Reply #53: Yes, perzackly. "The political ramifications of the consciousness of unity" is right.

[GliderGuider]

The deeper I get into all this, the more impressed I am by the conundrum of the fundamentally paradoxical qualities of humanity. Our sense of having free will despite feeling that we're ruled by destiny, our need to be part of a larger whole as much as we need to be autonomous, our ability to flow with the Tao while remaining in some way "in control", our coexistent altruism and selfishness, the fact that we are both reactive and proactive - it's a marvelously tangled skein that can take a lifetime to unravel.

The paradoxical nature of our existence is another reason I like non-dualist philosophies. Rather than trying to untangle life to find the "one true way", non-dualism encourages us to embrace the contradictions - to live within them, to recognize that we each hold all possible human qualities, no matter how apparently opposed they are. Like accepting that each of us are both Mother Teresa and Pol Pot at the same time. In this reality there are no one-sided coins.

The embracing of contradiction leads to a position from which the unity of all things is obvious. That perspective can be enormously liberating. From a liberated perspective everything seems possible - and much more actually becomes possible.