Introducing a Metaintegrative Vision of Nonduality

What if nonduality has more than one face? How might the realization of pure consciousness, intimate divine communion, sacred community, and the creativity of the Kosmos belong together? And what becomes possible when we learn to recognize these different expressions of nondual realization in our own lives?

In this fourth installment of Varieties of Nonduality series, I will introduce my new integrative metatheory of nonduality. The first three courses explored contemplative traditions across East and West. This course brings the insights of that comparative inquiry into a new framework for understanding the relationships among different nondual realizations, practices, and traditions.

Across ten weeks, we will work through the central dimensions of the “Nondual Polarity Model” I’ve been developing, combining related layers into a coherent journey. The 35+ nondual traditions we have explored over the last 3 years in will remain important conversation partners as we explore the larger patterns they reveal together. My aim is to honor their distinctive insights while opening up new possibilities for contemplative inquiry and integral realization.

This course stands on its own. You do not need to have taken any of the previous Varieties of Nonduality courses. Returning participants will find a new synthesis that builds on our earlier explorations.

Our Ten Week Journey

1  Introduction and setting the stage

How the model emerged from comparative inquiry, why an integrative metatheory is useful, and how its multiple layers and many polarities fit together. We will establish a shared vocabulary and orient to the questions guiding the course.

2  The One–Many Creatrix and the Primordial One–Many Polarity

Explore the generative relationship of unity and multiplicity, being and becoming. What changes when the One and the Many are understood as co-primordial dimensions of reality?

3  The Two Nondual Axes and the Four Nondual Ultimates

Discover how transcendence–immanence and identity–communion illuminate Oneness, Thouness, Kinness, and Allness. Consider what each ultimate discloses and how they relate.

4  The Pure Event Layer

Explore pure consciousness, communion, community, and creativity events as distinctive experiential and phenomenological expressions of the Four Ultimates. Consider how direct experience relates to the language we use to interpret it.

5  The Cosmological Arcs

Examine the model’s arcs of involution and evolution and the relationships among manifestation, development, and integration. Explore how the four ultimates participate in these larger movements.

6  Subject–Object Strategies of Each Ultimate

Investigate different ways that the apparent separation of subject and object can be transformed. Explore how these strategies express the distinctive orientations of the four ultimates.

7  The Meta Path and Meta Attention Polarities

Explore how paths of realization and modes of attention shape contemplative experience. Bring these polarities into conversation with the model’s enactment matrix and realizer archetypes.

8  Sacred and Divine Polarities

Investigate the sacred and divine polarities associated with the four ultimates, including awareness–being, lover–beloved, community–ecology, and Shiva–Shakti. Explore their significance for practice and everyday life.

9  Tradition Tensions and Cultural Historical Polarities

Examine how traditions work with enduring tensions such as silence–expression, withdrawal–engagement, and sudden–gradual realization. Consider cultural and historical influences and comparative patterns across traditions.

10  The Whole Model and Integral Fourfold Realization

Bring the layers together, revisit the central questions, and explore integral fourfold realization. Reflect on how the model can inform your ongoing practice, relationships, and understanding of reality.

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What You’ll Experience

This course is going to be another amazing metaintegral exploration of the robust and diverse contemplative traditions of nonduality found around our planet. In this time of global metacrisis we are well served to deepen our connection to these nondual traditions and the pristine wisdom they have to offer us in such times of need. 

• Comparative insight: Understand how “nondual awareness” is framed across radically different worldviews.
• Experiential depth: Each week includes optional readings, a recorded talk (30-60 min), meditative reflections, a discussion forum, and live discussion.
• Integrative perspective: See how ancient wisdom and modern consciousness studies converge on the same luminous ground.
• Scholarly yet accessible: Perfect for spiritual seekers, philosophers, therapists, and anyone fascinated by the nature of reality.

   

  The online course discussion space a few weeks prior to this so we can get the nondual party started before the live calls begin!