The Heart of Christ

Chute and Ladder focuses on the nondual understanding within Christianity. The material is written for intuitive thinkers and intuitive feelers (see What’s Your Cognitive Function? below) who are often naturally oriented toward philosophical and spiritual inquiries. Here we explore the unitive understanding of consciousness and the reality behind the complicated term, God.

The Introduction provides samples of the nondual understanding from a Christian perspective according to Chute and Ladder, and the Q & A pages offer comments on topics like the nature of reality, the deeper purpose of life, the hard problem of consciousness, the question of salvation, the nature of our sin nature, the nature of our true nature, near-death experiences, what happens when the body dies, and more. Reading through the Introduction will help provide some context for the questions and answers.

The forthcoming paperback version of Chute and Ladder has extra content including commentary on the game of life, the problem of evil, angelic beings and unfavorable influences, protection, the paranormal, and much more.

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The author of Chute and Ladder was raised in the Christian fundamentalist tradition. During that time nagging questions, like the contrast between a loving Creator and the concept of hell as a literal place where the condemned go for eternity, were contained behind a dam of faith, but after a tragic life event, that dam burst. Subsequent years of spiritual uncertainty and an ongoing search for truth eventually led to an agnostic state of mind. Then, when the author was most ready, the nondual understanding at the heart of Christianity appeared, providing the most satisfying answers to those persistent philosophical and ever-pressing spiritual questions.

The nondual understanding was a tremendous discovery in that it spoke to the heart and the mind, evoking clarity and peace while initiating a sense of celebration as thinking, sensing and perceiving were now imbued with unexpected meaning. Life itself became rich with meaning. An expression of grace, the nondual teaching is so simple and intuitive that children often catch its essence long before adults who’ve been conditioned by a sense of psychological separation.

In relation to consensus Christianity, the nondual understanding is admittedly higher up the mountain, so to speak, but the view is wide open, the air is clear, and the perspective is full of sunlight.

“Christian nonduality” may sound like an oxymoron, like saying “particular everything,” but it simply means nonduality through a Christian lens.

—GR.GA 2025

Introduction Q & A

What’s Your Cognitive Function?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test based on the influential theory of psychological types proposed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in 1921 that categorizes people into one of 16 types. MBTI is a useful tool for understanding how we and others (a) interact with the world, (b) process information, and (c) adapt to new information.

MBTI is often misunderstood and misapplied, but time spent learning how cognitive functions work and interrelate will be rewarded, particularly with regard to why the nondual understanding is often more accessible to intuitive types than sensing types.

To learn more about MBTI, an introductory reading recommendation is Personality Hacker by Antonia Dodge and Joel Mark Witt. The author of Chute and Ladder considers this book helpful but shares no affiliation; Chute and Ladder is focused primarily on exploring the nondual understanding, not MBTI.

The Four Dichotomies of MBTI

Introduction