Monthly Archives: December 2016

Links of the Quarter: December 2016

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Dave Pollard

Ironic search result from the non-duality.one website. As they say “The paradox is that the ‘me’ cannot help but search, but what it’s looking for, a return to oneness, can never be found by the separate self. It will only … Continue reading →

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Imagining the Unimaginable

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Dave Pollard

image by Przemyslaw Puchalski at Behance.net; licence: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A few days ago I received a message from Transition Network co-founder Rob Hopkins saying he’d enjoyed my 2013 post about imagination. We’ve compared notes since then, and for the … Continue reading →

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Gabi’s Letter

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Dave Pollard

Dear, sweet Ren, I hope you slept well last night  8-) I thought about what you were saying last evening about the non-duality stuff, and about how hard it was to explain the whole thing about not really having free will, … Continue reading →

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Self-Detachment

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Dave Pollard

I‘ve been hosting my two wonderful friends from Peak Moment TV, Janaia and Robin, for the past few days, and mentioned to them the strange paradox of becoming increasingly ‘self’-aware, but only until/unless my ‘self’ falls away and this is … Continue reading →

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What Motivates the Self?

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Dave Pollard

Non-dualists talk about the hopelessness of striving for liberation from one’s self, which some call ‘enlightenment’; it will happen, or it won’t, they say, and if it happens, it will be realized (by no one) that the self never was real. … Continue reading →

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