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Here are some more:

 

-Neo-advaita psychologizes the consciousness notion.

 

-Neo-advaita focuses on the emotional level.

 

-Neo-advaita is anti-intellectual, "kill the mind,"

and sees spiritual texts as somehow an escape

or otherwise inauthentic.

 

-Neo-advaita does not teach how to understand

one's experience.

 

-In Neo-advaita, one learns a metaphysical language,

but one's experience is not transformed. I agree

with Ken Wilber here: it yields translation, not

transformation.

 

-In Neo-advaita, it's hinted that focus of one's

surrender and bhakti energy should be the

teacher sitting at the front of the room.

 

-Neo-advaita is dead set against spiritual practice,

but does not discourage devotional activities

towards the satsang teacher.

 

-Regardless of the metaphysical language, the questions

and issues and priorities dealt with handled in neo-advaita

are actually much more relevant to psychotherapy than to

the investigation into the nature of self and

reality.

 

-Some neo-advaita teachers use the techniques from

motivational seminars and workshops. I know one

neo-advaita teacher who was using an electronic device,

like a biofeedback device in his work.

 

-Neo-advaita charges money, more in line with the

therapy model, than the traditional model.

 

--Greg

 

 

On 8/01/04 06:10 pm "Alan Adams-Jacobs" (alanadamsjacobs) wrote:

Dear Friends,

Here are some notes about what I consider to be the

fundamental flaws in Neo Advaita .I would appreciate, additions

comments etc.With thanks Alan

>

> The theory of Neo Advaita may agree with Advaita that 'all is

consciousness' But the question is

> how to live from this Absolute Consciousnes, unconditional

love, dynamic silence,peace, sahaja

> samahdi etc..always. without any identification with the 'false

sense of me' compounded by

> accumalated conditioned tendencies and narcisistic self

will.This veiling brings abou a

> mirrorisation so that the Pure Absolute Consciousness

becomes the ordinary everday Reflected Consciousness and

weak in comparison

> with the Absolute Consciousness of the Englightened Sage.

Advaita says that this obscuration

> caused

> by the' false sense of me' has to be eliminated [as in sufism

etc.] .This is successfully done

> by

> self enquiry and surrender .Otherwise to just say 'all is

consciousness there is nothing to do '

> is conceptual from the mind, not from 'no mind' and non

progressive. It is still in relative ,ordinary ,not

> Absolute,consciousnes, and does not bring about the shift of

living perpetually from The Absolute

> Consciousnes of Reality, Bliss etc.

 

 

Alan Jacobs

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