The Failure of Liberal Hegemony
The separate self does not live at the depth of relationship needed for true diplomacy, despite its good intentions…
Carl Jung & the “Eastern Mind”
Jung is focused on state experiences, not the remembrance of Non-separation. Consciousness does not transcend its ego condition, the mind does…
Isolating the Individual From Culture
There is a certain loss of insight in the tendency of psychoanalysis to isolate the individual from culture…
Alan Watts on the Culture of Separation
Beneath the contest lies friendship. Beneath the serious lies the playful. Beneath the separation of the individual and the world lies the field pattern…
On Harvard University’s Implicit Association Test
The ability to create alliances that bypass boundaries of race, nationality, and culture can have a bearing on our well-being, our prosperity, our productivity – and perhaps our survival…
The 5 Positions on Cultural Identity
The book we are discussing concludes that five positions on cultural identity exist within intercultural communication and related fields – all of which are descriptions of the Culture of Separation…
Are You Satisfied With Battling Yourself?
One must learn to rest amidst the battle, get “outside of” the battle, and understand the battle is not “yours,” – it’s an experience being lived as the impersonal existence of Non-separation…
When Love is Called Dissident
In the culture of separation, someone standing for love, peace and human rights can be called “dissident.” What does that say about the world we live in?…
Leonard Cohen is the Real Kanye West
When Leonard Cohen claims to be “the real Kanye West,” he is not talking about being a physical object in a world outside himself – he is pointing to the remembrance of Non-separation…
Answering Wayne Liquorman’s Ram Tzu Koan
If you feel like you can outsmart Ram Tzu or personally worship an object outside of what Ram Tzu is pointing to, you are under the spell of the separate self…
