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This paper addresses the phenomenological givens of all experience: first personal givenness, reflexivity of consciousness, and unity of experience in space and time. The discussion so far has focused on pure consciousness, the ground of being in many Eastern spiritual teachings and the illusion of an individual self. I contend that this does not fully account for these phenomenological
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The focus on this paper will be on "Self as the cause of Individuation". What I can contribute to this subject arises solely from my experiences as a Christian contemplative. Elsewhere I have written extensively about the true nature of the self, among other the books "The Path to No-Self", and "The Experience of No-Self", (State University of New York). However, in the interest of making this paper
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In this paper an attempt is made to present Adyashanti’s rich and profound rendering of the lived experience of No-Self. To fully understand what this state entails, it is necessary to view the trajectory of forms and qualities that consciousness can take during the spiritual unfolding, and how the experience of No-Self fits in into the overall arch of awakening from Ego to
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Most people pursue awakening in the same way they go after a new car, or a mate, a college education, or becoming CEO. But this is not the same. Those are relative goals. Achieving those things, we use skills that can be learned, whereas awakening does not result from education, as in a gathering of knowledge. Awakening is the very highest art form, the art of letting go
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The great spiritual traditions unanimously affirm that beyond the boundaried egoic consciousness typically identified along the psychological spectrum as "myself" lies a more spacious, unboundaried selfhood whose attainment (variously known as "non-dual realization," "enlightenment," or "Christ consciousness") comprises the true fulfilment of our human journey.
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This paper explores the important place of psychological work in the service of spiritual development, as part of a larger question: how to realize impersonal true nature in a thoroughly personal, human form. The challenging truth is that spiritual realization is relatively easy compared with the much greater difficulty of actualizing it, integrating it fully into the fabric of one's embodiment and