Joan Tollifson

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https://ko-fi.com/thediscardedcompass

is a writer and lifelong explorer of what is. Her background includes Buddhism, Advaita, nontraditional meditative inquiry, radical nonduality, martial arts, somatic work, addiction recovery, political activism, visual arts, and a devotion to both boundless presence and the beauty of the ordinary. Joan has held public and private meetings as well as occasional workshops and retreats since 1996. She encourages people to question the stories, beliefs and misunderstandings that create so much of our human suffering, especially our tendency to mistake conceptual maps for the living actuality. Her bare-bones approach is open, direct, down-to-earth, and rooted in the ever-fresh aliveness of presence-awareness. Rather than relying on outside authorities, traditional ideas, acquired knowledge or beliefs, this is about direct, firsthand, present experience.

Joans website. https://www.joantollifson.com/