Wayne Liquorman

Wayne Liquorman (born 1951) is an American Advaita teacher and the successor named by Ramesh Balsekar, who referred to him as his “spiritual son.” Raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, he graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in creative writing, married, raised two children, and ran an import/export business.

A nineteen-year struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction ended abruptly in 1985, leaving him sober and turning toward spiritual seeking; after intensive involvement with the Twelve Steps he met Balsekar in September 1987, and what he describes as awakening occurred through the body-mind in April 1989.

He first wrote under the pen name Ram Tzu, publishing the satirical poetry collection No Way: A Guide for the Spiritually ‘Advanced’ in 1990. Liquorman teaches under the banner of the Advaita Fellowship, an organisation he and several fellow seekers founded in 1988, originally to support Balsekar’s U.S. speaking tours, and which now supports his own satsangs alongside the legacy of Balsekar and Nisargadatta Maharaj.

His teaching carries forward Balsekar’s two central pointings — that there is no separate individual doer of action, and that consciousness is the only reality — framed through a vocabulary of acceptance and powerlessness drawn partly from his recovery background.

He authored Acceptance of What Is, Enlightenment Is Not What You Think, and The Way of Powerlessness, and edited several of Balsekar’s books including Consciousness Speaks.