Science and Nonduality / Wissenschaft und Nondualität / Ciência e Não-dualidade / Ciencia y no Dualidad

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Science and Nonduality is a community inspired by timeless wisdom, informed by cutting-edge science and grounded in personal experience.

Mystics describe the nondual experience in many ways, loving, expansive, blissful and unitive, lacking any sense of separation.

More than just a feeling, the experience conveys deep and liberating insights into the truth of life and death, self and World. Yet life continues to happen, things change and turn, and each turning is unique.

Philosophers speak of reality as unencumbered by the dualistic oppositions we so often get lost in.

A reality lacking such distinctions as mind/matter, subject/object, reality/appearance, self/other, substance/attribute, essentialism/nihilism, past/future, here/there, true/false, good/evil.

All binary pairs that cause fracturing, and suffering. Scientists are now converging with the nondual view, seeing the whole as more than just the sum of its parts.

Cosmologists seek a first cause to the universe. Mathematicians describe their pursuit of truth and beauty as a practice for communion with the divine. Physicists look for the constituents of matter.

Neuroscientists attempt to correlate physiological observables with reported mystical experiences and psychic phenomena.

Transpersonal psychologists investigate these effects on mental health. Deep ecologists explore the potential benefits of nondual perspectives on sustainability and global health.

World religions teach nonduality in their esoteric branches, including Jewish Kabbalah, Islamic Sufism, Christian Mysticism, Hindu Advaita-Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Buddhist Shentong, Madhyamaka or Zen, and Taoism.

Many indigenous and shamanistic teachings are also nondual in essence. Aboriginal and modern cultures alike explore the realms of psyche using methods including meditation, altered breathing, drumming, dancing, music and medicinal plants or substances.

The arts celebrate and cultivate the experience of nonduality. From painting to filmmaking, music to typography, sculpture to found-object art, horticulture to cooking, poetry to digital media, ballet to Tai Chi, literature to architecture – nonduality is muse, subject and symbol.