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 / Non-Dualistic Thinking = Dualistic Thinking

(grins)

lol. yes. im not sure we can escape dualism. since its embedded in our perceptions as human beings:

i am different from everything around me. i am me and everything else is not me. Therefore there are opposing qualities that separate that distinguish me from everything else. what are those qualities?

i think as you age, its just reinforced over and over again. i'm not sure dualism can be abolished...unless you want to obliterate a very important part of your own identity. and even then, well...it'll just default back into individualism again.

and of course, just because you reedit your perception of yourself, doesn't mean that your perception can reedit the relation you have with your surroundings. it'll just fall back into a similar pattern as do most animal's roles.

personally i think its better to be able to use this so called "limitation" as an advantage.

You don't have to live in a box...you can make it look like a circle. hehe. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif)