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Originally Posted by Iamit
In this fictional made up story about nonduality what is meant by Oneness is not some sort of entity but that despite the very convincing appearance of difference, All is One. That doesnt do it for your character but that should not prevent you seeing that it might work for other different characters. It is not being presented here as a truth applicable to all.
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But people are living in a discursive world and in a world of
valid differences that can be experienced in everyday life and on which life does depend. How could 'All is One' be other than a conceptual escapism necessarily defeated in life? Sectarianism and isolation (in a commmunity of believers) may be an outcome of such an approach.
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Originally Posted by Iamit
Something can be said about why some characters find it profoundly liberating where there is no sense that the character is essentially flawed in some way, and in need of correction or the death of the ego or quietening of the mind and such like. In this description none of that (or anything else for that matter) is required for complete unconditional connection to Oneness. When the character is seen as flawed then it is understandable why a path that requires some correction of the character is selected by the mind, which knows the character well.
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Any fantasy that causes nice agreeable feelings may be kind soothing or kind of 'liberating' (from feelings one does not like) ... but it's only a transient experience. Of course that does not deny any transient relief and if spirituality is only about transient relief by means of cultivated fantasies then so be it, I don't mind.