There are two parts to native stories that that we often don’t see. You’ll notice that most of the Native teachings that come to us, that are being brought to us, are stories about how we are integrated with everything. Simple stories, told in so many different ways, but they have a theme that is …
Nonduality & Native Spirituality
Published: Sat, 11/25/23
Nonduality & Native Spirituality
If you've been following my newsletter you'll notice that something has changed. Suddenly I'm green! This is because I'm exploring a new subject: How nonduality and native spirituality intersect. They come from very different cultures, and use very different concepts to teach spirituality... but they both have the aspect of helping humanity discover who we are. The big difference is that non duality comes from a culture where only a tiny handful of people are able to grasp the
fundamental knowledge of who they are. Native cultures come from a place of living where the entire community lives in a state of self honesty and this level of relating with everything lifts every young person into that same place of knowing.
The intersection is that we can have the native reality as the goal of self awakening, and have Advaita (Nonduality) be the tool. Reframing it this way makes everything possible.
Satori and Samadi
I’m going to tell another story to help work us into an ongoing discussion about how non-duality and Native spirituality work. Satori. I’m sure anybody who’s been studying nonduality has heard about Satori. Lots of people define it as the little Enlightenment, the beginning. You reach Satori and then you reach Samadhi, Samadhi being full …
The Story of a Lightbulb Moment
Actually, this is going to be the story of two light bulb moments because the two of them fit together to start creating a new paradigm that I can talk about in Nonduality teachings. The first one, many years ago, was running across Jill Bolte Taylor’s story of ‘My Stroke of Insight.’ It’s best to …
Mind is the Primary Suspect
What nonduality tells us is that everything we’ve been taught is suspect. It should be examined. Everything that’s in our mind should be examined and suspected as being wrong and untrue. And that, through deep enough inspection, you can step back from the whole thing and be free of it. What Native Traditions tell us …
The End of Gurus
If what I have to say about the intersection between native spirituality and nonduality starts to make sense to people, and starts to be a basic understanding of our paradigm, it’s going to be the end of gurus. That’ll be interesting, right? None of us like gurus anyway. Let’s get rid of the idea that …
It’s hard to talk about something new
It’s hard to talk about something that’s truly new. In my next series of videos, I’m going to be exploring how Nonduality and Native wisdom fit together. This hasn’t really been done. There are lots of people who have fabulous things to say about nonduality, and there are amazing Native philosophers, wisdom carriers, who are …
Truth Moment
Truth moment. The only thing we really hear about Enlightenment is from all the famous guys. What if there is a deep hidden reality of normal people.
Nonduality and native spirituality
Nonduality and Native spirituality—how do they relate? How are they similar? At first blush, it may seem like they’re very, very different. Non-duality is about attaining the non-dual state. This means attaining a state where you know through your own experience that everything’s connected—that there is a dynamic oneness between everything, that there’s not two. …
