Adelaide Mystics

**Adelaide Mystics Group – Nonduality & Shared Experience**

You’re warmly invited to join the Adelaide Mystics community for a contemplative exploration of the many ways people experience nonduality, followed by a gentle circle of spiritual sharing.

**Part 1 — A Guided Exploration of Nonduality**
We’ll begin with a grounded introduction to modes of perception reported in Pierce Salguero’s work — different types of nondual experience, plus the related phenomenon of cessation.
Rather than treating nonduality as a single experience, this framework shows how people across traditions report different ways the usual sense of boundary between “self” and “world” can dissolve.

We’ll touch on the continuum of nondual experience:
- Unity consciousness — the felt sense of one seamless whole
- Subject–object collapse — perception without a separate perceiver
- Energetic synesthesia — energy is the only substrate
- Emptiness realization — the world and self as empty of independent essence
- Mystical presence — the sacred shining through ordinary experience
- Cessation — a brief stopping of perception

The aim is not to rank or interpret these experiences, but to offer language that helps us recognise the diversity of what “nondual” can mean.

**Part 2 — Sharing of Spiritual Experiences**
After the talk, we’ll open a spacious, respectful circle for anyone who feels moved to share their own spiritual or mystical experiences.
Whether your experiences have been subtle or profound, recent or long ago, this is a place to speak from the heart and to listen with presence.

There is no pressure to share — quiet participation is equally welcome.