Traditions
Every tradition here arrived at the recognition through its own history, vocabulary, and lineage. Start with whichever door calls to you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.