@RESS,
Spiritual enlightenment occurs when the observer and the observed become one and the same. There has been an equalization of opposing forces, resulting in a "whole" consciousness.
What that means in a nutshell is that your human identity is a sock puppet. It's nothing without the hand inside. That hand is the lifeforce. It's the same in all living things, but in different concentrations.
Only in a human container, does this lifeforce have the tools available to itself to discover it's divine origin, and observe itself from that point of view.
All of creation is nothing more than a transfer of energies from one thing to another. Once you become aware of that on a very deep level, you are literally reborn in the way you see the world.
Duality fades away. In maturation, you become an "Advaita". One who is in the body, but has conscious awareness of "God".
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