miss the joy of togetherness because it does not come from a singular but dualistic feeling.

Fortunately, this is corrected when the meaning they have assigned to love or hatred is perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ For example, if they have classified hate as a weakness, this perception reveals it is paired with strength. Thus you get the joy of togetherness. Besides, other people are set free from the conceptual way you used to look at them.

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Feeling good is not about making the body relax but how you perceive your reaction to its condition. For example, if your response is irritation, you assume your body is its source. But relaxing your body will not make you feel better psychologically because the problem is your reaction is singular. So if you perceive irritation as ‘it is what it is,’ you see it is coupled with pleasure, and they depend on each other to be genuinely experienced. Hence you cannot have irritation without pleasure and vice versa.

Therefore, since irritation contains pleasure, you do not need to distance yourself from it by blaming the body for your mood. So besides you feeling free from the body, it feels free from its supposed link to non-physical matters so that it can deal with itself materially.

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If you feel sad and do not experience the gladness it contains, you have chosen to perceive your reaction to something as ‘I know what it is.’ instead of ‘it is what it is.’ Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

To perceive anything as ‘I know what it is’ is as crazy as thinking you know where you are in a dream. You are nowhere but in your bed.

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You cannot explain feelings away. They will never disappear or be transformed through meditation or something else. But if you stand by your emotions, you can perceive them as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals that fear, for example, constantly interacts with fearless. Therefore, since you are neither afraid nor unworried, but in their constant interaction, thus in the duality flow, you do not want to escape fear because, without it, you are not revitalised by the duality flow.

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A feeling can only be known when explained. And since that makes it mental, you feel benumbed when you claim, ‘I know what it is.’ To compensate for that, you indulge in stories of a better world.

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In a computer game, everything is predetermined. No matter what you choose, the subsequent events are prearranged, likewise in a world of duality. You can choose between different stories going on inside your head. But regardless of which one you settle for, it carries on as scripted by the brain. You cannot change that. However, you are free to perceive your reaction as you see fit.

If you perceive your reaction as ‘it is what it is,’ the response is experienced as two-fold. And since you are in a world of duality, you feel unified. But if you perceive your reaction as ‘I know what it is,’ it is established as singular, thus separated from duality. Hence you do not feel together but alone. Unfortunately, most think the solution is to get better at establishing singularity, thus eliminating duality.

Yet, it is the other way around. Playing the game of duality, you confirm non-duality because it is formless, thus endless, so there is no other reason for the experience of duality. Consequently, you feel connected.

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Being in sync with the brain’s script feels like using the right tools for an assignment.

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When you do not identify yourself as someone definitive but are relative to the present moment, there is no need to make specific opinions to confirm a specific personality. Thus every moment is the perfect moment. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

You can alleviate the symptoms with air purifiers, pills, sprays and drops if you have allergies. However, you may still feel depressed about being allergic. No worries. If you perceive your depressed reaction to your allergies as ‘it is what it is,’ you realise it is neither caused by your allergy symptoms nor something else. Its purpose is to interact with joy so those feelings can define each other. In their constant interaction, you are vitalised by the duality flow. However, that is not a miracle cure for allergies. But since you do not bundle it with depression, it no longer feels so heavy.

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Since your internal comments about the world generally are singular and therefore cut off from their complementary part, you appear to judge yourself and others as incomplete. Hence you get the urge to improve the world to feel complete.

Fortunately, the rules that your single-minded comments about right and wrong seem to establish do not need to be identified to free yourself and others from your limitation. Instead, you perceive your present comment about somebody as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals your opinion is not singular but twofold. If you miss the elements of this duality pair, you still cannot help but laugh being in their interaction, which feels as natural as breathing in and out. Thus the interplay of opposites, like waves in the ocean, hastily but without haste wash away your narrow-minded opinions.

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If you feel something is missing in music compressed into an MP3 file, you can get the same music in a non-compressed version. Should that not feel satisfying, you can get better speakers, wires and whatnot. And if that is not good enough, live music might satisfy you.

But no matter how the music is presented, it will never satisfy you if your response is singular. This is because everything comes in pairs in a world of duality, so you cannot feel complete unless your reaction to the world is twofold. Therefore, when your response to the music is dual, you feel satisfied, regardless it is compressed.

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If you are conditioned to call the food you bring with you to eat at lunch a lunch box, you do not eat food at lunch but a story containing a lunchbox. This is just an example to illustrate our days are made up of stories. And days are a story made up to manifest time, another story made up to separate.

No worries. You do not have to expose the stories to undo the belief in duality. You can keep using them when perceiving your reaction to them as ‘it is what it is’ because that reveals they are twofold. And since that is the essence of duality, you are where it can be undone. Actually, duality undoes itself when you start honouring twofoldness because every beginning has an end.

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Everything in a world of duality unfolds as scheduled. Still, if you neither hang onto a negative nor positive response to it but go with their interaction, you are in the duality flow, thus feeling fulfilled by duality’s interplay of opposites. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Seeing the sun going up and down is a hallucination. »The sun stays positioned at the centre of our solar system. So it does not rise and set. But it appears to rise and set because the Earth rotates on its axis,« according to science.

This rotation happens at 1.000 miles an hour. So whether you believe the sun rise and set or whatnot, you rotate with the Earth at the same speed, besides hurtling around the sun at 67.000 miles an hour, thus in alignment with the universe’s playbook.

Likewise, you go along with the brain’s game of duality. You cannot change that. However, you believe in knowing better, thus trying to change the brain’s duality scheme per your singularity philosophy. But since everything is twofold in the game of duality, singularity entails feeling incomplete. On the other hand, if you do not try to manage the brain’s playbook of duality, the constant interaction of opposites makes you feel complete.

Being in sync with the brain’s manuscript is not about responding positively to it but not hiding your reaction because your response is revealed twofold when exposed. For example, if you feel upset because the scheme does not unfold per your ideas of fairness, you do not disassociate yourself from feeling troubled. Instead, you perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ Since that reveals it is coupled with its counterpart, you go from feeling troubled to untroubled, and then you do not sense the specifics in this duality pair anymore but their interaction. Since that is the togetherness of the duality flow, you are in sync with the brain’s script of duality.

The duality flow is very active, so you do not get it by sitting and meditating but by being physical activity in a rhythmic and uncontrolled fashion, for example, Nordic Walking. Since doing that makes it hard to initiate something yourself, it is great for going with the duality flow. That said, the duality flow is not physical, so you feel it in the psychological sphere, not the body.

Over time the duality flow goes to non-duality. That is the end of all experiences because it takes more than one to be aware of something. Consequently, you are not there and never were anywhere because that requires more than one. Still, you are everywhere because non-duality is formless, thus endless.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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Notes on feelings

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 1, 2023

Feeling wrong is your decision because your emotions are shaped by how you perceive your reaction to something. But if you decide not to perceive your reaction as specific, the brain automatically takes over and perceives it as ‘it is what it is,’ revealing your reaction as twofold because the brain operates in pairs. Therefore, as sadness is paired with happiness, you are in the interplay of happiness and sadness. This polarity, like any other, makes you feel complete. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

»If you’re sitting in a safe and comfortable position, close your eyes and try to feel your heart beating in your chest. Can you, without moving your hands to take your pulse, feel each movement and count its rhythm? Or do you struggle to detect anything at all? This simple test is just one way to assess your ‘interoception’ – your brain’s perception of your body’s state, transmitted from receptors on all your internal organs … There’s a constant communication dialogue between the brain and the viscera (internal organs).«

The above test, to see if the connection between the brain and the body works, is from the Guardian, Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing. Like in Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings, the article concludes that many people have cut off the link between the body and the brain. And since the latter controls the body, it is left without guidance.

According to Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings, this connection must be re-established so the body parts do not act independently of the brain but work as a group governed by it. However, the article in the Guardian has another conclusion. It says you need to master the body, and in doing so, you get in touch with its signals and, thus, your feelings because they are in the body.

But believing you are the master is the root of the problem. You are nothing but a product fabricated and conducted by the brain. Besides, imagining combining psychological feelings with the body’s physical sensations entails suffering because psychological feelings seem heavy when perceived as substantial instead of airy.

In other words, you are not a boss but a puppet mastered by the brain. That is why you feel vitalised when playing by the brain’s rules of duality like you follow the rules of a computer game. And you feel fatigued trying to make your rules fit into the brain’s set-up, which is to go with the duality flow effortlessly.

However, if you do not want to play the game of duality, you are free to leave it. But you cannot do that unless you play it. And since participating involves feeling it dualistically, we go on in the below looking at the twofoldness of feelings.

As usual, we do not begin somewhere specific or end with a conclusion. Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings have nothing to establish because they know they are as illusionary as anything else in a world of duality. Nevertheless, reading the below ragbag of clips may help you see that this includes what you believe in being.

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In the game of duality, the brain is the game master. You cannot change that, but if you follow the game master, you have plenty of fun in its game of duality. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

This article is not about Enlightenment or the reality of oneness but twofoldness because you have opted for duality instead of non-duality. To undo that decision entirely, you must live by duality completely. Fortunately, it is easy when you do not suppress aggression, for example, but go with the interaction of that and peace, like breathing in and out.

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You cannot breathe out before you breathe in, and vice versa. In other words, you cannot have one without the other. That is how duality works. Everything comes in pairs. Acknowledging the nature of duality, you feel complete. But, on the other hand, you feel incomplete when you divide the duality pairs into separate elements.

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If you justify your unpleasant emotions with something judged as flawed in the world, your unwanted feelings are buried in a mental drama of fairness. For example, feeling angry is removed from your awareness and replaced by a mental story you tell to convince others, thus yourself, that the world mistreats you. This spin also hides that you fear the world will get back at you for blaming it for your anger.

Often this is too shameful to admit that you fear the world. So to save face when you feel attacked, you repeat the story of being unfairly treated to prove you are innocent. However, to uphold your innocence, you must continuously suppress your feelings of selfishness, greed, anger and envy by pointing out those attributes in others so they feel ashamed. You are very good at that, and your friends know it. But they do not expose you because they also look for someone to attack to feel off the hook. That is why they recognise it in you.

To hide that you hate everybody, you and like-minded ones meet in special groups where you hug and share in a collectively agreed way of loving each other. Yet, it is not done out of love but to conceal the hate for each other. Naturally, nobody wants to acknowledge this, least of all do they want to talk about it in the group because if you do not censor yourself to speak and act within the language established as love by the group, or its mentor, you are expelled. And then you have nowhere to go to find relief from your despair.

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Negativity is just as crucial as positivity. A computer, for example, only functions when connected to the negative and positive poles in an electrical wire. Twofoldness is the name of the game, which you must adhere to if you want to be in a world of duality. Also, if you wish to leave the game because you cannot do that without playing it. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

When somebody triggers an old feeling of rejection in the special self, it first interprets it as an attack. Next, it justifies feeling rejected by the perceived attack. Therefore, since feeling abandoned seems to originate in the attacker, the special self concludes it does not come from itself. If the perceived attacker exposes this self-deception, the special self points out something from the past to make the attacker feel rejected. Hence the special self is off the hook and can rest assured that it is loved and the attacker is not.

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If you want to undo the belief in duality, denying feelings by focusing on their energies is not helpful because the experience of duality is based on feeling it.

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The main reason most suppress negative feelings is that they fear they are dangerous to express. For example, when Alexius was a kid, his father beat him if he said or did something judged offensive. Thus Alexius was afraid to voice his negative emotions accidentally.

But just like the negative pole in electricity is as important as the positive one. You need negative feelings as much as positive ones. When you avoid the negative ones, you deteriorate and blossom if you approve of them. Read more about that in Alexius’ Childhood.

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You cannot experience something as positive without judging something else as negative. Thus the negative thoughts are a confirmation of positivity and vice versa. That is the way of duality.

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Non-duality cannot be experienced because seeing something takes more than one. On the other hand, a world of duality is divided into pairs of opposing elements so that it can be seen. But that means duality excludes non-duality and vice versa. Still, many try to replicate non-duality in a world of duality by being solely positive, for example. However, this singleness is not a confirmation of non-duality but separation, thus duality, as it is based on excluding negativity.

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You do not need to balance breathing in and out. It happens by itself when you do not intervene. Likewise, you do not need to find a balance between body and brain. If you do not interfere, the brain takes care of the body so you, in a laid-back fashion, can enjoy being someone in its game of duality. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Feeling down without pairing it with going up, you feel sad. Solely going up, not pairing it with feeling down, you feel insecure. But if you go with the interaction of up and down, you are not definitive but relative. Thus you feel neither happy nor sad but happy/sad. However, only for a moment because another soon replaces this duality pair. Hence you keep feeling vitalised by the duality flow.

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To feel something definitive is to separate. Consequently, you stop separating by not insisting on feeling something specific. You can do that by perceiving the meaning you have assigned to your response to an experience as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals what you decided it meant is not set in stone because its counterpart complements it. Therefore, if you thought you were sad, now you are also happy/sad.

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Whatever you plan, visualise or realise, everything plays out as programmed by the brain. You have no say in that. But it is your choice how to perceive it. Therefore, if you feel faulty, you have chosen to perceive the brain’s play as wrong.

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When you hand your interpretation of something over to the brain, it will shape it so you feel entertained because its purpose is to amuse you.

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If you are full of thoughts, you are probably busy assigning meaning to your experiences. However, none of your experiences means anything. Their only purpose is to entertain you. And being that, there is no need to look for thoughts to explain them. Hence you do not feel stressed. On the contrary, you feel amused.

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There is nothing to learn from your experiences, whether they seem dreamy, mundane or spiritual. Their only purpose is to entertain you, which they do when perceived as twofold.

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To prevent being touched by the duality flow, you ensure everything in your environment is adjusted to the rules of Feng Shui or another totalitarian system. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Suffering comes not from something but from how you interpret your response. However, you do not fix it by making another interpretation. You probably choose a distinct one, which is the root of the misery because everything comes in pairs in a world of duality. In other words, you do not need to change your interpretation but perceive it as ‘it is what it is,’ thus seeing your interpretation is not definitive but twofold.

This does not mean you have gotten rid of suffering, but that you recognise it is coupled with contentment. However, you neither feel specifically hurt nor content. Instead, you feel vitalised by their constant interaction, which is the duality flow.

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Nobody but yourself has the power to make you suffer. Therefore if you suffer, it is because you see yourself as somebody. In other words, do not try to be anybody if you do not want to suffer.

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Trouble always follows in the footsteps of somebody, whereas nothing but bliss comes in the wake of nobody.

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To feel is to not exist because it takes more than one to feel something, and life is that which is One. In other words, it is impossible to feel something unless you imagine being in a world where there seems to be more than one. Can you feel it? Of course, you can. You are reading this. That means you think it is possible to be and have more than that which is One, and you uphold this illusion as ‘real’ by feeling it.

You undo the mistake by acknowledging what you feel. Next, you perceive your reaction to it as ‘it is what it is,’ revealing your response is not singular but twofold. Then, you do not focus on the two elements of the duality pair but go with their interaction, which is the duality flow. Remaining in the flow, you feel so complete that the experience of more than one is eventually dismissed as real.

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Those who like to talk about others’ emotions have not felt them because if something is felt as it is, it is unveiled as nothing. Hence there is not something to talk about.

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If you feel like an outsider, you do not solve it by blaming others but by solely feeling wrong. Since that means nothing can contrast what you feel, it cannot be defined. Consequently, you feel nothing but the bliss of emptiness. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

The basic self does not need to make a perception that seems to alter or transform the brain’s script into something better. Unlike the special self, it does not want to create, modify or change anything. So although it may feel scared when the script brings it down, it also feels joy because it perceives its reaction to going down as ‘it is what it is,’ which reveals there is no fear without joy and vice versa.

Read about the basic and special self in Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

Going with the interaction of fear and joy, the basic self gets the thrill of the duality flow. But the special self does not get that because it separates fear and joy, so it can suppress fear from its awareness to feel joy solely. However, it cannot feel it when there is no fear to outline joy. That is why it always feels like something is missing.

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You do not get rid of an emotional problem by suppressing it but by feeling it. That is not done by sharing it with friends or focusing on the cause with the help of a psychiatrist. These approaches disassociate you from your feeling. And you cannot get rid of it if you do not feel it.

Feeling it all by yourself until you are nothing but your emotional problem, there is not something left to define you have a problem or anything else. Consequently, you are in a state of not-knowing. Read more about that in A state of not-knowing and the after-effect.

