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Q. 561 – Dangers of unsupervised teaching

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Q: I recently had what I would call an experience of ‘dissociation’, accompanied by a profound sense of anxiety.  This has not happened before and maybe it was ‘psychotic’ rather than anything else. But research suggested that such an experience may follow prolonged periods of unsupervised self-enquiry. Can you tell me how to avoid a recurrence?  

(I have been following the teachings of Nisargadatta for the last 3 years of a 10-year period of self-enquiry meditation. I see in the Q&A postings that having no access to a teacher is a common theme and makes progress monitoring and understanding of book-based teachings difficult). 

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Books on Advaita Vedānta by Dennis Waite (Complete List)

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This page provides a complete list of books on Advaita Vedānta by Dennis Waite, including introductions for beginners; comprehensive coverage for intermediate and advanced seekers; translations, and planned books.

Where to Start?

  • Finding out what Advaita is about → Advaita Made Easy
  • Committed beginners to intermediate → Book of One
  • Explanations – traditional and modern → Back to the Truth
  • Traditional v Neo-Advaita → Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle
  • Advanced seekers wanting clarity → Confusions in Advaita Vedanta
  • Finding a good teacher or book → Self Seeking
  • Readable SF novel with a little Advaita → Time for the Wind


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Questions to AI-Dennis

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I have been writing on the subject of Advaita in all its aspects for over 25 years and have written some 13-14 related books. It occured to me that it would be useful to gather together all of my writing (excepting emails, newsgroup/mailing list discussions) and load them into NotebookLM AI. This then enables it to answer questions based solely upon what I have myself written. If readers ask me questions, I can then get AI to answer for me in my own words and I just have to check through and ensure that I (still) agree with the answer!

I think I have now loaded in as much as I reasonably can so am able to give it a try. Here then is my first question:

Q: What is the relevance of the saṃnyāsa lifestyle?

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Any Questions?

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At the time of writing, there are 556 questions that I, and other bloggers, have answered over the past 19 years. See https://www.advaita-vision.org/questions-and-answers/. Many topics have been covered and there is a good chance that, if you have a specific concern, then it will have been covered here. I also compiled the first 469 of these into a book – ‘Answers… to the Difficult Questions’ – see https://www.advaita-vision.org/answers/ – and added introductions and summaries to the overall topics. But I cannot believe that the visitors to this site no longer have any further questions! So please feel free to write to the ‘Contact-Us’ link at the bottom of the page if you have a particular problem (in Advaita!) that you would like answered.