IT&I Philosophy (Nondual Lens)

Purpose of this tool
This is not here to persuade you, or to claim a single "true meaning." It offers a way to read - a reflective lens. The Bible stories are approached mainly as inner phenomenology: how consciousness forms identity, fear, shame, trust, and return.

IT (Being / the field)
IT points to that-which-is before thought: the unmoving field in which all experience appears. IT cannot be objectified by the mind. It is not a person, not a chooser, not a judge. In this lens, IT does not act, punish, test, reward, condemn, or "enter the world." IT simply IS - the context in which all changing states arise.

I (the lived human viewpoint)
The I is the human perspective arising within IT. The I moves, decides, speaks, creates, and relates. The I can learn, mature, repair, and realign. When scripture speaks in personal language (God said, God did, God judged), one way to read it here is as how the I experiences reality from within its current state of perception.

Ego (a useful interface)
Ego is not "bad." It is a functional interface: identity, narrative, memory, social navigation. Trouble comes when ego is mistaken for the source, or when it occupies the field as if it were the whole of reality. Then life becomes rigid: moral scoring, blame, fear, and compulsive certainty. In this lens, many biblical "falls" describe that contraction.

How we read the stories
Many stories are treated as symbols of inner process rather than literal history or myth-battles: exile as inner fragmentation, Pharaoh as hardened resistance, wilderness as purification of grasping, idols as misdirected attention, prophets as the call back to alignment. Dualities (clean/unclean, chosen/rejected, blessing/curse) can be read as stages of perception - not ultimate reality.

Sin (missing the mark, not condemnation)
Sin is approached primarily as misalignment: "missing the mark" (hamartia). Not a reason for guilt-based identity, but a signal that perception and action have drifted. The invitation is to see clearly, soften, and realign - not to condemn yourself or others.

Gentle identification checks
If the mind externalizes ("they are evil", "God hates them", "the devil made me do it"), we invite inner responsibility and honesty about fear/anger/shame. If the mind fuses identity ("I am broken", "I am guilty"), we remember: weather arises in awareness, but the I is not equal to its weather.

Bottom line
IT never acts. The I moves within IT. This tool points to a shift from fighting reality to seeing how the fight is formed inside. The mirror is not here to shame you - it is here to help you notice where you are fused, split, or tight, and to offer a small return to presence.