Like a criminal, you do not think in terms of right or wrong when returning from a state of not-knowing to the consciousness of being someone. But unlike a criminal, you do not replace these categories with a calculation of what you can get away with. Instead, you remain in the interaction of right or wrong, thus the duality flow. In that flow, nothing disturbs you from falling into a state of not-knowing now and then. Read more about that in A state of not-knowing and the after-effect.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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You must play the game of duality to hack it

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

First, Alexius thought his fear was caused by his father, who often beat him as a child. Next, Alexius assumed he caused it himself because he feared not being good enough. Then he stopped looking for a cause. And as there is no effect without a cause, fear as a specific feeling was gone. Thus he was free to go with the duality flow, which is not substantial, thus not in the body but in the psychological sphere. You can read where that is in The psychological zone is anywhere but in something solid. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

This article continues the previous one, Alexius’ childhood, about having one’s conditioned one-sided perception revealed as twofold.

When Alexius was about six years old, lying on the floor while his father kicked him, Alexius became aware that appearing as someone is a charade. Hence he instinctively mimicked fear by shivering all over. And since it seemed to hold off his father, he concluded that making the body tremble to appear scared was the way to stop being maltreated, thus feeling in control, although miserable.

He soon forgot everything he did was pretence. But he remembered provoking a muscle spasm in the body prevented him from feeling helpless, so it became his way of dealing with danger. But much later, when he again remembered everything is a pretence, he realised he did not need to manipulate feelings to be in control because everything is an illusion – also being authentic. One pretends it, like when we pretend to be someone definitive in a game. See more about playacting in Duality Hack #2 Pretending to be twofold undoes duality.

Furthermore, he recognised that no feeling is singular because everything comes in pairs of opposing elements that constantly interact in a world of duality. And aligning with this interaction, you feel complete. But as promised in the last article, this piece is not about Alexius’ way to the duality flow but how you join it and follow it to the end of duality.

Contrasts are the building stones of duality, so when you interpret something as beautiful, you are bound to see something deemed ugly. So if you do not try to correct or remove the ugliness to hold onto a distinct view of beauty, you feel the togetherness of twofoldness

Twofoldness occurs as automatically as breathing in is followed by breathing out – and it feels as satisfying. Accepting one polarity, it is replaced by another. Thus you remain in the duality flow till it is over, which is the end of the duality fantasy Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

THE LONELINESS OF SINGULARITY VS THE TOGETHERNESS OF TWOFOLDNESS
Since everything is twofold in a world of duality, a distinct impression, such as love, is fake, so you feel disconnected when holding onto it. But, no worries, it is easily corrected. First, you perceive your singular feeling as ‘it is what it is.’ Then, in a state of expectation calling for nothing specific, your special feeling gently turns inside out and unveils its counterpart inside it. In this case, love gently opens up, and hate quietly moves out. However, like breathing in and out are interchanging, love and hate are not experienced simultaneously.

And then again, since the love you feel is defined by hate, which is characterised by love, there is no true love without hatred and vice versa. So when you have one of them, you have both. Therefore, if you, out of habit, suppress hatred to hold onto a specific memory of love, you feel disconnected until you remember that feeling connected comes from twofoldness, thus the collaboration of love and hate.

You may not notice the transition from love to its counterpart, hate, like you generally overlook the changeover of breathing in and out. Consequently, it probably takes time to acknowledge the constant movement between the opposing poles of duality: the duality flow, which like rolling waves, without highs and lows, runs throughout your awareness (read more about that here).

Nevertheless, since perceiving your reaction to an experience as ‘it is what it is’ aligns you with duality, you feel connected immediately. But not if you mistake your response to the experience for the experience because then you establish your specific interpretation of the experience as being it. For example, suppose a person leaves you, and your response is anger. But in a split second, you disassociate yourself from your feeling by mentally replacing it with your impression of the person, thus making your opinion your experience.

Another example is when your nostalgic reaction to a photograph from your hometown is mistaken for the image, and you perceive that as ‘it is what it is.’ Then nostalgia is not understood as something you feel but as the specific look of the image. Hence, you have used the perception ‘it is what it is’ to suppress your response to the image, thus appearing detached from your hometown proved to be as you see it. Therefore, you actually have used the perception ‘I know what it is’, thus hanging onto a single-minded opinion.

That something is ugly is not a fact but how you perceive it. However, this singular interpretation prevents you from seeing it as it is because everything comes in pairsn in a world of duality. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

If you uphold a romantic idea of love by hiding your hatred in a rigid part of the body, you set yourself free from this imagined fusion of a pshycholigal and physical issue by perceiving your reaction to the rigidity as ‘it is what it is.’

Since that reveals your response is twofold, there is no specific response to establish that your hatred is linked with the stiff body part. The sense of nothingness that replaces the suppoed link makes you laugh.

In short, when the experience you reacted upon is replaced by the meaning you assign to your reaction, and you state it as a fact, your perception is ‘I know what it is.’ That is why if you cover your bloated opinion by saying, ‘it is what it is,’ you do not feel vitalised by the interaction of opposites but fatigue from suppressing what you feel about something to appear above it.

So if you wish to be vitalised by twofoldness, it is not your experience of something you perceive as ‘it is what it is,’ but the specific response you determine your experience brings about. For example, if you decide your reaction to rejection is sadness, you perceive that as ‘it is what it is.’ It reveals your one-sided response is twofold. Thus sadness does not settle into definite grief but gently opens up and reveals gladness inside it.

In other words, when the definitive meaning you have assigned to a response is perceived as ‘it is what it is, ‘its opposite is revealed. That is not a metaphor. Literally speaking, you feel sadness replaced by gladness, not quickly but gradually and as automatically as breathing in follows breathing out.

However, you are probably so used to suppressing your initial response to something and replacing it with a made-up reaction that establishes you in the know that you are unaware of what an experience makes you feel. But when you become aware of that, ever so slightly, and perceive the definitive meaning you assigned to your response as ‘it is what it is,’ it opens up, and its counterpart unfolds from inside, as already described.

Therefore, since your reaction is not seen as singular but dualistic, it does not appear exclusively right or wrong, thus generating neither pleasure nor worry. Instead, it brings about satisfaction, remaining no matter what happens because it does not depend on something specific.

The perception ‘it is what it is’ does not set you free from anger but free to experience it paired with delight. In other words, this perception does not end duality but starts the enjoyment of the duality flow. However, everything with a beginning has an end, so enjoying the duality flow is the end of duality. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Many people choose a distinctive opinion of something to escape feeling attacked, furious or hopeless. However, since you have to fight to uphold your specific point of view, what you try to escape is enhanced. In contrast, choosing an opinion that is twofold, there is no specific view to uphold, Instead, you are in the resilient energy between opposites, like the springy drive that makes a yoyo go up and down. Hence you feel revitalised by the duality flow.

Since it is not a sensational feeling of adventure but a gentle sense of pleasure, you may fail to notice it. Nevertheless, you will definitely notice that the present moment does not require any effort.

That does not mean you cannot respond with sadness if somebody rejects you. But since sadness is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ it is revealed to interact with gladness. Accepting their interplay, another duality pair rapidly replaces it. Thus you continue in the duality flow.

When you anticipate your friends’ opinions about a specific feeling, it is as you experience it. Especially if you spin a story about the feeling and present it to others in a severe tone of voice enhanced by body language illustrating it. Women often use this trick to appear as if they feel something special. However, unlike women, men do not act as if they feel something important because they think feelings get in their way. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Had you not perceived feeling sad as ‘it is what it is’ but held onto a definite feeling of grief, you would have had to cut off its counterpart, gladness, from your awareness by imagining hiding it in the chest, for example. Hereafter, when you want to hold onto feeling specifically sad, you do that by looking for pain in the chest. Read more about that in Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

To sum up, when your unmanipulated reaction to something is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ it is not limited to a singular feeling like shyness. Instead, you go back and forth between that and its contrast confidence, so the opposing elements can define each other, thus establishing genuine feelings.

Being amused by this potency, you remain in the duality flow. Hence the duality pair of shyness and confidence is soon replaced by another intensely experienced polarity. And so it goes until you feel so euphoric that there is no need for more, wherefore the belief in duality fades out.

If you repress your negativity to appear solely positive, you do not get the togetherness of the duality flow but the loneliness of singularity. Besides, being only positive, you do not feel genuine but fake because, without negativity, positivity cannot be defined. In other words, if you want to be genuinely positive, do not avoid your negative feelings by explaining them away but include them unedited so that they can define your positivity and vice versa. As a bonus, this interaction makes you laugh because you feel complete in the duality flow. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Consequently, you should not use the perception ‘it is what it is’ if you do not want to have the belief in being and having more than that which is One undone. Instead, you better use the perception ‘I know what it is.’ However, to make it work, you must ignore the counterpart of what you claim to know. So if you, for example, want to appear as knowing the way, you must hide feeling lost, thus missing something. And no matter where you look, you do not see it because you keep insisting, ‘I know what it is.’

Should you want to speed up the undoing of the belief in duality, you say, ‘dunno what it is,’ thus forgetting you appear as someone in a world of duality. That does not mean you are transformed, or duality is replaced by non-duality. But it means you are in a state of not-knowing, so there is nobody to confirm duality as real. Read more about that in A state of not knowing and the after-effect.

Nota bene: You do not have to apply Alexius’ Duality Hacks perfectly. Willingness to undo the belief in duality is enough. Therefore, if you are not in touch with your unmanipulated reaction to something, you perceive how you sense your response as ‘it is what it is.’ After all, ‘it is what it is.’

How to suppress feelings?
If you are not already aware, here are a few samples:

Talking about what others do or say instead of how that makes you feel.

Trying to help others to remove the attention from you and how you feel yuorself.

Falling in love hides the self-hatred inside.

Talking about metaphysically things instead of acknowledging, what you feel.

Being upset about something on behalf of others.

Meditating, chanting, praying or doing similar things to fend off what you feel.

Finding psychological, or any other kinds of explanation for what you feel.

Eating or drinking to suppress ones’ feelings.

Trying to prove a factual point to hide what you feel.

Following ideas for living in the now, or trying to live by any other totalirian concept.

Blaming others and justify your feelings by them.

Much planning and control.

Constantly looking for new things to buy or change.

Trying to always be in a good mood.

Working a lot and for instance clean your home, when you are upset.

Reading or playing computer games regularly.

Having revenge sex.

Staging yourself on Facebook – perhaps to get as many likes and followers as possible.

Publish photos of your happy and shiny life on Instagram.

Quoting others to prove you are right.

Keep imagining how to solve things or just making up stories.

Sitting with crossed legs, locking the knees by bending them backwards, raising one or both shoulders or pushing them forward.

Holding back the breath.

Assuming to know what is right and wrong.

Concluding this and that.

And how to not suppress your feelings?
In the duality flow feelings become very defined, but only in relation to their counterpart. Therefore, since they are not definitive but relative, you have no specific feelings to suppress.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

Nevertheless, since perceiving your reaction to an experience as ‘it is what it is’ aligns you with duality, you feel connected immediately. But not if you mistake your response to the experience for the experience because then you establish your specific interpretation of the experience as being it. For example, if someone leaves you and your response is anger, you rapidly disassociate yourself from your feeling by mentally replacing it with an opinion about the person to make your reaction establish it is your experience that the person is angry.

if you assume your response to an experience is the same as the experience because that does not reveal the interaction of opposites but states your one-sided opinion as a fact, thus that the world is not dual but the specific way you see it.

But in a split second, you disassociate yourself from your feeling by mentally replacing it with an opinion about the person that seems to establish your opinion as your experience.

Nevertheless, since the perception ‘it is what it is’ syncs you with duality, you feel connected immediately. However, this perception does not sync you with duality if you assume your response to an experience is the same as the experience because that does not reveal the interaction of opposites but states your one-sided opinion as a fact, thus that the world is not dual but the specific way you see it.

In other words, you have used the perception ‘it is what it is’ to disguise that you believe ‘I know what it is’. This happens, for example, when your nostalgic reaction to a photograph from your hometown is mistaken for the image, and you perceive that as ‘it is what it is.’ Then nostalgia is not understood as something you feel but as the specific look of the image. Hence, you have used the perception ‘it is what it is’ to suppress your response to the image, thus appearing detached from your hometown proved to be as you see it. In other words, you actually have used the perception ‘I know what it is’, thus hanging onto a single-minded opinion.

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Alexius’ childhood

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

During childhood, we learn to suppress the emotions that makes our parents unconfortable. Read more about that here. But everything comes in pairs in a world of duality, so you feel disconnected if you suppress hate, for example, to appear lovable. On the other hand, you feel connected if not perceiving love and hate as distinctive feelings opposing each other, but feelings in a pair collaborating to define each other. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

This article is a continuation of ‘What if…?’ versus ‘it is what it is’ about the perception ‘it is what it is,’ which reveals every experience is dual. Settling with twofoldness, you feel so complete in a world of duality that you eventually forget to remember it, thus not hiding it is an illusion.

Our present perception of ourselves and others is often based on one we made in the past. Alexius interpreted many experiences in his childhood as scary. And he blamed something outside him for having caused the experiences he interpreted as horrific, thus disassociating himself from feeling horrible. Therefore he could hide behind an image of being on top of it. Especially because he also separated himself from his affectionate feelings by projecting them onto something he decided to see as wonderful. In other words, he divided the world into something he saw as horrible or wonderful to suppress his feelings.

That seemed to work until Alexius got older and sometimes felt so bothered by something deemed horrible that his suppressed fear flared out in verbal attacks on others. Although there was no physical violence, his outbursts seemed as wild as when his father lost his temper and hit him across the dinner table. Therefore, since Alexius felt ashamed for being as hostile as his father, he hid his hostility from his awareness by projecting it onto his stomach. Actually, he started hiding his hostility like that as a child to avoid saying something that would make his father burst out in a rage so violent that it could have been the end of Alexius.

Instead, Alexius tried to hurt his father through silence, which seemed efficient. On top of that, Alexius looked sad and sick to make his father feel guilty for being so violent (read more about making others feel guilty here). However, that did not work on his father – only on Alexius because he unconsciously knew they were the same. After all, both used each other as a scapegoat for their inner demons. But if his father was aware of that, Alexius does not know.

In 1972 Alexius returned from the Enlightenment of that which is One as nobody. Hence he could only remain in a world where there seems to be more than one by pretending to be somebody. Actually, that also applies to the years before that because we are nothing pretending to be something. But since he was not aware of it before he bid welcome the Enlightenment of that which is One, this article is based on his memories of believing to be somebody instead of pretending it. However, as a child, he already began to grasp that everything is pretence. Read more about pretending in Duality Hack #2 Pretending to be twofold undoes duality. Be aware that the story of Alexius’ childhood is a compressed version, where his progress may seem quick, but it was not. Nevertheless, it was effortless after having bid welcome the Enlightenment of that which is One. The photo of Alexius is restored digitally. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Nor does he know if his description of his childhood is correct because it is done in retrospect.* Besides, he is neither a physician nor a psychologist. But it seems he disguised his reactions of fear, aggression and shame to events in his childhood behind the physical problems arising from his congenital disability in the vertebrae.

One of these physical problems was that the malfunctioning vertebra disturbed a nerve in the stomach, making it bloated. That made it easy for Alexius to imagine using it to hide the shame he felt when he, petite and adorable, was exploited by his mother to get her the bodily affection her husband could not provide. And due to Alexius’ bloated stomach, the diaphragm hardened. And since it is the primary mover of the breath, his chest turned to stone. So there he imagined hiding his naivety and natural generosity, so his empathy would not cause him to be preyed on in the future.

Alexius grew up in a war zone in the sense that he never knew when and where his father would hit him again. Since his mother did nothing to help Alexius, he felt terrified and alone. To disassociate himself from how bad this made him feel, Alexius decided to see his father as cruel and himself as kind. But by disassociating viciousness from himself, he also separated himself from his gentleness because viciousness defines it. Thus he always looked for something gentle outside him. However, what he saw he mostly judged as vicious. Finally, Alexius realised that the reason for this was his suppressed darkness. Fortunately, not hiding it revealed lightness because light and darkness are like two sides of the same coin in a world of duality. This polarity, and those that naturally followed, made him feel complete. So there was no fear of evil and thus no need to hide feeling it by perceiving the world as vicious. Consequently, the apparent difference between himself and the world stopped making a difference. Perhaps that is why Alexius is both a non-teacher and a non-student of Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Fortunately, he got in touch with his compassion again later in life. But that is another story, so we go on with Alexius and his father, who he perceived as the devil responsible for the evil he experienced in himself. Since Alexius did not want to realise it was his anger he saw in his father, he hid his inner demon in the neck, weakened by the malfunctioning vertebra. But he also did it because he assumed that only as an angel would he get his parent’s love. However, since his parents only loved the divine image he made by suppressing everything devilish, he felt lonely and complained about not being seen.

