Ex Non-dualist Author Guy Smith on Moving Beyond Neo-Advaita...

Guy Smith is a writer, body psychotherapist and former non-dualist. His first book, This Is Unimaginable & Unavoidable was written from the perspective of radical non-duality and made him a known figure within the community.

His second book, Mystery Not Mastery, though also written from a non-dual perspective, contained his first criticisms of Western non-duality.

Now, 16 years on, he's writing a novel about the dark side of non-duality. He's been working therapeutically with people from the non-dual community for over a decade.

0:00 Introduction - how we met

4:40 DO Think for Yourself - Starting to Question the Dogma

7:20 There are Many Non-dualisms - Either/Or paradigms are Harmful

12:57 Neo-Advaita's Deadening Effect and Affect

16:15 Neo-Advaita and Suicide

20:15 A Non-dual Aristocracy

22:45 Whose Truth Are We Discovering? / Interpretation Matters

36:20 Patterns of Harm Guy Encounters as a Psychotherapist

44:24 Elements of Peter Pan Syndrome

54:10 Re-igniting Passion, Re-Embodiment, Internalized Gaslighting

1:06:28 Shutting down people who are harmed by Neo-Advaita

1:09:31 Gaslighting Pt. 2: The Inner Troll

1:24:02 Wrap-up/Permission to be Fully Human!

In this conversation, Guy Smith and I (Jessica Eve) aim to bring compassionate discernment to the particular ways in which universal authoritarianism manifests both subtly and overtly in some modern "non-dual" spiritual movements, most specifically in neo-advaita / radical non-dualism.

We draw on our own experience in the field and those of countless others, to shed light on the unique ways that people's hearts, souls and body-minds are injured by "non-dual" teachings that undermine the validity and value of one's individual perspective and very existence.

We aim to offer hope that it's possible to heal from this harm, and to encourage a collective pivot towards holistically healthy, egalitarian spirituality that uplifts & unifies rather than degrades & divides 🙏🏼

▾ Contact Guy: realiven@gmail.com; his website is www.pathinthedark.com

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"With more widespread spiritual education, more people will come to appreciate the qualities of authentic spirituality, and the destructive type will no longer be able to take root and encroach upon and degrade so many lives." - Timothy Conway

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