old3bob

could also be likened to a tidal wave of black, consuming darkness coming upon us, but there are those that "stand strong' against it...

Non-duality insistence is smug when it writes everything off as some form of illusion or not understanding the teachings, even if it means well.

repression and oppression are counter productive, and also if only basking in easy going pleasantries, so let it be...

in other words it sounds like you have no experience in seeing the hell realms and the Beings there-in as recounted by countless witness over thousands of years...Btw there are many Buddhists who have no trouble giving witness to pure-land or heavenly realms and the Beings there-in (also for Beings like Quan-Yin, the Jade Emperor, and guardian Spirits) and who may also give witness and warnings about the opposite to that. How convenient to write -off thousands of years of witness by people and even parts of Buddhist doctrine!? (for instance Tibetan examples that do not deny such realms) Non-duality is fine but it is not smug.

the horn of the Rhino does not or can not pierce some of us...(my paraphrase from a T.T.C. chapter)

I'd say it is correct that various Beings in existence, for example those operating in: the lower, middle, and upper astral, the causal and or any other names or realms per different terminologies should not be written off as only being some kind of projections by humans...for imo it should only take some undeniable glimpses of such by us humans to realize that. (along with seeing and feeling the outer results of their actions whether divine or demonic which there are reams of witness to over thousands of years, including from the historic Buddha Himself in parts of well recognized Buddhist doctrine.