When the devil behind his false front of sweetness popped up, he interpreted the psychological disturbance as a physical issue in the neck where he initially imagined hiding his devilish. Therefore, the physical problem became an unsolvable mystery diagnosed as a psychosomatic disorder, hiding the helpless little boy, full of sorrow, rage and fear from Alexius’ awareness.

In Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix, you can read more about using the body to hide your feelings from your awareness.

When you do not try to hide sexual lust, grievances, envy, anger, negativity or whatever you consider politically incorrect, your thoughts and feelings about something are seen in pairs. Negative thoughts, for example, are coupled with positive ones. You already know this because when one part of you senses something as good, immediately another part sees it as bad. If you do not try to decide between good and bad but join their interplay, you feel as entertained by this polarity as any other. The more you experience everything in pairs, the less dangerous it is to be angry. Actually, you feel relieved being angry because it contains calmness. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

But after he became someone compared to the Enlightenment of that which is One when he was about 20 years old (see Duality Hack #10 The Enlightenment of that which is One), his two distinctive perceptions of the world as horrible or wonderful were revealed as not separated but together as a pair. So in his unpleasantness, there was pleasantness and vice versa. He did not hold onto the specific feelings in this polarity but enjoyed their interplay.

Therefore, since he did not feel fragmented but completed, there were no specific feelings to project onto the body. And those he once had projected onto it were revealed in the psychological sphere where a feeling is not experienced as something tangible but an intangible element in constant interaction with its opposite, for example, helpless and powerful, sorrow and delight, rage and calm, fear and confidence. Fifty years later, Alexius named the constant interaction of opposites the duality flow.

The higher you aim, the lower you must prepare to go because everything comes in pairs of opposing elements in a world of duality.

Since the duality flow reduced his psychosomatic disorders to physical issues, they could be fixed physically. However, congenital disabilities cannot be completely sorted. So he still has fallen arches, for example. Yet, everything has been solved to the extent that the experience of being someone inside a body has become more comfortable. Read more about that in Sadness is a close friend of gladness.

Nevertheless, out of habit, an old single-minded point of view is often Alexius’ first choice when confronted with something new. But fortunately, he soon remembers that everything comes in pairs of opposing elements to define each other in a world of duality. So then, as from an invisible crack in his conditioned feeling of disgust, a sense of liking unfolds.

Going with the interplay of this polarity, it soon fades out to be replaced by others, for example, humility and boldness, serenity and lust, calmness and confusion, union and separation, etc. But the duality flow is so gratifying that you do not sense when the interplay of one polarity is over, and another sets off. The beginning and end are another interaction of opposites that makes him feel adequate.

Not trying to control the future, thoughts become unimportant. Hence they turn into insignificant noise in the background. Read more about that here.

When Alexius takes a break in the primordial forest of La Gomera, he does not label his dualistic reaction to this. Being someone somewhere is enough to feel the togetherness of twofoldness, thus going with the duality flow and having glimpses of the Enlightenment of that which is One. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

The above may suggest you remember the opposing elements in the duality pairs you encounter. But the duality flow is about the interaction of opposites in a duality pair, not its specific elements – like one does not need to label the sides of a coin to sense its twofoldness. That is why thoughts are reduced to insignificant jabber in the background.

In a world of duality, a holistic experience is not singular but dualistic. That is why wholeness comes from twofoldness. But in non-duality there is no wholeness to experience because it takes more than one to be aware of something.

To sum up, even though the experience of duality is imaginary (read more about that here), within its apparent reality, you feel incomplete when separating the duality pairs into distinct elements. But going with their interaction makes you feel complete – like you feel fulfilled by the interplay of breathing in and out.

You do not have to be someone compared to the Enlightenment of that which is One to feel completed by twofoldness. You only need to perceive your specific opinion of something as ‘it is what it is.’ Since that reveals it is twofold – for example, happy/sad or angry/calm – you get the satisfaction of duality. We explore that in the following article, You must play the game of duality to hack it. This article ends with a note about doing that when compared to the Enlightenment of that which is One.

Sometimes Alexius forgets what and where he is, thus bidding welcome the Enlightenment of that which is One. However, when he returns to the awareness of being someone in a world where there seems to be more than one, his appearance is not Enlightened. Still, Alexius is to be compared to the Enlightenment of that which is One. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

SOMEONE WHO IS COMPARED TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THAT WHICH IS ONE
Bidding welcome the Enlightenment of that which is One is a bit like getting to the point of orgasm. Nothing else matters. But whereas the desire for something drives an orgasm, the absence of something fuels the Enlightenment of that which is One.

That does not mean you must become purer by avoiding sex or something else, nor must you be harmonious, physically fit or breathe in a special way. All that is needed is to forget what and where you are because the Enlightenment of that which is One does not recognise something definable.

For the same reason, the Enlightenment of that which is One does not change anything in your appearance in a world where there seems to be more than one. However, Alexius keeps getting glimpses of the Enlightenment of that which is One, so he is constantly reminded that a world where there seems to be more than one is make-believe.

Thus he feels like in a roleplay, where one acts out a role in a story governed by the gamemaster, which, in the case of a world where there seems to be more than one, is not somebody else but one’s brain. Being aligned with the gamemaster, the perception ‘it is what it is’ comes naturally. Therefore, since the interpretation of past events loses their specific meaning, the past does not make one feel stuck in a mental combo of physical and non-physical issues.

See Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain about the brain as the gamemaster. And read Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix about the unfortunate belief in a connection between the body and mental issues. Check Duality Hack #11 Going without distance to non-duality for glimpses of Enlightenment. They are something you see, hear, feel or taste, whereas there is nobody to experience the Enlightenment of that which is One since that requires more than One. See Duality Hack #10 The Enlightenment of that which is One. That is why there is no sense of magic or anything else in the Enlightenment of that which is One – only in the glimpses of it.

To be continued in You must play the game of duality to have it undone.

*) Alexius has never talked with his parents about this. As a teenager, he left home for good. First, he moved into a hippie commune and then into an old wooden house next to a gipsy camp until he became a monk for four years. He has no education, by the way. See Alexius, The Man, for a short biography of Alexius.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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‘What if…?’ vs ‘it is what it is’

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

Spirituality is that which is One. And since it takes more than one to become something, you cannot become spiritual unless you believe it is possible to be and have more than that which is One. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

This article is a continuation of Sadness is a close friend of gladness about the perception ‘it is what it is,’ revealing every experience is dual. Adjusting to twofoldness, you feel so complete in a world of duality that you eventually forget to remember being there.

WHAT IF…? VERSUS ‘IT IS WHAT IT IS’
You need to be fully anchored in the belief that you are someone in a world of duality if you want to undo this belief – just like you need to play a game to finish it. That is why this article is written within the context of duality. In such a world, psychological and physical issues do not mix. So if you conclude your worries are caused by something physical or what you feel in your body is caused by your anxiety, you deceive yourself.

Maybe you interpret your physical pain in the foot as fatal and imagine it is linked to a psychological issue from the past. Consequently, the psychological aspect appears to have caused the physical one.

Hereafter, the physical and psychological issues seem to impact each other significantly the more your imagination runs wild on a loop set off by envisioning ‘what if…?’ However, since your reaction to your thought-up outcome is revealed as two-fold when perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ there is no specific reaction to confirm your alleged cause-and-effect between non-physical and physical issues. Hence it is no more and never was except in fantasy. Read more about cause and effect here.

In Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix, you can read more about the unfortunate belief that physical and non-physical issues blend.

Therefore, the physical problem can be dealt with materially and the psychological one immaterially. Naturally, this is much easier and less scary than when fantasising about a connection between physical and psychological issues – just like daily life feels less dangerous when not mixing it with fantasies.

You cannot change physical reality. But if you perceive it so it makes you suffer, you can change your perception to one that makes you feel good.

You probably will be diagnosed with vertigo* if you experience the world spinning around you. However, that does not mean the doctor believes your experience is real. On the contrary, it is a hallucination because the world cannot revolve around you. Nevertheless, please do not deny it is your experience but that it is real. When you do that, the fear goes away. Hence you realise the whirling sensation is only going on inside you. Outside you, the world goes on as usual. Therefore, like you constantly correct seeing the earth as flat, you correct the experience of the world spinning around you. Eventually, you realise that all experiences need correction. None of them is real because it takes more than one to be aware of something, and there is no more than that which is One since it is formless, thus endless. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

IN A WORLD OF DUALITY, YOU FEEL WHOLE BY BEING TWOFOLD
Having vertigo* is a glaring example of believing that the experience of something beyond the bounds of possibility is authentic. The world does not spin around you. Instead, it is an inner vision where everything rotates to suppress your horrifying interpretation of something. But since the whirling sensation disturbs the image of yourself, you disassociate yourself from it by projecting it onto the outside world.

That is until you stand by your horrifying interpretation, so it can be perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ That makes a crack in horror. And out of it comes something which initially feels pretty abstract. But as soon as it has been defined by horror, it settles as fearless to redefine horror. In this interplay, the opposing feelings are not independent but interdependent. Therefore, since you cannot feel afraid without feeling fearless and vice versa, you do not need to avoid the experience you initially interpreted as absolute horror.

Another way of explaining what the perception ‘it is what it is’ does is that when your single-minded response of sadness is perceived like that, it is as if there is an airball of misery somewhere undefinable. If you do not attempt to explain this vacuum, it feels like it balloons outward in a swelling bubble of gladness. But if you hold onto gladness to escape sadness, you feel alone because gladness is a singular feeling.

On the other hand, going with the interaction of gladness and sadness, you feel at home in their togetherness. To conclude, when not having a singular but a twofold response, you do not feel alone but together in the duality flow. Read more about the experience of the duality flow here.

Should this procedure seems too complicated, and you forget what to perceive as ‘it is what it is,’ you perceive your reaction to the confusion as ‘it is what it is.’ And since your response is revealed not to be singular but twofold, you are in the duality flow, thus feeling fulfilled by a world of duality.**

Always perceiving your response to something as ‘it s what it is,’ you do not have to control your reaction to something to avoid feeling wrong because it is complemented by feeling right. However, that does not mean right and wrong are balanced. Dualism is not about balance because that cancels out contrasts, thus duality (read more about that here). Instead, dualism is about the dynamic interaction between opposites, for example, breathing in and out. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

APPENDIX
If your vertigo is not too intense, you could approach it practically by doubting your experience and requesting the brain to correct it so the world does not seem to move around you.

But if your vertigo is caused by a physical problem, such as tiny crystals of calcium that have gotten loose in the inner ear, you deal with it materially. Maybe you consult a healthcare professional or do the Epley exercise. But if your reason for doing that is to get it over and done with, you are most likely fixated on returning to things as they were.

It is impossible to experience something because it takes more than one to do so, and there is no more than that which is One. But since you are reading this, you believe it is possible to be and have more than one. Hence you must feel what and where you believe in being, to undo this belief.

Thus you do not feel fine regardless of the outcome like you do when you perceive your reasoning as ‘it is what it is.’ As aforementioned, this perception replaces a singular argument with a dualistic one. Which one that could be, you must explore yourself because this article is about to finish.

If this seems abrupt, and your reaction is astonishment, please perceive it as ‘it is what it is,’ to feel the interaction of astonishment and calmness. Therefore, since you are in the duality flow, you move on to other duality pairs, such as abrupt/gradual, beginning/end, or expectation/surprise. If you do not stop the duality flow by avoiding or enhancing one of the parts in a duality pair, you, eventually, are blown away by the interaction of opposites. Thus nobody walks a path without distance or direction to that which is everywhere since it is formless, thus endless, namely non-duality.

To be continued in Alexius’ childhood.

*) The article Psycho-Physiological Dizziness Syndrome describes vertigo as a psychological problem more detailed than here but not aligned with the foundation of Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

**) Alexius does not write about something he has not encountered himself. So he knows the perception ‘it is what it is’ works in the way he put forth. In his case, though, he does not only use the fulfilment that comes from the duality flow to deal with the world of duality in a relaxed way but as a stepping stone to glimpses of the Enlightenment of that which is One. Thus he goes to sleep bathed in light and wakes up in the morning hearing ethereal harmonies. Read more about that here.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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Sadness is a close friend of gladness

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

When feeling sad is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ it is revealed to be paired with gladness. This revelation sets off the experience of other duality pairs, such as weakness and wellness, disappointment and contentment and tears and laughter. Going with the interaction of the opposing elements in a duality pair, you enter the duality flow. Thus you eventually feel so blown out that there is no more to ask for. Consequently, the need for duality fades out. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Suppose you do not acknowledge the negativity in your psychological sphere but project it onto others. In that case, you also disconnect yourself from your positivity because your negativity is not there to define it. The same applies if you hide your negative thoughts and feelings from your awareness by projecting them onto vulnerable parts of your body. In short, when you do not ratify your negativity, the experience of being positive is fake. Read here about how you quickly bring back what you have projected onto others.

To formulate genuine positivity in yourself, you must restore the negativity you have cut off from your awareness. So when you see something bad in the world, you acknowledge it is your own negativity you experience because what you receive is what you have – like the sun’s colouration of your skin is determined by your pigmentation. However, that does not mean a beggar is in your psychological sphere if you see someone begging on the street. But you have negativity in your psychological zone if you judge what you see negatively. Read more about the psychological zone here.

In that case, like a quick look from above is sufficient to ratify if there is water in a well, a glance in your psychological sphere is enough to feel your negative response to the beggar, so your reaction can be perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals there is positivity inside negativity. Like two sides of a coin, they define each other. Hence you cannot feel positivity without negativity, and vice versa. Read more about that here. Since the experience of this duality pair, or any other, makes you feel complete, the belief in duality can be undone completely.

In Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain, you can read about how the perception ‘it is what it is‘ reveals that your singular opinion of something is twofold, wherefore, you get the togetherness of duality instead of the loneliness of singularity.

The acknowledgement of hell does not make it go away but exposes heaven inside it, and that they interact to define each other.

Any experience perceived as positive is bound to be complemented by another deemed negative because everything comes in pairs of opposing elements in a world of duality. A foreground, for example, is paired with a background so they can define each other, negative thinking confirms positivity, hate verifies love, sadness substantiates gladness, and so on. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

FALLING INTO HELL, YOU SEE HEAVEN
That was the short version. The longer one is that when you begin recognising your negativity, its interplay with positivity in the psychological zone may not get your attention immediately. Instead, seeing your negativity probably feels like going to hell because you are overwhelmed by forgotten and unpleasant emotions coming out of the dark.

Perhaps this starts slowly with a familiar sense of depression that you a long time ago hid from your awareness by imagining dumping it behind the pain in a vulnerable part of the body. See more about that in Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

But since depression often is repressed anger, sooner or later, it flares out in brutal hellfire. Maybe it is like acid-like splashes coming out of the body part where you initially imagined hiding your anger. Or perhaps it feels like a ruthless and evil force tortures you.

When something in your psychological zone, interpreted specifically as evil, is perceived as ‘it is what it is,‘ you feel evil contains goodness. Likewise, there is success in failure and an angel in a monster. However, none of these opposing elements are important in themselves. It is their constant interaction that makes you feel at home, whereas standing explicitly by one of them you feel lost.

In a world of duality, there is nothing better than the duality flow. But most want to be in control and establish that via single-minded postulates, so they avoid twofoldness. Although that gives them a sense of superiority, the overall feeling is despair because you never seem to get it right. That is, until you stop upholding your singular opinions as facts but go with the duality flow. By doing that, any point of view is exposed twofold. Thus you feel nonsectarian, which is necessary to feel completed by the constant interaction of opposites in a world of duality. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

Not avoiding but acknowledging that exposing your negativity feels like hell, your single-minded response can be perceived as ‘it is what it is. That reveals hell is twofold. It is side by side with heaven, and they constantly interact, not balanced and harmoniously but adventurously. You rapidly go up and down between heaven’s pleasure and hell’s displeasure. It is like ocean waves: sometimes they are big and fast, and at other times, they are small and slow or hardly there. Amazed by the polarity, you realise there is no heaven without hell in a world of duality – just like there is no breathing in without breathing out. You cannot have one without the other.

Since duality is about twofoldness, and you believe in a world of duality, joining the interaction of hell and heaven makes you feel complete. And since this automatically leads to the experience of other duality pairs, the feeling of completeness eventually becomes so intense that you forget to define yourself. Consequently, you do not appear to hide non-duality. However, the process leading up to this may seem more comfortable if the problematic area in the body, where you once attempted to conceal singular feelings separated from their complementary parts, is fixed.

