The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Nonduality From the “Psychology Today” website: What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them from accurately assessing their skills. What causes the Dunning-Kruger effect? […]
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “AWAKE” FROM THE NONDUAL PERSPECTIVE By Lloyd Pfleuger, PhD If a non-dual teacher calls somebody awake, what does it mean? This is a great question. In the first place it is pretty rare in my experience that even those exalted, often robed, flowered, and celebrated figures up on the […]
We recently received the link below in an email from one of our favorite people. We found it fascinating. Who knows? Perhaps you will, too https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6255321530001 Hi Fred and Betsy, Y’all probably already heard this but I love this new story about The Voyager detecting a steady hum (om?) in the empty space […]
REMISIDENTIFICATION: A New Term for Greater Clarity VIDEO Podcast
WHAT AUTHENTIC NONDUALITY IS NOT ABOUT (FYI, no one’s proofreading this and it’s late at night so you get what you get.) Pardon me while I step onto my soapbox. Ahem. The historical Buddha’s core teaching was as stunningly simple as it was earth-shattering. Above and beyond anything else, he taught, “There is no self.” […]
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Message Body: Hey Fred, good morning from Raleigh. No question or request here. Just felt compelled this moment just to say I love your videos and your way of explaining things. It’s terrifyingly direct! I got on this non-duality kick after a rough time early last year and then getting into Tolle and Watts. […]
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~SKILLFUL MEANS~ Three-Session Group Awakening Series #4 SOLD OUT—THANK YOU!
REPRODUCTION OF “NOT TO BE REPRODUCED,” BY RENE MAGRITTE, BELGIAN SURREALIST, MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY Short Video on the Artist Inquiry: Who is the watcher watching? Who is watching the watcher? Who is reading this? Thanks to David in Wales!
There literally are not words to describe what happens in Fred’s Skillful Means Series. That being said I will try to come as close as I can. Through his direct, clear and relentless pointing to that which we are not and finally to That which we are, there is now recognition of my true nature […]
THE PRIMARY ILLUSION That’s Preventing You from Awakening VIDEO PODCAST
I’m happy to report that the majority of the latest Skillful Means Awakening Session attendees did indeed woke up. Of course, there was some confusion experienced afterward: Welcome to post-awakening! Satsang and the next two Clarity Sessions will be extremely useful. Once we’ve seen Truth, the new challenge is to accept what we’ve seen! That’s […]