My Conundrum on Dualism

Today a friend and I were discussing the idea of duality (ex. a tree is separate in existence from its surroundings or the idea of good and evil) in theistic thought and I realized why the idea of duality had never made any sense to me.

In my "world view" I realized that duality had never made sense to me because since childhood I had always believed that all things were a part of each other and the universe was actually one.. I guess you could say entity. I don't believe I was ever taught this view of life... it has always simply been a part of me. Considering Christianity is full of duality (good vs. evil, God vs. Satan) and that is the basic religion I was raised with.

I tried to explain my views with the analogy of a black hole.. the black hole representing the ultimate truth or reality. 3 astronauts were being pulled in (aka.. Good, Neutrality and Evil).. as the men are pulled in their atoms are slowly pulled apart and they can see (from a purely philosophical standpoint) that they are made of the same basic materials. Then as they get closer to ultimate truth they start to intermix and one cannot be seen as being different from the others. Finally they are pulled in as the realization of oneness is complete.

A friend gave me a slightly less violent analogy of white light being shot through a prism. Though it is all from a single source the light is spread into many different forms (the different forms of existence or reality). This I think is a slightly nicer analogy compared to the one I thought of.

Then my friend began asking me that since good and evil were actually the same then why should we be good. This is my thought, yes, good and evil, light and dark are all from the same primordial source and true realization is to realize there interconnectedness but from that primordial source they have spread and become there own manifestations and so we should continue on the higher path of good... even as we know that good and evil are actual of the same source.

I haven't thought this out totally but these are my own private ideas.

Any ideas???