Duality, Nonduality and the Pen That Helped Me Understand

Duality and non duality are two words I struggled with for the longest time. We get told our whole lives that this is just how it is, that there is happy and there is sad, the good stuff and the bad stuff, the wedding and the funeral, and we just have to ride it out. But what if they are the same thing. Hold up a pen. One end is your happy, the other end is your sad, and it is still just a pen. They are both only ever emotion, and the way you react to either one was taught to you long before anything actually happened to you. Underneath all of that there is a place where things just are, and life gets so much easier there. I am still working on staying in it. These episodes come from my archive. Years of lives, courses and conversations that were sitting on a channel doing nothing, so I am bringing them back one at a time. Some of it I would say differently now, and that is fine, it is all part of how I got here. First published 18 July 2023. __ I’ve burned through enough identities to stop believing in a final version of myself. For a long time, I stood in the middle of reality demanding answers. Reality laughed, lit a cigarette, and left me holding the blueprint. Now I trace the patterns in identity, belief and human behaviour, and talk about what I find. My Ego Says Hi holds all my old podcasts, alongside whatever comes next. Different versions of me speaking from different points in the same life. My books, Money Surge, Body Surge and Love Surge, explore the patterns, beliefs and behaviours that shape our relationships with money, our bodies and love. Together they form the Surge Trilogy, three 21-day protocols available as full audiobooks on Spotify. Money Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/0MnVWHQgPQiaQLgzWADVRd Body Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/1wyLX50IhCOaRMeuncGd6Z Love Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/14jYtxSRLHrd8cfOmDtvNU I write about identity, belief and human behaviour on Substack. My website brings together my writing, art, portfolio and systems. Writing & Essays https://annachitticksego.substack.com Portfolio & Systems https://annachittick.com