Author: toomajj

I love metaphysics and nonduality! My passion is a scavenger hunt in western and eastern philosophies and spiritual traditions to find the commonalities among them. I have found that one and the same truth is expressed in all of them, and that they all differ only in the outward form of their expressions. My search is primarily inspired and shaped by Vedanta Metaphysics and Husserlian Phenomenology, particularly Husserl's method of Phenomenological Reduction which allows one to access the transcendental dimension of consciousness. I started my blog NOEMAYA in 2013 to share my findings and experiences. I also started a book series on nonduality and published my first book called "Nondual Perspectives on Quantum Physics" in 2014. I have a degree in theoretical physics from the University of Maryland and currently teach physics and mathematics to high school students.

The Letter That Kills, the Song That Heals: When Reality Is Buried Alive in Much Intellectual Chatter

7 Oct 2025

We must forget and unsee all that we know and all that we think. We must surrender who we think we are in order to see who we truly are. We must surrender what we think reality is in order to see it for what it truly is. And repetition itself can help us: to repeatedly put the headsets aside, to return again and again to the plain, unadorned real, even when it feels empty or dull. That emptiness and dullness and boredom is the withdrawal symptom of a lifelong addiction to conceptualization and repetitive thinking. Stay with that emptiness long enough and one day vision clears. But for that, all borrowed images must die. All the stories of philosophers, theologians, and scientists must vanish for the true sun to rise before our eyes. All our ideas of truth and reality must die for the One to appear. … More The Letter That Kills, the Song That Heals: When Reality Is Buried Alive in Much Intellectual Chatter

Living in the Pause: An Attitude of Playfulness Toward Change

30 Sep 2025

All real growth begins in the gap between stimulus and response. Not by controlling what happens, but by choosing how we meet it. Playfulness is what keeps that gap open—because play doesn’t trigger resistance the way protest does. It sneaks past the defenses of habit and makes change possible. … More Living in the Pause: An Attitude of Playfulness Toward Change

Which Came First: Consciousness or the World?

23 Sep 2025

To say that matter preceded consciousness is already to speak from within consciousness. The claim itself is not matter, not solidity or extension, but a thought—an event of awareness. Thus, the very gesture of asserting matter’s primacy undermines itself, for what appears as primary is already secondary to the condition that allows it to appear at all. Consciousness is not a thing among things; it is the openness in which “thingness” itself becomes possible. It is not contained by the world, but rather the world is contained in it as appearance, as meaning. … More Which Came First: Consciousness or the World?

The Play of Masks: How to Drop the Mask of Behavior and Love Your Suffering

16 Sep 2025

All behavior is a mask shielding us from the feelings we fear most. Unmasking begins by setting the behavior aside so we can finally see what it was covering—then facing those very fears. From avoidance we move to tolerance, from tolerance to acceptance, and finally into love, where suffering itself is transformed. … More The Play of Masks: How to Drop the Mask of Behavior and Love Your Suffering

The Channels We Carve: Habits Set Grooves That Shape Life’s Flow

27 Aug 2025

Life is not something we kill—it only flows, and our habits carve the grooves that direct its course. Every repetition becomes a channel, shaping whether we move toward light or darkness. This reflection explores how small, consistent shifts can gradually redirect the flow of life toward clarity and growth. … More The Channels We Carve: Habits Set Grooves That Shape Life’s Flow

The King and the Jester: On Forgotten Greatness, Fear, and Return

20 Aug 2025

The parable of the king and the jester speaks to a deeper truth: when we forget our higher self, smallness takes the throne and life shrinks to fit it. Yet forgetfulness always carries the seed of awakening. This is a call to remember who you are and reclaim the crown that was always yours. … More The King and the Jester: On Forgotten Greatness, Fear, and Return