If you acknowledge every emotion that pops up in your psychological zone, there are no psychological unpleasantness to project onto the body. Consequently, there is nothing mysterious to fear in the body.

In a world of duality, everything comes in pairs. So if you do not try to split them to hold onto a singular perspective of love, for example, you are aligned with duality. That does not mean things work better but do not bother you because you feel complete in the duality flow. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

LIVING PER DUALITY IS EFFORTLESS
When dualism is accepted, you enjoy the constant interaction of love and hate. Therefore, since you do not hide hatred in the body, you have no need to imagine special tensions to block the communication between the body and the brain. Hence the brain, which has the blueprint of the body’s composition, can restore the body through its anatomy with the help of nature. In other words, the brain, not you, knows how to handle the body. Still, you may help call a healthcare professional if needed. But the brain does not need your help connecting with nature. It is already hooked up to the cosmos. That is why you do not fall off the planet and feel connected with everything when you do not try to integrate the body with your ideas of perfection.

That does not mean you must abandon your ideas but that you perceive your opinions as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals your reasoning is not singular but dual. Therefore, since you are in a world of duality, you feel aligned with it. Being that, you do not wonder about the future because you are in the duality flow. Read more about that here. Hence your next step comes effortlessly – like breathing out follows breathing in. However, the duality flow is not physical, thus not something in the body but in the psychological sphere.

Here you can read more about the obstruction of the natural relationship between the brain and the body and how to restore it.

You get a preview of non-duality by taking a break from duality. It feels like walking on clouds, even though you may be walking on a busy street. However, it calls for more than one to feel something, so the preview of non-duality is a simulation. Photo © Alexius Jørgensen.

TAKING A BREAK FROM DUALITY
If your descent into hell* seems so distressing that you overlook its counterpart, heaven, a break from duality may be the way to go. That does not happen by pacifying yourself via meditation, praying or soothing music but by not withholding your anxiety, so its full speed ignites a take-off into the empty breath (read more about that in Duality hack #9 In the bliss of nothing with the empty breath).

The empty breath immediately brings you into a state of not-knowing. Here experiences go on as usual. But since nobody responds to them, there are no reactions to establish them as different. Therefore, although you are in the brain’s game, you are not of it, so after 20 minutes, 45 at most, the brain feels so abandoned that it falls into a coma. Hence, you should not remain in a state of not knowing for too long unless you want to undo the belief in duality permanently. Read more about that here.

Fortunately, not much time is needed in a state of not-knowing to have the slate wiped clean, so you return to a world of duality as the basic self ((read more about that here). Since it perceives its response to an experience as ‘it is what it is,’ the reaction is not sensed as singular but twofold. Hence, as you probably already know, descending to hell is complemented by ascending to heaven.

That does not mean non-duality is a fusion of heaven and hell or the union of all contrasts. On the contrary, non-duality is neither something nor nothing because it takes more than one to be anything. Yet it is everything because non-duality is formless, thus endless.

However, the topic of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality is not non-duality but living per duality. You need to be fully anchored in the belief that you are someone in a world of duality to undo that belief – just like you need to play a game to finish it. Hence we continue in the context of duality in the following article, ‘What if…?’ versus ‘it is what it is’.

*) You may find the book Descent to the Goddess interesting regarding falling into hell, even though it is not in line with Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings and is supposedly only for women.

NOTE: This article is part of Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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The body handles physical issues, not psychological ones

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

There is no grand purpose for appearing to be or have a self – like there is no purpose in appearing as someone in a computer game except for having fun pretending to be what you are not. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings in a particular order. But in the case of this article, you may benefit from reading about the perception ‘it is what it is’ in Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain, and the special self in Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

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It is not only Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings that talk about using the body to hide psychological problems. In Bioenergetics (see Wikipedia about that), it is the theory that the body gets sick because you dump psychological issues in it. Before Freud, it was the other way around. Back then, the cause of psychological problems was considered physical.

However, Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings do not agree on a link between psychological and physical problems. Even though the same organ in the brain processes their experience, they are not combinable – like night and day, also rendered by the same organ, psychological and physical matters exclude each other. In other words, it is not love but food the body needs to survive. And on a psychological level, it is not food but love that makes you want to continue.

Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix is about undoing the belief that physical and psychological matters are connected. When their supposed link is undone where it is conceived, namely in the mental zone, the body’s biological system is free to deal with physical issues materially, and you with the psychological ones immaterially.

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You cannot mix a circle with a square. Likewise, the psychological and physical domains do not blend. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

You dissociate yourself from unpleasant psychological feelings by dumping them in the body’s darkness. At least, that is how a psychologist explains it. But immaterial issues cannot be combined with the material. For example, you cannot blend the wind with a wall except in fantasy. Therefore, what happens is that you imagine eliminating a psychological problem, like anger, by combining it with an existing pain in the body.

Since your anger seems disguised by the discomfort of a physical issue in the body, you feel calm. And next time you want to eliminate a psychological feeling, you automatically imagine combining an immaterial problem with a material one.

Although that removes the unpleasantness from your consciousness, it remains in the subconscious as buried in a vulnerable part of your body. So when the suppressed energy surfaces, it feels like that body part hurts. However, the problem is in the psychological sphere, where you have excluded a psychological problem from your awareness by projecting it onto the body. Yet, analysing or understanding your pattern does not set you free.

But if you acknowledge your emotional problem in the psychological zone, you can perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ That takes the edge off it, so you do not need to eliminate it by combining it with the experience of a physical issue. Hence the body does not feel invaded by a non-physical matter, wherefore it does not need to defend itself. Instead, it uses its energy to fix its physical problems.

Be aware whether you project psychological issues on the body or not, it remains the same because non-material matters do not change the body – only the way you perceive it. That is why the supposed fusion of a psychological and physical problem must be corrected where it is conceived, namely in the psychological sphere.

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Once you have concluded your anxiety is caused by physical pain, you, by reflex, look for the same connection every time you are worried. Hence you automatically search the body for a flaw that can explain your worry. That is until you do not try to explain your anxiety away but perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’

That reveals your misery is constantly interacting with joyfulness to define each other. Therefore, since feeling miserable includes feeling joy and vice versa, there is no need to eliminate your misery to feel good. On the contrary, you need it to feel genuinely joyful.

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If your phone is out of order and seems to make you upset, having the phone fixed may appear to address your anger as well. But the phone can neither make you angry nor stop it. So even though the rage has disappeared from your awareness, it will return when something else triggers it. That is unless you deal with the phone and your fury separately, so both problems are solved on their term. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Worrying is most often pieced together by thoughts coming from continually saying, “What if…?« In other words, your anxiety is a construction of thoughts you perceive as worrying. Actually, this applies to all your opinions about something you experience. They are not based on your experience but on your thoughts about them. Therefore, if you conclude your stomach hurts, it is not a fact but a make-believe. That is why doctors cannot make a diagnosis based on analysis but make one based on discarding the measurable possibilities, IBS, for example.

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If you decide you are clumsy when continually dropping things, you may, by reflex, hide feeling wrong in the stomach, thus, eventually, be diagnosed with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). However, that sickness is not physically measurable through blood or bodily analysis. Instead, the diagnosis is based on eliminating other measurable issues, indicating IBS is a psychosomatic disorder.

That is why it seldom is healed via physical solutions such as excluding specific food from your diet. The issue must be addressed in the psychological sphere where you see yourself as awkward and look for something to establish it as real.

That is not to say you should avoid an IBS diet like FODMAP. It might be an excellent way to relieve stomach pain so you have the strength to accept your insecurity instead of imagining you have gotten rid of it by hiding it in the stomach. Your clumsiness is not a fact but an opinion of yours. Therefore, if you do not hide it, you can perceive it as ‘it is what it is,’ thus seeing your singular view is twofold. Clumsiness is paired with grace to define each other. Therefore, when you are clumsy, you are also graceful, feeling complete in the interaction of opposites.

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The special self uses much energy to suppress the thoughts and feelings judged incorrect per its belief system so that it appears to be part of something bigger. On the other hand, the basic self follows the brain. And since it creates all experiences, the basic self is part of everything. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

A body and a car need water and food to function. You cannot replace that with spirituality, nor can it change how they work. A body and a car need physical treatment and can only be used materially. Love does not transform them into something else. But unlike a car, the body can heal itself if you do not project non-physical issues onto it. That said, sometimes it needs the assistance of a health care professional.

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The special self always thinks it knows better. Thus it forces the body to do extreme yoga exercises, heavy weight lifting, restricting diets, tantra sex, or other mental concepts of wellness that make the body appear a manifestation of the special self. The price is a body in pain, but since the primary concern of the special self is its appearance, it gladly pays that price.

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The special self preserves its friendly image by imagining all its nasty psychological issues hidden behind physical problems. To prevent them from surfacing and exposing its peaceful image as fake, the special self never relaxes except through structured systems like Tai chi. On the other hand, the basic self has no special image to uphold. Hence relaxing comes naturally.

That does not mean the basic self never explodes with anger. But, contrary to the special self, it does not see it as wrong. Therefore, since it never hides its rage, or any other emotion, from itself but perceives its reaction to them as ‘it is what it is,’ there is nothing to conceal.

However, nobody is perfect, so there may have been times when the basic self forgot to perceive its reaction to something as ‘it is what it is.’ Fortunately, it is never too late to perceive a past response as ‘it is what it is,’ thus revealed not to be definitive but twofold, wherefore there is no specific feeling to avoid.

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The special self does not want to see itself as it is, so it excludes everything from its awareness that does not ratify its image of perfectness. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Being the basic self, you see every moment as the perfect moment, no matter the body’s condition, because the basic self perceives its reaction to it as ‘it is what it is.’ That is why Alexius feels good even though his physical condition does not contribute to this. Due to Scheuermann’s disease, internal organs have been harmed, so he has chronic GERD plus lung and nose inflammation. Furthermore, he has had three operations on the heart. And one of his eyes hardly works. The list goes on.

He has never smoked and has always eaten healthy and exercised, so it seems he cannot improve his physical issues. Sometimes, though, he becomes the special self to boost his physical well-being. But since this attempt is based on not feeling good enough, it enhances that feeling. Therefore, frustration builds up until he returns to the default perception of the basic self, ‘it is what it is,’ thus feeling good, regardless of appearance.

That is not to say you should not take care of the body. On the contrary, you are bound to follow the brain’s instructions regardless of being basic or special, including caring for the body. However, the special self does not like to follow orders, so it hides that it obeys the brain by making a perception where the special self appears to be in charge or has chosen to go with a unique flow.

Since that perception is out of sync with the brain’s script, the special self does not feel loved but rejected. It disguises its feeling of loneliness by projecting it onto obscure parts of the body. But the body sees your attempt to blend it with something non-physical as an attack on its physical integrity and fights it by shooting off here and there. Thus, your attempt to combine a psychological issue with a physical one turns into a psychosomatic disorder which only can be healed by undoing the combo where it is conceived, namely in the psychological sphere.

Hereafter the body is free to heal itself, and the loneliness becomes transparent, thus revealing it is twofold when viewed in the non-physical sphere. Hence there is no distinct feeling to upset you. In other words, emotions are very light when viewed in the psychological sphere, where they constantly interact with their opposites, so they do not appear as something specific unless imagining combined with the heaviness of the body.

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In a world where there seems to be more than one, you appear to get rid of unwanted psychological issues by hiding them in the body and later free them from imprisonment by bringing them back into the psyche that is so airy that having one look at them makes them transparent, thus revealing they are twofold, so there is nothing specific to bother you.

But since there is no more than that which is One, ultimately, there is nothing to heal other than the belief that you are someone in a world where there seems to be more than one. Fortunately, Alexius’ Duality Hacks automatically do that when you keep reading them.

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This is the last article in Duality Hack #7 about the unfortunate belief in the fusion of psychological and physical issues. There is more about that in Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality. Check also the articles, The indifference of the empty breath and What does the empty breath feel like?
The article is part of Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

Filed Under: Modern-Day Spirituality, Psychosomatic

The thought-up mix of physical and psychological issues

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

Those who think their body should be transformed into something spiritual need to be more physical. The body is solely material. Hence it cannot be mixed with something immaterial. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings in a particular order. But in the case of this article, you may benefit from reading about the perception ‘it is what it is’ in Duality Hack #6 The brain’s script and how to perceive it to be happy.

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For years there has been an unhealthy idea about uniting body, mind and soul. However, the body is a physical unit built to deal with material matters, not mental, emotional or metaphysical ones – like the physical world and cyberspace cannot be combined, except in fantasy. In other words, the assumed link between a problem in the psyche and the body, or vice versa, is make-believe. How to undo that is what Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix, explores.

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You will never find anything physical in the digital world. Likewise, you never see something physical in the psychological sphere or vice versa. In other words, the concept of a body-mind connection is a scam.

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Naturally, the body is exhausted after working, jogging or doing something else that requires much energy. If you respond to the body’s condition with anxiety and assume those feelings are connected, it feels like the body is about to collapse. But since the connection between a physical and psychological issue is made up, so is the supposed outcome. Hence it cannot be healed in the body but where it is imagined, namely in the mental zone.

On the other hand, when you deal with the body’s tiredness physically, the problem is probably solved by a good night’s sleep. And if you deal with anxiety where it is, namely in the mental sphere, you see it has nothing to do with feeling tired but old feelings of not making it triggered by feeling exhausted. But you made it. That is why you are tired. And you will feel anew after resting the body.

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Projecting psychological feelings onto the body and expecting them to go away when the body is fixed is like placing feelings in your smartphone and thinking they to go away when the phone is repaired. Psychological feelings remain in the psychological sphere. Hence it is there they must be dealt with.

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Non-physical feelings are fleeting, so to make them last, you must combine them with something more lasting, like physical feelings. However, immateriality and materiality do not mix, so their combination is make-believe Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The body is made to interact with structures that, like itself, are material. That is why the body interprets your attempts to integrate it with non-physical feelings or ideas of spirituality as an attack on its integrity, which it must defend itself against.

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Since a psychological feeling is fleeting, it only seems to last when you imagine combining it with something substantial, such as love imagining love in the heart. Undoing this fantasy by looking at it where it is conceived, namely, in the psychological sphere, seems frightening if you are in relationships have based on this idea. In that case, it feels like you lose something by undoing the fantasy.

However, if you do not avoid the unpleasantness, it will not remain long because the mental zone is airy, so looking at it is enough to reveal it contains its opposite pleasantness. That happens so fast that you will not remember what you looked at. Read more about this process here. And read about the mental zone here.

Unfortunately, most people do not want to undo the belief in a body-mind connection. On the contrary, they want to uphold their imagined union of immaterial and material issues as authentic to extend specific emotions and thus remain in a fantasy of lasting love. Should their extended feelings be questioned, they refer to the bodily symptoms they claim are caused by psychological issues.

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When you have excluded what you do not like about yourself from your awareness by imagining, it is linked with the feeling of a vulnerable body part, your psychological issues seem hidden inside physical problems. To uphold this fantasy, you probably resist healing the physical matters you imagine are blended with psychological issues.

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Since connecting psychological issues with physical ones is a fantasy, you undo it where fantasies are made, namely in the mental zone.

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When we project the flaws of our personality onto vulnerable parts of the body, such as the stomach, our perceived flaws seem to have been erased from our awareness. That is how we fool ourselves into believing we have been transformed. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

When you experience a specific feeling continuously, it is a thought-up version because feelings are fleeting. You probably have combined it with a physical sensation in the body, making the feeling more substantial and lasting. For example, by imagining the psychological feeling in the stomach, you seem to experience it every time you have an upset stomach.

But if it is an exceptional experience of love you want to hold onto, you may combine it with a pleasant physical notion in the heart. And if it is a hateful memory you want to hold onto, you link it with physical unpleasantness in the chest. Both physical sensations were already there, probably caused by other physical reactions in the body. However, just as you cannot combine a wall with the wind, fusing a body with an abstract feeling is impossible.

Yet, it is possible to mentally blend the experience of physical and psychological issues so that whenever you experience a specific kind of love, you think you feel something nice in the heart. And whenever you feel hatred towards someone, you imagine something weird in the chest. In both cases, it is a mental experience based on the wish to extend a psychological feeling by imagining that it is linked with a physical experience.

You can undo this imagination by perceiving your reaction to the thought-up mix of physical and psychological feelings in the body as ‘it is what it is.’ That renders your response indefinable. Therefore, since the body is set free from your thought-up mixture, it lines up with the biological system to outline the physical part of the combo and heal it in agreement with physical laws.

