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Q. Thank you for your provocative book, Lifting the Veil of Duality. Much of it I track with,
yet it also raises troubling questions regarding its implications and applications, and the
nature of what is regarded as good and evil. If lost angels and dark workers are really
secret unrecognized change agents and come here as vivid reminders of our separation
from oneness, then how are we to embrace them, as expressions of good? The implications
of this are troubling.
If you take one of the most obvious reference points, the Holocaust, then one would have to
make the case to survivors that the camps were actually an expression of good, not evil a
circumstance I would not like to undertake. Now, one might say the Holocaust prompted
Jews to then create the state of Israel in 1948, but what good has come out of that except
more arbitrary separatist identity, religious strife and land dispute, the eternal struggle
that God is embedded in the land. Neither the triggering event nor the result of the event
has inspired evolutionary change of a life-affirming sort.
It is one thing to say, as you do, that death is not an enemy and quite another to say that
death of any kind, on any scale, is an expression of rebirth and renewal. This view would
seem to give permission to every expression of destruction which I dont believe you
want to endorse.
A. You are raising excellent points here. First, I want you to know that I had little choice when I
started to write the book. It was written automatically while friends and I were driving through
parts of California. I was in the back seat with a note pad, writing down the flood of information
that was downloaded into me. Within 8 days the book was written, although it took me several
months more to elaborate, fine tune, and bring in other elements I thought needed to be there. So
some of the concepts in the book originated from a much deeper level from which I had
conscious access at that time.
As for your points, one purpose of the book is to show that the judgments we make are rooted in
the idea that people, situations, circumstances, etc. are good or bad, right or wrong, positive or
negative, etc., and that this is real. But that is not so. The judgments come after the fact. Things
happen in life. How we look at them is up to us. What is seen to be a calamity for one person is

seen as a blessing by another. Neither one is right or wrong. We are constantly moving through
emotional experiences that color our perception. If something seems painful, we feel it is bad. If
something makes us feel good, we say its good.
Holocaust is neither good nor bad. It is. From one angle of perception, it was a terrible disaster.
From another perspective, it helped countless individuals clear up unbalanced karmic records
that contained similar actions they once did to others during times of genocide, while preventing
the nuclear destruction of the planet 15 years later. You can perceive both of these without
contradicting one another, and feel compassion for the suffering that occurred while feeling
uplifted by the courage of the souls to shoulder their karmic baggage and preserve humanity at
the same time. Just seeing things in life as negative without recognizing their positive
counterparts leaves us just with sadness, pain, and hopelessness. This is basically what we call
depression, the loss of the ability to see the other side of the coin as well. Conflict begins when
we divide ourselves into two, by believing there is good versus evil, and they cant be reconciled.
Q. Taking a more mundane, practical example: traffic laws. Are these good or bad? Should
we dispense with stop signs, stop lights and speed limits and the rules of the road because
its neither good nor bad that they exist? Or should we keep those rules in place to help
ensure that some agreed-upon guidelines are followed for the relative safety of all those on
the road?
A. There are laws for every level of existence or consciousness. Dense consciousness requires
more restrictive laws to prevent chaos. Higher consciousness requires less restrictive laws.
Driving cars belongs to the lower density. Flying UFOs require very few rules. UFOs are not
machines that operate like our flying machines. They are an extension of the consciousness of
those who use them. They can shape-shift, dematerialize, move from A to B in zero time, etc., all
characteristics of consciousness. UFO spacecrafts are living beings. As such they dont require
traffic laws to prevent accidents, just like human beings walking on the streets dont bump into
each other all the time, as long as they are not drunk and keep their eyes open. Our current, still
very crude technologies require very basic rules and laws.
The more we rise to an awareness of oneness such as many ET beings have realized it, the less
we need to separate ourselves from the rest of creation. It becomes our extended self. So, in not
too distant times, we will use flying machines with no need for traffic controllers. We will be
able to move forward and backward in time. We will use simple natural devices in our hand that
will move heavy objects simple by pointing toward them, simply because we will no longer see
them as being separate from us, just as these ETs use their spacecraft at will. The thought of
flying to the moon instantly transports them there, in zero time.
Q. It would seem that one could easily argue that duality is actually a good thing, for it
creates choice which is intrinsic to the beauty of life and to all of the expressions including
music, painting, and literature. If this were not true, why not call your big book: The
Time-Bound Laws that Ensure only Disease will Prevail.

