Question: Can we say that rational cognition is inherently dual and functions as an instrument of dualistic perception because it is subject-object based, meaning it relies on separation?
Gnosis is said to dissolve this division. How does it do so? Is it through the power of the Conscious You? What is this power: spirit, feeling or both? What is meant by the idea that the conscious self or you can identify with the object of knowledge and experience it from within? Today rational thinking prevails, including in our communication with you, but what mode of cognition belongs to the future?
Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Ukraine Webinar.
Rational cognition is not in itself what leads to dualistic perception. The Messenger has given some YouTube talks about the misunderstanding that any kind of differentiation is the same as duality. Duality is a specific state of consciousness dominated by the dualistic extremes, what the Buddha called the pairs. It therefore, colors the way you look at everything. Rational cognition is first of all focused on identifying differences between different forms in the form-based universe. This is not the same as duality. Now you can say that when a person is trapped in the dualistic consciousness, then the subject-object duality is dualistic because the person’s perception of everything is dualistic. Therefore, the person sees itself as separated from any object. But this does not mean that when you overcome dualistic perception there is no longer a subject or an object. You will always be a subject in the sense that you have an individual focal point, an individual sense of self from which you are observing the universe.
Even when you rise above the duality consciousness, you still have an individual perception. You are a subject observing the world. Overcoming subject-object duality means two things. First of all, that you see beyond the outer forms and see that all forms came from the same source, namely God. And in the longer run you can come to a point where the Conscious You is able to tune into the consciousness behind any form. As an example, the earth was originally created by the Elohim in a pure state. It is possible for the Conscious You to tune into the consciousness that the Elohim used—the matrices that the Elohim created in consciousness when they manifested the original earth. Thereby you can in a sense overcome the subject-object duality where you are not observing the earth as an object, but you are tuning into and experiencing attunement with the consciousness that created the physical object. In other words, you tune into the consciousness behind the physical form.
The power of the Conscious You that allows you to do this is, as we have said, the Conscious You is pure awareness. It can either tune into the form through separate selves, or it can tune into the consciousness to the higher self, to the ascended masters, and so forth. And this, of course, is the kind of cognition that will become more common in the golden age when people develop their intuitive faculties so that they have a proper balance between rational and intuitive cognition. Whereas today, especially in the Western world, most people have a dominance of rational cognition. And as I said, rational cognition is geared towards identifying differences between different forms, and therefore, it will reinforce the subject-object duality based on separation, because you see yourself as separate from the object you are studying through rational cognition. And this is what you overcome through intuitive cognition.
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