Part One [Ed.note: this is a blog called Nondualogicality I wrote in 2003–2004 when I was a member of a circle of Kali devotees in Laguna Beach and much more enamoured with the panpsychic interpretation of human consciousness. What I’m calling the ‘nonconceptual phase of ordinary awareness’ now, I called ‘oneness’ back…

Language and spiritual enlightenment, terms that are not often seen together. This is funny, because the only tool we can use to communicate what we believe about spiritual enlightenment is by the facility of the words we use within the language(s) we speak. I think it’s safe to say that…

Know for a cold, hard fact that your nonconceptual awareness is always right here in front of you as your perception of the world. When people decide to seek enlightenment, there is a 24-hour a day hurricane of ideas for them to sample, much of which are completely superfluous to…

Today I was told that teachers were afraid of me. By “teacher,” I’m referring to people who make their living by teaching some form of enlightenment spirituality. To be honest, I don’t know how true it is, but hearing it was surprising to me and decidedly not enjoyable. I mean…

There are only three things you need to understand about spiritual enlightenment: ~our perceptual envelope is made of nonconceptual awareness ~realization is the act of noticing that nonconceptual awareness ~simple meditation yields attentional skill, making noticing easier Your perceptual envelope is simply the panorama of your experience as it is…

Here is the truth about transmission gurudom: there is nothing to transmit. To see the nature of one’s being requires a new attentional skill. It’s not getting filled up with something, it’s not climbing higher, and it’s not being attuned to the transmission of any “enlightened beings.” It’s just seeing…

We are happy to report that we seem to have retained our relativematurity (approximately 23 years old) after a direct encounter with that lactescent heaven-on-Earth, the bosom of Amma. We arrive at the hotel conference room after an hour’s drive and find a seat next to a woman dressed in…

In the search for unity, some religions could not solve the problem beyond the finding of a duality of causes, one good, the other evil. Others went as far as finding an intelligent personal cause, a few went still further beyond intellect, beyond personality, and found an infinite being. ~Swami…

‘Presence’ is the first of the facsimiles of enlightenment I’m endeavoring to write about. One of the first hits at the beginning of my research was this excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Inner Journey Home by A.H. Almaas. Right away, we are confronted with the metaphor of the title…