Vedanta

I don't see any dualism in it. If there is a dualism, it’s not of my making—it’s the universe’s making. The universe begins as one in some fundamental core, pre-Big Bang, and it manifests diversity. We are part of that diversity, and the universe chose to empower life to be self-aware and self-empowering. The...

Yes, it seems common sense that you can't be both a part and the whole at the same time, as those seem mutually exclusive. Even in Vedanta and other spiritual systems, the goal is often to abandon individuality, to dissolve it and be absorbed in the totality, knowing the bliss of absorption. This view...

My work—it's not that I never touch it or don’t do psychedelics—but now it's primarily contemplative. I’m developing spiritual practices integrating psychedelic experience with traditions from Vedanta. Building conscious practice forms that integrate psychedelic experiences without replicating them.

In Vedanta, the individual is illusion, so the goal is dissolving into the infinite. I don't share that conviction. My experience is the form can die, everything may die, but you are reborn in a new world and as a new being. The essence of your life is indestructible. The ego, Chris Bache, is...