OPPOSABILITY THINKING: just as we grasp objects between opposable thumb and fingers, is the ‘pincer of opposites’ a key to grasping truth?

Consider the validity of ancient Egypt’s belief in ‘duality’ and contradiction. I’m a believer in the theory that intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. I call it opposable thinking. What if the only way to grasp truth is between the opposing thumb and fingers of contradiction and of opposites? The Egyptians understood this with the duality of their beliefs and their unique ability to live with contradictory ideas about their gods and their world. The living and the dead. The desert and the Nile. Osiris and Seth. Light and shadow. Hathor-Sekhmet, goddess of both disease and destruction and of love and healing… Ancient Egyptian Hathor-Sekhmet, Goddess of both destruction and of love.

In the early prehistory of humankind’s development, the opposable thumb and fingers allowed us to grip tools, helping the human species develop more accurate fine motor skills to take the next step in evolution. Could opposable thinking provide us with mental skills to take a further step in evolution? What if the solution to a Unified Theory of Everything is to be found in semantics? Opposable thoughts. Is the answer to the big issues of life simply that we have to embrace opposing ideas, contradictions and inconsistencies, in order to pick up the truth? Is truth literally within our grasp? What can opposable thinking reveal about God for example? God exists. God does not exist. Opposite, opposing ideas, yet in their collision, a new idea is released. Existence is something limited by time and space. Existence has a beginning, a middle and an end. God, therefore, is non-existent. He does not exist. He simply is, for all eternity — he’s outside of existence. Egyptians grasped this truth in their view of the High God. Their religious texts spoke about the birth of the universe beginning with a state of non-existence. They said that the beginning was a time when ‘there were not yet two things’. There was only one thing, just endless, oneness. Non-existence. Creation came out of this. Creation was division and splitting of this one thing into millions of things. So god is oneness and nonexistence. Opposability thinking could help answer the big questions of life: The problem of existence: who we are. Where do we come from? The problem of the universe; what are we doing here? Did God create us? The problem of death: what happens to us after we die? The problem of the mysterious — is there a supernatural world? The problem of pain — why do so many people in the world suffer?” Is God therefore both ‘good’ AND the opposite, ‘bad?’ Maybe he’s both. It raises the fascinating and dangerous theological question — does God have a shadow side?” God is one, but also multiplicity that has to be grasped in multiple ways. The tools we use to measure or experience divinity determines what we find. If we use our mind to find god, god is thought, use our feelings, god is feeling, use our experiential nerve endings and god is sensation, use our bodies and existence and god is creation, if we try super-sensory means like prayer, we find a super-sensory being. What tool can you use that doesn’t predetermine the finding? Quantum physics today shows that things can be both ‘here’ and ‘there’ at the same time, things can be both ‘this’ and ‘that’… Opposability thinking.