Contemporary Non-Dual Paths (modern Advaita Vedanta and Neo-Advaita)

The non-dual paths rest on four principles inherited from the Vedanta: the identity of the Atman (individual Self) and Brahman (the Absolute), non-duality as the absence of ontological separation, the investigation of the I (Atma Vichara, the turning of attention back toward its source) and the absence of doership (no-doership). The central practice is not philosophical but experiential: to recognize the pure consciousness that precedes and underlies mental contents. The author distinguishes traditional Advaita (a progressive path with discipline, ethics, guru) from radical Neo-Advaita (Parsons), which removes any framework and asserts that recognition is already the case. This is not a medical care device, but a path of liberation (moksha) applicable with caution to crises of meaning, rumination and stabilized anxiety; the author insists on the risks (spiritual bypassing, depersonalization) and the necessity of parallel psychotherapeutic work.

This therapy is covered in detail (principles, indications, protocol, level of evidence) in Volume 8 of the Mémento des Psychothérapies. See the volume.