Category: philosophical counseling
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How Can I Always Remain As The Witness
Question: How can I always remain as the witness? You assume that you’re the mind and so have to “get back to” the witness. You also assume that you keep forgetting to take your stand as the witness and so you need to effortfully keep reminding yourself to be it. Drop these two assumptions. Aren’t…
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Is Nonduality Nihilistic?
In Vivekacudamani, a work by Shankara, the student asks (in my paraphrase): “I understand that I am to discriminate between the Self and the non-self. The non-self includes the gross body, the subtle body, and the causal body. All right, but isn’t there just voidness left after all phenomena have been negated?” After all, one…
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Lost My Head And Lovin’ It
✦ Common sense says that consciousness appears–somehow–inside the head. It’s also thought to be personal, private, limited, and localized. Is it? ✦ Common sense turns out not only to be incorrect but also to be the cause of suffering. ✦ What if consciousness is actually headless–that is, spacious, open, vast, and free? Let’s find out.…
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The Birth Of Modern Atheism: Universal Consent Under Attack
Perhaps the chief “moral proof” argument in defense of the existence of God was termed “universal consent.” It was not regarded as a logical demonstration the point of which was to prove the indubitable existence of Divinity, but it did count for a good deal, writes Alan Charles Kors in his erudite book Atheism in…
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Is It True That I Don’t Move Through Space?
Common sense would have it that I can, and very often do, move through space. Is it true? What does the direct path teaching of Advaita Vedanta show? Three Prakriyas, or Lines Of Inquiry The First: Movement involves going from here to there. But there is not-here. So, the first question is: “Where am I…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 