Most likely, the physical part is the muscles in the chest. They were already tightened when you made the imaginary link, but then they tightened up further to defend the body against your attempt to inflict it with non-physical issues. In that case, you can the body healing it by massaging the tightened area with fasciae tools from Blackroll, for example. But you should also consult a healthcare professional to ensure no hidden heart problem.

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Being in the natural state of happiness does not mean all circumstances are perfect but that they are perceived like that. For example, you might think it is too hot. However, you perceive your reaction to this experience as ‘it is what it is,’ so your response is not singular but twofold. Therefore, since feeling hot is complemented by feeling chill, the moment is perfect regardless of temperature. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

It does not rain because you feel sad, nor does the rain has the power to make you feel bad. That is unless you choose to perceive such a course and effect. Likewise, the body cannot make you sad, nor does feeling unhappy make the body bad unless you imagine such a connection.

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Something that seems very scary in a movie is often experienced as real because it is as if it makes fear builds up in your body. However, the film has no power to do that. The anxiety is not caused by the events in the movie but by how you perceive them.

You perceive the events as scary because you have conditioned yourself to interpret specific scenarios like that. And to make it feel real, you project the fear onto a body part that is already tense and seems tenser when you give it your attention. Thus it feels like the movie affects your body.

Sometimes, it is the other way around. For example, if you have a stomach ache that does not make sense, you explain it by imagining that a psychological issue from your past has caused it. Unfortunately, this thought-up combination results in a psychosomatic disorder which is very hard to disentangle because the psychological part is most likely pieced together.

Fortunately, you do not have to understand what is happening and why. This imaginary combo, like any other, is quickly undone by perceiving your reaction to it as ‘it is what it is.’ That renders your response indefinable, wherefore it has no definable cause. And without a specific cause, there is no particular effect. In other words, the supposed psychosomatic disorder is make-believe.

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As an appendix to the above note, please do not interpret it as you should stop mistaking a movie for real – or refrain from assuming something psychological causes something physical. If you suppress your reactions to appear perfect, you cannot revise your single-minded misconceptions by perceiving them as ‘it is what it is,’ so it becomes dual, thus cancelling your supposed connection.

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When you do not look for anything to make you feel better, your reaction to everything automatically is perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ Consequently, there is not something to upset you. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Many people turn the body’s signals into mental messages by dematerialising the body. For example, the genital zone is dematerialised via tantra sex. Read more about sex here. Thus it seems you can mentally decide that the signals from the abandoned areas are spiritual. But there is no spirituality in the body. On the contrary, the body is material. That is why it defends itself against the attempts to combine it with non-physical issues by turning it into a weapon against you.

Even though the body’s approach feels distressing, you accept it because it further disrupts the natural flow of communication between the body and the brain, so you, not the brain, seem to be the body’s boss. However, your idea of making it whole by transforming it with mental ideas of wellness is seen as an attack on its physical integrity. Thus the body keeps defending itself against you until you stop inflicting it with your ideas of unity.

Fortunately, it does not matter how abused your body is regarding applying Alexius’ Duality Hacks. They bring you into a state of not-knowing regardless of the body. In this state, the slate is wiped clean, So when you return to the consciousness of being someone, the foolish ideas of a body-mind-soul connection are gone. Thus your body is happy, and so are you.

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Most do not feel and see the body as it is. Instead, they have a vision of what it will feel and look like when they successfully impose their ideas of perfection upon it.

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Sometimes, the breath is held back to prevent pain in a problematic body area. That is not healthy, nor is pushing the breath through it. Both approaches imply you believe you are in control, even though you would quickly die if you should remember to breathe.

The solution to this is not to let the breath be. This idea also implies you are in charge. The key is to step back so that what you believe in being is out of the way. That is done by perceiving the fear that your problem seems to cause as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals fear is not alone. It is complemented by confidence, defined by fear that outlines confidence.

In this interplay, called the duality flow, you feel complete, thus free. Therefore, since there is no attempt to interfere with the breath, it runs freely despite physical issues.

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Whatever is perceived in the psyche to affect the body or in the body to affect the psyche is made-up connections. Fortunately, they are undone when you perceive your reaction to the effect as ‘it is what it is.’ However, you may feel empty when the idea of a body-mind connection goes down the drain. No worries. Soon you realise how laid-back life is without this fake unity.

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Clothes feel good when adjusted to your body’s size. And the body feels good when you are adjusted to it, which you are when willing to fall into it. The purpose is not to integrate your awareness with the body but to enjoy the interaction of heaviness and lightness. It feels so good that grievances and desires disappear. Hence every moment is the perfect moment – nothing is wrong or missing. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Although the clothes and the body wearing them seem closely related, they do not understand each other. The clothes have no love or anything else to give the body and vice versa. Likewise, immateriality and materiality have nothing to give each other. Their reality is different. That is why psychological ideas of attaining physical wellness do not work.

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Since psychological issues seem to impact the body significantly, many conclude they are connected. But that is like assuming clothes are connected with the body because you feel cold without them. They have absolutely nothing in common.

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Applying one or more of Alexius’ Duality Hacks reestablishes the connection between the body and the brain – not by healing the body, though, but by undoing the foolish idea that you are in it. Hence it becomes like a coat you wear. It follows you, but you are not the same.

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When you perceive your response to an experience as ‘I know what it is,’ it is based on a quick look at different points of view to see which one establishes you as in the know. The stress this entails is not solved before you stop insisting, ‘I know what it is,’ and instead perceive your response as ‘it is what it is.’ This perception does not require you to be on top of it. Thus, you are at peace.

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The fastest way to repair a psychosomatic disorder is not to perceive it as ‘I know what it is’ but ‘it is what it is.’ The first view is definite, whereas the second does not have a monocratic but dualistic approach. Hence the second view aligns you with dualism, and since you are in a world of duality, this is the way to go if you want to feel complete.

In other words, to start healing a psychosomatic disorder, there is nothing you need to change but your perception of your reaction to it. Read more about that here.

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Alexius shot the photos in Garajonay, La Gomera.
The article is part of Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

Filed Under: ´´I know what it is´ or ´it is what it is´ or ´dunno what it is´, Empty Breath, Endless, Formless, Enlightenment of that which is one, Black hole, Inclusive, Psychosomatic

The psychological zone is anywhere but in material things

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

Healing the psychological part of a psychosomatic combo takes no time. All psychological feelings are fleeting when looked at where they are conceived, namely in the mental zone. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Your image of yourself in the psychological sphere has nothing to do with the body, which feels attacked when you try to alter it with your mental ideas.

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The brain creates the psychological sphere, the body, and the world of duality. But just like you do not drive a car in the factory where it is made, you do not experience the psychological sphere, the body, and the world of duality in the brain. Instead, the body is experienced as something substantial in a tangible world. But determining where the psychological zone is experienced is more problematic because most try integrating it with the body.

However, that is not how the brain has set it up. The psychology sphere is immaterial, thus the opposite of the material body. They interact to define each other, like breathing in and out, but they can never be combined. Accepting this twofoldness, the duality flow continues uninterrupted, and you feel vigorous.

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The psychological zone is so airy that everything is fleeting unless projected on something perceived as substantial.

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When swimming, the water touching your body feels good, but not if it gets inside it. Likewise, the body enjoys the psychological sphere but avoids being integrated with it.

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It is a waste of time looking for your psychological emotion in the body because it is solely physical, thus without anything psychological or spiritual. You could also say that the body is visible, whereas non-physical issues are invisible, and visibility and invisibility do not blend.

So if you have projected emotional issues onto the body with the assumption that you can hide them there, you better start correcting this fantasy by recognising them where they were conceived, namely in the psychological sphere. Facing them there, they gently open up and reveal they are not singular but twofold. Thus there is no specific psychological issue to bother you.

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The psychological sphere is anywhere but in bodily feelings. Thus you are close to it at sleep. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Since non-duality is formless, thus endless, the experience of duality is fantasy. Therefore, since the psychological and physical world is imaginative, everything experienced, including the body, is nonmaterial. However, since Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings are written within the context of duality where everything comes in contrast to define each other, the experience of the physical world is perceived as substantial and the psychological world unsubstantial, although they are immaterial.

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In Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings, the psychological area, sphere or zone is also called the mental area, sphere or zone. It is very airy, thus anywhere but in material things. Hence bringing back into awareness the psychological feelings you have projected onto the solidness of your body is not done by facing them there but in the non-material mental sphere.

In this airy sphere, everywhere around you, a psychological feeling does not seem heavy, like when imagined combined with the body. Thus one look at it is enough to make it vanish and reveal its opposite. For example, one look at hate replaces it with love, which, when looked at, replaces hatred. They are constantly interacting to define each other.

That is the way of duality. Everything comes in pairs of opposing opposites. Being in sync with this twofoldness, you feel complete in the psychological zone. But not if you eliminate one part of a duality pair by projecting it onto your body or the world or imagining uniting the opposing parts.

The opposing elements in a duality pair can neither be united nor separated because they depend on each other to be defined, like two sides of a coin. Therefore, if you mess with the interaction of the opposing elements in a duality pair, you break up duality, thus feeling broken.

In other words, if you want to feel whole in a world of duality, you never hold onto a specific thought or feeling. Instead, you view them as part of a duality pair in which they interact with their opposing element to define what it is and be defined by that. This movement, called the duality flow, makes you feel complete, thus not needing to hide non-physical issues in the body, wherefore the biological system is free to keep the body sound as it was made to.

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If you do not feel complete, you have broken a duality pair. However, that is impossible because you cannot experience a world of duality without them. In other words, feeling incomplete is like having vertigo. Read more about vertigo here. It is not a matter of the world’s appearance but how you sense it psychologically. Thus you correct it in the psychological zone by perceiving your reaction to feeling incomplete as ‘it is what it is.’ Since that reveals your response is not singular but twofold, you feel complete.

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You cannot explain the world in this image because its elements are mixed impossibly, except in fantasy. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

To get into the duality flow, you do not use the perception ‘it is what it is’ on a house you see but on your reaction to it. Hereafter, the response is revealed as twofold in the mental zone. Hence you are in the duality flow.

However, if your reaction triggered old feelings projected onto the body, you do not perceive your response to the house but to your upset body as ‘it is what it is.’ Again having your reaction revealed as twofold.

But since most do not want to get into the duality flow, they perceive their reaction as ‘I know what it is,’ thus establishing it as a fact and yourself as in the know. Read more about this mix-up here. If you want to escape this imprisonment of yourself and others, you perceive your reaction to ‘I know what it is‘ as ‘it is what it is.’

So it is not about finding the cause of your problem but perceiving your reaction to it as ‘it is what it is’ because the root of the problem is that you are not living by duality, which is corrected by having a twofold reaction to the experience of duality.

To see any reaction in a world of duality is twofold, you do not actually have to perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ It is a palpable tool Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings recommend to expose something translucent: a singular thought or feeling contains its counterpart, and they constantly interact to define each other. All you have to do to join this interaction, which is the duality flow, is to look at a singular reaction in the psychological zone. Then it opens up and reveals it contains its counterpart, wherefore you feel complete. Read more about the process in You undo the belief in duality by enjoying it.

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When you do not project psychological issues onto the body, they do not seem hidden from your awareness. Hence you can perceive your reaction to them as ‘it is what it is,’ revealing your response as twofold. Therefore, since there is no specific reaction to confirm a definitive problem, there is no suffering to project onto the body.

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When you project a particular psychological issue, for example, hate, onto your body, it seems removed from the psychological sphere. Therefore, since its complementary part, love, is alone, it cannot interact with hate to be outlined, so love confuses you. In other words, when one part of a duality pair is imagined as removed, you experience brain fog.

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Like a strawn is built to deal with fluid and not tangible things, the body deals with material and not immaterial matters. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The paradox in trying to heal a psychosomatic disorder is that it reinforces the psychological fear of the physical symptoms, thus the impression that psychological and physical issues are linked and result in a psychosomatic illness that is real.

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When physical symptoms of illness trigger psychological memories of endangerment, and those are imagined as linked, the physical symptoms are perceived to cause a threat. Hence a fusion of physical and psychological reality seems established. However, the body is material, thus unable to integrate non-material issues except in fantasy. Therefore, to heal the psychosomatic disorder, you must look at where the imagination is made, namely in the mental zone.

One look is enough to undo the imaginary link between physical and non-physical issues because fantasies are fleeting when you do not imagine them established as substantial by the body. Since the same applies to all thoughts and feelings in the mental zone, another look at the feeling of endangerment is enough to see through it, thus realising it is coupled with protection, with endangerment to define each other. But since that is done in constant interaction, endangerment does not get sticky. Consequently, not a threat.

However, when the psychological part of a psychosomatic disorder is dissolved, the physical aspect of the imagined fusion remains the same in the body. But maybe not for long because when the physical symptom is not imagined mixed up with a psychological problem, the body’s biological system is free to deal with the physical symptom as it was made to do.

To sum up: When you appear sick, and your concern about the physical symptom triggers a past sense of danger that you interpret as caused by the present physical symptom, you develop a psychosomatic disorder. But since the body cannot be fused with non-physical issues, this imagined combo is only in the mental zone where just one look exposes the supposed link as fake.

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If pain in the mind is not denied the words that seems to cause the pain cannot hurt, but words projected onto the body – your own or somebody else´s – seems to be able to hurt and confirm the believe, that you are a person to be defined by time and space.

Feelings or thoughts you do not like, you hide from your awareness by imagining dumping them in the body. The graphic is grabbed from the web.

Think of a movie as a metaphor for the physical. You cannot see the mental zone in it. It is something you add. Yet, it does not change anything but your perception of the film.

In other words, in the context of the world where we appear, everything is made of matter. However, contrary to a body in a movie, our bodies have feelings – but only physical ones. If they seem psychological, you have projected them onto the body to make them appear more significant. It could also be that you want to hide psychological issues from your awareness behind something physical, as described above.

But just like nothing changes in a movie, regardless of what you project onto it, nothing is transformed in your body when you project non-bodily issues onto it. If it seems so, it is something you envision mentally.

Please be aware this metaphor is made within the reality of duality. In non-duality, there is nothing tangible or intangible because there is no division. However, appearing in a world of duality, you must live by it to leave it. Fortunately, that is effortless because you move by the dice like in a board game. When the meaning you assign to the result is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ you see your response is twofold, wherefore you are living by duality, thus able to leave it. See hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

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The differentiation between physical and non-physical matters occurs automatically when you are the basic self. It relates to the stream of thoughts coming from the brain as it is and not as it should be per a body-mind philosophy. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The special self does not feel its body because, in the psychological zone, it sees the body as a means to hide or enhance thoughts and feelings. Of course, this mistake, generally diagnosed as a psychosomatic issue, make the special self foggy. However, it blames the body, thus making the imagined blend of physical and non-physical issues appear real. Then it approaches the presumed problem by trying to alter the body per ideas of yoga or other non-physical concepts. Waiting for the transformation such philosophies promise, the special self ignores the happiness the brain continuously injects into the body. Hence, the body remains a source of misery for the special self.

Should the special self accidentally discovers the brain’s love, it cannot help loving the whole world, thus having its idea of being superior dissolved by love, wherefore, it immediately dismisses the brain’s love as wrong. Read about the special self in Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

Feeling the brain’s love has nothing to do with being spiritual but being adjusted to the virtual world of duality. You cannot experience spirituality in any way as that takes more than one, and spirituality is that which is One. That is why neither tantra nor meditation is about spirituality but fencing it off. Read more about that here.

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In the psychological sphere, you soon learn you are loved as you are because you are created by the brain, which loves everything it makes. Naturally, that makes the body relax. However, since it only understands material matters, relaxation is not caused by love but by you not projecting unwanted thoughts and feelings onto the body or using it to prove you are worthy. In other words, when you feel wanted, thus not projecting anything onto the body, it does not have to defend itself, wherefore it relaxes.

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Read more about the mental/psychological zone in this hack plus

The article is part of Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

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The psychological and physical sphere does not blend

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

If you feel rejected, the body has no reason to suffer. Nor is there any reason not to feel good if the body suffers from an illness. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Duality Hacks in a particular order. But in the case of this article, you may benefit from reading Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

In a world of duality, everything comes in pairs of opposing elements. They depend on each other, like breathing in and out. And also, like breathing does not work if you mix the opposing ingredients, you cannot blend the contrasting parts of a duality pair.

That said, since non-duality is formless, thus endless, duality is an empty vision as airy as a dream. Hence it is only within the context of duality that something seems substantial or unsubstantial. But since you assume to read this on tangible media, you believe in a world of duality.

But you cannot undo that belief unless you have acknowledged it, thus not separating or combining the opposing elements in the duality pairs making up a world of duality but respecting their interdependency. However, most divide or unite the contrasting parts in duality pairs. For example, many believe they can connect physical and non-physical issues. This hack explores how to correct that mistake.

