What’s it like to be not two? That’s what non-duality is talking about all the time. Not two. It tends to become a weird, crazy philosophy that people can argue about. What’s it like to live in the non-dual state? I say this is the natural human condition. The craziness everybody lives in is because …
Everything is Non Dual
Published: Sat, 10/14/23
Everything is Non Dual
Non duality says that everything exists, but that our analytical brain can never grasp the whole when it divides it into piece by piece. However, when we let our inner, silent, intuition be the guide we can live as fully integrated human beings.
Atmosphere is everywhere
The atmosphere is everywhere, as in, we’re inside of it. It’s inside of me. You are sitting in the same atmosphere that I am.
Our brilliant ancestors
Our brilliant ancestors. It does not make sense to think that we, here in this modern world, are smarter in any way than our ancient, ancient ancestors were 10,000 years ago, 30,000 years ago, 40,000 years ago. Time to change the story. The picture that we’re given is of savage brutes roaming the world. I …
True spirituality
True spiritual connection is about being able to live, noticing an ever more complex world, rather than trying to simplify life.
Wisdom comes through the hands
Based on no data at all, no empirical studies, no long speeches by ancient philosophers, I believe that our hands are the conduit of wisdom. Wisdom comes through us as much through our hands as through our ears and our eyes and things like that. We do know from scientists that brain cells aren’t just …
Simplifying Complexity
Simplifying complexity. So, click on the links below, and you will go to a page with some recommended books by indigenous philosophers who are coming up with brilliant ways to speak to us in our language, English, about the wisdom that has been passed down through generations of people living a natural life. One of …
Death of the ego
The death of the ego sounds pretty dramatic, doesn’t it? It’s not actually a real, accurate description of waking up because what actually dies is just your obsession with the ego – the connection to it, the infatuation with it, the weakness of not being in control of it, of letting this really nasty part …
Newsletter: Nonduality in the Natural World
The bottom line is that studying any sort of spirituality will not do us any good unless it grounds us in the natural world. Unless it sits us firmly into the world the way is not through our illusions. Generations before us would have had the luxury of drifting away in their imaginations and living …
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