Oneness Duality and the Great Game

The speaker discusses the concepts of oneness, duality, God, and the game of life. They mention that the universe began with a big bang, and while we live in a dual world, there is a sense of oneness in God or a universal force. Duality is necessary for humans to experience love, happiness, and light. The speaker believes that God created the game of life to allow us to experience duality and that by becoming our authentic selves, we can contribute to elevating human consciousness and addressing global issues. I just wanted to talk about a pretty light and simple set of ideas, nothing too heavy, I just wanted to talk about oneness, duality, God and the game of life. And I've just finished my peyote so I'm in the right place. If we take ourselves back in time, right now there is a universe, there's an earth and we go back to when there was nothing. So we know that certainly in the universe we're in at the moment, the science is telling us there was a big bang, so there was nothing and then out of that was created a big bang. We don't know 13 billion years ago, we don't know anything about what was there before but we live in a dual world, a world of duality, light and dark, love and hate, war and peace, we've talked about that before. So in the sense of God there is a oneness. Some people who aren't religious will call God something else, whether it's a universal force or energy, whatever label is attached to that, there was a oneness. So we think about, there was a oneness and there was a sense of all-knowing, it's an all-knowing God. So with creation, with God sitting up there, there's oneness and you can't experience anything, not at a level of consciousness that we understand, because as humans we need duality to experience something. We can't experience love unless we've experienced the other, we can't experience happy unless we've experienced the other, we can't experience light unless we've experienced darkness. We need duality to experience this. So in this oneness, in this all-knowingness, there is this creation of life and I think we would agree that in the context of the earth there's been this creation and the key feature of it really is duality. That's what we have here on this earth, it's a grouping of experiences and the common thing is there's a duality, there's good and evil, another way of looking at it is in the human psyche there's the ego and the authentic self, there's love and hate, there's war and peace, there's laughter and there's sadness. So the great game of life has been created, but I think the belief I want to take here is to say you have an all-knowing God and he creates this game of life, and why does he do it? Why does he create it? And I think when you look at duality, the purpose is because God wants to become not all-knowing. He's left a little bit of what happens up to us. I think that's the most profound thing, in that God wouldn't have created duality and all these things unless he expected us to experience them, and now it's up to us to play the game, and that's what it is, life is all of these experiences, and they are a duality, and the only way we can know greatness is to see evil. But you can tell that as compared to some other topics, my thoughts on this area aren't quite as well formulated, I'm still exploring this, but the image I have is that an all-knowing God has actually in all humility come down to our level and has created a situation where in at least one sense he's not all-knowing. So as a species, at an individual level it's about becoming, as I talked about in previous things, the authentic self, and that puts you in a position to give and receive as much love and make as much of a contribution to this world as you possibly can. Once we group that all together, what you actually have is a lifting of the human consciousness. If everybody is moving more towards this authentic self, then some of the problems we have in our world, whether it's the environment or nuclear weapons or extreme poverty, and just maintaining human dignity, as the great collective consciousness grows, that is the goal, to elevate that. And I think that is the bigger picture.