I was thinking that people (yes, I know they do not exist...) seem to vary in their experiences of nonduality, from: maybe happened a bit as a young child, to a few adult experiences, to some awakening but still integrating, to "fully involved" (A candle was made to become entirely flame - Rumi), to beyond comprehension. So, I created the phrase, the 'Naught'ism Spectrum, since it is another one of those things we thought was a lot of things, but it is really just one big hairy ill-defined thing, and lets get it over with. (I think that is actually the definition of "normal variation", but OK.)
 |
Peace of Mind - 25 cents
|
Apparently the word is used in a variety of other contexts, so I probably could not get away with introducing it in to my writing. I looked at Not-ism (w/o hyphen) instead, and it is the name of a design and collaboration tool. Not so bad, actually, but likely to result in a lot of wrong search results. Like my "Bare Eyes" name being the same as a brand of makeup... oops. One person said that Notist Art is about trying to preserve some personal history in the face of everything going ephemerally digital. Interesting coincidence.
The WWW is just too darn big and popular these days! Huh.
But back to my point: there is a spectrum of nondual experiences. One satori doth not awakening make. I found a nice article about "Premature Claims to Awakening" and it said that there is a "head awakening" and then it has to move through your being / personality and all the old crap has to get worked through. Otherwise you have "masters" going off and doing bad things. (Bad things? Nevermind... Never... mind... That is funny. Stop talking to yourself! OK, jeez! Wasn't there another article about having a Voice that leads us through the growth process? Hmm.)
