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Studies will show that this duality is not a natural state of man, since even today many so-called primitive societies do not experience this duality to anything like the degree with which it affects more civilized communities. This alone should be proof that the condition is not a prerequisite for the species as such. Instead, and to the contrary, this sense of duality besieges man as he becomes more inventive in a purely mechanical fashion.

I wanted to go into the invention of the soul, using mankind’s own terminology, the soul and the spirit being thought of as one and the same thing. The duality of which we spoke is mainly artificial. It is stronger in more so-called advanced societies.

What you call racial memory exists as inner emotional memory experience. The line between inner and outer does not exist in actuality any more than a line exists between consciousness and unconsciousness. What you call the subconscious is merely an ill-defined meeting place of inner and outer experience; and I am forced to use these terms inner and outer only because of your misconception of duality.

The term ESP in itself is a result of this artificial duality, maintaining as it does that anything not perceived through the outer senses is therefore extra and tacked on, so to speak. But this, dear friends, will pass. In the first place, your most pragmatic scientist is even now forced to admit, as even Ruburt knows, that solid objects are not solid; and the interesting sidelight of this fact must be that your faithful, tried and true, so-called dependable outer senses are in reality lovely liars, since the eyes see a chair as solid while the chair is not solid at all.

(10:42.) A seeming duality is the result and a mistrust on one part of the self toward the other. [...]

[...] Dualities result that affect all of your activities.

The Trinity concept in your terms was a masculine one, projecting to the one God concept the duality which all mankind feels, but because the theory originated with the male the duality is expressed in terms of the male viewpoint.

[...] You will perhaps recognize a certain similarity between this concept and the Christian concept of a Trinity, except that the Trinity concept, while hinting at diversity within prime unity, was nevertheless distorted by man’s own sense of his own adopted and unfortunate delusion of duality.

[...] He dealt with this duality very evocatively in the 45th session for April 20, 1964:)

[...] Such a remark is also based upon your definition of spirituality, which is at best limited in your contemporary society, and whose limited definition is indeed the result of the duality which has besieged mankind now for centuries.

(Seth talked about this duality as long ago as the 25th session, in Volume 1.)

[...] The duality in your own psychic condition, Joseph, would have eventually destroyed your capacity to work.

[...] Such duality cannot exist for long without destroying creative aspects of the personality.

[...] But for the materialists, the mind-brain duality isn’t scientific in the orthodox sense. It isn’t falsifiable; that is, it cannot be stated under what precise conditions the mind-brain duality could be proven false. [...]

This duality then affects your own perception in a most diverse fashion. [...]

[...] For a moment you are aware of a sense of duality as you view this older self. [...]

[...] You will be aware of it, and you may experience some duality. [...]

[...] It became his version of the soul, and there seemed to be a duality—a self who acted in the physical universe, and a separate spiritlike soul that acted in an immaterial world.

[...] Such ideas involve the physicists’ ongoing conception of the duality of nature. [...]

[...] But most of all, they operate to increase the individual sense of alienation from the body, and to promote a sense of powerlessness and duality.

[...] For a moment you are aware of a sense of duality as you look at this older self. [...]

You will be aware however of your body, and you will experience some duality. [...]

[...] Note 24 for Appendix 18 contains a short discussion of the particle-wave duality involving the components of the atom. [...]

[...] Such ideas involve the physicists’ ongoing conception of the duality of nature. [...]