Corso di 60 giorni
Non-Duality Fundamentals: Practical Spiritual Enlightenment
Di Oliver Gohari
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Non-duality is often seen as the elixir or pinnacle of spiritual awakening. The ultimate form of self-realization. The recognition that separation is an illusion, there is no separation between you and the external world, and that life unfolds as one unified field of awareness expressing itself in many forms. Yet for many people, non-duality can also seem confusing, abstract and difficult to actually experience.
In this 60-day journey, Oliver Gohari simplifies non-duality into clear, practical lessons designed to help you understand it — and more importantly, feel it for yourself.
Each lesson is short and accessible (under 15 minutes, with an average length of around 6 minutes), combining practical explanations, guided practices, self-inquiry, contemplations, and experiential exercises.
This course sometimes draws upon ancient spiritual systems or knowledge such as Advaita Vedanta, Hindu philosophy, and Buddhism - but it is almost entirely expressed by Oliver himself, using his own insights, mindset shifts and perspectives on non-duality. You'll learn the same tools, analogies and steps that Oliver used himself to experience non-duality first hand, for yourself.
Oliver Gohari is a transformational coach and functional wellness specialist, and has practiced non-dual meditation daily since 2011. He works 1:1 with people from all around the world, combining physical wellness with mental, emotion and spiritual wellbeing.
Oliver wishes to personally invite you to join him on this non-dual journey, and experience non-duality together, as "one".
Oliver Gohari is a transformational coach, functional wellness specialist, author, and speaker from England, UK. Since 2015, he has worked privately 1:1 with people from all around the world with many different backgrounds and stories, such as high-profile athletes, corporate clients, festivals and the global wellness community. He specializes in total mind-body transformation. He holds a Master’s degree in Nutrition and is a certified yoga trainer....
Lezione 1
Duality
The first step to understanding and experiencing non-duality, is to first understand duality. In this pivotal first lesson, Oliver establishes the true meaning of duality in clear terms so that the rest of the lessons can be integrated. Are you ready to observe life this way?
Lezione 2
Non-Duality
Having established what Duality is, we can explore what Non-Duality is. Where does Awareness meet or touch Objects? How close are they? This lesson clearly introduces you to the Non-Dual framework in practical terms, so you'll be ready for the rest of the course. Are you ready for this non-duality journey to begin?
Lezione 3
The Coin
Having established the foundations of Non-Duality, Oliver uses the analogy of a coin to deepen your understanding and "feeling" of Non-Dual awareness. This is a powerful symbol that profoundly represents the core message of non-duality, allowing you to move forward in this course with more clarity. Will you ever look at life the same way?
Lezione 4
The Television
Oliver introduces a powerful analogy for non-dual understanding — a television. Images and characters (objects) appear on a screen (awareness), which is unchanging and ever-present.. These two elements seem to coexist; they are separate but also "one". Oliver describes this powerful example of the TV in detail and how it can ignite a non-dual experience in your own life.
Lezione 5
Practice — The Body
This is the first non-dual practice of the course, beginning in the body. Oliver explains that the body is the ideal place to begin investigating non-dual awareness, due to the fact that the body appears to be "closer" compared to other things (e.g., sounds, sights). This is a practical exercise that begins to deeply embed non-dual awareness into your life.
Lezione 6
Why Non-Duality Is So Good For You
Oliver describes how life unfolds for the average person and where non-duality fits into this journey. Oliver outlines two major parts of life: the Making-It-Work phase vs. the Deconstruction phase — allowing you to see why and how non-dual practice is the perfect tool for allowing you to grow on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level.
Lezione 7
What Is The Ego?
In order to understand non-duality, we have to understand the main obstacle to non-dual awareness: the ego. In this lesson, Oliver establishes what the ego is, drawing upon various ancient spiritual traditions. This lesson aims to lay the foundations of "false self" so that you'll feel comfortable using the word "ego" for the rest of the course.
