Issue 10 March 2011


Quantum D


uring the past thirty years an enthusiastic number of mental health professionals–psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and psychiatrists–have delved deeply into the principles and practices of Asian spirituality. Many of them have been attracted to nondual forms of Buddhism because these traditions contain an extremely sophisticated and far- reaching psychology. Also, the nondual traditions are essentially free of ritual and dogma, which makes it relatively easy to transpose their essence from one culture to another. Another virtue of nondual traditions is an emphasis on embodied transcendence. In these traditions, the transpersonal nature of being itself is revealed through the very structure of our personality. This integrated approach removes the possibility of producing spiritual experiences that put people at risk. It automatically corrects any personal bias that might lead people to disconnect from their physical, embodied existence.


Helping professionals who immerse themselves in nondual teachings generally acknowledge that their practice of psychotherapy is enriched and enhanced by the experience. The fusion of nondual experience and psychotherapy training is producing the emergence of new modality called “Nondual Psychotherapy.”


Like all psychotherapies, nondual therapies seek to remedy human conflict, suffering and confusion. Ultimately, all suffering results from a difference between “what we experience” and “what we want.” Whenever these differ, we suffer. When the difference is dissolved we experience peace and freedom. Nondual therapies bridge and resolve the fundamental problem of human existence: the presence of unfulfilled needs and desires. The power of nondual awareness lies in the possibility of resting in and experiencing ourselves as a centreless field of awareness, where we are no longer the victim of our preferences. When we rest in awareness, we discover we have everything we could possibly want, because we need nothing. We see that we never need more than what we have. No matter who we are, what we have and don’t have, the


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