Essay Series: Introduction

Welcome to Rtambhara’s essay series on non-duality and spiritual perennial truths! 

In 2020, I found myself in a traditional and desperate ‘dark knight of the soul’. More than depression, a Dark Night is an ancient desolation where the entire sense of self is annihilated by an avalanche of negative events. My actions to survive the darkness opened a new way of viewing and experiencing the world. A series of profound awakening events followed, and I began a deep dive into investigating and living the truths of our existence.  

This series of essays introduces concepts and terms to help deeply connect with truth. The world’s great spiritual and indigenous traditions hold these deep truths, but they require some perspective. The intent here is to provide concepts, descriptions and perspective as a baseline; when these concepts are understood, they enhance your ability to comprehend and accept the key (perennial) truths at the core of all the great spiritual traditions. Further, they may help integrate these teachings into your day to day ‘truth seeking’ and ‘chop wood carry water’ activities.

So enjoy the exploration! If some of the terms and concepts don’t hit today, that’s fine, just let them marinate until a time when they make sense. For the ones that do resonate, I hope they fuel your spiritual investigations on your path-walking to Truth! 

Jay