Soul Spirit Self
A Journey Within
Welcome to Soul Spirit Self. A collection of texts, videos and commentary from the spiritual traditions that point to the true nature of our self and the world.
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What's worth reading
Stories from consciousness research, contemplative practice, and the wisdom traditions — curated as they surface.
Analytic idealism: a serious case that the world is mental
Bernardo Kastrup argues that universal consciousness is all there ultimately is, and what we call physical objects are appearances of mental activity. The piece sets out how dissociation, the same phenomenon clinicians observe in DID, can explain why each of us experiences ourselves as a separate self inside a shared world.
Reality is a user interface
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that evolution shaped our senses to hide reality, not reveal it. What we see is a desktop of icons, useful for surviving but no more "true" than the trash can on your laptop is a real receptacle.
Consciousness & scienceQuantum fields are consciousness
Federico Faggin, the engineer who invented the microprocessor, now argues that consciousness is not produced by the brain but is the substance of quantum fields themselves. Each quantum state is unique and uncopiable, matching the privacy of subjective experience in a way classical physics cannot.
Wisdom traditionsThe world should be considered like a dream
Ramana Maharshi on why Advaita treats waking experience as continuous with the dream state, not opposed to it. Both are appearances in awareness, and recognising that is the beginning of self-enquiry.
Living teaching, on screen
Traditions of nondual recognition
Each tradition is a distinct articulation of one recognition. Different vocabulary, different rituals, different lineages, the same pointing.
Advaita Vedanta
The teaching that all is one undivided awareness. From the Upanishads through Shankara to Ramana Maharshi, a continuous lineage of pointing back to what already is.
Enter →Christian Mysticism
A continuous lineage of contemplatives within the Christian tradition who pointed past doctrine and image to a direct encounter with the ground of being.
Enter →Buddhist Nonduality
From the early discourses of the Buddha through the Mahayana sutras to the koan literature of Zen, the lineage of awakening that asks practitioners to look directly into the nature of mind.
Enter →Gnostic Christianity
A contemplative current that ran alongside the canonical New Testament in the first three centuries of the Christian era, preserved in the Nag Hammadi codices, the Pistis Sophia, and the Hermetic dialogues.
Enter →Modern Nonduality
A loose lineage of late twentieth and early twenty-first century teachers, drawing variously on Advaita Vedanta, Zen, the Direct Path, and Christian mysticism, who have brought the recognition of nondual awareness into ordinary contemporary English.
Enter →Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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