By your very title, (Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation), the notion of creating
ones health is mapped out as a good thing; indeed, that remarkable book is packed with
thousands of secrets for taking control of ones health as opposed to surrendering it to
other authorities. So, Timeless Secrets very much subscribes to duality which, in my mind,
is what helps to create a pathway for its powerful message: CHOICE EXISTS.
A. That is correct. While dealing with the duality level of life, we use different methods to
balance the two opposite aspects, until balance is created and we are able to be both, without
being attached to either. One day, this book will be completely outdated. The rules apply only on
the current level that most people live their lives.
Q. On another level, duality helps create emotional texture and richness. Without it, what
role would tears and laughter play? Without it, why would you choose such a rich palette of
colors for your paintings and reference them to different body parts instead of say, only
using black? So, one might well argue that duality helps create choice, value, variety,
definition, richness of expression, as well as the momentum of vision combined with action.
Gandhi may very well have intended to bless the assassins bullet, yet he dedicated much of
his life to ending British rule through mass civil disobedience. Would he have become a
more forceful spiritual leader if he had become neutral toward oppressive taxation,
poverty, the liberation of women, caste discrimination? His advocacy of non-violence, even
in the most extreme situations, never wavered, yet it was anchored in a struggle of
opposites. Again, duality which he transcended through action, was also the conduit
through which he acted.
A. Absolutely true, but this is not the only truth. There is a level of consciousness that can enjoy
all these expressions while being free of their limiting influence, almost like people on the other
side. My dead mother and father have a fantastic life on the other side, and they tell me about all
the wonderful things they are doing. Yet they have no more sense of pain or suffering like we
have, yet they have profound feelings similar to our emotions. They are real, just without pain.
We are heading toward living like that here while still in a human body.
Q. You write of otherworldly dramas, characters and outcomes with great authority and
conviction (if not humility, which surprises me) and yet I would not envy the task of
making the case before a world stage that unbalanced karmic records are the rationale
for genocide and nuclear prevention. The great violent mysteries of history cannot be
explained with the concept of great debt for that notion is also fed by the river of
opposites, that any individual or group must repay what they originally took.
In that view, the ledger is still framed in terms of credit and debit, so the cycle continues
through historical memory, rather than spiritual unboundedness. The record is not cleared,
but scribbled upon again how else to describe the perpetual tug of war that
circumscribes the Middle East? Good and evil may be married, but the exact wording of
the vows has not yet been fully revealed.

A. I dont believe people with a mindset limited to just physical existence and disconnected from
a larger reality will be attracted to reading this book. It wouldnt make much sense to them. And
I wouldnt speak to them of these issues unless they could understand them. The book was never
intended to persuade anyone or to change the world. It was meant to serve as a mirror, reflecting
whatever we can see, understand and know.
I dont believe in paying off karmic debts as being part of life. This concept stopped making
sense to me when I had to go the Catholic priest once every 2-3 weeks to confess my sins. The
word karma has been much misused and misinterpreted. It means action. And action creates
reaction. The reaction creates another reaction, and so forth. Thats all there is to it. There is no
notion of good or bad involved, the interpretation comes later. The bible says an eye for an eye, a
tooth for a tooth, or as you sow so shall you reap. Karmas sole purpose is to restore balance, not
to punish. Nobody is ever punished. For one person a cancer seems like a form of punishment.
For another, the same cancer serves as a means to change the course of his life, empower
himself, and live more consciously than ever before. Where is the punishment in that?
It always depends on each person to determine whether a karmic situation will turn out to be a
punishment or a blessing. That requires making a choice. Free will is the one factor we all have
and it will determine what becomes of us, regardless of our experiences in the past (karma). The
so-called negative karma has only one purpose to serve, that is, to give the doer the opportunity
to end blaming himself for any wrong doing and to accept himself regardless of what he has
done, how he looks, what disease he suffers from, what car accident he was involved in, or how
miserable he seems to be. Negative situations prompt us to love ourselves more. These
opportunities keep coming along every so often. Some grasp them, some dont. Free will always
reigns even when it seems there is no choice.

Other Questions on Spirituality

Cremation
Q. Andreas, what are your thoughts on cremation?
A. I personally prefer cremation. When the soul disassociates with the body, it usually has no
more interest in and connection with it whatsoever. It doesnt expect anyone else fussing over it,
either.
However, some souls who were very attached to the physical body while embodiment and had a
lot of fear of death or didnt see it coming, may have cords of attachment to it that prevent it
from moving on in to the vastness of light and love that awaits them. In such cases, cremation
would be a tremendous advantage because it helps to sever these cords more quickly and,
sometimes, immediately. Otherwise, it makes no difference to the departed. It is more for the
bereaved, who may feel better with one choice than the other. The remains are merely a
collection of atoms that become dispersed.

Ashes to ashes is my preference. It has the advantage of not crowding cemeteries. It may also
help the loved ones to let go more easily, not having a grave to go to that they may believe has a
real person lying in there, which of course isnt true. Souls, who cannot really die, dont inhabit a
skeleton. A graveyard is not a place where they can be found. But they quickly come to us when
we visit them in our heart.