Tag: god
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On Being Post-secular
The secularization thesis held that organized religion would fade as modern science came to take hold in modern culture and so all of human life would be slowly and properly “disenchanted” or “de-spirited.” This hasn’t happened. Instead, a far stranger development, one charted by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, has long been unfolding. More…
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Diversity (Which Is Not) And Oneness (Which Is)
The finite mind projects a diversity of objects (e.g., the body, the world, other minds, etc.) and then assumes that reality is such that it conforms to this diversity. As a result, when the finite mind “goes in search” of the Self, it posits twoness: its own independent existence as well as that of the…
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Why Do I Oscillate Back And Forth Between The Body-identity And Higher States?
Question: It’s funny how the feeling of aliveness is so deeply buried in this body. Even when I get out a level or a few [and come to higher states] and see my life beyond time, as part of a complete super-I, I am still oscillating and undulating back into a deep place within this…
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Does Sickness Contradict The Nondual Teaching?
Question: I still can’t seem to kick this illness…. You mentioned a few conversations ago that I should look for places where the teaching seems not to be true and investigate. Having this illness [that won’t go away], I am struggling. While I recognize that all these experiences are arising to me, I still feel…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 