Arguing with non-dualists

Well anyway, I listened to this podcast on this Guy's blog:

Alchemically Brain Damaged

So then I started out wanting to challenge him on some things, because I have a problem with non-dualism. But it's like one of those things where if you challenge a guy that is into "enlightenment" and so on, they just say you are ignorant. They get all haughty and condescending. Its like a little club they have.

There is something to it but its not the end all be all they make it out to be. But they spend all this time trying to experience "oneness" and so the more time they spend on it, the bigger and bigger it gets in their mind so when they do experience it, They have to look at it as the end all be all, otherwise it would have been a big waste of time right?

Here is what I think it is:

As Christian I had this idea that after I die my spirit would live on in Heaven. But this idea I had of my spirit is really my personality, my identification with my "ego." What I thought of as my spirit are all the things Buddhists are trying to get beyond.

So then they do get beyond it for moments at a time. They realize this "observer" when you observe yourself is just an illusion. When they realize this, they catch a glimpse of what the Universe is like if they didn't exist. They get a glimpse of the Universe as it really is totally outside themselves. If you identify with the ego, you will die, but if you identify with the Universe, you will live on. Its a shift in perspective that can be very powerful and liberating.

When you get outside of all your own personal bullshit, you see just how insignificant it is. Then you can kind of see yourself from kind of a Godlike perspective and have compassion on yourself, like you would have compassion on another person, or like God having compassion on you.

So to experience this and still think its Bullshit, is not something most non dualists and Buddhists can handle. They can't accept that its possible for some one to both have this experience and be skeptical of it. All they can do is get all haughty, and say you are ignorant but that some day if you mediate hard enough you too will see.


So why am I angry about this? I am angry because I think its Bullshit. Why am I here on this Earth? Am I here to spend all my time contemplating non-existence? Am I here to become one with the Universe?

I think these people are all on the wrong track. They are missing the boat on life. I feel like all the time I spent on spiritual things may be mostly a waste of time. I think maybe there are some things worthwile, there is some postive all embracing spirituality that would be worth studying out there. Some type of spirituality that says "Yes!" to life, But I want to make sure, because just maybe these non-dualists are right. I am just about ready to totally write them off because when challenged they always say the same bullshit. Like this Little prick Alan, that commented on there.

I post in my full legal name, every time. I have never once lied or misrepresented anything that has happened in my life on this blog or any other blog I have had. Somtimes I get a little hot, but I am not just "ted" or some anonymous nick name posting on the internet. I figure if I can't be a man and look people square in the eye and speak my mind and let the chips fall where they may than who am I?

But my purpose is not to just harangue people. I am not just trying to be negative. I am interested in things. If I am interested in things, I get serious about it. I scrutinize it. And very often I end up rejecting it.

I've yet to see someone really make a case for the purpose of life being that its about having an experience of non-dualism. Why not just blow your head off? You would be one then. Does life really suck that bad that all you want to do is focus on what is beyond life?

Isn't life meant to be lived?