Explore Non-Duality
A progressive journey from understanding to recognition
These guides offer multiple pathways into non-dual awareness. You can start anywhere—follow your curiosity, intellectual interest, or direct yearning for recognition.
Section 1: The Map
Intellectual Foundations
Clear, systematic frameworks for understanding non-duality. What is it? What isn't it? How does it relate to philosophy, science, and developmental models? This section satisfies the mind's need for coherent understanding.
Topics Include:
- • Non-duality 101: Core concepts and distinctions
- • The logic of non-separation
- • Non-duality across traditions (Advaita, Zen, Dzogchen)
- • Non-duality and Spiral Dynamics
- • Common misconceptions and traps
Section 2: The Pointer
Direct Recognition
Beyond concepts and understanding—invitations to look directly. Simple inquiries, contemplative practices, and pointers that short-circuit the intellect and reveal what's already here.
Topics Include:
- • Guided self-inquiry practices
- • Questions that dissolve the questioner
- • Recognizing awareness itself
- • Poetry and art as pointing
- • Working with glimpses and recognition
Section 3: The Living
Integration in Daily Life
How does non-dual recognition express in relationships, work, suffering, and joy? Integration without bypassing—bringing recognition into the texture of actual living.
Topics Include:
- • Non-duality in relationships
- • Working from non-separation
- • Non-duality and suffering
- • Social engagement without separate self
- • Non-dual awareness at different developmental stages
Section 4: The Meta
Reflecting on the Journey
The paradox of teaching non-duality, the relationship between maps and territory, and honest exploration of where understanding meets mystery.
Topics Include:
- • The paradox of this website
- • When to use concepts, when to let them go
- • Development and awakening
- • Personal reflections and journey
- • Community wisdom and shared inquiry
Section 5: The Ground
Exploring Reality's Fundamental Constructs
The deepest layer: examining the basic conceptual structures through which we perceive reality. Time and timelessness, space and boundlessness, being and nothingness, causality, seeking, and meaning itself.
Topics Include:
- • Time: The eternal now
- • Space: The boundless here
- • The self-other divide: The primary illusion
- • Being and nothingness: Two sides of isness
- • Cause and effect: The unbroken wholeness
- • The end of seeking
- • Living without a why: Meaning and meaninglessness