Dualism is the belief that there are essentially two worlds in our reality, one of which is visible and one of which is not. The second world is the pure and abstract world of meaning, and the first world is the physical world in which we're accustomed to living. This is important mainly in spiritual and moral doctrines, where an objective "truth" is argued as being present in the second world and therefore relevant to the connected first.

Where can we start the discourse on how this is incorrect? First, the world of meanings is abstract and doesn't exist; we create representations of it each time we think in the manner of logic. Logic arises from emergent principles of reality or "natural laws" and is applied to all things; it does not exist per se but is a representation also of these natural laws and their coincidences which produce the physical reality with which we are comfortable. In this sense, the second world is an abstraction of a representation in the first, which reduces the need for the second world to none.

Further, there's no purity anywhere on earth - the only concepts which appear pure to us are absolutes, such as "eternal life," "moral good" and "happily ever after." Absolutes do not exist in physical or metaphysical form except for the absolute application of certain laws and patterns, but even these are interpretations and thus prone to analysis which reveals a finer detail within them.

It seems to us - A.N.U.S. staff - that part of what makes life beautiful is its boundless sense of potential and possibility for not only change in perception, but subtle change in mechanism based on feedback loops of stimulus, response, and self-reprogramming.