But are you actually going through the mystery of the Resurrection with Christ or are you have subjective, chemically induced mystical experiences that borrow Christian symbolism? What you take away from Christianity is different than what a Catholic or Orthodox mystic would take from it, which is different again than what a Pentecostal might. If you all have very specific special knowledge derived from direct divine revelation, and all that knowledge is mutually exclusive, then there is a problem.
The trick for nonduality is to take away all of that stuff...every single bit of it, and than dive in. Nonduality is not at all about symbolism or even knowledge. What's gained is wisdom. But I also think your spot on that if wisdom gained in a mystical experience is exclusive, than there is a pretty big problem there.
...... I am referring specifically to the identification of the self with God and rejection of individuality as illusory.
I've read about people like that. But they are very rare. I'm finishing up the last pages of Papa Ramdas's book "In the Vision of God". It's been a great read. I've learned a lot from it. I guess one could say Ramdas fits your description of a person that you imaged, but even he understood the individual.
When seeing your comment, the question that rises for me is what "is" the individual? My ego? My soul? My skin? God? ...Anymore I lean heavenly towards "Consciousness".
In my spiritual world I know hundreds and hundreds of people who work from the perspective of nonduality. Not a single one fits your description. The common thinking among us is that we perceive all of this physical world as an illusion, but it's a Real Illusion that we live in, dance with, sing to, celebrate and is Sacred. We all work with the awareness that in Unity there is also Division. And that Division is what makes Unity Whole and One.
The Human Being is capable of knowing both the finite and infinite. Those rare people your focused on sink into the infinite. And when I come across them, I find that I learn a great deal from them. But I also find myself in this world with them.
You do not need to be a nondualist to have mystical experiences.
True, but I'd argue that all mystical experiences ARE nondualist in nature. Otherwise we are talking about something other than mysticism.
... but our culture is getting really Gnostic, pulling things in from various different sources and mashing them together with a dash of esotericism. It's intriguingly 4th century.
I think that getting into gnosticism is a huge plus for our society and absolutely needs to be incorporated into our culture even more so. I welcome it with arms wide! Things like empathy and compassion and concern for the Earth would bubble up a lot more if that were to happen.