Lezione 8
Why You're Not The Ego
In order to transcend the false egoic self, we need to understand that it is an object of awareness just like any other (a sound, a smell, a physical sensation). Oliver helps us to use a dualistic lens to stand back from the ego and establish that the ego is an object that we can observe with awareness. This is an important step to take. In future lessons, we will explore the non-dual state and how all of life is actually "I Am" — but first, the ego needs to be studied, seen, and detached from.
Lezione 9
Why You *Are* Awareness
It has been established that you are not the ego — the smaller sense of "I" — because you can stand back from it and see it or hear it. Today, Oliver explains exactly why you *are* awareness. This is your fundamental, most baseline sense of "I", beyond all form or self-concept. From this point forward, we have established everything necessary to continue deepening non-dual practice and awareness. Prepare to feel reassured, motivated, and inspired.
Lezione 10
Distance Is An Illusion
For non-dual awareness to be felt, we need to overcome the "idea" of distance. The logical thinking mind functions in duality, and therefore, it believes that certain "objects" are far away or distant. In this lesson, Oliver explains that in non-duality, the idea of distance is essentially a mental construct, or an illusion. He invites you to really get in touch with something he calls "raw experience".
Lezione 11
Awareness Is Like Magic Paint
In this lesson, Oliver utilizes a profound analogy of "magic paint" to describe Non-Duality. All experience (sights, sounds, smells, thoughts, emotions, etc.) is "made" of this magic paint - awareness itself. You'll discover that in the Duality viewpoint, you and the external world are separate, yet in Non-Duality, all of life is made of the same substance.
Lezione 12
Awareness Is The Lowest Common Denominator Of All Experience
Awareness is an integral part of all life — the lowest common denominator of all experience. Why is this important? In day-to-day life, most humans function in duality, in separation. Which means we unconsciously rank and rate our experiences. Returning to the non-dual state — where awareness is the lowest common denominator of all experience (thoughts, sounds, people, sights, smells, etc.) — means that this sense of separation and labels dissolve.
Lezione 13
Inside Vs Outside
Oliver explains a crucial concept in non-duality: the difference between "inside" experiences and "outside" experiences. In normal day-to-day consciousness, we think in duality, which means that there appears to be an inside (our body) and an outside (external world). Oliver describes how, in non-dual awakening, there is no inside vs outside, and that all experience happens in awareness rather than "in" or "out" of somewhere.
Lezione 14
Practice — Inside Vs Outside
Based on all of the non-dual understanding you have integrated so far, this guided practice aims to playfully investigate the difference between inside (the body) and outside (external experiences). By removing the "barrier" that seems to exist around the edge of our body, the external world seems to blur and mix with bodily sensations, offering you a non-dual experience.
Lezione 15
Pumpkin Seeds!
What's the connection between non-dual awakening and pumpkin seeds?! In this lesson, Oliver demonstrates what non-duality is on a fundamental level by using a powerful analogy of pumpkin seeds in their different versions (fibre, oil, and whole food). This new perspective allows us to understand, conceptualize, and really feel what non-duality is.
Lezione 16
What Does Non-Duality Feel Like? — This May Surprise You
Oliver answers one of the most commonly asked questions regarding the non-dual state: what does it feel like? This description can help you to know when you are entering a non-dual state or not. Duality consciousness (normal day-to-day separation) gives us the feeling of being a three-dimensional body moving through time and space. However, with a non-dual state, given that awareness is one field of consciousness, there is no separation (non-dual). Oliver articulates how the experience can feel like you are a sheet of paper, a single sheet of infinite awareness.
Lezione 17
Practice — Juggling Bodily Sensations & Sounds
In this non-dual guided practice, you'll "juggle" your awareness between bodily sensations and external sounds. Oliver guides you to feel bodily sensations while you also listen to natural sounds such as birds, insects, and crickets —allowing you to "touch" the objects of experience with awareness. Prepare to investigate the relationship between objects and awareness, noticing that they coexist as "one".