Allhough projections are not real, they appear to be if you hide that their apparent effect is self-made. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

When you denigrate others to make yourself look good, you live in constant fear of retaliation. Hence you turn the body into a weapon of defence or attack by keeping your shoulders deadlocked in a backwards or forward position. But since that makes the muscles inflexible, they eventually ache. Fortunately, this is easily healed by acknowledging, you have chosen to hurt the body because it relaxes when not blamed for what you feel.

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In the mental sphere, you see yourself as someone in a world defined by time and space. But since that which is you is no different from that which is One, and it is formless, thus without beginning and end, it is painful being reduced to someone in a capsule of time and space.

Nevertheless, this pain makes you feel real. For example, you pinch yourself to determine whether you are dreaming. And when you feel pain, you decide you are awake as a substantial being in a tangible world.

In other words, since your sense of existence is bracketed with pain, you must suffer to feel alive. And since being someone in a world defined by time and space is based on separating yourself from the formlessness of oneness, disassociating is also what you resort to in making the pain bearable. In the psychological sphere, you eliminate uncomfortable feelings from your awareness by projecting them onto vulnerable body parts. Hence the disassociated psychological issues seem hidden in physical matters.

However, you sense the physical discomfort experienced in the body is not solely material. But instead of acknowledging that you projected non-physical problems onto the body, you blame the world for your pain. Then, to deal with its expected retaliation, you turn the body into a weapon of defence or attack by keeping the shoulders pushed forward into a defensive position or pushed back into a place of constant readiness to attack.

That makes you feel in control, thus safe, especially when you push one of the shoulders upwards to constrict the energy further. If it is the left shoulder, the brain’s processing of the body’s feelings is delayed, wherefore you have time to step in, giving the body’s signals a clear-cut meaning that confirms you are someone definitive instead of the brain’s interpretation in which you are twofold. However, if it is the right shoulder, the incoming signals are rendered as twofold by the brain but blocked from being expressed like that. This approach is often the woman’s way.

A way to prevent feelings from being expressed as they are is to hold your mouth closed, even when you smile. Hence it is as if no lousy emotion slips out. However, everything comes in pairs in a world of duality. So if you exclude negativity, you also ban positivity. So since there is no negativity to define positivity, your positivity is thought up. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In other words, women tend to allow the body’s emotions to be processed by the brain but often override the brain’s dualistic description of feelings from being expressed. Instead, they replace it with a singular interpretation establishing them as unique women knowing the exact meaning of their emotions.

Besides hiding that they do not know who they are, their single-minded insight fends off the brain’s story of twofoldness, thus togetherness. The resulting loneliness is often suppressed by manipulating others into thinking they need the women’s secret superpower to connect with their feelings.

Generally, men also want to feel needed by others as someone definitive, not dual, even though they do not know what they are. So before the brain receives the body’s emotions to process them as twofold, men define them mentally. Hence, since they are out of touch with their genuine feelings, emotions do not disturb them from doing the right thing per mental concepts, thus appearing as superstars. But, unfortunately, this way of suppressing their incoming feelings stiffens the left side of the body, whereas controlling the outgoing emotions, like women often do, hardens the right side.

Since the disruption is caused by the mental vision that you are the master of the body, the problem originates in the mental sphere, where you try to hide feeling inferior by controlling the body’s incoming or outgoing signals.

The brain loves when its experiences make you believe you are something, thus, not discovering you are a fantasy made from nothing. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

However, feeling inferior is a misunderstanding brought about by the perception that you are definitive, not twofold. Fortunately, it is easily corrected. Suppose you perceive your definite response to the present moment as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals your reaction is not singular but twofold, so feeling lost, for example, is complemented by feeling seen.

When you do that and perceive your reaction to the body as ‘it is what it is,’ thus having your response exposed as twofold, the body’s signals are not seen as singular but dual. Hence the brain recognises them.

When joining the interaction of these opposites or any other, you are in the duality flow. Therefore, since you do not feel anything specific, you cannot use pain to prove your existence as someone definitive. Fortunately, it does not matter because there is no need to be something specific in the constant interaction of opposites. Therefore, since you do not manipulate the body to create a special appearance, its signals flow freely to the brain, which has the body’s blueprint, thus knowing how to deal with them to keep the body sound.

Like you adjust to the concept of a computer game, you adjust to being twofold when playing the game of duality.

Ultimately, you are neither twofold nor singular because reality is non-dual, and it takes more than one to be anything. Since it also requires more than one to leave non-duality, you never left it. Besides, it is formless, thus endless, so there is nowhere to go. However, believing to be in a world of duality, it is easier to undo the belief when not singular but twofold. Since that does not turn you into something specific, you are nobody, hence nothing to give up returning to non-duality.

NOTE: The article is part of Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

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In touch with duality or not – or taking a break

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

There are many parallel universes in the brain. Like in a computer game, they are in the code that determines the subsequent events caused by your choices. Since it is encrypted, you cannot know the outcome of your decisions. Yet, they play out as arranged in advance by the brain. In other words, you can decide which way to go but not what it entails. Nevertheless, you can perceive your reaction to the outcome as you want. If the perception is singular, you are out of touch with the brain’s script of duality, thus feeling frustrated. But if it is twofold, it is synced with duality, so you feel entertained. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

When your reaction, for example, disgust, to something is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ you see your response is complemented by feeling loved, and the opposing feelings interact. That feels as amusing as going up and down on a rollercoaster. However, perceiving your disgust response as ‘I know what it is’ does not amuse but disappoint you because this perception establishes disgust as a definitive feeling by suppressing its partner, love.

In other words, the perception ‘it is what it is’ rules out egoistic behaviour and ‘I know what it is’ endorses it. Yet most people prefer the latter because it endangers their sense of being unique and in control. Hence they stick to ‘I know what it is’ by editing the past and never being in the present but dreaming up the next moment, so it seems to support ‘I know what it is.’

But if your response is perceived as ‘dunno what it is,’ you do not care about establishing it as a distinct feeling or complementing it with its partner because you are in the bliss of nothing. That is like watching a movie where you do not get the plot. Therefore, since the script’s progression does not seem to add up to something, you are not troubled by anything. But after 20 minutes, 45 at the most, in the bliss of nothing, you do not get that anymore because the brain falls into a coma when you stop confirming its world of something.

Since that is the end of the illusion of being someone who experiences something, you should not maintain the perception of ‘dunno what it is’ for too long at a time if you want to return to that. Instead, you better cycle between ‘dunno what it is’ and ‘it is what it is,’ which is a shift between being nobody in the bliss of nothing and somebody in the twofoldness of something.

Even though a dream is made of nothing, it is experienced as something. Likewise, the world you believe to see with open eyes. According to science, it became something when nothing exploded in a big bang. Thus no matter how you interpret your experiences, they are nothing disguised as something. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The perception, ‘dunno what it is’, bypasses the brain. It feels like taking tranquillisers without side effects and expenses. As soon as your perception changes to ‘dunno what it is,’ the body is freed from all psychological issues projected onto it. Therefore, since the natural flow between the body and the brain is not blocked anymore, the body can get the information it needs from the brain to heal itself. Read more about that in Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

That is, unless you interrupt the healing by insisting on ‘I know what it is’ and inflict the body with non-physical ideas of wellness. That is not to say you cannot help the brain restore the body. For example, Nootropics may kickstart the process. A healthcare professional can deal with zoonotic diseases like HIV, Mers and COVID-19, or other sicknesses caused by human interference with the world’s ecosystems – and, of course, problems like a broken arm and heart-related issues. You can also use far-infrared heating pads on tight areas.

Be aware, though, that the release of tensions may, at first, feel like a descent into hell because, without the blockages to stop the natural flow in the body, you feel everything you have inflicted on the body to support your self-glorifying vision of being in command. See also Sadness is a close friend of gladness. But if you are not focused on them, the blockages feel like they generate joy instead of pain. See the end of the article.

If you try to see reason, coherence, purpose or something else that makes your life seem spiritual, you will never get the relaxation and satisfaction that comes from the perception ‘it is what it is.’ Instead, you get the stress and despair from seeking thoughts that seem to confirm, ‘I know what it is.’ Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

But if you want to bid welcome the Enlightenment of that which is One (read more about that in Duality Hack #10 The Enlightenment of that which is One), and, thus, the complete undoing of the belief in being someone, the condition of the body is not essential. However, a sound body seems crucial for a satisfactory experience of being someone in a world of duality.

Although many claims that is what they want, very few choose the perception ‘dunno what it is.’ Probably because, when you override the brain, there is no self – after all, it is the brain’s fantasy. Hence almost everybody continues their ambivalent relationship with the brain’s experiences of something instead of entering the bliss of nothing. Read more about selflessness in Duality hack #9 In the bliss of nothing with the empty breath.

Nevertheless, no matter what perception we select, the brain’s script plays out as scheduled. That does not mean you cannot choose between going up or down, for example. But no matter what you decide, the brain already has arranged the subsequent events – like everything you do in a computer game is part of its script. Read more about the brain’s script here.

When you do not share experiences of love or anything else with someone perceived to be differentfrom you, separation gets undone.

It can be challenging to change one’s perception from ‘I know what it is’ to ‘it is what it is’ because the former perception is secured by attention towards muscle tension. And although you may like to get rid of them, you hold back because the pressures seem to block off the communication between the body and the brain. Consequently, you assume you can integrate the body with your ideas of spirituality by forcing it into unnatural positions via yoga, for example.

But that is impossible. Spirituality is non-duality, and it requires more than one to combine something. Besides, there is nothing but non-duality since it is formless, thus endless. That is why the experience of duality is fake. However, while you believe it is real, the body should be handled within the context of duality – just like you deal with the experience of being someone in a computer game within its parameters.

If every comment inside you regarding this photo is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ nothing has been added or subtracted from the experience of the image. Thus you are in sync with the brain’s rendering of it. But you are not in sync if you rearrange the comments, so they seem to prove ‘I know what it is.’ However, like parents also love their naughty kids, the brain loves you just the same. Unfortunately, only the basic self feels the love. The special self is so busy looking for something better that it does not notice the love coming with each thought from the brain. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In duality, everything comes in pairs of opposites. So going with their interaction, you are in sync with duality as orchestrated by the brain. But regardless of being in sync with the duality flow, the brain injects you with shots of happiness because it loves you as you are. However, the special self only wants what it believes is created by itself, so it enhances its experiences of bodily tensions by projecting psychological problems onto them, thus blocking out the brain’s love. (see Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix).

Even though the basic and special self may have the same bodily problems, the basic self does not blend them with psychological issues. Therefore, since the biological system works uninterrupted by non-physical matters, the brain’s happiness flows through the body’s tightened areas, which feel like shivering with joy instead of screaming in pain. That is why the basic self often is so ecstatic that it reacts to the experiences of duality as ‘dunno what it is,’ thus entering the bliss of nothing.

This can happen while you walk, sit on a bench in the park, watch a movie, or are about to fall asleep. In other words, you do not have to refrain from something or do anything in particular to get the bliss of nothing. While satisfied by nothing, you follow the brain’s script of something, which goes on as usual. Hence it is like being in a world of duality but not of it.

When you again return to the conscious experience of duality, you know it is made of nothing. Therefore, you can turn it off like you leave a dream by recognising there is nothing in it, nor you, because you are in your bed. Metaphorically, you have fun appearing as someone in a vision of duality while in your bed, perceiving your response to the dream as ‘it is what it is.’

And by perceiving it as ‘dunno what it is,’ you take a break from duality until you do not forget that you are not in the dream of duality, nor anywhere else, because that takes more than one, and there is no more than One since non-duality is formless, thus endless.

APPENDIX:
Alexius´ Enlightened Non-Teachings are written within the concept of duality. They do not claim to be non-dual or to know what it is since that requires more than one. But they claim to know what is not non-dual, namely, everything experienced, because it takes more than one to be conscious of something.

NOTE: The above article is part of Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

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‘I know what it is’ vs ‘it is what it is’ vs ‘dunno what it is’

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated April 6, 2023

Suppose you think you are on top of it and know where to go. In that case, try to imagine you do not know. Then feel which of the approaches makes life adventurous. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Duality Hacks in a particular order. But in the case of this article, you may benefit from reading Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

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When the brain’s script is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ your dark feelings are not excluded but included. Therefore this perception is not a way to the dullness of detachment but the vitality of involvement. Besides, it is very close to the nothingness from where the brain scripts its story of duality. Not as close, though, as the perception’ dunno what it is’ because it exposes all experiences are nothing.

That is why you get the bliss of nothing from perceiving your reaction to an experience as ‘dunno what it is,’ whereas you get the sadness of something specific from ‘I know what it is’ and the fullness of duality from ‘it is what it is.’

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The basic self and the special one are bound to follow the GPS coordinates from the brain without making side trips. They do not have the power to change the journey – only how to perceive it. Their perception of that, though, is different. The basic self perceives everything as ‘it is what it is,’ and the special one as ‘I know what it is.’

That is why it is easy for the basic self to be someone and very hard for the special one. It has to make a special perception of each experience, establishing that ‘I know what it is.’

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Since the perception of the special self is built upon the perception ‘I know what it is,’ it rejects what would make it relax, namely the bliss of nothing, which comes from the perception ‘dunno what it is.’

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When your reaction to something is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ there is nothing to escape. But when the perception is ‘I know what it is,’ you must avoid everything unknown to make it look like you are on top.

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The special self does not want to perceive its response to itself as ‘it is what it is,’ but as ‘I know what it is’ because the latter upholds the idea of being something specific, for example, beautiful. In contrast, the perception ‘it is what it is’ reveals tour response is twofold, thus not specifically beautiful but just as ugly. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

You do not feel stuck when perceiving your reaction to your experience as ‘it is what it is .’ Thus, there is no urge to escape or transform anything.

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Perceiving everything as ‘it is what it is,’ every experience feels good enough.

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It feels like something is missing when you perceive your reaction to an experience as ‘I know what it is’ because the perception is specific, thus suppressing its counterpart. But if your response to an incident is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ you feel complete because your reaction is revealed as twofold. However, the perception ‘dunno what it is’ does not result in a specific feeling or twofoldness. Thus you are in the bliss of nothing.

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It is the counterpart of a feeling that defines it. For example, hate defines love and vice versa. That is why you must sense your hatred to feel love. But since the special self excludes the unpleasant part of a duality pair, it has no hatred to define feeling in love. Therefore, since it does not know what love is, it reckons it feels love when it meets somebody whose psyche or body complies with its ideas of perfection.

Fortunately, this mistake is easily corrected by perceiving the assumed feeling of love as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals love is coupled with hate and constantly interacting to define each other. Going with this twofoldness, you have a genuine feeling of love regardless of whether expectations are met.

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Only the brain can make you feel good enough because nobody else knows what you are. And you do not have to get its approval because it loves you as you are. However, you do not feel that if you go against the brain. Fortunately, all you need to correct your mistake is to perceive your reaction to the experience the brain processes as ‘it is what it is’. Actually, you do not even have to do that. If you do not interfere with the brain’s workings, it automatically makes this perception.

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What do the expressions of Alexius’ cat, Wincent, mean? Alexius cannot know, but if he reckons that he does, he gets stressed from trying to make it true. But, on the other hand, if he perceives his reaction to Wincent as’ it is what it is,’ there is nothing to prove and thus no stress. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Alexius’ cat, Wincent, has had the same routine for many years. First, Wincent leaves the house early in the morning and returns when Alexius is still in bed. Then Wincent greets Alexius, lays down next to him, and waits for him to get out of bed so he can prepare Wincent’s food. At least, that is the obvious conclusion because as soon as Alexius gets out of bed, Wincent runs to the kitchen, where he, with big eyes, sits and waits for Alexius to give him food.

If Alexius believes he knows what is happening, he goes from the perception of the basic self, ‘it is what it is,’ to the perception of the special self, ‘I know what it is.’ Thus Alexius stressfully thinks about feeding his beloved cat to establish he is in the know. But Wincent does not get his food any sooner than if Alexius had remained the basic self and perceived his reaction to Wincent’s behaviour as ‘it is what it is’ because the brain’s script runs its course, no matter how it is perceived. Therefore the only difference between being the basic or special self is that the former feels relaxed when feeding Wincent and the latter very stressed.

In other words, life is effortless when you are the basic self but stressful as the special one because you use a lot of energy to fool yourself into believing you are in charge.

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When the perception of your response to an experience is ‘I know what it is,’ you feel important but also exhausted because it requires much manipulation to look like you are in the know. That is why the special self always needs more energy, contrary to the basic self, which feels fine regardless of being energetic because it has nothing to live up to.

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The brain uses five per cent of its capacity to shape the conscious experience of a self. But much more space is needed to establish the experience of the self as real. Therefore, a bigger part of the brain is used to make an exciting story about the self, that seem to have been caused by the experieces the brain creates of a dualistic world outside it. The brain expects that your reaction to this fantasy of duality is twofold. But most people react upon it trough singled-out memories, feelings and imaginations to establish themselves as someone independent of duality, thus of the brain. That is why they feel disconnected.

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When you always perceive your reaction to something as ‘it is what it is,’ you do not try to prevent the brain’s script from unfolding as planned. Hence the Enlightenment of that which is One is close at hand. Not because your story built up to it. On the contrary, when it seems to fall apart, and you do not try to avoid it, the Enlightenment of that which is One set in. Read more about that in Duality Hack #11 Going without distance to non-duality. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Practically speaking, you are always in sync with the brain. You cannot choose not to follow its script of duality. But you can choose to think you follow a better way. However, the brain does not give a damn. Its script continues as planned, so nothing has changed other than you feel disconnected.

In other words, being in sync with the brain’s script of duality is not a matter of waiting for things to happen, according to the manuscript. They always do. Instead, it is a matter of perceiving your reaction to what happens as ‘it is what it is.’ By doing that, you see your response is not singular but twofold. Thus you are in sync with the script of duality.

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When your reaction to something in the body is perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ the response is not experienced as singular because, for a moment, it is replaced by a distinct experience of its counterpart. The two opposing feelings start interacting hereafter, so you are revitalised by the duality flow.

But your feeling remains singular when you perceive what you feel in the body as ‘I know what it is’ to uphold a particular point of view. Thus you are in the misery of believing to know something definitive.

If your reaction to something in the body is perceived as ‘dunno what it is,’ you are not in the misery of believing to know something definitive because you do not know of a body that feels something. Consequently, you are in a state of not knowing, which is the bliss of nothing. Read more about a state of not knowing here.

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Roughly speaking, the perception of the special self always assumes, ‘I know what it is.’ In contrast, the basic self sticks to the brain-generated perception of ‘it is what it is.’ The non-self says, ‘dunno what it is.’ Therefore, since it does not perceive the apparent differences in the experiences produced by the brain to make a difference, it is in a state of not-knowing.

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The special self constructs a perception of every experience, so it does not seem to endanger its default assumption, ‘I know what it is.’ Hence it can go on believing it masters its life, even though it does not even know what it is.

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You feel happy when your reaction to the experiences the brain makes is perceived as ‘it is what it is’ because that reveals they are twofold. Hence you are in sync with the brain’s script of duality.

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Feeling bad does not indicate you should do something else because you have no say in what happens – only how to perceive it. If your perception is ‘it is what it is,’ the bad feeling is complemented by a good one. Therefore, since they, as a team, define each other, you also feel good when feeling bad and vice versa. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Since making a specific perception takes a long time, it is often delayed, thus out of sync with the present moment. Therefore, the frustration it entails only worsens if you try to solve it using more time to process your experience. In contrast, using the brain’s default perception, ‘it is what it is,’ you are in sync with the present moment. Hence everything feels good.

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The stories the special self makes about its greatness are not always consistent. Thus it often feels disorganised and wishes to be like those it perceives as organised. On the other hand, the basic self does not need to be anything other than in sync with the stream of thoughts coming from the brain by perceiving its reaction to it as ‘it is what it is.’

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The basic self does not assume that something will happen a specific way because every response to something is perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ Therefore, getting old and unable to do what it used to is as much a loss as a gain.

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When every feeling is perceived as ‘it is what it is.’ no emotion seems scary because they are all part of the duality flow.

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Perceiving a movie as cheap because it uses furniture from Ikea, you are probably out of sync with the plot. Hence the movie does not seem as entertaining as when your perception is synced with the story. However, this does not mean you must do something about your condemnation of Ikea to get in sync with the movie’s script.

All you need is to perceive your reaction to the furniture from Ikea as ‘it is what it is.’ When you do that, your response is revealed as twofold, wherefore, there is no specific reaction to prevent you from being in sync. Hence both the script and your misperception of it seem enjoyable. Likewise, when you perceive your response to the brain’s manuscript as ‘it is what it is.’

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Nobody, nor Alexius, is solely the basic self. The special self will exploit the innocence of the basic self. Fortunately, appearing special is not a problem for the basic self because it perceives its reaction to everything as ‘it is what it is.’ Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

When you perceive yourself as a victim of others, you are out of sync with the brain’s script because nobody causes anything but the brain, regardless it appears physical or immaterial. And everything the brain produces is out of love for everyone. Fortunately, all that is needed to correct feeling victimised is to perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’

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Triumph and disaster are not perceived as equally entertaining by the special self. Yet, that is what they are if one is perceived as ‘it is what it is’ because it reveals no triumph without disaster and vice versa.

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Many try to solve the feeling of not being appreciated by finding somebody special to admire them. But maybe most try to make the feeling disappear by judging others as wrong. However, none of these methods works because feeling unwanted comes from how you assume the world should respond to you and not how it does.

The root of this misperception can be found by walking down memory lane. But it probably takes a long time, and you may miss it. Fortunately, the misperception can be corrected immediately by perceiving feeling unimportant as ‘it is what it is.’ Since that takes the distinctness out of the feeling, it does not have a specific effect on you. Therefore, the next time you, by reflex, create an attitude to disguise feeling worthless, you laugh because ‘it is what it is.’

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A straightforward way to correct your response to yourself is to perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ That reveals it is twofold. So if your single-minded reaction is that you are wrong, you see it as interacting with being right. Therefore, since you are in the duality flow, you are not defined as someone specific, nor are those you felt you had to please. Hence they, as well as you, are seen as good enough.

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If memories from your childhood are the basis for your perception of a movie you watch as a grown-up, you are out of sync with its plot. Hence it seems frustrating rather than entertaining. Fortunately, this is corrected immediately if you perceive the plot, or your judgment of it, as ‘it is what it is.’

This perception makes the plot amusing no matter how it evolves because you are in sync with it as it is and not as you think it should be. Likewise, when the brain’s script is perceived as ‘it is what it is.’

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Since the brain’s script contains every possible experience, you are the past, the future and everything else conceivable when synced with the brain. But you are not the formlessness of oneness because it cannot be experienced. Thus all you need to cross the apparent barrier to oneness is not to experience anything.

NOTE: The above article is part of Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

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May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated January 11, 2023

See In a world of duality, there is no compassion without brutality

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No compassion without brutality in duality

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings in a particular order. But in the case of this article, you may benefit from reading Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

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What and where you appear to be in a computer game is designed by the game’s creator. You do not have the power to change that. But you can perceive it in sync with the plot or not. The latter is frustrating, and the former entertaining. The same applies to the tangible world, where you appear to be someone substantial. What and where you experience being is constructed by the brain. It cannot be changed – only your interpretation of it.

If that is in sync with the brain’s script, you feel entertained by going up and down. You scream of fear when going down and shout of joy when going up. One leads to the other. It is like two sides of a coin because everything comes in pairs of opposing elements in the brain’s script of duality.

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The special self thinks it is the master of its reality, but it cannot make something that differs from the brain’s script because it is unchangeable. Nevertheless, the special self fools itself into believing it has created something new by assigning everything a different meaning. For example, somebody who dies is not seen as done for but as going on a new journey. If others question that, they are seen as attacking a higher truth. And if science proves this truth is wrong, the special self says their facts are a hoax.

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The collaboration of the opposing sides in the duality pairs is vitalising. But since the special self excludes the dark side of the duality pairs in its perception of itself, it does not feel fulfilled by duality. However, the special self does not correct its mistake because it fears being devoured if it includes the darkness it has excluded. Thus it prefers to keep splitting the duality pairs into distinct elements to keep the darkness away, even though separation makes it suffer.

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With eyes closed, the brain may still make you see images of the world. It does not need the information from your sensory system to produce your experiences of the world like it normally claims to distract you from realising it creates all your experiences from nothing (read more about that here), including those implying you exist. Exposing the brain’s deception seems scary because it reveals you are nobody. Nevertheless, not being somebody, nobody is burdened by the brain’s deception. Thus it seems fun to appear as somebody in the brain’s world of twisting nothing in something. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In a world of duality, everything comes in pairs. That is why there is no compassion without brutality and vice versa. But since they are interconnected, you neither have compassion nor brutality but their constant interaction, which is the duality flow. That is unless you separate the opposing parts of this duality pair into distinct elements that do not support but fight each other.

Have you noticed when cats do something to each other that we perceive as wonderful, suddenly they do something we perceive as horrible? However, the cats do not seem focused on the specific feelings we assign to them. Instead, they naturally go along with the interaction of opposites.

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You think you are alive when the heart beats, the body breathes, and dead when it stops. But you neither live nor die. It is make-believe, like pretending to be someone in a computer game where everything is on the premises of its creator, who has set it up to entertain you. Appearing to be someone in the game of duality, the brain sets the premises. Everything is as mechanical as in a computer game, and also, like in such a game, it is about entertainment.

Therefore, going along with the brain’s game of duality, you are entertained, but going your own way by insisting on having singular feelings and opinions instead of twofold, you are disappointed, hence looking for specific solutions to cheer you up. But since anything distinct makes you feel more depressed, you are in a downward spiral of misery until you play the game of duality. In other words, you feel stuck if you exclude sadness to only have happiness. On the other hand, if you go with the interaction of sadness and happiness, you feel free.

In Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality, you can read about how playing the game of duality makes you leave it.

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Every experience is make-believe – just like in a role-play. However, following the instructions of the game master, it is fun being in a made-up world. Likewise, believing to be someone in a world defined by time and space is entertaining when you do not try to add or subtract something from the instructions you get from the brain.

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The happiness that comes from being in sync with the brain can be compared to the joy you feel when singing along with a song you like. Conversely, not being in sync can be compared to feeling disturbed by the same music because you want to concentrate on something you see as better. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Since the basic self is not exclusive, thus inclusive, and since everything in a world of duality comes in pairs of opposites, the inclusion of happiness contains sadness and vice versa. However, the special self is not inclusive but exclusive. Hence it does not experience the interaction of happiness and sadness. Besides, it is not in touch with its feelings because when it excludes hate to feel it solely loves someone, there is no hatred to define love, wherefore it becomes a mental concept.

If the intensity of a feeling surpasses the special self’s concepts, it is devastating because feelings always come in pairs to define each other as genuine. Thus the special self cannot see itself as loving by projecting its self-hatred on others. Instead, it feels the interaction of love and hate, which is seen as a disaster because it destroys its concept of romantic love.

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By suppressing the feelings you dislike, you also conceal those you like because everything comes in pairs in a world of duality. Therefore, since you always feel oppressed, you are not in touch with the present moment but planning the next one. Thus always feeling stressed, escaping the present, on the way to something better

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It takes more than one to be established as someone, so there is nobody in non-duality, nor anywhere else, because non-duality is formless, thus endless. Consequently, being someone in a world of duality is a fantasy. Should you want to participate in the fiction but not be burdened by it, you do not divide the duality pairs into distinct feelings but enjoy their interaction, thus feeling integrated with the fantasy of duality.

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Some confuse the basic self for being Enlightened. However, since the experience of being someone is fabricated by the brain, and all experiences are erased by the Enlightenment of that which is One, what you believe in being cannot be Enlightened.

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Should the thoughts from the brain seem to upset you, it is not because of them but how you perceive them. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Since it requires more than one to have a shape, oneness is formless, thus endless. And since it also calls for more than one to experience something, and there is no more than that which is one, the awareness of something is an illusion. However, this hallucination seems to become real when oneness is imagined being split into two, an observer and the observed because they appear to confirm the existence of each other. Hence the observer concludes that it must go on separating to be alive.

However, doing so destroys the pairs of opposites that oneness originally was split into, so each side could define the other, and their interaction would produce a whole experience of duality. Hate, for example, was paired with love to define what it is not, thus making the experience of love genuine. But when the link is broken, hate cannot outline love, wherefore it feels questionable.

That is why the observer presses on to find real love until it realises that hate and love are two sides of the same coin, wherefore you cannot have one without the other. Nor can you have peace without a fight, relief without an ache, action without inaction, perfection without imperfection, and so on.

In other words, love cannot be felt without hate, so you deceive yourself if you claim to feel only love. It is a mental concept you have plugged into that you manifest by hugging and sharing or whatever seems to establish your theoretical idea of feeling only love. Read more about that in Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix.

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Since the special self always feels something is missing in the present moment, it plans to get it in the future. But the same applies to the next moment. And so it goes on stressing for something to feel fulfilled.

The basic self does not get afterwards, nor before. Not because it lives in the now. It does not get that either. All it gets is the flow of thoughts from the brain, and since it makes the world it experiences, it never feels like anything is missing.

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Going back to the basic self appears to be the goal of many spiritual seekers. They seem to think it is without ego and therefore live in the now, come from the heart and whatnot. They are right to assume that it is not egoistic because the basic self does not establish itself as independent of the brain. But it does not know about living in the now, coming from the heart or anywhere else but the brain – like a self-driving car is managed by the internet, the brain governs it. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The special self always looks for something lasting. But nothing is constant since everything has a beginning and an end in a world of duality.

Fortunately, the end is as entertaining as the beginning when your perception is synced with the brain’s script. That is why the basic self does not need something to last.

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If you think a car in a game like Monopoly actually can drive, your perception is out of sync with the play’s script. Consequently, the game does not seem amusing but frustrating. Likewise, if you believe what you appear to be in a world of duality is going anywhere.

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Being the basic self is like being in intensive care in a hospital, except you are not sick, and still, somebody watches out for you. Actually, it is the same for the special self, but contrary to the basic one, it does not enjoy that the brain takes care of it because it perceives itself as an independent being who does things in its way and pace. But that perception is even more illusionary than believing to be someone because, within this belief, everything experienced is a product of the brain, including the experience of being independent.

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Whether you deny or accept the brain’s script, you are in a relationship with the brain. And since that confirms the foundation of the script, namely that there is more than that which is One, the brain is grateful. Thus it rewards you with shots of happiness. But, unfortunately, you do not notice it if you try to avoid the brain.

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For the special self, happiness comes from having the best, whereas it comes from having a perception in sync with the brain’s script for the basic self.

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The brain renders a world in which there appears to be somebody who can vouch for its authenticity. In return, the world attests to the existence of the one making this confirmation. But It is all fiction, and so is the story about the brain making it because there is no more than that which is One, and it takes more than one to make or experience something. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

When you binge-watch a TV show, you end up so blown out that there are no perceptions left but those in sync with the show’s script – like when the basic self happily participates in each episode of the adventure the brain produces.

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Do not expect the basic self to have a merry-go-round life. If it had, it could not see that happiness does not come from a special set-up but from a perception in sync with the brain’s script.

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If you do not make up a perception that avoids, corrects or replace the brain’s script, you confirm that the brain supplies you with everything needed. Thus you feel safe.

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Whether the self is perceived as basic or special, it is a fantasy put together by the brain, which seems real when a self reacts to another. But that is like concluding a dream is real because you meet someone in it.

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You do not appear in the physical world to learn something. Everything you encounter is made of empty space. The only purpose of your experiences, including those interpreted as spiritual, is to feel entertained by nothing disguised as something. Read more about that here.

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Your most defining experiences of being someone are stored in the brain. And as they constitute what you believe in being, you cannot have this belief undone without honouring the brain.

So although the experiences fabricated and stored in the brain are made from nothing, you should not dismiss them as something because they ratify the choice to establish you as someone in a world defined by time and space. If you do not acknowledge your choice, you cannot undo it.

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What you appear to be, was dreamed up at the edge of a black hole through which you believed to have escaped the formlessness of non-duality. Your rebelliousness continues in a world of duality, so you do not accept everything comes in pairs of opposites. You avoid it by separating the constant interaction of opposing components into disconnected elements, not supporting but fighting each other.

If you are factual-minded, you may ask, where are the facts behind the above explanation? But there are no facts in a world of duality because it is a hallucination. Reality is non-duality which is formless, thus endless. Hence a world of duality – including Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings – is a mirage. Nevertheless, they do not try to hide that but expose the fallacy of everything experienced. That is why you can use them to realise that what and where you believe in being is nothing disguised as something.

NOTE: The above article is part of Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

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Control is the fear of being wrong

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 8, 2023

Control is the fear of not being good enough to be accepted as someone in a world of something. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The wish to change ourselves often started in childhood. We quickly learned that when we changed our appearance per the expectations of our parents, they would see us as more lovable. Thus we started controlling our expressions to manipulate others into giving us more attention so that we could feel more loved. Read more about that here.

