Life is messy. We would like to imagine it all squeaky clean with each hair in place. But ideas and experiences are birthed like newborn babies. We like to think of them handed to us neatly wrapped in a blanket. But really the ideas and experiences of life emerge from pain and effort covered in piss and shit just like babies. But they are full of potential and possibilities.
They ask that I show up for treatment with empty rectum and full bladder. So I drank prune juice before bed and am up drinking water so my bladder will be full. Waiting on bowel movement. That is how I begin my day for the next month. Start with piss and shit but full of potential.
This same duality is a feature of our lived experience. The binary/low context orientation of euro-culture would have us think that the way we should experience things is as distinct, "pure," and abstracted from all the contextual factors that contribute to and create our experience.
I am making a distinction between "duality" and "binary." I am using duality as a noun and in its sense where it reflects "interchangeability" or the equivalence of two seemingly different things. I am using "binary" as a verb in its sense where it reflects two mutually exclusive conditions.
We see this concept of non-binary duality in conditions and circumstances such as:
System change = self change
Biomimicry = Nature Culture
Fractals = As above, so below
Inelligent Design/Divine Design = chaos theory
mundane = divine
secular = sacred
dialectical = Tao
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