Right now I am seeing two commenting systems with the native to ghost/casper commenting system displaying after the essay and before Disqus.
What and how do I eliminate this dual commenting presentation?
You can turn the native commenting feature on and off from the Settings → Membership page in Admin.
I did that but it not only removes the legacy Casper commenting system but Disqus as well.
Maybe I don’t understand something here.
Ghost’s commenting system runs independently of Disqus, so turning it off shouldn’t turn off Disqus (depending on how you have things set up).
Are you able to share the part of your theme template where you set up your Disqus comments?