Spectrum of Ecstasy

Books or essays that answer each others' questions

• the "fruitional view" (awakening, for which he's coming from a Vajrayana perspective similar to Spectrum of Ecstasy)

• The Master and his Emissary relates to Spectrum of Ecstasy in that nondual awareness seems to be characteristic of the right hemisphere
  • So you could say that The Master and his Emissary answers these questions one might have reading Spectrum of Ecstasy
    • "In what sense, concretely, is the nondual view "always already there"?"
      • it's your right hemisphere's perspective
      • and it's important to note that just because you (when you're in LH mode) are not consciously aware of how your right hemisphere is perceiving and operating, it's still entirely involved in every moment of operating
    • "What's going on neurologically when someone shifts from a dualistic to non-dualistic view?"
      • this isn't answered very precisely, but it's clearly something about a shift in the relationship between the hemispheres
  • The Way of Effortless Mindfulness by Loch Kelly is also very related to this topic.
    • If, reading The Master and his Emissary, you have the question "what sort of thing might I do that would shift my experience into a more right hemisphere mode?" then The Way of Effortless Mindfulness has dozens of exercises for this.
      • This is all part of Adyashanti's school, btw, which is part of Mahamudra which is a close cousin of Dzogchen. See pages about these on HowToHuman (troubleshooting guide for the human condition)