Reading a new book, I just got the urge to share this:
This following, is for me the single greatest new idea I have ever found, and then what logically follows from that:
caitanyamatma: The independent state of supreme consciousness is the reality of everything.
This from the first sutra of Kashmir Shaivism's Shiva Sutras.
I have discovered Kashmir Shaivism and this idea a few years ago, and am currently reading the book by Shankaranananda that was mentioned a while ago in this conversation: http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....D=9841#84910
For me KS gives the philosophical foundation that fits the AYP practices into the big picture.