Lezione 18
Full Circle
Oliver describes a process that each individual may face on their journey within non-duality, life, self-enquiry, or spirituality — something he calls Full Circle. This explanation demonstrates how the average journey of self-realization has a cyclical relationship to the material world. This cycle is characterized by unhealthy attachment, detaching, and then re-attaching, but this time a healthy form of connection — non-dual attachment
Lezione 19
Hermeticism & Non-Duality
In this lesson, Oliver takes the understanding of non-dual awareness to new levels of depth using two fascinating hermetic principles as examples. First, you will discover what hermeticism is, and then two principles from hermetic thought are used to define what non-duality is. This lesson should open your eyes to new ways of considering the world around you and the role of awareness as a universal binding principle.
Lezione 20
Practice — Juggling Bodily Sensations & Visuals
In this second "juggle" practice of the course, you will move your awareness between bodily sensations and external visuals. Oliver guides you to feel bodily sensations while you also look at visual stimuli: a plant, mobile phone, wall, window, etc., allowing you to "touch" the objects of experience with awareness. Furthering your understanding and experience of non-duality, you will investigate the relationship between objects and awareness, noticing that they coexist as "one".
Lezione 21
Experience Itself Is Absolute Truth
To have non-dual awareness, it's necessary to experience life in its most raw state, before labels, before thought, before opinions. Oliver establishes a clear distinction between raw experience and the opinions we place on top — you are also invited to notice how thoughts and opinions themselves are an experience to notice.
Lezione 22
Drawbacks Of Mainstream Non-Duality
Oliver presents a unique and powerful perspective shift regarding the potential drawbacks of mainstream non-duality. Using a lighthearted approach with a sense of humor, these insights help keep us grounded, focused on what matters in life — and most importantly — rooted in authentic non-dual awareness
Lezione 23
Meister Eckhart — One Eye, One Seeing, One Knowing
Let's unpack a quote by Meister Eckhart, analyzing it through a non-dual lens. This will help you to further deepen your experience of non-dual awareness. The discussion is about the oneness of all experience, how there are not two separate sources of awareness or "I", only one. By discussing this quote by the 14th century priest Meister Eckhart, we discover that there is "one eye, one seeing, one knowing", which intimately ties into non-dual teachings.
Lezione 24
No Resolution — The Gasp
Oliver shares a profound message about the non-dual journey and how we are seeking a resolution to this thing we call "human existence". This message may inspire you, move you, or encourage you (or all of these things) to continue with your non-dual practice, but also to honor the most fundamental part of life that often goes under-acknowledged in spiritual circles, that life itself is an incomplete "gasp".
Lezione 25
What's The Problem With The Word "You"?
Oliver explains to you a personal teaching and perspective that can be huge and pivotal for your non-dual understanding and embodiment. He explains something important about the word "You" and how we normally digest this common word. By giving you this perspective early on in this course, you'll see things from a different perspective and embody non-dual awareness much quicker. Are you ready?
Lezione 26
The Three Variables — Anchors For Non-Dual State
Moving in and out of a non-dual state is natural and normal. Oliver shares three reminders or anchors that help you get back into a non-dual state — the Three Variables. Oliver describes how many years ago, when he was studying and practicing non-duality, he wanted a way to remind himself what non-duality feels like — so he could access the state again quickly. Therefore, he took note of three anchors that define the non-dual state, and he shares these pivotal variables with you in this lesson.
Lezione 27
Practice — The Three Variables
The Three Variables are powerful anchors that define the non-dual state. Having learned about them in the previous lesson, today you'll practice using them as you move your attention through your body, sounds, and visual experiences. You'll be guided to engage with each experience that you have, whilst reminding yourself of the three variables.
Lezione 28
The Rainbow
Oliver describes how a rainbow is not only an analogy, but also a real-life example of non-duality. In today's lesson, you'll be reminded that you are part of the whole, and that at any given moment you have the choice to identify with your limited self, or to lean back into your true whole self, just like the colors of a rainbow.
Lezione 29
Ego Is Something. Awareness Simply "Is"
The default setting for human beings is to have a sense of self defined by the ego — a separate being, a "someone". In non-duality, we discover that another dimension of self — awareness — simply "Is". Oliver explains this concept, describing how the true self is not a separate "someone" at all.
