Tag: Spirituality
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The Energy Body And Open Awareness
To explore the “I am the body identity,” it’s best to take an experiential approach: Begin by dropping all the weight from individual body parts, thereby letting all heaviness sink into the earth. In this way, the body is completely discharged of density, solidity, and a sense of weightiness. Indeed, what is slowly being discharged…
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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…
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Considering A Hypothetical Caste Sorting From A Metaphysical Perspective
0. Let me speak in the hypothetical. A fictional caste-like system hypothetically makes sense, provided that one can look at the matter from a purely metaphysical (not from a political, historical, cultural, or empirical) point of view. Here’s how: 1. In lieu of believing that all beings are “created equal,” we should take stock of…
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Error Messages Vs. Clean Messages
Question: If all arising are consciousness arising, is there a difference between the “error messages” and the “clean messages”? That’s a really good question. Ultimately speaking: No, there is no difference. Yet provisionally speaking: Yes, there appears to be a difference. What’s An Error Message? An error message indicates that I (aham) have inadvertently mixed myself (aham)…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 