Discover the Simply Nondual Collection by bestselling author Marcel Eschauzier
What if you saw so clearly why things couldn’t have been different that you stopped wishing they were? Wouldn’t your attention shift from what’s lacking to the marvel of a world appearing, with you somehow in it? You’d be free to play your part and learn from whatever happens, knowing you were already complete before judgment could make it seem otherwise.
The Simply Nondual Collection uses reason to dispel the illusions that make spiritual freedom seem like a goal to achieve instead of a simple recognition.
The heart suffers when something needs to be in a certain way. The heart suffers when it mistakes the mind for a stranger. See through these misunderstandings, and you’ll recognize that you were never a separate person, but love in action all along.
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I’m Marcel, born in the Netherlands and living in Belgium. After years of corporate work and life across cultures, my world turned upside down in 2016. Nonduality revealed itself as a profoundly liberating experience that made perfect sense. A simple question followed: why isn’t this more widely known?
That question led me to write.
As an engineer, I like explanations that make sense and can be checked. Here’s what I found:
We take it for granted that experience divides into two: a subject that knows and an object that is known. The apparent divide between heart and mind reflects that same separation. What became entirely clear to me was that being and knowing had never been separate. The separation suggested by our thoughts and words about experience isn’t in experience itself.
“To experience means to know facts just as they are, to know in accordance with facts by completely relinquishing one’s own fabrications.”
—Kitaro Nishida
This is what my books invite you to see for yourself. And it goes much further than you might expect. You’re so free that you couldn’t go wrong even if you tried. There’s no self separate from what’s happening that could have made things different. That may be hard to believe, but my books lay out the reasoning so you can check it for yourself.
Rational nondualism grew out of my years of inquiry and dialogue in the nondual community. It uses careful language, models, and reasoning to question our assumptions, without mistaking descriptions for what they describe. Contemporary nondual teachings often treat thought and philosophy as obstacles. My experience and work suggest the opposite.
Practiced carefully, philosophy exposes the hand-waving, contradictions, and vague assurances that keep nonduality confined to niche spiritual circles. The upside is that you no longer think of nonduality as separate from everyday life. Once that’s seen clearly, the need for a separate spiritual practice falls away.
The mind is constrained by confusion, not by clarity.
Spiritual freedom doesn’t guarantee comfort or a life without pain. It means knowing that the world and your actions couldn’t have been any different, while still being free to learn from what happens. That’s when you step off the treadmill. That’s the shape of freedom.
No philosophical training is needed. But if you are curious, if you want to see for yourself how such freedom makes sense, the philosophical path can be remarkably direct.
That’s why I recommend starting with my latest book, The Nondual Café. It’s a fun philosophical story that brings everything together in a captivating tale, designed to bypass our familiar dualistic reflexes. The story does much of the work, while the ideas themselves are presented without mysticism, jargon, or evasiveness. The book draws on years of dialogue within the nondual community and my own breakthroughs.
The other books in the Simply Nondual Collection approach the same insight from different angles. Each is a complete journey in its own right. Below you can explore them and see if one catches your attention.
You already know this spiritual freedom. These books help you see through the illusions that make it seem otherwise. There is no state to attain, only a misunderstanding to end.
“It is known to him to whom it is unknown.”
—Kena Upanishad, 2.3
Well-being
Nonduality is all-pervasive. Trusting it has astounding benefits for your well-being—a message passed on to us by legendary Eastern sages like Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma, Shin-t’ou, and Huang-po. The philosophical guides Oneless Oneness and Awakening the Other Way explain in simple words why their timeless teachings don’t require religious beliefs but merely an inquisitive mind.
Philosophy
It’s easy to overlook nonduality, but you can experience it in simple things. The logical arguments for nonduality are equally straightforward, adding to their impact. But why use the word “nondualism” when modern Western analytical philosophy and metaphysics typically only recognize “dualism” versus “monism”? The essay How to See Consciousness solves this riddle.
Science
No more “reality duality”: reimagined science embraces subject-object unity. Some readers ask how nonduality changes the way we think about science. Here’s one answer: science cannot reveal what the world is, only how it appears—and why. This shows why nondual recognition makes reason more necessary in science, not less. The treatise Existential Rationalism develops this argument in full.
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