Lezione 30
Identity — Polarity In Motion
This deeply reassuring message describes how we can aim to balance dualistic-ego awareness and non-dual awareness. There is often an expectation to live in non-dual awareness forever, perpetually, indefinitely. However, you are having a human experience on planet earth, which means you will dip in and out of lower self and higher self. This is described as Polarity In Motion.
Lezione 31
The Rainbow Paradigm — The Ego's Solution Vs The Non-Dual Solution
Oliver previously described how a rainbow is like a secret into the nature of reality. Having established this analogy, today's lesson is an exploration into how we human beings typically navigate "the rainbow paradigm". Oliver articulates how the ego has its own way of feeling whole again, a false sense of wholeness. Whereas non-duality is the closest thing human beings can get to true wholeness.
Lezione 32
Dreams Vs Reality
This lesson explores the differences between dreams and waking consciousness. What are they? Dreaming is seemingly an unreal phenomenon that exists mentally, yet the waking state seems "real" in comparison. In this lesson, we explore a key non-dual teaching — that there is a single, shared element within dreams and waking consciousness — and that this same variable is the "building blocks" of all experience.
Lezione 33
Non-Dual Eating
Oliver teaches you how to eat a meal whilst incorporating a potent non-dual practice. You'll be guided on how to consume food whilst noticing different internal/external sensations. This is something to practice in small "bites" (pun intended!) e.g., two or three moments per meal, rather than spending very long periods of time consuming one meal.
Lezione 34
Practice — What's The Difference? Mental Images Vs Reality
This guided practice allows you to investigate the appearance of your current location in which you are, compared with a mental image of the same room. You will investigate how the "real" room appears more vibrant, more dense, whilst the mental image is thinner or less "real". However, Oliver encourages you to notice how both experiences are equally "valid" in terms of awareness. Awareness meets both the mental image and the real room in the same way — intimately and unified.
Lezione 35
Where Is Awareness Located?
This lesson invites you to investigate the difference between conceptual, logical "knowledge" and direct experience itself. In normal day-to-day consciousness — from a dualistic perspective — awareness is assumed to be located inside the body. Oliver discusses how modern science gives us the knowledge that the body is equipped with an amazing nervous system and spinal cord, which seems to be the location of awareness. In today's lesson, you'll discover how non-dual awareness requires us to investigate our direct experience of life, dropping any logical knowledge of our body, without the logical mind.
Lezione 36
The Map Is Not The Territory
Today's lesson offers a unique non-dual interpretation of the quote by Alfred Korzybski: "The Map Is Not The Territory". In today's lesson, we explore how base-level reality (the territory) is different from the mind's interpretation (the map). Using a non-dual focus, this lesson helps you to understand why it's important to put aside the mental, logical interpretation of your experiences, and to see your experiences as purely raw data or Truth.
Lezione 37
Practice — Cognitive Stretching
This practice aims to stretch the mind's grip on life around you, allowing you to access deeper states of non-dual awareness. Oliver uses something he calls "cognitive stretching", which allows us to improve our mental flexibility, leading us into deeper states of non-dual awareness. Don't worry if this practice is challenging; it is designed to be challenging! Any form of flexibility (e.g., yoga, physical stretching) grows as a result of consciously choosing to meet our current limitations with compassion
Lezione 38
Non-Duality Requires You To "Forget" That You're A Person
Oliver explains that, to access the deepest states of non-dual awareness, it is seemingly required that we forget the idea that we are a "person". Oliver articulates how non-duality is the ability to withdraw into a single field of unlimited consciousness that is not limited to human form — and to do this, we need to temporarily forget any idea of being a person.
Lezione 39
You Are Nothing & Everything At The Same Time
Discover how we can feel like nothing ("no thing") and everything (all of life itself) at the same time. Oliver describes a process through which we can trace our sense of "I" to both no-thing or everything. All experience (sights, sounds, smells, thoughts, emotions, visuals) can be defined as objects, and these objects are experienced by awareness. But what are the characteristics of awareness? What is it made of? Nothing and everything at the same time.
