The problem with relative consciousness as a process of self-reflection is the very real danger that the pure awareness one truly is may become falsely identified with its own limited, partial reflections. Thinking itself apart, field or unitary consciousness, as such, would quite naturally lose sight and sense of itself as whole. Said pure awareness, thus identified with its own limited self-reflection in the mirror of Divine Mind, would have a potential, in turn, of developing a very deep sense of self-alienation. A mind with an apparent mind of its own would seem to be born, and with it a sense of self  existent being separate and apart from the field in which it necessarily arose and to which it inevitably must return. Pure awareness, as a unitary or non-dual field of consciousness, would necessarily become a mental house divided, however pseudo said division might be. Dual authority and internal conflict would naturally follow.

 

(OOMM Appendix D Intro)