The issue I’m addressing here follows the overture I made last post entitled, “Seeing through a Glass Darkly.”  The core issue is linear thinking which has been an obsession of mine in the last couple of decades, having finally found the Grace to begin comprehending that mischief of the ego.  Any style of thinking can be captured by an ego, individually or collectively, but it appears that linear-thinking is particularly susceptible,  This is because linear thinking carves the world up into categories and then fails to consider where these categories, with another perspective employed, could blend into others.  One simple example is the distinction between the category “good” and “bad.” In non-linear thinking, sometimes known as non-binary thinking, there would still be the categories “good” and “bad” but the distinction between the two would be more nebulous.  Thus one could see how that “good” carried to an extreme could become extremely “bad,” much related to my oft-quoted quip from Goethe, “They call it reason, using light celestial, just to do the beasts in being bestial.”

Here I have a lengthy quote from Ken Wilbur who delves into the intricacies of this cognitive delimma:

As simple as that sounds, it is nevertheless extremely difficult to adequately discuss no-boundary awareness or nondual consciousness. This is because our language — the medium in which all verbal discussion must float — is a language of boundaries. As we have seen, words and symbols and thoughts themselves are actually nothing but boundaries, for whenever you think or use a word or name, you are already creating boundaries. Even to say “reality is no-boundary awareness” is still to create a distinction between boundaries and no-boundary! So we have to keep in mind the great difficulty involved with dualistic language. That “reality is no-boundary” is true enough, provided we remember that no-boundary awareness is a direct, immediate, and nonverbal awareness, and not a mere philosophical theory. It is for these reasons that the mystic-sages stress that reality lies beyond names and forms, words and thoughts, divisions and boundaries. Beyond all boundaries lies the real world of Suchness, the Void, the Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman, the Godhead. And in the world of suchness, there is neither good nor bad, saint nor sinner, birth nor death, for in the world of suchness there are no boundaries.― Ken Wilber, “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”