To hold both material and spiritual realities as true, right here, right now, is a more difficult stance for our typically binary-thinking cortex. So many of us shift back and forth between the reality of spirituality and the reality of material reality. Sometimes this shift leads to confusing and conflicted behavioral patterns on a practical level: for example, enjoy “sinning”, sincerely “repent”, enjoy sinning again, sincerely repent again, repeat. Bouncing between realities creates our dreaded cognitive dissonance, another potential source of pain. How can so many spiritual thinkers live in these two worlds simultaneously?