From ancient yoga manuals and Buddhist sutras to modern psychotherapy and contemporary phenomenology, this course traces a sweeping arc across East and West, body and mind, matter and spirit. Each week offers a focused immersion in a distinct lineage or school, while building a comparative understanding of how different cultures and epochs have intuited the same fundamental insight: that all apparent separation is, in essence, illusion.

This is the third (and likely final) installment of my Varieties of Nonduality series. Each course stands alone so there is no need or expectation to have taken either of the previous courses as each course focuses on different contemplative traditions. 

We will again explore 10 contemplative traditions East and West, which includes going deeper into a few that we have touched on briefly in previous courses. This will allow us to make new connections and continue the many juicy conversations and explorations we initiated in the first course. Here is the 10-week line up:

Course Overview

Weeks 1–5: Eastern Traditions of Nonduality

1. Yantra Yoga & Hatha Yoga – Discover how the subtle body, breath, and posture serve as vehicles for realizing the unity of energy and awareness in tantric and yogic systems.
2. Pureland & Huayen Buddhism – Explore the luminous networks of inter-being and the boundless compassion that arise when emptiness and form are seen as one.
3. Five Vedānta Schools of Nonduality – Compare Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, Dvaitadvaita, Achintya-Bhedābheda, and Shuddhadvaita—five lenses on the relationship between Brahman, world, and self.
4. Sikhism – Engage the poetic monism of the Japji Sahib, where divine unity pulses through devotion, ethics, and everyday life.
5. Jiddu Krishnamurti’s “Pathless Path” – Encounter a radical non-system: awareness without method, freedom without tradition, and truth without teacher.

Weeks 6–10: Western Traditions of Nonduality

1. Early Greek Monism – From Thales to Plotinus, rediscover the Western roots of oneness, where Being, Mind, and the Good were not yet divided.
2. Mulla Ṣadrā’s Transcendent Theosophy – Enter the Persian synthesis of philosophy and revelation where existence itself is a living, graded continuum of divine reality.
3. German Idealism & Phenomenology – Trace the modern rediscovery of nonduality through Schelling’s naturphilosophie, Husserl’s intentionality, and Merleau-Ponty’s embodied perception.
4. The Ba’Hai Vision of Unity – Examine a contemporary faith that weaves mystical oneness into social harmony and planetary evolution.
5. Nondual Psychotherapy – Explore the frontiers of dialogical consciousness with W. R. Bion’s “Theory of O” and Judith Blackstone’s “Realization Process,” where psychology meets pure being.

 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!