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Duality versus non-duality is the key distinction being made in A Course in Miracles (ACIM App). The metaphysical and psychotherapy principles are base in helping you understand how to choose non-duality because that is the choice needing to made. Until you grasp this type of perception and correct choosing, it can seem frustrating and impossible to achieve. However, the process is learning the principles and then applying them. You also have to remember that the part of you feeling frustrated is the ego, judgments of duality. Which the principle of non-duality withdraws belief from when put into practice.
Frustration is an emotion the ego uses to keep you stuck in duality. Because if you start choosing Love (non-duality), that’s death to it. As with all emotions, frustration is a judgment being use to defend the ego’s idea of separation and protect its position. Ultimately, it is the choice for attack on yourself because you are not at peace which is your true nature. And, you only attack from having already chose to feel guilty.
Choosing internal dialogue compose of duality defenses is the basis of the ego’s thought system. Where it asks you to choose between two things (guilt or fear) in your mind. A very common mis-perception is about what you are choosing between and in this article we’re going to discuss the choice between duality and non-duality from the perspective of ACIM.
Duality is Fear and Guilt:
Duality is the ego’s false kingdom rule by fear as the ego’s substitute for Love, and guilt as the reason you are fearful. The dualistic system asks you to make choices, which seem like opposites. But are really between the two roles of victim and victimizer within the same system.
The victim feels guilty over what did happen (past), or fearful of what will happen (future). The victimizer feels guilty over what did happen (past), or fearful of what will happen (future). That is choice within the same dualistic system. Either role, as the first dualistic choice, still presents another dualistic choice between fear and guilt which further fragments the mind.
By definition dualism is: (a) the division of something conceptually into two opposed. Or contrasting aspects; and, (b) a system of thought as a reality in terms of two independent principles. Victim and victimizer are the aspects in part (a); and fear and guilt are the reality principles in part (b). Principles of fear and guilt are the fundamental truths of the ego in dualism.
