Dualistic thinking Options

Dualistic thinking is very relevant to people following spiritual paths of any kind, since it involves believers who claim to see and experience another existence and others who having not experienced anything they would describe as other-worldy, disregard these claims and it therefore divides people into two camps.

The language used is also a form of dualism as it separates entities into good and bad and places into discrete areas thus: Heaven and Hell.

Is dualistic thinking useful and a good way of hanging ideas on hooks for further exploration or does it lead to extremes of thought that lack balance and settle people into positions that are hard to find their way out of?

Thank you Sabazel, this topic has moved on apace since I retired for the night and I was just about to clarify, but you have done this beautifully for me. Thank you.

Yes chaoscrowley37, this thread was started as the Lucifer topic was going off-topic.

Reading through, I can see that this might be a good point to clarify my question for one or two of you.

I am asking about ways of thinking.

I am not asking if something is good or bad per se, but rather how far is it useful?

It is clearly helpful to have metaphors and words that describe an area of thought or a collective group of related things, but when does this grouping no longer help, when does it start to form divisions and turn out to be something that traps the mind rather than adds to existing knowledge?

How easy is it to change your point of view once you have become entrenched in one set of beliefs with all of the associated language it uses.

I will not mind if this topic moves away from my original question quite naturally into something else as long as it is about dualistic thinking in a recognizable form.

Lastly, lets be careful about how we address other members views.