Nonduality and the validity of spiritual paths
 

If Oneness is the only reality, disconnection is impossible and not dependant on achieving any particular state. Whatever state you are in must already be Oneness arising as that state, There is nothing else available! You cant have a day off:). This has severe implications for the validity of spiritual paths that by there very nature imply that there is some distance between the seeker and sought often referred to as enlightenment,
realization. awakening, or liberation. Should any of these occur, connection to Oneness would in no way be increased for it must already be Oneness unenlightened, unrealized, asleep, and imprisoned !

This makes two shaky assumptions:
1. Oneness can't split into two Onenesses separate from each other
2. Oneness can not change its nature.

Agreed. Transparent points.

Consciousness collapses or contracts into a singularity. The immeasurable infinite condenses into a localized point instantly forming a relationship between observer and observed.

A split, for most, may also suggest some sort of proportional occurance as if splitting an apple equally in half. The infinite has no equal parts. There is nothing in the infinite that can be measured as there are no bondaries to define or grasp. Space is no longer space.

Oness does not change its nature, It can only transition. It can contract, condense, expand or dissipate. Even a leaf carries the nature of the tree, a small flame carries the nature of a fire and If you take a cup from the ocean, the ocean is still in the cup.

The egoic mind is a very useful tool in helping us have the experience of singularity.
Of course behind that surface experience lies Oneness.
Once Oneness is discovered, we can reengage the egoic mind to experience singularity again.
So both are true - depending how one focus's the lens so to speak.
Any perceived distance is ego's attempt to keep it's belief in singularity.
Oneness being a state of being, persistent and Omni-present there is no distance - there is only the 'story of separation'.

The point being made concerns the validity of spiritual paths from a non dual perspective concerning disconnection. However you describe it there can be no disconnection.

The assertions are not facts, but aspects of a story. In that story Oneness appears to be two but is in reality one. Luckily, for the purpose of ending the feeling of disconnection the story is not required to be factual, once the idea that truth can be known is transcended. Not difficult as it is so easily challenged.

The point being made concerns the validity of spiritual paths from a non dual perspective concerning disconnection. However you describe it there can be no disconnection

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The point being made concerns the validity of spiritual paths from a non dual perspective concerning disconnection. However you describe it there can be no disconnection

Mhm
Of course, a "disconnection" can only be apparent through the illussion of a conceptual existence. If the non dual perspective is there claiming that it is free of its counter part, duality, then there is no disconnection. And so, the "perciever", in any subject-object relationship, is no longer there either.

Well it isn't. Neither "the only reality" nor a reality.


However it could be said to be a reality if 'reality' here exlusively means 'conventional reality' and if one is aware that the validity of that convention is restricted to a very small group of believers [in oneness].
The same holds true for the validity of spiritual paths: the validity is restricted to a very small group of believers [in those paths].

Now someone may object: "But something that isn't valid for all people independent of their beliefs cannot be called 'valid'." which then would reveal that even using the concept 'validity' in the affirmative depends on belief in validity.

Question: How would a non-believer position himself towards the questions of 'oneness' and 'spiritual paths' and 'validity'?
Answer: Equanimously resting in suchness.