Nonduality is not a belief system. Belief doesn’t even enter into it. What should you believe? Why believe anything? Why would anyone go through life guessing instead of just opening their eyes and looking? As soon as you look, all beliefs become instantly and forever obsolete. The unspoken subtext of belief is that there is no such thing as truth, but as we know and can self-verify, there is. Why live in your imagination when you have the power to see? How else could you ever know who and what and where you are? How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? Of course, it’s not your eyes you must open but your mind’s eye. When we apply reason and logic and common sense to our situation, we move toward and into the full lucidity for which seeing is a metaphor. “Why does my brain hurt?” asks Neo. “Because you’ve never used it before,” replies Morpheus.