Author: Andrew Taggart
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The I-thought Takes One Home
When asked by a student whether the teacher Francis Lucille can “say something about using the thought ‘I’ or ‘I am’ as a way of returning to one’s true nature,” Lucille replies: As we take the I-thought, we take it with the intention of understanding, of experiencing the reality that it refers to. We take…
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True Meditation Is Not Secular In Nature
When asked whether there are any prerequisites to meditation, the Advaita Vedanta teacher Francis Lucille replies that there are two: “Our intention has to be directed towards the impersonal, the divine” and “our attention has to be free from any object” (The Perfume of Silence, pp. 70-1). A similar answer is provided by The Upanishads where that…
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The Weirdness Of Nonduality #3: Could Consciousness Be Eternal?
I just published a meditation of sorts on Medium. It begins like so: Central Question Through meditation, how can one test whether time is ultimately real? Path There are many ways of speaking about the path to enlightenment. In a recent satsang (questions with the teacher), Advaita Vedanta teacher Francis Lucille suggests that — you can begin…
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The 5 Phases People Go Through To Turn Away From The Full Implications Of Total Work
Since 2017, I’ve been exploring the nature and significance of Total Work. I define Total Work as the process, starting at the end of the medieval period, by which human beings have been transformed into Workers as more and more aspects of life have been transformed into work. My approach has been to offer a…
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A ‘Global Community,’ Utter Bullshit, Is A Contradiction In Terms
Building a Global Community In 2017, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a long form blog post on Facebook in which he redefined Facebook’s mission thusly: our goal is to contribute to creating “a global community that works for everyone.” It sounds nice–very Green meme-y (community, inclusiveness, etc.)–but is it true? My suggestion, notwithstanding the possibility that he is being…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 