We often want to know that without evil, there can be no good, without evil, there can be God, without white, there can be black, without hatred, there can be love, without sadness, etc.

Our generation is used to seeing the world through the prism of duality. We often want to know that without evil, there can be no good, without evil, there can be God, without white, there can be black, without hatred, there can be love, without sadness, etc. Indeed, we are used to seeing everything in black or white. The view of

keeps us away from reality. You must have heard a lot of people talking about higher self and ultimate reality. What is the ultimate reality? This is definitely not duality. In fact, it is exactly the opposite, it is non-dual. In non-binary, you will find the answer to who you are.

What is your ultimate goal?

Non-binary is the true nature of our life. This is a way of life, in which everything is considered a consciousness. It can also be considered a structure of our existence.

Unconsciously, we all inherit a sinister belief about the nature of reality. This is the most basic assumption in our common sense and is taken for granted.

This is the worldview of materialism . This paradigm believes that our inner (i.e., mind) is completely different from our outer world (material).

Many people believe that this sense of separation is the root of many crises facing the world today, whether it is environmental deterioration, factory agriculture, ubiquitous sense of disconnection, nihilism and indifference in our culture, or the growing mental health crisis.

But is this true? Is it scientifically accurate? Or is the essence of reality more meaningful?

New evidence from Quantum physics , consciousness neuroscience and analysis Idealism , begins to show us a more interconnected picture of the world. This picture regards thinking as the most basic, and everyone's life is a microcosm of a larger whole.

Interestingly, this view is consistent with the teachings of many of the greatest wisdom traditions in the world, as well as the teachings of non-binary eternal philosophy.

will provide a simple introduction to non-duality, take a look at the scientific evidence that supports it, and study its meaning to improve the quality of our daily life Meaning.

But first, let's define the meaning of "consciousness".

What is consciousness?

Consciousness makes all experience possible, but it is not an experience itself. It is the background consciousness of all experiences and events unfolding. You can imagine it as a movie theater screen where movies are played.

Although countless movies are played on the screen and the content changes, the screen itself is always the same.

Similarly, our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are temporarily appearing in consciousness, just like different images , stories and characters appear on the screen.

But these are temporary and fleeting. Consciousness is the screen itself.

This is the "I am" that runs through your life. Witnesses of all your experiences. When you are 8 years old, it is there when you are 18 years old, and when you are 80 years old, it is still there.

Why is this important?

Every experience in our life is filtered out through the "screen" of consciousness. This is our interface with the world.

However, we rarely stop to ask, What is the essence of a screen?

nothing is more important than this. Because unless you understand the nature of things, you cannot really understand anything specific, whether it is molecules, thoughts or other creatures.

Everything you know is filtered through known mediums and appears according to its limitations.

Think of it as skiing with orange glasses, which makes the snow look orange.

When you gradually become fully focused on skiing, you forget to wear glasses and start to think that snow is orange. Forgot your glasses bring it this color.

In the same way, our consciousness "colors" everything we go through and is a medium for everything we know or experience.

So nothing is more important than knowing its nature.

This is not Sologue and non- dualism . Many people confuse non-duality with soloism.

This is a belief that reality only exists in your personal mind.

According to solipsism, the only "real" thing in the whole world is what is happening in your brain. Everything (and everyone else) is a simple avatar; illusions are created by your imagination in the movies of your life.

is a bit like "Trumen's World" that has been steroid-injected.

On the contrary, a non-dual perspective does not mean that reality only exists in your personal mind. Instead, it assumes that everything exists in a larger mind.

Everything is composed of consciousness. And everyone's thoughts are just an expression of consciousness.

Conceive the following scenario. You went to bed tonight and dreamed that you were a person named Huguan who lives in Shenyang.

In a dream, you have a subjective experience, you feel that you are outside the Huguan and that you are in Shenyang. You go to Zhongshan Square , call a taxi, and then go for a walk in the park.

This experience is so real to you that you completely forget that you slept well in the bed at home.

In a dream, when you close your eyes, you no longer see Shenyang, only darkness.

When you cover your ears, you can no longer hear the bustling sound of the city.

So, you start to think that "who am I" is the center of consciousness located behind your eyes. Call it "thought".

And everything outside the subjective "I" boundary (such as buildings, trees, cars, etc.) is "matter". There is a difference between the two.

This means you are walking in Shenyang, thinking about having "you" (think), and then the world outside your world (matter), which causes you to feel disconnected from it.

