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New Site Incarnation… In progress

By Eric Platt | February 11, 2025 |

Hi All – I resurrected the site on AWS (for free first 3 months, the $5 after), after much deliberation, gnashing of teeth and technical difficulty. It involves a great…

Causeless Freedom

By meestereric | December 9, 2024 |

The Person-ality is a Phantom It’s not that a person has a phantom personality or not – it’s the fact that indeed the personality actually is a phantom, period, for…

Dialogue: Two Ways to Dissolve Anxiety

By meestereric | November 28, 2024 |

Q: I’ve been suffering from anxiety.It’s been pretty bad lately. Been with me for quite some time, like decades. So bad these last few days I just take to bed…

Time to Talk About Time

By meestereric | November 13, 2024 |

  Open Time … Like an opening out, like the shape of a delta but in 3D, and seeing it from the outside. Open, limitless, freedom, choice, adventure; there is…

The Three Mysteries: A Dialogue

By meestereric | September 16, 2024 |

Or it could be titled, “Is the world a dangerous place – do you really know that?” T = Teacher S = Student S: You said something the other day…

Is Your Robot Conscious? A Dialogue

By meestereric | September 15, 2024 |

A dialogue on a contemporary issue concerning wetware and wireware.   T = Teacher S = Student S: I have a question. T: OK. S: In one of our earlier…

Is The World Real? A Dialogue

By meestereric | September 6, 2024 |

A common notion is examined. ~ * ~ T = Teacher S = Student S: I have a question. T: OK. S: I often hear this from spiritual teachers or…

Is Consciousness Local? A Dialogue

By Eric Platt | July 31, 2024 |

Is Awareness Local? A dialogue with “Zephinanda” (a pseudonym I made up, for cognitive distance and for fun).   ~~~ * ~~~ Z = Zephinanda S = Student S: Hi,…

Pondering the Universality of Truth

By meestereric | July 24, 2024 |

Let’s look at the hierarchy – the true hierarchy, not the ones derived from social structures: religion derives from the spiritual, in its historical genesis, and its core of “mystical” truth;…

The Ending of All Violence

By meestereric | July 13, 2024 |

The way to solve violence has been known for thousands of years. Why is it not heard, known or understood? If understood, why not put into practice? How to restore…

The Fascinating Error of Non-Duality Students: Food, Sex, Money and Truth

By meestereric | July 13, 2024 |

It seems to be consistent with modern guru’s or teacher’s behaviors and teachings that liberation or awakening or enlightenment or whatever you want to call it, does not reduce the…

What is Ignorance?

By Eric Platt | June 14, 2024 |

A question from a reader: Eric, I have a question for you… if you have time. The question is, within nonduality, how would you BEST describe the concept of IGNORANCE.…

Will The Real Guru Please Stand Up

By Eric Platt | June 5, 2024 |

It is fascinating, and potentially educational and revealing, to look at the pattern of criticisms and complaints about spiritual teachers – for example, things people say to me, such as…

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