Duality and Nonduality
Some of us lean toward Eastern advaita philosophy, in which only the Divine is ultimately real and all else is eventually illusory, and dissolved into unreality.
Swedenborg explains, by contrast, how there is always something ‘fixed and permanent’ about natural actions which terminates and contains spiritual life.
After experiences of complete unity that appear to support advaita views, our individual life always returns.
(did we know this all along?)