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The Illusion of Separateness
And a Jungian view of God as neither good nor evil but rather everything without judgment
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misunderstandings
fueled and fomented by fear
inflagrate into wars
we would not willfully wage
when accept wonders
of many Ones
and that Satan does not exist
except in the illusion of separateness
created by shadow’s soldiers sent to dominate in the darkness, shielded from exposure by what lurks in the fears mistaken as hearts of Cybermen
Many years ago, the following passage from my least favorite novel (Steppenwolf) by my favorite author, Hermann Hesse, grabbed my attention as indicative of the simultaneously dual and non-dual nature of the reality souls seek to experience as humans in their improvisational scripts, aka soul contracts, aka incarnation itineraries:
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, … ever deeper into human life. … Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded…

