The Trace Studies Institute is dedicated to the
study of Nondual
Sciences.
Nondual Sciences are based on Special Systems
Theory which
is a new way to conceive the relation of the Western Philosophical,
Scientific and Technological tradition in relation
to Formal Models of nonduality that allow us to grasp the nonduality at
the heart of the Western Tradition including
its sciences and technology. Nonduality is normally experienced in
meditative states or in states of super-conscious
flow. Nondual science attempts to understand how the experience of
nonduality can transform our Western Tradition
including its science and technology before its globalization destroys
our planet.
Nonduality means Not One! Not Two! rather than a monism or dualism. It
is something else than One or Many normally
glimpsed in meditative or superconscious flow states. It is the dream
of many who are interested in both modern
physics and other sciences and spiritual
paths of various sorts to find a bridge between the two ways of
exploring inwardly and outwardly. Nondual Science
is the answer to this quandary.
In many cases nondual science has been practiced in traditional
non-Western cultures previously. Part of the goal
of the Trace Studies Institute is to study these past traces of nondual
science so that it can inform our understanding
of Modern Western Science by showing up its assumptions and underlying
foundations that make it blind to nonduality
which is unexpectedly inherent in our tradition and built into it from
the beginning.
