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?

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?

Dualistic thinking is indeed a flawed result of our education and pressures to conform to what is percieved as 'normal'. I prefer to at least attempt Uni-listic thinking. Young children have no problem at all with this, they call it 'make-believe'. Trying to 'get it back' is the hardest thing i've ever done. The ability to 'see both sides at once' is the ultimate desire for any magickal person. Visualize a young girl walking with her family down an everyday sidewalk. As they walk, she jumps from one particular colored block to another particular colored block to another, for no apparent reason to the rest of the world except her, and her parents grow angry and yell at her to 'hurry up!'. The spell she is creating in her alternate reality is as real as any major invocation. There is no good or bad in her mind, just the spell she is making. Ethics dictates we test the purpose/direction of all magickal works before we releasing them. Simply a quick 'gut-check' for a 'bad feeling about doing this' is sufficent to discern the validity of a working.

E.
Yule '05 (the Journey through the Underworld)
"Love and Hate in Balance, Through the Right Use of Will"