Non-duality and Sensory Knowledge

November 11th, 2006 Fred McVittie Posted in Consilience, Non-duality, Proprioception, Self, Sense |

In order to achieve the state of being known as ‘non-duality’, a consilience of self and world in which the separation between these is collapsed, one first needs to reduce this (apparent) separation by ‘bringing the world closer’. This can be achieved by de-privileging our habitual and dominant visual way of knowing, in which the entities of the world are viewed from a distant, removed position, in favour of ways of knowing based on more proximal sensory modes; hearing, smell, taste, touch, proprioception.