Our universe operates from a primary reality matrix and a sub-matrix. At this point in time, the sub-matrix, duality, is prevalent in the Earth experience, but it is not our original reality-state, or the one that will ever offer us the peace, harmony, joy, or safety that we long for. In fact, its turmoil is downright dangerous?actually, it's deadly! The only safe place is the Prime Matrix, and the more of our consciousness invested there, the more peaceful and harmonious our experience will be.

Prime Matrix, also known as the Unified Field of Oneness, or the Divine Design for Wholeness and Harmony, is where the qualities we seek reside and where we must be in consciousness if we want to experience them. Prime Matrix is the high-frequency, original design for being, and is the state of perfection and wholeness described in the sacred texts of many religions as ?The Garden of Eden.? What happened when Adam and Eve succumbed to temptation and defied their Creator, who had told them under no circumstances to eat of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, was that they activated duality. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is more aptly called, ?The Tree of the Concept of Good and Evil,? because good and evil are merely notions until given life by the highly creative human mind. What the Creator knew was that by ?eating? that ?fruit??by beginning to think in terms of ?good? and ?evil??they would activate an operating system in which they were not designed to survive, much less, thrive.

The human mind is a powerful influencer of energy. It shapes the nature of energy's expression, and controls whether energy is harmonious or not. The result of billions of human minds over the millennia, thinking in terms of good and evil and other opposites, has created strong currents of energy coalescing around each concept. Once these energy currents were established, it created a powerful magnetic framework that tends to keep us trapped in it until we remember how to opt out of it. Duality not only describes the framework that is established by thinking in terms of good and evil, it also encompasses all thinking that is characterized by opposites and by comparisons. Any thinking that relies on their being ?more than one,? necessarily takes you out of Oneness and into the tumultuous duality matrix.

The big clue to why Oneness is safe, and duality is not, is contained within the terms themselves. In Oneness, there is one, un-fragmented energy. Therefore, within Oneness, there is no possibility of conflict. In duality, there are two energies?opposites?moving in inverse directions, the poles of which human beings have labeled ?good? and ?evil,? When opposite energies interact, there is the potential for conflict. Think of a machine with moving parts?when two parts touch and are moving in opposite directions, friction results. Friction, conflict, and turmoil characterize life in the duality matrix?that's easy to see by simply checking the front page of any major daily newspaper! Duality is obviously not where you want to be if you're seeking the safety of peace and harmony.

In practical terms, think of how many wars have been started because of someone's certainty that their idea of things was good and someone else's was evil. It brings to mind radical Islam and fundamentalist Christianity, both of which are certain they are on the side of ?good,? and that the other is on the side of ?evil.? After 9/11, we are acutely aware of the danger that lies within the juxtaposition of those two ideologies. neither of which can possibly authentically lay claim to the whole truth, because their ideas are built around the concepts of good and evil instead of Oneness and harmony! As long as there are factions out to prove that they are on the side of right, and that someone else is on the side of wrong, the duality matrix thrives, and danger looms. The ultimate irony is that, because of the nature of duality, any time you invest energy in empowering ?good,? you empower ?evil? as well! As you can see, duality is a trap, with no way out except through acceptance and Love.

The threat of danger is not just from overt acts of human violence toward each other. Even the weather is influenced by the strong polarity in human thought energy. The increase in storm activity and severity is a reflection of the extreme polarity currently manifesting in the duality matrix. The imbalances in the environment are not just the result of the choices made from lower consciousness on the part of humanity (the duality matrix creates lower consciousness because it lowers frequency, and frequency and consciousness are directly proportional), it is due, as well, to the skewed energy patterns created by human thought. Our world is an absolute mirror of our consciousness and the energy we influence with our thoughts. We will only experience real peace and safety at all levels of our experience when we choose to strengthen the Oneness matrix and empower it as the operating system from which we live.

So why would you spend time out of Prime Matrix and in duality at all if it is a choice? There's an aspect of you that is highly invested in duality: the psychological entity known as your ego. Duality is created and sustained by the ego's specialty: judgment. Judgment is a thought dynamic whereby the ego makes determinations about things based on comparisons such as what is ?good,? and what is ?evil.? To escape from the duality matrix, we must let go of the concepts of good and evil and think in Oneness terms again. This requires relinquishing judgment, the ego's favorite activity, and the one that sustains the duality matrix. Instead of thinking in terms of ?this is good,? and ?this is evil,? we must employ acceptance, which is the only way out of duality.

Acceptance of something isn't condoning it, it is simply viewing it in terms of neutrality. You may think that refusing to judge things as good and evil, right and wrong, is the way to allow evil to flourish. That is the big lie that the ego tells to keep us trapped in duality! Escaping the duality matrix depends upon our willingness to stop feeding the ego's need to judge and be ?right,? and simply to love. The more you participate in the nonjudgmental act of loving, the more aligned you are with the Prime Matrix, and the more loving and harmonious your experience. Love, in fact, is a feature of Prime Matrix and does not exist in duality, so whenever you choose Love over being ?right,? you're opting out of duality and strengthening Prime Matrix, the ?only safe place.? When enough of us choose to radiate Love unconditionally, we will trigger a transformation that will make Earth the peaceful, harmonious place we all long for it to be. And, in the meantime, we will find our own experience more peaceful and less fraught with danger.

?2005 Julia Rogers Hamrick

For more on how to rise out of the duality matrix, be sure to read Recreating Eden: The Exquisitely Simple, Divinely Ordained Plan for Transforming Your Life and Your Planet.

Julia Rogers Hamrick has been a spiritual-growth facilitator for over two decades, and is the author of Recreating Eden: The Exquisitely Simple, Divinely Ordained Plan for Transforming Your Life and Your Planet. Julia writes about and leads seminars on proactive joy, and the relationship between frequency and experience. For more information on Julia and on recreating Eden, visit http://www.recreating-eden.com To read about Julia's own dance with Spirit, ego, and frequency, read Julia's blog http://www.recreating-eden.com/weblog/.