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?

In order to change your system of judgement you must first understand what it is made up of. What makes up your belief system, your personality, your moral. This is something which I mentioned in a previous post.

Most people take over other peoples, or generally accepted, ideals and personality traits. These often create, what I find, limitations. People are responsible for their own life and personality. However most takes places on a subconcious level. People do change over time, but it is never an easy change. The reason is because most people battle themselves...their concious vs subconcious. But in fact those two should be working together.

Causing a change isn't as easy as I make it seem. No it takes practice and can be very confrontational with yourself. You will have to take your subconcious and make it concious. See, feel, experience every thought and every personality trait you have and anything else. You will notice that a lot of personality traits and ways of thought are not how you truly want to be. You will feel uncomfortable with many observations about yourself. By acknowledging them to be there, without automatically casting judgement over them....you can then accept them and embrace your negative aspects. Accept them to be there instead of fighting against them. Once you've done that you can slowly get rid/alter your personality and way of thinking. This is basically how you change your moral system and anything else you want to alter, because you're feeling unhappy about them.

Is it worth doing so? Very much so. It'll be painfull and confrontational, but you'll learn more about yourself and everything around you. You will be able to become the person you truly want to be and solve issues because you'll understand that most issues were created in ways that make no sense at all when you think about it. You'll find more peace of mind and not only become more open minded, but more open hearted as well. Because you'll see that most dualistic is a way of shielding yourself out of harms way you'll end up not feeling the need to shield yourself off and show yourself....your true self.

How far is dualistic thinking usefull? In my opinion it's useless. There is only one aspect in which it is usefull. Since you're judging everything you're catagorizing everything. This makes it easier to have a clear over view in order to deal with matters. However...if you wouldn't judge, you wouldn't even have most issues to begin with. You wouldn't be spending a lot of energy and would actually have more left to spend on other things. More positive things to attract into your life and the peope around you.

People say this is Masterbation of the mind or that this way of "philosophical" thinking is useless. I'm sorry to disapoint you all. In my case it is experience - knowledge - wisdom. I actually live this way and never even thought I was being philosophical or living in a fake textbook world. This actually IS my life and I'm talking from years of experience.

Now let's be philosophical. What is this "real world" you all talk about? We all generate our own realities in which we live, microcosm.

This post has been edited by Sabazel: Dec 22 2005, 09:37 AM