Non-duality vs The Absolute Existence Philosophy

A comparison between a well-known concept and a testable assumption

Core of The Absolute Existence Philosophy

• The philosophy is based on the assumption of a fundamental Absolute Existence – undivided, unchanging, and without parts.

• The Absolute ground cannot be experienced, as there are no parts for any representation.

• All experience occurs through the phenomenal manifestation of the faculty of perception; variation is the only thing that can be perceived.

• Phenomena are the reality we can relate to, where memory, relationships, and the ability to nurture mutual connections exist.

Testability and Independence

• The philosophy requires no guru or authority; each person can follow the idea themselves and test it as a starting point.

• The aim is to explore phenomena and the faculty of perception without belief, mysticism, or authority, focusing on observation and reflection.

• Variation in phenomena becomes the laboratory for consciousness, where anyone can experiment with focus and experience.

Comparison with Non-duality

• Non-duality is based on an “all-is-one” experience; the experience validates the theory and enlightened insight becomes normative.

• Separation is perceived as an illusion and can be seen through; focus is on realization and insight.

• The Absolute Existence Philosophy, on the other hand, is based on the logical assumption of an Absolute Existence, which is the precondition for any experience to occur at all.

• Phenomena are the arena where experience, memory, and relationships exist, not the ground itself.

• The philosophy is testable and rational, not dependent on mystical insight or a teacher.

All effects and reactions take place within the three-dimensional, sequentially junping spatial image of the lag and the representation.

While Advaita Vedanta seeks to arrive at a non-dual endpoint - which in this instance risks becoming an object - the Philosophy of Absolute Existence proceeds from a non-dual starting point as a subject.

Any conception of a non-dual endpoint turns it into an object within an imagined space. The trick is not to attempt to form any conception, but simply to proceed from the subject as the starting point.

This can provide a conceptual framework for outward-looking thinking about reality.

While Advaita Vedanta seeks to arrive at a non-dual endpoint - which in this instance risks becoming an object - the Philosophy of Absolute Existence proceeds from a non-dual starting point as a subject.

One could certainly interpret the end of the search as giving up the search—whereby it ceases—but that is not the wisdom teaching imparted there.

Any conception of a non-dual endpoint turns it into an object within an imagined space. The trick is not to attempt to form any conception, but simply to proceed from the subject as the starting point.

This can provide a conceptual framework for outward-looking thinking about reality.

For any line of reasoning regarding the nature of reality to be logical, it must adhere to some form of logical framework. While all logical frameworks naturally follow their own premises, one must avoid introducing more elements than necessary—in accordance with the principle known as Occam’s razor. This principle allows for the stripping away of anything that is not strictly essential as a prerequisite for the logical argument. It can be applied to any explanatory background regarding the premises of the reasoning itself. Without such application, any argument whatsoever could be valid; yet, in that case, such arguments would merely be unconstrained, illogical, and purely fanciful constructs.

The subject lacks form. The subject experiences itself as formless void. The absolute subject is not limited by anything else. The absolute subject cannot contain any relative parts. The absolute subject contains nothing to be known, and there is likewise no ignorance regarding the subject. The inherent nature of absolute existence experiences its ongoing changes of state as phenomenal reality.

The nature of seeking as a circle: Seeking the Absolute is like looking for the glasses one is already wearing. It is the formless subject (that which sees) attempting to see itself as an object.

The undivided end: The end is not a place or a state to be attained, but a revelation of what has always been the case. When the seeking ceases, the duality between "subject" and "object" collapses.

Science, meanwhile, has for over four hundred years removed the subject from the equation. Since the time of Galileo and Descartes, Western science has achieved enormous success by viewing the universe as a machine composed of objects (mass and energy). Yet the price paid for this approach was the exclusion of the subject. Science is now groping for answers, grappling with the equivalence of mass and energy and, in a sense, positing the objective quantum vacuum field of physical reality as the fundamental basis.

Philosophical thought, by contrast, takes the absolute, impersonal subject as the starting point for phenomenal reality.

Core Difference

• Non-duality: the experience of oneness is central and can shape reality.

• Absolute Existence Philosophy: the fundamental Absolute Existence is the key – variation in phenomena makes experience possible, but the ground is never itself a phenomenon.

The Central Role of Phenomena

• Phenomena are the only reality we can perceive; all experience occurs here.

• It is through phenomena that we have relationships, memory, and the opportunity to nurture mutual connections.

• Variation in phenomena is necessary for all experience, but phenomena are never the ground itself – they are the carrier of experience.

• Understanding Absolute Existence provides the logical precondition, but it is phenomena that form our everyday arena.

Non-duality seeks an experienced answer to the question of the self.

Absolute Existential Philosophy shows why the question can be asked at all.

What distinguishes the Philosophy of Absolute Existence

from panpsychism?

What distinguishes a subject from an object? The subject experiences objects as the effect of the resistance arising from a sequential state-transition of the underlying reality. The subject is that which experiences reality without distance—experiencing it without any separation between itself and the experience.

Do we possess a consciousness, or do we experience consciousness as reality?

If we do possess a consciousness, where is it located? At the center of the head, like an invisible miniature version of ourselves?

Perhaps it is like asking where the center of the universe is located.

If the center of the universe is everywhere at once—as an ongoing shift of state—then perhaps consciousness is that same phenomenal shift of state.

Panpsychism is the idea that mentality or consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. According to panpsychism, even atoms or fundamental particles possess a primitive form of inner experience (proto-consciousness). The world thus consists of physical building blocks that are also mental.

The Philosophy of Absolute Existence differs fundamentally on the following points:

The Absolute (Origo) is unconditioned: Philosophy takes Origo—absolute, unconditioned being—as its starting point. It is not a "thing" or a particle that possesses consciousness; it is the very root of existence.

Separation between the absolute and the relative: Unlike panpsychism, which often tends toward pantheism (the view that all physical matter is ensouled), the Philosophy of Absolute Existence maintains that the Absolute cannot be reduced to or conflated with the relative (matter or functions).

Panpsychism attempts to solve the problem of consciousness by spreading consciousness across matter.

The Absolute Philosophy of Existence views matter as the effect of state transitions within mirror-forms of the Absolute primordial subject.