May 13, 2023
[This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book "Nonduality and Mind-Only"]
The Four Worlds are grossly misunderstood in conventional Kabbalah, which often, egregiously, conflates them with the four elements (fire, earth, air, and water). In fact, they have nothing to do with the four elements, but are the four primary dimensions of existence stemming from the Absolute, Ain Sofh Aur. Whereas the Tree of Life pertains to our solar system, the Four Worlds are universal, and describe the dimensional descent of Ain Sof Aur into the world of material forms.
The Four Worlds are commonly described as emanations, but from my perspective, as soon as a “World,” or dimension, enters space and time, it is, by definition, created, and thus subject to destruction. Hence, not all the Four Worlds are emanations.
How about Adam Kadmon, the Original, or Primal, Man, often depicted as the fifth world in Kabbalistic metaphysics?
Adam Kadmon is not an emanated or created dimension, or “world,” hence he should not be considered the fifth world. Rather, he is the personification of the Absolute, Ain Sof Aur.…
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February 20, 2023
[This is a raw unedited excerpt from my forthcoming book on nonduality and Mind-Only metaphysics. I just started the book and It won't be finished/published until 2024.]
What is Nonduality?
From my perspective, and that of the foremost spiritual traditions, there is only one true version of nonduality—that of a single uncreated, unmanifest Mind, or Being-Consciousness, or Divine Existent, as the Source, Substance, Condition, and Reality of reality (meaning the totality of manifest existents). In other words, nonduality as I, and the foremost spiritual traditions, define it, means Mind-Only, which means that this One Mind, or Being-Consciousness, has become everything; and yet, paradoxically, because it is forever unmanifest, and thus outside time and space, it has not become anything.
What can you say about this Mind?
Because Mind (or Consciousness), the single Reality, transcendentally (or timelessly and spacelessly), alone exists, it is Self-Existing as Supreme (or Divine) Being; hence, it isn’t just Consciousness, but Being-Consciousness. Moreover, because Mind is Divine (or Di-“vine”), it consists not only of the “vine” of Consciousness (or Awareness), but also the “vine” of Energy (or Spirit); hence, it isn’t just Being-Consciousness, but Being-Consciousness-Energy.… Read the full article
