Beyond Doubt

This writing offers a series of dialogues between RAPHAEL and a group of people who are spured by a lack of satisfaction in living, and experience a need for inquiry.

It is often believed that the human being is none other than history and temporality, and therefore that the very reality of life is simply time-history-becoming. To hold that all is relative, becoming and duality, and to deny the existence of a “constant” is a position that leads to a series of philosophical lacks, deficiencies and contradictions that are refelcted in our existence. Thus a metaphysical “vision” is called for, a firm position of consciousness rooted in the knowledge of non-duality (Advaita), which implies emerging from the perspective of time, space and cause.

In these dialogues, Raphael touches on topics such as Sensorial Materialism, Philosophy of Being, Transformation of Consciousness and Asparśavāda (the path without supports). These topics are developed in the light of a specific kind of Comprehension that is devoid of contradiction and opposition and is therefore capable of offering each individual a possible realization corresponding to his or hers particular state of consciousness.

Author Biography

Raphael having attained a synthesis of Knowledge (with which eclecticism or syncretism are not to be confused) aims at ‘presenting’ the Universal Tradition in its many Eastern and Western expressions. He has spent a substantial number of years writing and publishing books on spiritual experience, and his works include commentaries on the Qabbalah, Hermeticism and Alchemy. He has also commented on and compared the Orphic Tradition with the works of Plato, Parmenides and Plotinus. Furthermore, Raphael is the author of several books on the pathway of non-duality (Advaita), which he has translated from the original Sanskrit, offering commentaries on a number of key Vedantic texts. After more than sixty years of teaching, both oral and written, Raphael has withdrawn into mahasamadhi.