In this commentary, we engage with Almaas’s contribution
from the perspective of phenomenology and its idea of a ‘minimal
self’. We attempt to clarify Almaas’s claims about ‘phenomenological
givens’ and ‘non-dual’, ‘pure consciousness’, and then show how they
might be reconciled with phenomenological approaches to consciousness and self. We conclude by briefly indicating some of the ways a
comparative analysis of this sort is mutually beneficial