But a few hours later, you wake up and realize that everything in your dream is an inseparable reality created by your imagination. In a dream, you feel that you are a subjective entity outside the Huguan, separate from the content of the dream (plaza, park, taxi, etc.).

But in fact, this is the most important point, so please read it slowly, the whole experience. Whether it is becoming a subjective experience outside Huguan in a dream, or the streets of Shenyang, it is composed of a "matter" and your thoughts.

Now, if we take this analogy to a higher level, non-dual intelligence regards each of our subjective experiences (mind) and the world around us (matter) we experience as belonging to a larger mind.

regards this thinking as "dreaming" of our subjectivity, just like you dreaming of Hu's outside the gate and temporarily agree with him.

Just like the separation of Hu Guan and the world around him is an illusion caused by the dream state, the separation of our subjective experience (mind) and the world around us (matter) is also an illusion.

philosopher, former CERN 2 scientist, Dr. Bernardo Castroup's "vortex" metaphor.

Each vortex has a boundary, distinguishing it from the rest of the river and forming a unique pattern. This allows us to point to the vortex and say that it is there, but not here.

But you can't say that the vortex and the river are "separate". The way to describe it more accurately is to "localize" the entire river in one place.

Similarly, the human brain will not generate consciousness out of thin air. Instead, it is the localization of stream of consciousness literature , just as whirlpools are localization of rivers.

You can draw its boundaries and say "it's here, but not there", just like you can draw the boundaries of a vortex.

However, just like a vortex only has water, the body only has consciousness.

You cannot raise the vortex from the river, nor do you can separate the body from the consciousness it comes from.

Everyone's thoughts are the expression of a micro world in a larger macro world.

Now, if that is the case, you will expect to find the same pattern at the micro level as at the macro level. There is an interesting discovery in this regard, how the structure of the brain is associated with the structure of the universe.

Using network topology and information theory tools, scientists discovered that the brain's neuronal network has 86 billion neurons, which is surprisingly similar to the cosmic network of galaxies in the universe.

We do find the same "structure" as the macro level (galaxies in the universe) at the micro level of the human brain, which shows that both come from the same source, and perhaps the way the universe produces thinking is like the apple tree "apples", river "vortex", and ocean "waves".

Now let's see how non-duality aligns with the latest neuroscience.

Neuroscience of consciousness, we half perceive the world, and half create the world.

The development of consciousness neuroscience shows that the world we experience (i.e., everything we see, hear, touch, smell and taste) is a combination of two things, sensory information from the environment (photons of light, vibrations of air, etc.). and our brains’ best predictions of these signals.

This means that we cannot see the true face of the world. Instead, we receive sensory information from the environment ( photon , vibration, etc.), and our brain then uses past experience to predict what a particular configuration of the stimulus means.

Then, it puts these two things (stimulus and prediction) together to create a 3D psychological representation of the world around us. We call it reality.

The sun will not be bright without eyes. A world without skin, rocks will not be hard. A world without muscles will not be heavy. Existence is a relationship, and you are in the middle of the relationship.

To illustrate this, let's look at an ancient question. Will a tree make a sound when no one hears it?

According to non-dual understanding and consciousness of neuroscience, it makes no sound.

If the tree falls, it will cause air vibrations around the impact area. But if there is no tympanic membrane around, then these vibrations will not be converted into sound. Sound requires a perceptual entity with eardrums. The same is true for photons of

. Photons from the sun "illuminate" the tree. But without eyes converting them into images, they can only be photons.

is a bit like 1 and 0 used to make computer games.

So we have been co-creating this world. The world is the interaction between an infinite reality and the perceiver within it.

Without a proxy (i.e., mind), you will not have the world. I specifically talk about the "world" here because different sensory systems create completely different worlds.

Why our intuition misleads us. The world is not what we see, but the way we see it.

Everything you can experience happens through the "window" of your five senses, see, listen, touch, smell, taste.

These five senses provide humans with our unique understanding of the world. Have you ever considered that there may be other reality besides these five senses?

What we see is not the true nature of the world, but part of the world. Our five senses bring us into contact with things. It is very likely that we coexist with other realities at the same time, but just don’t have the “consciousness” to adapt to them.

If this sounds far-fetched, then think about it, other animals can get sensory information completely beyond the scope of human perception.Do you know that snakes can detect infrared radiation?

Can be a bee sense Earth's magnetic field ? Or can a mantis shrimp see ten times the color that is human? These examples tell us that we do not see "reality".

