Month: January 2024

• January 31, 2024

  Is Consciousness Limited Or Limitless? A Guided Meditation
• January 30, 2024

  Was Berkeley A Proto-nondualist?

  One can discover in Bishop George Berkeley–and it’s the writings of Greg Goode that pointed me in this direction–the basic elements of a nondual metaphysics. Obviously, he was a theist, but his ontology can arguably lend itself to a proto-nondualist interpretation. These basic elements are: ideas, finite minds, and God’s Infinite Mind. Below, I’ll add…
• January 29, 2024

  Opening Courageously To Uncomfortable Feelings

  In his book The Transparency of Things, Rupert Spira speaks, near the end, about turning toward and being with what he terms “uncomfortable feelings.” How might this look? Step 1: Uncomfortable Feeling Identify any uncomfortable feeling arising just now. Or just memory to call forth any especially uncomfortable feeling–a vivid, a fresh one or an…
• January 27, 2024

  Does My Material Body Exist?

  What is the relationship between images of the body (thoughts, memories, concepts, visual perceptions, etc.) and the so-called material body itself? A moment’s reflection reveals that naive realism can’t be true: the image of the body is not the material body. For example, the image in the mirror is a representation of the material body.…
• January 26, 2024

  The Impossibility Of Substantiating the “I Am The Body” View

  “I am the body.” It is impossible to substantiate this view: 1.) For when I think, “I am the body,” I am involved in thought alone, and this thought cannot make contact with the presumed referent (i.e., the body). 2.) And when I don’t think, “I am the body,” then the experience is unfolding as…