Future of Nonduality

[Guest guest]

This letter speaks about trends in nonduality, about the future

of nonduality, and about the future of Nonduality Salon.

Jerry, I joined your list... Your post sounded very interesting, and

thought I'd like to read more. Will also read more on your website..

thank you, Lynette

[Guest guest]

This letter speaks about trends in nonduality, about the future

of nonduality, and about the future of Nonduality Salon.

 

I detect a trend in the evolution of nonduality email lists.

There is a movement toward specialization. I predict that in the

coming year there will an explosion in the number of nonduality

lists as people migrate to the ones that appeal to their

specific interests and to the moderators that are most appealing

to them.

 

My vision since May of '98, when the I AM list was started, has

been to see so many email communities created that no one would

be able to keep up with everything. That vision came to pass a

good year or so ago. For example, I to about 60

nonduality email lists; true, some are dead or half-dead, but I

barely scan the rest of them.

 

Now there seems to be another wave of nonduality email list

formation on the horizon. I call it the wave of nondual

specialization. It's going to bring in a flood of new people and

its going to create distance between some of us who are very

close right now. Like they say: it's all good.

 

I predict this trend will precipitate more in-person retreats

and more community interaction. In fact, we are already seeing

more of that. In time, this combination of internet and

in-person mingling of nondual people will influence the

consciousness of the world.

 

How much time will pass before nondual perspective is as

well-known and understood (if not always applied in life) as

something like the Golden Rule? Probably 400-500 years from now.

The reason it will take so long is that the nonduality

phenomenon is largely generational. Most of us are Baby Boomers.

If one accepts that Baby Boomers are those born between 1937 and

1962, it would include well over 90% of the members on this

list.

 

The work we do may not be matched in intensity or in the number

of people involved, for generations. Our entire generation is

setting groundwork for this millenium, and nonduality is simply

the cap upon this spiritual generation. We have to acknowledge

everyone from Timothy Leary to Krishnamurti, from Elvis to Da

Free John, from Jack Kerouac to Gene Poole, from John Coltrane

to Byron Katie. This is our generation, man. I haven't even

mentioned anyone yet.

 

I don't think there will be too many future generations as

intense and powerful as ours. A few generations, a hundred years

or so, may pass before another generation takes up the torch we

now carry. They will make an impression upon the world. Then

another few complacent generations will come to pass before

another generation of nonduality is born.

 

I am also quite sure that the nonduality movement in our

generation has only just begun and we have a long way to go. Our

generation will be around for another 50 years or so, and we

will, and are, influencing many from the upcoming generations.

However, nonduality will never burn as brightly as it is in

these days and in the next 50 years during which time the flame

will continue to intensify and climb.

 

In time, nonduality will be commonly known and there will even

be a world religion known as nondualism. What that means is that

these are the best of times, because we're not caught up in the

-ism. These are the best of times. And in the days of nondualism

as religion, there will still be small groups like ours and they

will talk of the days at the beginning of the millenium when

there was no -ism and everyone was naive and so celebratory of

our simple, simple nature.

 

And so, this is a long roundabout way of saying that I am in the

process of creating a few specialty lists. The first one is

called NDS-Guru Talk. I invite anyone and everyone to join.

Here's the description:

 

This is a place to send reports of Satsang/Guru experiences, and

to announce upcoming Satsangs, retreats, workshops, intensives,

gatherings, discussion groups.

 

Also, let us know of any 'new', or little-known nondual

Gurus/teachers.

 

Also, if you would simply like to make yourself available to

meet other nondual type people, feel free to let it be known

here.

 

Subscribe at NDSgurutalk/join

 

There will also be lists on activism, nondual perspectives, The

Matrix, nonduality and marginalization, guiding your children

toward the nondual, and other areas. I invite anyone to start

lists on these subjects before I get to it. The more variety of

moderators, the better. Or start your own list on your own

specialty. If you need help starting a list, let me know!

 

Please don't worry about there being too many lists. Don't hold

back. Give your all. Everything will look after itself.

Structures and organization will form in ways we can't see right

now. This may all sound like noise, but I prefer to see these

points of activity as lights that draw all varieties of moths.

And I have not lost sight of the purpose of those lights, which

is to burn the moths to death.

 

Thanks for listening,

Jerry

http://www.nonduality.com