Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Exactly. So I would think this would be very useful because
even for someone like me that's doing this every week, and
spending six, eight, ten hours a week studying folks like you,
sitting up in the chair, it all makes perfect sense and it all is pretty
easily assimilable. But then go out in the world and start walking,
or driving, or have this thing come up, it jolts that easy
understanding, and it is probably good to have really established
yourself in all these different real life situations.
GREG GOODE: Yes, in the new book I have an example of where
you're walking across your house at night and you stub your toe on
a coffee table [Laughs]. And there's a lot of things that seem like
exception to the sweetness, and the marshmallow softness and
cloudiness of awareness − all of a sudden, boom, and the world
makes its entrance. But does it? Does it really?
TRIP: Does it?
GREG GOODE: Well, you asked, “Does the world really make its
entrance?”
TRIP: I know it doesn't, but…
GREG GOODE: Well, actually it neither does nor doesn't, it's not
that the world is out there and it fails to make its appearance.
That's not what happens, you don't look out into the outer regions
and find out that they're empty, because that's just as much
separation as though you looked out among the outer regions of
someone to be full. The distinction is the inner and the outer, and
that distinction is through – in most nondual inquiries that
distinction itself evaporates.
TRIP: We'll talk some more about the inner and the outer, but I
wanted to take a step back and ask you; you are at the vanguard of
what is described as the philosophical consultation movement,
which I can't believe I have not heard about. But what is the
philosophical consultation movement all about?
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