We create lines to distinguish between opposites. To show that up is the opposite of down, for example. You know; light and dark, good and evil, etc. This is apparent to all. This was Adam's task. A simple enough idea until we begin to confuse the essential unity of opposites. What the heck is that you say? Wellll....let me see if I can summarize what took Ken Wilbur 144 pages to explain.
The problem it seems is that when we separate the opposites we try to eliminate the part we don't like. If evil were to disappear the good would likewise disappear. We can't have one without the other. There is an essential unity in them both together, a kind of synergy of opposites
We could liken it to a wave and its trough. We can't say I like the crest of the wave but not that big dip in the trough. I could drown down there! Can you imagine nothing but crests with no troughs? Together do they form one event.
Also consider the common activity of buying and selling. When you buy something, someone else has sold something. The totality of the transaction itself transcends the individual acts. Buying and selling are two ends of the same thing.
All this means is that our boundaries are self created illusions. They do not exist in nature anywhere in the cosmos. To quote Ken Wilber: “The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products NOT of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two”. "Words, symbols, signs, thoughts,and ideas are merely maps of reality, not reality itself because "the map is not the territory".
Also: “....when you establish a boundary so as to gain control over something, at the same time you separate and alienate yourself from that which you attempt to control. Hence the Fall of Adam into fragmentation, known as original sin.” Our boundaries become our battle lines.
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