We commonly just lump these all under "stress" and resign ourselves that "life is hard & then we die." Most of us have no idea that how we see ourselves (our self-concept) & how we see life itself (our worldview) may well be, totally innocently ie subconsciously, severely stunting our maturation & quality of life.
To see the clear blue sky above, we need to crawl out from under a mountain of existential dung. This requires some effort, a bit of courage AND intentional immersion in the worldview of wise teachers. This is exactly what I've been trying to share in my blogs for the past 15+ years. We desperately need antidotes, correctives, for the heartless, mindless, stunted materialist dogma we're all drowning in.
Amazingly, the internet ALSO contains actual gems that allow & encourage us to remember our true nature, who we truly are. Below are some of my favorite non-dual teachers who for me, share one common delightfully liberating message. Each teacher naturally has a unique personality & teaching style, so you may resonate more with some than others.
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has spent 30 years researching, writing & speaking about the two very different ways of looking at ourselves & the world, and thus experiencing two very different self-concepts & worldviews: "What Modern Life Forced Your Brain to Ignore" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87oh4ahzi4
Famous non-dual teacher & author Eckhart Tolle, with his dry humor, beautifully explains the non-dual perspective on the 2 very different levels of perceiving ourselves & life: "Beyond the Conceptual Mind" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrBSaNU3tU
Rami Shapiro is a light-hearted, intelligent, gifted spiritually-independent seeker of truth who also happens to be a rabbi - a real breath of fresh air: "Exploring Perennial Wisdom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csoitdudtX0
Psychotherapist, non-dual teacher & author, John Prendergast beautifully summarizes current non-dual understanding: “Embodied Spirituality — The Nature of Our Multidimensional Ground.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50fWshq2C0
Helen Hamilton is a wonderful, gentle, humble, gifted non-dual teacher who realized her true self while being a busy mother of 4 and working outside the home: "'Awakening’ – It’s not what you think!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HXp9faeQ4
A super-gentle, gifted non-dual teacher is Louise Kay: “How Can I Speed up my Spiritual Awakening?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSxygwMsHU
Gifted, powerful non-dual teacher & author Amoda Maa always shares valuable pointers for liberation: "The Truth about Radical Nonduality (And Why It Stops at the Mind)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9kqEgqnDOQ&list=PLBj0GiAEeavmA-j269z2dIDY1gzy64wq3
Angelo DiLullo is a very bright, precisely verbal, full-time physician and non-duality teacher with a huge collection of YouTube videos: "Arriving Beyond Thought" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOC0aXIi5g
David Bingham is another gifted, gentle, unique non-dual teacher: "Ordinary People. Ordinary Awakenings": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64l6pOY10oc
Former jet-setter, hedonist Jonathan Ashford, who after a near-death experience (NDE) returned completely transformed, shares his powerful non-dual message: "A Near-Death Awakening: 'I Came Back Without a Self'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmOpCCJkuY
NO worries - because what you really, truly are, always have been, and will be, is infinitely more than you realize - no shit!!
An important aside - since many are put off by a single word eg "religion" or "God" - and conflate these with "spirituality," here's a clarification:
“Religion I take to be concerned with faith in the claims of one faith tradition or another, an aspect of which is the acceptance of some form of heaven or nirvana. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual prayer, and so on.
Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit – such as love & compassion, patience tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony – which brings happiness to both self & others.” Dalai Lama
“There is a spiritual potency within each and every one of us. It is not Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, or Hindu; it is prior to all systems of thought, more prior than can be imagined. It has been given many names throughout history, but the ground of the innermost within has no name. For it is the place where all names come from – yours, mine, ours, theirs. And within this spiritual potency, within this ground of one’s being, is a drive to awaken to our true being, reality, or God. It is the whisper of something uncontained, unpredictable, perhaps even dangerous to all that is inauthentic within us. It is the call to the real and the true beyond mere ideas, beliefs, and speculation. It is the sacred endeavoring to awaken to itself, within and as each of us. And that means you! In this sense each one of us has a sacred task – to help the sacred become fully conscious of itself within and through this human incarnation."
Adyashanti, forward to Stephan Bodian “Awakening. A Guide to Nondual Wisdom and the Pathless Path” 2026.
“One world is dying,
and another is being born.
Let’s tend to both of them with compassion.”
Marianne Williamson
we are the ones we have been waiting for.”
Hopi elders
"Despair is
only for those
who see the end beyond doubt.
We do not."
J.R.R.
Tolkien
"We are stars wrapped in skin.
The light you are seeking has always been within."
Rumi
Eckhart Tolle (12 min) "Why trying to love people doesn't work, and what does"
