Category: philosophical counseling
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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…
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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…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 