The transmission

The Teachers

1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.

1,020 teachers  ·  42 traditions

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74 teachers

Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Kshemaraja
Mind as the projector of reality
c.1000-1050 CE
Wang Yangming
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Wang Yangming
Innate knowing; unity of knowing-acting
1472-1529
Richard Maurice Bucke
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Richard Maurice Bucke
Cosmic consciousness as an emerging higher mind
1837-1902
A.R. Orage
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
A.R. Orage
Editor-transmitter of the Work; conscious attention
1873-1934
Swami Rama Tirtha
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Swami Rama Tirtha
Practical Vedanta — 'the whole world is my Self'
1873-1906
Ramana Maharshi
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Ramana Maharshi
Self-inquiry (Who am I?)
1879-1950
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Atmananda Krishna Menon
Work back from the seen to the seer: consciousness is the sole reality and your own nature.
1883-1959
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Consciousness without an object
1887-1985
Siddharameshwar Maharaj
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Siddharameshwar Maharaj
Self-knowledge via the Bird's Way
1888-1936
Meher Baba
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Meher Baba
Silence, divine love, and 'Don't worry, be happy'
1894-1969
Wei Wu Wei (Terence Gray)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Wei Wu Wei (Terence Gray)
Non-volitional living; there is no separate 'I'
1895-1986
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Choiceless awareness, no authority
1895-1986
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Prior to consciousness — 'I Am'
1897-1981
Paul Brunton
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Paul Brunton
The Overself; the quest for the real
1898-1981
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Maurice Frydman
Compiler of 'I Am That'
1901-1976
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Arthur Osborne
Chronicler of Ramana's self-knowledge
1906-1970
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Lester Levenson
Letting go of inner limitation
1909-1994
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Douglas Harding
Seeing your own headlessness: the awake, empty space at your centre that is full of the world
1909-2007
H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji)
Freedom is here and now
1910-1997
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Jean Klein
Direct-path Advaita; the listening body
1912-1998
Alan Watts
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Alan Watts
Eastern nonduality for the West
1915-1973
Ramesh Balsekar
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Ramesh Balsekar
No doer; consciousness is all there is
1917-2009
Shirdi Sai Baba
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Shirdi Sai Baba
Hindu-Muslim unity and the one Master of all ('Sabka Malik Ek')
d. 1918
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Thaddeus Golas
Enlightenment is total self-acceptance: love as much as you can from wherever you are, with no resistance.
1924-1997
David R. Hawkins
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
David R. Hawkins
Map of Consciousness & letting go
1927-2012
Robert Adams
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Robert Adams
Self-inquiry & silent abidance
1928-1997
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Conscious participation in humanity's evolution
1929-2019
Gerald Edelman
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Gerald Edelman
Neural Darwinism — consciousness from selection among neuronal groups
1929-2014
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Sydney Banks
Mind, Consciousness, Thought
1931-2009
Anthony de Mello
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Anthony de Mello
Awareness & waking from illusion
1931-1987
Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Awareness, meditation, and the dissolving of the ego
1931-1990
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Tony Parsons
No self, no doer, no path
1933-
Byron Katie
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Byron Katie
'The Work' — inquiry into stressful thoughts
1942-present
Gangaji (Antoinette Roberson Varner)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Gangaji (Antoinette Roberson Varner)
Stopping the search / direct recognition
1942-present
Gary Zukav
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Gary Zukav
Authentic power / the multisensory human
1942-present
A. H. Almaas (A. Hameed Ali)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
A. H. Almaas (A. Hameed Ali)
Realisation of Essence through inquiry
1944-
Francis Lucille
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Francis Lucille
Recognising awareness through feeling-knowing
1944-
Deepak Chopra
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Deepak Chopra
Consciousness-based health & 'quantum healing'
1946-present
Michael A. Singer
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Michael A. Singer
Surrender and witness consciousness
1947-present
Eckhart Tolle
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Eckhart Tolle
Presence-centered consciousness (the Now)
1948-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Guy Finley
Self-observation and letting go of the reactive, false self.
1949-present
Wayne Liquorman
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Wayne Liquorman
No doer; acceptance of what is
1951-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Galen Strawson
Realistic physicalism = panpsychism
1952-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Andrew Harvey
Sacred Activism
1952-present
Don Miguel Ruiz
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements; reality as agreement/'the dream'
1952-present
David Godman
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
David Godman
Foremost compiler of Ramana's teachings
b.1953
Mooji (Anthony Paul Moo-Young)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Mooji (Anthony Paul Moo-Young)
Self-inquiry / abiding as awareness
1954-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Alan Seale
Leading and living from presence and the larger potential
1954-present
Donald Hoffman
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Donald Hoffman
Interface theory; conscious realism
1955-present
Andrew Cohen
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Andrew Cohen
Awakening as the leading edge of cosmic evolution
1955-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Jayem
Christ-mind / love over fear
1955-present
Christof Koch
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Christof Koch
Neural correlates of consciousness; IIT panpsychism
1956-present
Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev)
Inner engineering & conscious self-transformation
1957-present
David Hoffmeister
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
David Hoffmeister
He turned A Course in Miracles into a lived practice of total forgiveness, teaching that the world we see is a…
1958–present
Anita Moorjani
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Anita Moorjani
NDE healing and self-love
1959-present
Giulio Tononi
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Giulio Tononi
Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
1960-present
Rupert Spira
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Rupert Spira
Consciousness as fundamental (the nature of awareness)
1960-present
Adyashanti (Steven Gray)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Adyashanti (Steven Gray)
Awakening and its embodiment
1962-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Michael Brown
Emotional integration through present-moment awareness
1962-2016
David Chalmers
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
David Chalmers
The hard problem of consciousness
1966-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Richard Rudd
Contemplative transformation of Shadow into Gift into Siddhi
1967-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Scott Kiloby
Nondual inquiry into the felt sense of deficiency and craving
1968-present
Bernardo Kastrup
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Bernardo Kastrup
Analytic idealism; mind-at-large
1974-present
Philip Goff
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Philip Goff
Panpsychism; consciousness as intrinsic
1980-present
Jeff Foster
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Jeff Foster
The deepest acceptance of what is
1980-
Teal Swan
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Teal Swan
The Completion Process — revisiting and integrating emotional trauma
1984-present
Jay Shetty
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Jay Shetty
Monk wisdom for everyday life
b. 1987
Bentinho Massaro
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Bentinho Massaro
Empowered nonduality & reality creation
1988-present
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Leo Gura / Actualized.org
Radical non-dual solipsism
Active era: 2013-present (Actualized.org founded 2013)
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Angelo Dilullo
A physician's clear, process-oriented map of awakening and its integration
contemporary
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Hale Dwoskin
Releasing emotions to let go
contemporary
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Loch Kelly
Awareness glimpses, 'small glimpses, many times'
contemporary
Robert Saltzman
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Robert Saltzman
No separate self that authors experience
contemporary
Robert Scheinfeld
Nonduality (the Perennial Nondual Stream)
Robert Scheinfeld
You are Infinite Consciousness creating a holographic reality
Contemporary