Topical Guide to Nondual Understanding

The main topics are listed here in alphabetical order for easy reference. Comprehensiveness has been sacrificed for the sake of concision; there are no duplicate articles across different categories.

For a chronological list, see the Table of Contents.

Latest update: 8/12/2025

Awareness

• Awareness is the Seer, Mind is the Seen

• Awareness Knowing Awareness as Awareness

• Awareness, Mind, and the Act of Perception

• Aware Presence Simply Is

• I Am Awareness

• “I Am”: The Unqualified Truth

• Consciousness and Dynamism Are Two Aspects of One Reality

• Consciousness Cannot Be Captured

• Consciousness is Not a Feature of Reality but Reality Itself

• Frictionless Flow

• Nondual Awareness: Being In the World

• Recognizing Awareness in John 1:9-14

• Subjectivity is the Source of All Knowing

• The Body-Mind is a Lens for Awareness

• The Great, Unsolvable Mystery

• The Substrate of All Experience

• The Unifying Reality of Awareness

• The World as Modulations of Consciousness

• To Access Stillness

Devotion

• God's Presence as the Wellspring of Being

Dreams

• Ignorance Isn’t The Problem

• In Dreams, Who Controls the Narrative?

• When We Fall Asleep

Duality/Nonduality

• “Atman is Brahman” / “I and the Father are One”

• Dualism Shapes and Divides the World

• One Truth, Many Voices: Wisdom of the Upanishads and the Bible

Ego

Regret Is an Activity of Ego

Free Verse/Sketches

• Coffee Shop Talk

• How Do You Know God?

• Overheard in Devotion

• PSA

• The Same Can Be Said for Consciousness

Free Will

• Consciousness is Free to Choose

• Consciousness Simply Is

• The Locus of Control

• There is a Choice We Make

Good and Evil

• Beyond Good and Evil

God

• Beyond the Personal

• God and Consciousness

• God Beyond Concepts

• The Light of All Mankind: A Nondual Reading of John 1:1-5

• The Mystery of “I Am”

Grace

• Grace: Gift from Above or the Recognition of Reality?

Happiness

• Happiness

• Two Paths to Joy

Jesus

• Jesus' Canonical Teachings of Nondual Reality (Part 1)

• Jesus' Non-Canonical Teachings of Nondual Reality (Part 2)

• “No Longer I Who Live, but Christ”

Liberation/Freedom

• A Single Recognition

Mind

• Mind Illuminates the World

• Mind is the Framework for Perception

Parables

• Parable for the Body-Mind

Perfection/Imperfection

• An Imperfect Universe?

Philosophers (in chronological order)

• Parmenides' Groundbreaking Argument

• Meister Eckhart’s, “God Cannot Know Itself Without Me”

• Spinoza's Dual-Aspect Monism Compared to the Nondual Perspective

• Schopenhauer, Dual-Aspect Monism and the Nondual Perspective

• Jung's Unified Field: Psyche and Matter as Dual Aspects of Reality

• David Bohm's Implicate Wholeness

• Iain McGilchrist and the Divided Brain

• David Chalmers: Beyond the Hard Problem

Philosophy

• Pantheism vs. Panentheism

• Reconciling Mind and Matter with Dual-Aspect Monism

• Substance Dualism vs. Dual-Aspect Monism

Prayer

• Approaches to Nondual Prayer

• Manifesting Your Desires?

Predeterminism

• Beyond Chance and Predetermination

Presence

• Practicing the Presence

• The Offering of Life

Reality

• All in the Divine

• Base Reality

• Do Thoughts Shape Reality?

• Judgment vs. Discernment

• Missing the Obvious

• Reality Perceives Itself Through You

• The Highest Truth Is a Simple Recognition

• There Can Only Be One Reality

• The Ultimate Reality According to Sacred Texts of the World

Separation

• Becoming an Instrument of the Divine

• The Body of the World

Sin/Salvation

• On Being a Sinner and the Need for Salvation

Synchronicity

• The Role of Meaningful Coincidences in Our Lives

• Where do Hunches Come From?

Time and Space

• Beyond Doubt

• Reality is Here and Now

• The Mind Creates Space and Time from the Infinite

• The Timelessness of Aware Presence

• When We Wake Up

Trinity

• The Christian Trinity: Aspects of “I Am”

• Unity and the Holy Trinity

Will

• The Will of God

Worry

• Eliminating Worry