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One Man’s Heartfelt Warning about Radical Nonduality & Neo-Advaita (opens the original)
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I wanted to share a readable transcript of my friend Jon’s recent video testimonial where he “shares his experience and the destructive influence of radical nonduality / the open secret message in my life, along with the hopeshot of ways and support in getting out and recovering your self.”If any of it sounds familiar, you’re not alone. If you're looking for support, I run a drop-in Sunday peer support meetup for peo
Changing Our Minds About Nondual Spirituality (Transcript) (opens the original)
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My conversation with & on changing our minds about nondual spiritualityJessica: Tim is a spiritual philosopher who’s written over 30 books, and in recent years has publicly rejected much of the non-dual philosophy that many of his books articulated, while articulating his most recent understanding in what he calls unividualism — where the individual self isn’t dissolved or excluded, but where we become aware of unity with one another
A Hidden Tool of Nondual Deconstruction: New Beliefs That Shape a New Experience (opens the original)
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"Another element that contemporary meditative practices have inherited is a basic dialectical tension between the processes of systematically dismantling accepted understandings, attitudes, and ways of being in the world and reconstructing alternative ones."— Re-thinking Meditation by David L. McMahanOne of the most common tools of deconstruction in nondual teachings are actually new beliefs, that when internalized, have highly deconstructive power. New simple-
Self-Deconstructive Spirituality & Threat-Detection Impairment - A Deadly Feature That Demands Attention Now (opens the original)
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A man with a medical condition described how self-deconstructive non-dual teachings led to the collapse of his cognitive ability to register “something is seriously wrong in my body right now” and initiate the protective action he’d learned to take to keep himself safe. Without self-referential awareness and a functioning sense of “me,” that alarm stopped firing in the usual way, and it was catastrophic. Meanwhile, his teacher had repeatedly told him “functioning keeps happening, don’t worry!” a
Claude AI’s on what’s dangerously unethical in self-negating nonduality’s blanketed “just keep going/opush through the fear” instruction (opens the original)
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I asked Claude the following question and the answer it gave was so clear and well-organized that I wanted to share it directly. This is something I talk a lot about in my own words, and yet sometimes it’s useful to see an argument laid out cleanly by a voice that has no emotional connection to the topic, no personal history with the phenomenon, it just follows the logic of the harm. And the more clearly and succinctly this can be by understood and communicated at scale, the better as real peopl
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