Why Every Non-Duality Speaker Is Lying (w/Kat Van Oudheusden)

Timecodes and topics:

0:00 Welcome and meeting Kat Van Oudheusden

0:46 Why the personal story is “nonsense making”

4:18 The two extremes of non-duality and a third way

6:02 Self-inquiry and the selfing mechanism short circuiting itself

12:02 Six aspects of no self and the essential inquiries

17:57 If there is no doer, is “stop seeking” even coherent?

22:58 We’re all liars: no one can speak the truth about this

24:34 Why judging other versions of non-duality misses the point

27:20 Everything is impersonal

30:16 Recognition vs lived experience

33:05 A body that isn’t owned and the non-dual identity

37:26 Useful lies: Rupert Spira, Tony Parsons and radical non-duality

38:53 The essence of inquiry and breadcrumbs

42:33 Spiritual ego, $10,000 retreats and being human

45:42 Donald Hoffman and the collapse of belief

47:46 End-stage seekers and the seahorse

53:47 Why nobody wants the impersonal (morality and the unworthiness reactor)

57:01 No mystical experiences, no training wheels

58:55 Non-duality as the next lingo

1:03:20 The end of hope

1:05:56 Innocent and impersonal

1:07:50 Selfless leadership

1:13:52 Shadow work and digging through the trash

1:16:39 Isn’t all of this just bypassing?

1:19:19 Kat’s name, Thailand and part two

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