i'm cross-posting this to see what sort of dialogue comes of it. reading this guy is blowing my mind....


"The end of spirituality is simply the realization that the perspective that seeks resolution is the problem, and this cannot be solved, created as it is by the illusion of separation, which is thought itself.

Without the fragmented perspective that searches, there is no spirituality. The end of spirituality leaves the looking, without the looker. Post-spirituality is the perspective of the looking, a movement without an organized center, without thought as the perspective. But this is not the absence of perspective, nor is it the absence of thought.

Spirituality has claimed a variety of omega points, places of meeting godhead, where the ‘me’ touches transcendence. Post-spirituality recognizes nothing as the meeting point - the perspective is not from the fragment seeking the whole, but rather of the whole expressing as the fragment-in-the-whole.

Spirituality in all its forms, including non-duality, is dualistic; it is a fragment looking for unity. Post-spirituality is non-dualistic, evidenced by the reversal of perspective; the whole is expressing actuality. There is nothing to acquire, there is only the dynamic of creation-imbedded-in-destruction as an unknowable manifestation.

Spirituality has created the idea and the experience of the present, and with that creation has created the past and future as equal but opposite ideas and experiences.

Post-spirituality does not concern itself with any division of time and does not care about maintaining contact with the present moment or any other constructed idea or experience. Post-spirituality is an expression of the quantum reality, which is timeless and therefore free to function in any experience of time or any non-experience of time. Time is a relative dimension and an expression of wholeness, like all relative dimensions.

Spirituality builds itself around self-location, the seeker who attempts to transcend, and the transcendent one who attempts to return to chopping wood and carrying cappuccino. Post-spirituality abandons all myths of self in all its forms and deals directly with the actual self, the manifest self just as it is, giving up all sense of improvement. The actual self is the precise manifestation of the whole.

Without time and location there can be no spirituality; without spirituality there is post-spirituality. Addicted to seeking and desperate for an identity, we may try to convert post-spirituality into something, even a not-something. But, what it is, simply, as the negative, is that it is, without ‘me’. As a positive expression, it is the actual, and actuality is a quantum reality, not a mechanical reality. The quantum reality is the potential for anything, unrestricted by any ideated past, present, or future.

Spirituality has no creative expression. As a conditioned expression of our sense of lack, it is caught in its own promise of fulfillment.

Post-spirituality is without promise; pain and pleasure are phenomenologically identical and aqualitative; fulfillment is a constructed experience; and there are no predictable structures to rely on. The post-spiritual life is entirely creative, because it lives in the unknown. Just as quantum physics has demonstrated the unpredictability of actuality, the post-spiritual sensibility is uncertainty, chaos, and confusion. This is a tremendously vital dynamic, reliant on no particular state, believing in no particular description, and moving as an expression of life."


~ Steven Harrison, “What’s Next After Now?”