Stephen H. Wolinsky, PhD. was born in New York City. He is a direct disciple of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and lived in India for almost six years. He is a founder of Quantum Psychology, (integrating Western Psychology, Advaita-Vedanta’s Non-duality, Quantum Physics, Neuro-Science, and Buddhism). In 2002, he founded Post-deconstruction, a scientific approach beyond Postmodernism. He is the author of fourteen books, including an audio tape series Waking From The Trance: A Practical Course on Developing Mulidimensional Awareness (produced by Sounds True) and a DVD series, I Am That I Am (produced by Neti Neti films). He presently resides in Aptos, California.
Stephen has a PhD. in Clinical Psychology and began his psychotherapy practice in 1974. From 1975 to 1985 he met over thirty different Gurus, Teachers, Rinpoches, and Meditation Masters. In January1977, he journeyed to India to study meditation, and remained there for almost six years. Stephen continued traveling back to India for months at a time, over the next four years. In the mid-1980’s he went to Nepal to study three of the six Yogas of Naropa . Later he realized the identical nature of the teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Madhyamika, (Middle Way) Buddhism Founder, Nagarjuna, and his Eight Negations.
From 1983-1994, he maintained a private psychotherapy practice. In addition, he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe presenting workshops to the general public until late 1999. In December, 2000, he stopped traveling and offering workshops to the general public and began offering retreats every 1 1/2 to 2 years. At the present time, these retreats are open only to those participants with prior training or by invitation. He is one of the few direct living disciples of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj living in the United States.
History
In the mid 1970’s, Avadhut Bhagawan Nityananda appeared to Stephen as he spontaneously entered Samadhi. Upon receiving initiation (shaktipat diksa) Bhagwan Nityananda, became his Initiation Guru. A few months later he met Swami Muktananda, a disciple of Nityananda who told him, “come to India”. In January 1979, after living in India for two years and studying I AM THAT,
 he met his Teacher, (Acharya) Guru Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Bhagawan Avadhut Nityananda, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharishi
Stephen says it was Bhagawan Avadhut Nityananda that guided him to Nisargadatta Maharaj, and that it was Sri Ramana Maharishi that acted as a portal or doorway to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Nisargadatta told Stephen to visit Ramana’s Ashram, which he did in 1983. The connection between Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Bhagawan Avadhut Nityananda goes back to the 1950’s, and was relayed to Stephen twice, first by a brother disciple of Nisargadatta Maharaj, Alexander Smit. In a conversation with Maharaj, Smit asked him, “Did you ever meet Nityananda?.” Maharaj replied, “Yes”. Smit asked, “What did you think of him.” Maharaj replied, “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of him.”
The second connection between Bhagwan Avadhut Nityananda and Nisargadatta Maharaj revealed itself, when S. K. Mullarpattan, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s primary translator from 1976-1981, told Stephen that Bhagawan Avadhut Nityananda, as a young man used to stay with Mullarpattan’s family quite often, and that Mullarpattan used to go and see Baghawan Nityananda frequently in Ganespuri, and that he still does his mantra japa, (repetition). More interestingly, both Nisargadatta Maharaj and Bhagwan Avadhut Nityananda gave the same mantra diksa (initiation), and taught the same unique way of repeating the mantra, (japa).
Stephen says: “Both these Gurus are always with me… they never leave me.”
Books and Publications
· Trances People Live: Healing Approaches in Quantum Psychology
· Quantum Consciousness: The Guide to Experiencing Quantum Psychology
· The Dark Side of The Inner Child: The Next Step
· The Tao of Chaos: Essence and the Enneagram (Quantum Consciousness, Volume II)
· Hearts on Fire: The Tao of Meditation, the Birth of Quantum Psychology
· The Way of the Human Trilogy
· Vol. I Developing Multi-dimensional Awareness,
· Vol. II: The False Core and the False Self,
· Vol. III: Beyond Quantum Psychology
· Intimate Relationships: Why They Do and Do Not Work
· I Am That I Am: A Tribute to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
· You Are Not: Beyond the Three Veils of Consciousness
· The Beginner's Guide to Quantum Psychology
· Walden III: In Search of a Utopian Nirvana
· The Nirvana Sutras and Advaita-Vedanta: Beneath the Illusion of Being
CD’s
Produced by Sounds True
Waking from the Trance: A Practical Course on Developing Multidimensional Awareness (a 6 CD set)
DVD’s
DVD’s Produced by Neti Neti Films (http://www.netinetifilms.com/)
I Am That I AM: Experience the Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nirvana Means Extinction: I Am That I AM Part 2
Prior to the I Am: The End of Self-Consciousness I Am That I Am Part 3
" Consciousness and Beyond : The Final Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" I Am That I Am Part 4
"The Legacy of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" (November 2008)
A SPECIAL THANK-YOU
Overwhelming gratitude and thanks to two wonderful devotees Jozef Nauwelaerts and Christiane Braes who Nisargadatta Maharaj affectionately called "Christiane and Jozef", for their generous support and gift of this rare film footage, without which the "I Am That I Am" series would not have been possible.
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