Non-Duality...

Nonduality has as many approaches as there are human endeavors.

Mystics describe the experience in many ways – as loving, open, and lacking any sense of separation. More than a feeling, the experience also conveys a deep and liberating insight into the truth of life, death, self and world.

Yet life happens and turns and each turning is unique and individual. To see the turnings from the perspective of these nondual insights is the beginning of a fuller, freer, happier life. It is the beginning of awakening.

Mystics and sages are not the only ones to claim and describe nonduality.

Philosophers speak of nonduality as the insight that reality lacks true multiplicity, suggesting that reality is actually free of the dualistic opposites so often attributed to it. That is, reality lacks such distinctions as mind/matter, subject/object, reality/appearance, self/other, substance/attribute, essentialism/nihilism, past/future, here/there, truth/falsity, good/evil, and other pairs of opposites.

In spite of having successfully used analysis (i.e. “taking things apart”) as a powerful tool for centuries, science is converging on the nondual. Cosmologists seek a first cause for the universe. Physicists look for the ultimate constituent of matter. Neurophysiologists attempt to correlate physiological observables with reported experiences of nonduality. Transpersonal psychologists investigate the effects of these experiences on human mental health. Deep ecologists explore the potential consequences of nondual understanding on long term global health. Mathematics practiced with love and devotion has been described as communion with the nondual Divine.

World religions teach nonduality in both their orthodox and esoteric branches, the latter including Jewish Kabbalah, Islamic Sufism, Christian mysticism, Hindu Advaita-Vedanta, and Buddhist Shentong and Madhyamika as well as Zen; also included are Taoism and many shamanisic traditions. Aboriginal and modern cultures explore the realms of psyche from separate ego-bound mind to transpersonal realms to nonduality using many methods, including meditation, altered breathing, music, dancing, and powerful plants/chemicals.

The arts celebrate and cultivate the experience of nonduality. From painting to filmmaking, music to typography, sculpture to found art, horticulture to cooking, poetry to digital media, ballet to tai chi, literature to architecture -- nonduality is muse, subject and symbol.
.........from scienceandnonduality.com