The Universe is God with multiple dissociative personality disorder.
Movement inward, to the center is a movement toward Truth, Oneness, Integrity.
Movement outward is a movement toward manifestation, duality.
In the first case, it is akin to "healing," and in the second, it is akin to "disease."
Of course, the words "healing" and "disease" do not refer to God.
Edward Edinger in his book "Ego and Archetype. Consciousness and the Unconscious in Myth, Religion, and Culture" talks about the ego and the Self, where by the Self he means the archetypal bottomless Subconscious (which in more religious language would be reflected by the words God or the image of the Absolute), which manifests Itself in multiple faces of egos.
The Self, this highest harmonious holistic state, has in its nature a tendency to manifest itself, to emit from itself many personal manifestations, egos.
The ego must eventually return to the Self, having gone through all the paths of both individuation and "dis-individuation" (false identification and dis-identification).
To paraphrase a quote attributed to Picasso: "The first half of life is learning to be an adult, the second half is learning to be a child," one classic said: "I spent half my life learning what now I want to unlearn."
That is the way of life.
