I am a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Western Australia and have finally gotten around to updating my profile! I work on the metaphysics of consciousness and reality, at the interface of Eastern and Western philosophy. In particular, I am trying to build a metaphysical system called 'Perennial Idealism' that extrapolates from the Perennial Philosophy to explain how the world could be configured if it were in fact true. I interpret the Perennial Philosophy to convey the content of a recurring mystical insight: that our inherent nature is actually pure, unconditioned consciousness, identical to the ground of all being. This …

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