We only see a small part of it, what the human sensory system can get.

If you have a different sensory system, you will experience a different world.

Therefore, it is reasonable for us to coexist with multiple realities that exist outside our consciousness, and when we change the state of consciousness, we briefly "tune" to these other realities.

Psychedelics and head trauma

Many people say their psychedelic journey is one of the most meaningful experiences in their lives. Claiming to experience new reality, saying that it feels connected to something bigger than yourself, often seeing rich visual images.

Currently, hallucinogens are used clinically to break severe addiction, treat refractory depression, and cure post-traumatic stress disorder .

If materialism is correct, you will think these experiences are related to a significant increase in brain activity.

However, since 2012, multiple studies from many different groups have consistently found that the use of psychedelics can lead to a significant decrease in brain activity. This leads some to think that the psychedelic experience may be a model of death.

This is obviously a huge leap, so let me explain it. Proponents of this view argue that when in a psychedelic state, reduced brain activity is the activity that causes us to feel separated from the world around us.

This reduction can temporarily reintegrate our consciousness with the larger brain that is disconnected. It's kind of like "mini death" where you can come back and tell the story.

Interestingly, a Johns Hopkins University study involving more than 3,000 adults found that participants had significantly lower fear of death after experiencing a psychedelic experience.

In addition, new advances in cognitive science and evolutionary biology point out that our ordinary state of self-awareness is a filter shaped by natural selection to help us survive and reproduce.

So it filters out anything that has nothing to do with these goals, which means we only see a small part of the world, which is also in line with non-dual understanding.

further evidence supporting this view is that in multiple cases, head trauma leads to increased awareness. There is a particularly interesting story about Padgett, a mattress salesman who became a math genius with academic abilities and insight after being hit hard in the head in a violent robbery.

When the researchers put Paggit into the MRI scanner , they found that he could access parts of his brain that were usually inaccessible, and his visual cortex now works in sync with areas that process mathematics.

This allowed him to draw extraordinary fractal diagrams that Padgett believed "hold the key to the universe."

And the story of Jill Taylor, the neuroscientist experienced a left-brain stroke and suddenly faced a whole new reality.

As described in Taylor's speech, it's as if my consciousness has moved from my normal perception of reality (I'm the one on the machine, having this experience) to some mysterious space where I'm witnessing myself having this experience.

These examples support the idea that we are part of a larger mind, and our daily state of consciousness is like a filter that makes us feel separated from it, just as some people are so addicted to playing a role in dreams that they forget to dream.

The meaning of non-dual understanding, if you have gone so far, you are likely to think, which may be interesting. But what impact does this have on our daily life experience?

non-dual understanding has three main meanings. First, it brings a deep connection to all life.

Without realizing this, we all grew up under the assumption of materialism, thinking about who we are, fundamentally speaking. It is a skin that encapsulates oneself, and life has no inner purpose, meaning or wisdom.

Life is actually just the result of a blind, unconscious, automatic process, and somehow, through some luck, it successfully "derives" consciousness from matter. So we feel that we are out of place with the world around us.

However, when you take a non-binary perspective and see everything as the mind, and you yourself are just a microscopic expression of that universal wisdom, you begin to feel like you are embedded in the world. Realize that everything you go through is an extension of yourself.

You will not feel alienated, but you will feel that you are participating in the great unfolding of life.

Marco Aurelius said as early as 2000 years ago that never forget that the universe is a single organism with a matter and a soul that suspends everything in a single consciousness and creates everything with a single purpose so that they can work together, spin, weave and knot anything that happens.

Secondly, a non-binary perspective can provide a profound sense of meaning and purpose for our lives. When you understand that your true identity is the universe experiences itself subjectively through you, your identity will change and your motivation will change.

Life is no longer "What are the benefits for me? Instead, you start asking questions like this, what can I contribute to the larger whole I am in?

How can I relieve myself and others’ unnecessary pain?

What does the universe want to know through my eyes?

What does life want to bring to this world through me?

Realize that your true nature (i.e. who you are) is nature itself, and your motivations and actions are also It follows. Third, this also affects our understanding of death. According to a non-binary perspective, death is not an end, it is just the end of a temporary separation state.

Maybe, when you die, you will "re-integrate" into the larger mind you initially produced, just like a dreamer wakes up and realizes that he is not just an incarnation in the dream.

Maybe death is not the disappearance of consciousness (as materialism suggests), but the enrichment of consciousness.