Lezione 40
Dealing With Social Conflict & Ego
How do we navigate life's social conflicts and challenges from a non-dual perspective? In today's lesson, Oliver outlines two fundamentals which have a particular insight into the egoic sense of self. This lesson emphasizes how to navigate life's complexity as a human (ego) being (awareness).
Lezione 41
Patience — The Underrated Fast-Track To Non-Duality
On the journey of discovering and embodying non-duality teachings, it can naturally become a goal, a consumable, a "thing" to achieve. Oliver explains how it is totally understandable to seek non-duality — it offers so much peace and depth of being — yet paradoxically, we also need to have true, authentic patience in order to actually embody the non-dual state.
Lezione 42
Life Is Like A Long Dream — Paraphrasing From The Yoga Vasistha
In today's lesson, we explore a central teaching from the Utpatti Prakarana — Chapter 3 of the Yoga Vasistha, a medieval Advaita text on the nature of consciousness and reality. When you dream of a tree, a person, a room — where do they exist? They appear real. You can touch them, speak to them, and move through them. And yet when you wake, you find they were made entirely of mind. Nothing more. What makes waking life any different?
Lezione 43
Practice — And This Is My Body
In this guided practice, we connect with the body and then playfully pretend that the external world "could" also be the body. Oliver guides you through this practice, which helps to loosen the mental/ cognitive grip on life. It is the mind which decides what is "in" and "out" — whereas awareness is universal and pervasive, with no inside or outside.
Lezione 44
Be Less Clever
There is a paradox on the journey of non-duality: for a non-dual state to occur, an individual needs to understand theoretically what the process is and isn't. Yet ironically, the actual "doing" of the non-dual state requires the logical, clever mind to step aside. Oliver describes this process precisely, indicating that you should continue to study and learn about non-duality — yet the actual moments you enter non-dual awareness, you can literally feel the clever mind exit the room.
Lezione 45
Emotions — The Non-Dual Way
Oliver explains how to navigate emotions with a non-dual perspective. Each individual has an emotional backlog, a constant flow of varying emotions in different quantities and intensities. Using a non-dual perspective, you can begin to see emotions as merely fluctuations in vibrations, rather than personalizing them as "mine". This is a process and a practice, which leads to emotional resilience.
Lezione 46
Practice — Guided Self-Inquiry — Who Listens? Who Sees?
Oliver asks you a series of questions, pointing you towards your truest self — awareness. That which is behind the body. That which is behind the egoic self. That which is behind everything. Try to answer these questions experientially or by feeling — not with words or logic.
Lezione 47
Let's Go TV Shopping!
Prepare to go shopping for a new TV with Oliver. Are you ready to find the best TV in existence? This lesson includes a powerful visualization and step-by-step story, allowing you to discover what non-duality feels like. Building upon the analogy of the TV and the screen, you'll experience how the TV screen (awareness itself) has no edges, and all of life occurs within/ as/ upon awareness.
Lezione 48
Lifestyle Choices & Your Spirituality
As a transformational coach & functional wellbeing specialist, Oliver explains some fundamental aspects of physical wellbeing which can positively impact our spiritual practice. Oliver discusses nervous system health, herbalism, dietary choices, and some ancient yogic ideas about bodily purification. Each individual has different needs — so this lesson is broad and general — and you should always consult with a qualified medical practitioner before any lifestyle change.
Lezione 49
Make The Internal Less Personal —Make The External More Personal
In today's lesson, you'll learn about a "trick" that you can adopt in day-to-day life to speed up non-dual awareness. Oliver outlines how the internal bodily sensations tend to feel personal, like "me" - whereas the external world (sounds, sights, smells etc) naturally feels less personal, or "not me". This trick is a mindset shift — a decision you make throughout your day — in order to reduce the illusory difference, separation and barrier between the outer world and inner world until it becomes one.