CONTROL IS THE FEAR OF NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH
Maybe your parents wanted you to quit diapers before you had completed your toilet training. So to look like you were ready, thus getting your parent’s approval as the perfect child, you controlled your urination by tightening the muscles in the loin. But your manipulation of the body messed up its connection with the biological system. Hence the communication between the body and the brain was disrupted.

Therefore, since your body was left on its own, it tried to fix the blockage in the loin by balancing it with a new issue in the shoulder, neck or jaw. Maybe all of them, or at least the jaw, because reinforced in a forward position, you can easily maintain an appearance you imagine others will like, thus escaping feeling wrong.

But perhaps the body chose to counteract the blockage in the loin with one in the feet so that many years after, something seems wrong there. Or it might have balanced the problem with stiffness in the hands, showing up later as something you assume is caused by a smartphone or a computer.

Although you can diminish the new problems in the body via massage and acupuncture, for example, the relaxation will not last because the hardened loin needs them to balance it out. And the new problems need the loin to remain rigid to balance them out. That is how the body deals with its issues when the natural flow of the biological system seems suspended.

Healing the psychological part of a psychosomatic combo takes no time. All psychological feelings are fleeting, so they pass on when looked at where they are conceived in the mental sphere. You deal with the physical part by stepping back. Thus the body can heal with itself without being forced to do it per your wellness expectations. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

However, since the brain’s script is as fixed as the earth’s motion around the sun, the physical tensions in the loin mentioned above would have occurred regardless of whether you adjusted to your parents’ expectations to feel loved. But if you had not tried to hide your fear of being alone by projecting it onto the body, the tension in the loin would not have seemed to be a mix of psychological and physical issues but solely physical, thus not a mystery.

Fortunately, untangling a psychological and physical mixup is never too late. All you need is to perceive your reaction to the unrest the psychosomatic disorder seems to entail in the present as ‘it is what it is.’ Since that reveals your response is twofold, there is no specific reaction to ratify a blend of psychological and physical issues. Thus thoughts and feelings are not seen manifested in the body but abstractly in the mental sphere. Saying ‘it is what it is’ is not the same as saying, »I do not care.« That is a singular statement, so it does not undo the unfortunate belief that psychological and physical issues can be combined.

Having a satisfied body is not about how you use it but why. For example, if your reason for getting a massage is physical, your body feels revitalised. But if the reason is psychological, your body feels burdened. In other words, when the body is uninterrupted by your mental view of wellness, it feels safe. But if you inflict it with non-physical ideas of perfection, it fights your intrusion – also, if you pump it up to look better.

In Duality Hack #7 Physical & non-physical issues do not mix, you can read about how to undo the belief in a body-mind connection. Hence returning to a happy relationship with the body, similar to the relationship you have with the clothes you wear, not assuming they wrinkle because of something you feel or think but because that is how they are built.

However, there is a shortcut you can use immediately to undo your mental invasion of the body, namely, apologise for misusing it to manifest mental ideas of wholeness.

Everything always goes your way. If it does not seem so, you are not going your way. That does not mean you are going the wrong way. It is not possible. But it is possible to perceive the way so that it is out of sync with your nature. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

YOU CANNOT BE WRONG BECAUSE THAT TAKES MORE THAN ONE
The above explanation of cause and effect is not entirely correct. Nothing adds up in a world where there seems to be more than one because there is no more than that which is one since it is formless, thus endless. That is what the explanations in Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings are meant to illustrate. And that is why they only work when used to expose more than one as fantasy.

This explanation is also fictional because nobody makes or has the fantasy of more than One because it requires more than one. So ultimately speaking, it does not matter if you are in sync with the brain’s script, thus feeling connected, or you perceive it to appear more exceptional than designed, thus not in sync and, therefore, feeling disconnected.

However, in the context of a world where there seems to be more than one, everything seems much more manageable when one’s perception is in sync with the brain’s script, thus being a basic self. That requires no effort. But seeking out specific thoughts to create a particular image of yourself is stressful because it makes the thoughts scamper and fight each other. Hence the special self concludes it is best to get rid of some or all thoughts or at least slow them down via meditation or something else that supports the idea of being in control.

But that enhances the problem: the special self perceives itself as the master and the brain as its servant. It is the other way around. Therefore if the special self honours the brain by perceiving its experiences as they are and not as they should be according to the special self, the few thoughts required for having a perception in sync with the brain are unnoticed.

NOTE: The above article is part of Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

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In constant interaction of opposites

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated April 7, 2023

Like a self-driving car needs instructions from the internet about where to go, a human entirely relies on the brain. All impulses come from there, and all experiences, whether they seem yours or others, physical or spiritual. So unless you perceive yourself as independent of the brain, you are automatically connected with everything you experience, thus feeling fulfilled. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

In most cases, you do not have to read Alexius’ Duality Hacks in a particular order. But in the case of this article, you benefit from reading Duality Hack #5 The worry-free life of the basic self.

GOING UP AND DOWN, THUS FEELING COMPLETE
The thoughts the basic self receives from the brain are tailored to its specific personality. For example, Alexius has a storeroom manager personality with touches of scholastic and academician traits (read more about that here). So whether he outlines Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings into duality hacks or organises his music into particular groups, he is in sync with the brain’s script.

There is nothing magic about following the GPS instructions when driving a car, nor about following the instructions of the brain when moving the body. It is as easy as pie when your perception is in sync with the thoughts coming from the brain.

When Alexius lost his business, wife and house, he moved to a tiny room with a new girlfriend. But soon, he lost her too. However, since the subsequent sadness was perceived as ‘it is what it is,’ he did not say no but yes to how the brain’s script worked out for him. Thus he was in touch with the happiness the brain shared with him continually. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Before Alexius started writing the duality hacks, he seemed scripted to go bankrupt with the businesses he had owned for many years. He did that without perceiving it as unjust but as ‘it is what it is.’ Since that perception is in sync with the brain’s script, going down felt as entertaining as going up – like being on a rollercoaster (read more about that here).

However, if he had tried to be detached from going under, he could not have perceived it as ‘it is what it is’, thus not feeling amused by the low down and high interaction and therefore out of sync with the brain’s script. Being in sync with that is not a matter of siding with it but perceiving your reaction to it as ‘it is what it is.’ By doing that, all your single-minded feelings are revealed as twofold, wherefore you are in sync with the brain’s script of twofoldness, thus feeling fulfilled by the duality flow. See hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

Believing to be somebody, you are either the basic or special self. If the brain’s script is perceived as it is, you are the basic self. But when the perception rest on how the script should be, you appear to know better, thus being a special self.

Nevertheless, the brain’s script goes on unaffected by your perception – just like the captain an aeroplane on its way to Spain continues as scheduled regardless of your perception of the flight.

But suppose the consciousness that the brain has built into the self goes rogue and insists on having specific feelings, such as being happy, not sad. In that case, the special self tries to manifest that by making a perception of the script based on a philosophy that separates happiness and sadness. However, since this perception is out of sync with the script, no matter how beautiful a picture your philosophy paints of the world, it does not make you genuinely happy because, without sadness, the happiness you believe in feeling is thought up.

It requires no effort for the basic self to be happy, whereas it takes much work for the special self to get a taste of it. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

To hide this deception, some meet in groups to establish their conceptualised feelings as genuine. For example, in a small group worshipping someone who promises eternal happiness without sadness. Or in a big group like a country, following established concepts to get happy by doing the right thing.

But since every group is based on refusing the wrong ones, the members who do not rule out others per the group’s agreed concepts are seen as traitors. Hence they are banned from the group until they revert to its concepts and reject everything that defies the group. Some may choose to start a new group instead.

Although the basic self has no need to follow a specific concept, it may have to show off as single-minded to function in the conceptualised world around it. But internally, it is free to follow the duality flow. Hence it is close to the perception ‘dunno what it is,’ thus the bliss of nothing. However, that does not mean it is Enlightened. On the contrary, no kind of self-awareness survives the Enlightenment of that which is One (read more about that here).

If you are scripted to jog every second day, you cannot push yourself to run every day – like a movie goes forward as scripted regardless of how much you want to speed it up. However, being in sync with the brain’s script does not mean you have to stop wishing it was different, but that you perceive your reaction to the discrepancy as ‘it is what it is.’ When you do that, everything feels good enough as it is.

Whether your perception is in sync with the brain’s script, you cannot plan for something not scripted to happen. Fortunately, there is no urge to plan anything when your perception is synced with the script. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen

IN THE FLEETING MOMENTS
If you perceive the sun to go up and down, your perception is out of sync with the brain’s script because the sun does not go up and down. Instead, what and where you believe in being is moving very fast.

When your perception is synced with the speed of the Earth, you feel calm inside while racing outside.

Therefore, your perception is not coordinated with what is happening, namely that your feet are spinning at around 1.000 miles an hour while the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67.000 miles an hour. That is why you do not feel the thrill of moving at this high rate, but the depression from a static perception founded on insecurity.

This stagnant perception, which society supports, is meant to make you think that fulfilment does not come from not resonating with the present movement as it is but a slowed-down version. Read more about that here. Hence, you have time to compose a perception of yourself as powerful, humble, balanced, active or whatever you reckon makes you secure.

But there is no time to make up such a perception when feeling the pulsation of the moment, nor is there any need to do that because the body shivers with ecstasy as if shaken by an earthquake of tenderness. The Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk takes you there by playing extremely rapid, intricate patterns of notes, producing overtones so trance-inducing that a cascade sound of purity makes you forget, it is ignited by the speed and complexity underneath it.

However, the special self avoids speediness because it needs time to control its appearance to look balanced. Hence it meditates or does something else to slow things down so it has time to make a static perception of itself.

IN THE DUALITY FLOW
Fortunately, you do not have to listen to Lubomyr Melnyk or sense the speed of the Earth to be in sync with the present’s movement. All you have to do is go with the duality flow. See Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality. This hack (#6) is about getting into the duality flow by perceiving your single-minded reaction to the moment as ‘it is what it is.’ It reveals your response is not singular but twofold, consisting of opposing elements constantly interacting, wherefore you are vitalised by the duality flow.

In other words, instead of hanging onto being specifically happy, for example, you go with the interaction of happiness and sadness, thus neither being happy nor sad, but in their constant interaction, which means you are in sync with the speed of the present. It also means the specific mood, previously used to provide a sense of safety, cannot be recalled as everything is twofold.

However, that does not mean you have lost anything because your favourite mood always interacted with its complementary part. Therefore, since you are in the duality flow when not suppressing the constant interaction of opposites, and since everything has an end in duality, it is bound to disappear and leave nothing but non-duality.

NOTES ABOUT NOTHING

No matter how you experience the appearances on a computer screen and where you believe the experience comes from, what you experience is not there. Every part of it is a computer-generated simulation, and it only seems real because you want to perceive it like that.
A dream is a construction of nothing that never leaves the dreamer, although it seems to happen in a world outside of it. Likewise, the self and the world that appears to be outside of it is a construction of nothing that never leaves the brain, regardless of what and where the self believes in being.

NOTE: The above article is part of Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

Filed Under: ´´I know what it is´ or ´it is what it is´ or ´dunno what it is´, Modern-Day Spirituality

Happiness is to be in touch with the brain

May 4, 2016 by Alexius Jorgensen

Updated May 14, 2023

What you believe in being can be compared to a smartphone. Although it can do thousands of things, it depends entirely on its operator – just like you do on the brain. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

ENJOYING THOUGHTS IS ENJOYING YOURSELF
Even though the brain deceives you by making experiences that appear to establish you as someone substantial in a tangible world, it is not your enemy. On the contrary, the brain wants to make you happy. If that is not how you feel, you have most likely disassociated yourself from the brain’s experiences by not perceiving them as they are but how they could be, per a philosophy imagined to make the world better than the brain’s.

But since everything in this perception revolves around you knowing better than the brain, and since you do not know who you are, it is hard work to make it look like you, not the brain, knows what is best. Therefore, you meditate or force your body into strange positions to cut off the brain to free yourself from its perceived tyranny and be connected with your real self.

However, there is nothing but the self that the brain has invented and implemented with consciousness to perceive the experiences the brain fabricates from nothing as something, so the self seems to be somebody in a tangible world. Therefore, since every experience is a fantasy of the brain, there is nothing to experience, neither mundane nor spiritual, when not living by the brain.

Although the basic self feels free to follow the brain and the special self believes it is free from it, none is free. The brain processes all experiences, also those believed to come from the heart, higher consciousness and whatnot, so we are a product of the brain. The special self denies it and opposes the brain. But what you fight, you need. On the other hand, the basic self does not hide its brain dependency but happily counts on it.

You are in the brain’s domain when experiencing something because it produces all experiences. Therefore, since the brain loves you, the thoughts it makes do not trouble but soothe you when in touch with the brain. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

No worries, since not living by the brain is an experience, you still live by it if you think you are free of it. Therefore, since the brain gets what it wants, namely that although its experiences are made from nothing, you ratify them as something, thus making the brain real. This makes it so happy that it wants to share it with you to make you feel alive. But unfortunately, most people do not notice the happiness the brain shares with them because they want to be free from it to do things in their own way and time.

But since that never works as planned, they have to make it look like it does by excluding everything from their awareness that does not support the idea of being in control. However, since exclusion enhances separation, they feel disconnected. Fortunately, the mistake is easily undone. If you acknowledge feeling separated, you can perceive it as ‘it is what it is.’ And since that reveals separation contains union, feeling united is all there is until separation quickly returns to be replaced by united shortly afterwards. In this teamwork of opposites, you stop feeling them specifically and start sensing their interaction: the duality flow.

Therefore, you feel complete since you are in sync with the brain’s script of duality. Read more about the perception ‘it is what it is’ in ‘I know what it is’ vs ‘it is what it is’ vs ‘dunno what it is’ and the duality flow in Duality Hack #8 The duality flow goes to non-duality.

Watching TV series, you do not have to do anyhing to be engaged other than perceiving it by its plot. It makes you feel so entertained that you forget yourself. Likewise, in daily life when you perceive the brain’s script ‘it is what it is’ and not as it should be.

The brain’s script is neither logical, rational, nor consistent. But when your perception remains in sync with it continuously, you feel as blown out as after binge-watching a TV show, thus feeling free. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

BLOWN OUT BY THE BRAIN
Being in touch with the natural flow of thoughts from the brain can be compared to being in sync with the plot of a movie. It is easy because the film contains hints about how to perceive it.

For example, the director has added emotional music to manipulate you into interpreting the movie per its script. And the bad guys arrive in black, which in the Western world is associated with evil. But suppose you doubt this meaning and try to construct a better one based on concepts unrelated to the film. Then, since you break up the story, you do not feel entertained but bored by the movie.

In other words, nothing feels entertaining if you think you know better than the director and keep imagining how the movie could have been if edited per socialism or another ism you believe in making the world better. In that case, you only feel entertained by the specific parts of the movie perceived as aligned with your ism.

On the other hand, when you do not question the movie’s storyline but jump into the adventure as it is, you feel linked with the whole film – likewise, accepting the brain’s story of duality, you feel connected.

In roleplay, you can become anyone you like. However, everyone is predefined by the gamemaster, so you must act accordingly. Also, in the game of duality. You are never your own but the brain’s, because it is the gamemaster.Fortunately, that does not mean you must like the brain’s script. You can perceive it as you like. However, you do not feel connected if your perception does not align with the script but how it could be.

No matter what way you go and why you reckon to do it, the reason is that the brain has told you to do it. Therefore, having a perception in sync with the brain’s playbook, obstacles along the way add to the entertainment. But having made a perception where you are in charge, you are out of touch with the brain, so the same obstacles add to the stress you feel from having to do everything yourself. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

TAKING A BREAK FROM THE BRAIN
Should you want to take a break from the brain’s script of duality, all you need is to not be in sync with it. But not like the special self who revolts against it, thus depends upon it.

To be free of the script of duality, you ignore it by not making a statement like the special self who says, ‘I know what it is.’ Nor do you, like the basic self, declare ‘it is what it is,’ but gently say ‘dunno what it is.’ Since the brain’s script of duality is unconfirmed, you enter a state of not-knowing, where the slate is wiped clean. Hence you return to the consciousness of duality as the basic self, feeling happy to be with your best friend, the brain. Read more about that in A state of not-knowing and the after-effect.

NOTE: The above article is part of Duality Hack #6 Happiness is to be in touch with the brain.

Filed Under: ´´I know what it is´ or ´it is what it is´ or ´dunno what it is´, Modern-Day Spirituality, Psychosomatic

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