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The idea came from a Zen Buddhism book by Alan W. Watts, which I discovered after a profound experience resulting in a heightened awareness of ‘self and my environment’ which I was trying to rationalize through explanation based in concepts found in Eastern faiths. Specifically of interest to me was the idea of the Dualistic mind which in Western culture ‘explains’ the two sides of the same coin as polarities, for example freedom and control, life and death or love and hate.