Lezione 50
Practice — Let's Connect With That Part Of "You" That Is Eternal
In today's lesson, Oliver speaks to you directly, invoking introspection and connection with total awareness. This is a form of non-dual pointing, where dialogue and sentences are constructed and used with the specific aim of "pointing" you towards your true nature.
Lezione 51
The Power Of Noticing Smaller, "Uglier" Experiences
By now, you will have a strong understanding of non-duality. Usually, non-dual practice and day-to-day non-dual state often focus on obvious experiences (e.g., breathing, colours of the sky, the sound of a bird). In this lesson, Oliver encourages you to begin looking for the smaller, more abstract, even uglier experiences. This is an invitation to begin investigating the non-dual state with every aspect of your entire life.
Lezione 52
Social Dynamics & Conflict — Allowing Others To Be Their Own "Punishment"
In this compassionate lesson about social dynamics, Oliver explains how to approach difficult social interactions with a non-dual lens. All conflict arises due to being in a dualistic state ("I" and "the other"). This state of being is inherently unhappy because we are disconnected from our true nature or Self. Oliver explains how we can practice refraining from adding to drama, and that merely leaving others to exist in their own state of consciousness (dualism) is often the best course of action.
Lezione 53
The Storm
Today's lesson is a gentle reminder to be brave, have confidence, and to face and acknowledge our internal emotional "storm". In today's lesson, Oliver encourages you to shine your awareness onto your internal emotional terrain, connecting with whatever sensations are there. Oliver explains that by applying non-dual awareness to our emotional turbulence, we diffuse and dissolve the emotional cocktail within, allowing flow back into our lives.
Lezione 54
Aches, Pains & Ailments — The Non-Dual Way
What's your pain, ache, or ailment? Oliver suffers from a severe genetic grass pollen allergy. As a globally recognized functional wellness expert, he has noticed that every person has some kind of physical difficulty. In this lesson, you are invited to connect with a pain, ache, or ailment and access deeper dimensions of a non-dual state in your life. Note: You should consult with a medical professional if you have not yet done so. This lesson is about changing our mental-emotional-spiritual relationship with our ailments.
Lezione 55
"Die Before You Die"
This saying — widely attributed to Sufi mystics Rumi and Rabia al-Adawiyya — is a powerful lesson on the nature of life as a human being. Today, Oliver unpacks this concept with a non-dual focus, but also adds a new discussion about how life itself (or The Universe / God) actually encourages us to "Die Before We Die"— and to honor this process.
Lezione 56
The Glasses Experiment
In this interactive lesson, you will practice everything you've learned up until this moment about non-duality using a pair of tinted glasses or sunglasses. Oliver guides you to investigate visual objects with and without these glasses, exploring the nature of reality and awareness itself — the fabric of all experience.
Lezione 57
Dreams Part II — Could Life Be A Dream? — And What Is It Made Out Of?
Today, we ask ourselves a question: Could this life be a dream? — This very moment that you are in now. As you read this text. It could be, couldn't it? If it is a dream, then what is it made out of? What substance is this dream made of? In today's lesson, Oliver guides us through a self-inquiry.
Lezione 58
Meister Eckhart — It Is We Who Have Gone Out For A Walk
Oliver unpacks the famous quote by 14th-century priest, Meister Eckhart. From a non-dual perspective, what does this mean? Also, some people are unsure about the word "God", which is fine. What might the word "God" mean from a non-dual perspective?
Lezione 59
The Ice Cube
Oliver explains how non-dual feels for the person experiencing it — using an analogy of an ice cube to describe the experience. Responding to one of the most commonly asked questions: "What does non-duality feel like?" By listening to his explanation of how non-duality can be experienced, this will give you more confirmation, reassurance, and certainty when you practice yourself or have non-dual awareness.
Lezione 60
The End... Or Is It? — Time, The Now & Awareness
In this final lesson, it seems fitting that Oliver discusses time, finality, and the Now. Oliver explains how time is a mental construct, and all of life takes place in the present moment. Only form changes. Furthermore, the present moment and awareness are not separate things. They are actually one, they are unified, they are the same thing — This means that your fundamental truest self, awareness, *is* the Now.
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